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From the first paragraph: "The cryptocurrency was trading down 12.9%, at $2,161 a coin, its lowest since the beginning of June. It's now off almost 40% from its high of $2,999.97"

The author fails at basic math: this is a decrease of (2999.97 - 2161) / 2999.97 = 28%, not 40%.

I did the SF -> Google commute from 2011 through 2014, and it was usually 1.5 hours each way, up to 2 hours on a bad day. I assume it has only gotten worse.

> Coinbase has the worst customer service EVER.

You clearly weren't a customer of Mt.Gox.

Yeah, but the entire Facebook post was a tirade about sexism.

And the capital gains tax exemption on the first half million dollars of profit from home sales.

The first quarter million (half million for couples) dollars of profits are exempt from capital gains tax.

I thought house prices were relatively flat, on a long-term, inflation-adjusted basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case%E2%80%93Shiller_index

So the hispanic couple thought they were being given a free car?

> The difference with Uber/Lyft is that these drivers don't have a business outside of the app.

Doesn't this discredit Uber's argument that drivers are independent contractors?

I imagine that when reporting it to the police/insurance agency, many (most?) drivers would omit the fact that they were driving for business purposes when the accident occurred.

Not saying this is legal/ethical, just that it would come to mind in that situation.

I've had bad experiences like this with both taxis and Ubers. With Uber, I've had dozens of experiences where either (1) There were no drivers available in my area, (2) The drivers repeatedly canceled on me, or (3) The driver didn't cancel, but also never came to pick me up, and instead just drove in the opposite direction for 10-15 minutes.

I now don't trust taxis, Uber, or Lyft to get me to the airport very early in the morning. I live in DC, not exactly a small town.

If they're going to the trouble of pre-arranging the ride, why don't they just use cash/Venmo/Square, and keep Uber's cut of the fare?

...an honorary Harvard degree. Huge difference.

Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/mark-zuckerb...

And sailboats can sail upwind.

Do you have a version that isn't potato quality?

Of the 7 photos, I only see one where the board is rotated, and only one where the bishops and knights definitely seem to have been switched.

In this case, the net capital flow is zero. $100 is transferred from B to A, and a business worth $100 is transferred from A to B.

Today I learned. Thanks.

Google I/O is this week.

On the contrary, Google has a very large number of publications every year at top AI conferences.

> Google copied baidu not the other way around

How so?

China has shown that they are very adept at copying American high-tech innovation.

* Facebook: WeChat/Weibo

* Google: Baidu

* Apple: already being made in China, clones everywhere

* Amazon: Alibaba

If you can borrow money at X% and put it towards a productive use that generates Y% returns, then it is worthwhile to do so when X < Y. The government can currently borrow money at around 1-3% interest [0], depending on the length of the term.

Presumably, the return you can generate from borrowed money diminishes as you borrow more money, so "good debt" is some amount of money that you have borrowed that allows you to be more productive and pays for its own interest, in a sense. But borrowing even more than that would start to become less useful, and drag down your overall return.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates-bonds/government-bon...

I guess you're assuming that I'm okay with killing rats, chickens, and cows?

I'm a vegetarian, so dogs are not special to me in that regard. I only mentioned dogs because I was replying to a comment that mentioned dogs specifically.

> But I won't eat anything that I wouldn't kill myself.

Have you actually, personally, killed a cow, chicken, or pig?

> We may need meat

ProTip: we don't need meat.

> Food animals should always come from a farm, obviously.

I am a vegetarian, and I disagree with this. I feel that it is more ethical to kill and eat an animal that has at least been given a chance to live a free and natural life, vs. confining it to a prison from birth.

Of course, it would be impossible to maintain humanity's current level of meat consumption without animal farms. I would prefer that people dramatically reduce their meat consumption, and eat only hunted/caught animals.

What? No. You cannot just kill your dog for any reason. That is illegal, immoral, and inhumane.

> it's not an economic indicator

Can you explain this statement? It's almost synonymous with the stock market, and is one of the most common headline numbers that people mention in business and economy news reports.

> Every other ad for 6 months was asking me to cheat on my wife. We all know how that went.

You cheated on your wife?