The "last time you went the the Toys R Us", they were in year 7-10 of being Bain'd. That's why they had no money to set up displays. Because Bain fucked them over.
There's a giant difference between "pushing on a button causes action" and "using a camera through ML algorithms to cause an action" If you were serious, I'm actually not sure how to continue the conversation, cause that's pretty insane.
How can you tell the difference between 'good' "zero-rating" and 'bad' "zero-rating"?
Look at T-mobile's zero rating. Anyone can meet their zero-rating rules with out paying them cash. All you had to do was meet some fairly easy* technical requirements and respond to their commands to downgrade video. That's good zero-rating.
* Easy if you're building a video streaming company. Probably not easy enough if you're one guy serving videos off your home server. Although if you're that kind of person, maybe you want to tackle those as a fun project.
I'd say that making it open to all players based solely on technical, not business, requirements is a valid way to play it. With some watching to make sure teh technical requirements aren't business requirements in disguise (e.g. must use CodecX, available only from us for a license fee of Y)
I'd always wondered why the size of the plug was proportional to the power it draws.
It is proportional. It's also inversely proportional to the build quality, which is proportional to the cost. I guess what I'm saying is smaller converters are lower in power or made better.
What needs to happen is to have a regular, small footprint plug continued with a wire which goes into the AC/DC converter itself. problem solved. Everyone's happy.
I hate those adapters. I want the larger power brick and the corresponding lighter cord. I hate adapters that think they should be in the middle of the cord, which means they drag or otherwise prevent easy movement.
I suppose I should point out my UPSes and power strips have extra space between the plugs for just that reason. I recommend those models
I'm literally not sure whether you're talking about the 1980's or 2008. I'm going to assume the 1980's
1) Other countries without Glass Stegal didn't react as the hypothesis would predict.
The bubbles were primarily US only. And I reject "other countries that don't make up 1/3 of the free market didn't react like the US" as a compelling argument. The US is so big, and so many transactions at least partially ran through the US and needed to follow US law, that it's a much more complicated question than "what country you in".
2) The investments were triple-A rated, so were considered a 'safe' investment.
Actually, the 1980's were what gave birth to the whole junk bond thing.
3) The proposed mechanism of action...wouldn't have been enough to stop the crash.
The goal of G-S isn't to stop the crash. It's to prevent the crash from causing a recession. Which when the bubbles in the 80's burst did not cause a recession and in 2008 did.
No, a teacher cannot use a copyrighted movie just because it's for educational purposes. That rule would make it awful hard to make educational materials.
fair use (like in education) gives me the right to put on my website as long as I don't commercialize it.
That's not true. Fair use lets you use copyrighted materials without the owner's permission, but it's not as simple as "was it for non-commercial use". There are multipronged tests and lots of gray areas. Even for educational use can be not fair use.
It could be malicious ads, or pages that just ask for permissions without thinking, or a dozen other reasons. If you go into your settings (maybe the advanced one by visiting the URL about:config) you should be able to set it to "always no" (Or "never ask" or similar)
But you can still do things like set "Do Not DIsturb" on your iPhone or Mac
Which solves the problem of not being disturbed by the call, but does not solve the problem of telling the other person "I'm not taking calls right now." A lack of response could be "not taking calls, will call back" or it could be 100 other things.
Limit the damage a bubble burst puts into the system by at least creating a distinction between commercial and investment banks, and ensuring that commercial banks continue to function in a burst. That was erased in 1999. So compare the recessions of 1987 and 2008. That's what I want Glass-Stegal to do.
He never talked about downloading recordings. He talked about proxying it through your home network. And by limiting the upload speed (cable modems are asymmetric) Comcast can prevent that.
If that was the point. But it's not. The buyer pays a higher price and the seller gets a lower price. Because that's how HFT works. Okay, on any given transaction only one of those may take place, but the way it works is person A wants to sell X for say 0.48. Person B wants to buy X for 0.50. Instead of ending up with A and B having a transaction somewhere between 0.48 and 0.50, A transacts at 0.48 with the HFT and B transacts at 0.50 with the HFT. So that 0.02/X is siphoned off. Otherwise, either A gets or B keeps that cash.
You mean, the post I responded to that started this conversation? The only thing I ignored was your point about Canada. I guess I considered a small (economically and population wise) country to be different from the US.
The rating agencies were full of liars.
Oh, I'm in total agreement there.
(most of the ones that crashed?) like Lehman Brothers didn't take deposits (thus were considered investment banks), and still caused a crisis.
That's not true. First, JP Morgan was owned by Chase, Solomon Smith Barney with Citibank.. Second, since 2008, most of the investment banks that were independent are now merged with banks that take deposits.
Also, that just points to the need for a more constrained definition of investment bank.
"Any bank that is too big to fail is too big to exist
I agree. I'm not saying Glass-Stegal is perfect... I'm saying it's better than what replaced it (nothing) when it was (partially) repealed in 1999.
But while size is one metric, it seems insufficient. After all, how hard is it to create a dozen LLC subsidiaries? We need more and better regulations, sure. But keeping imperfect regulations are all we're likely to get under this President (frankly, or under his opponent from 2016)
Look at Ford. They're discontinuing all of their auto lines in the US except their trucks
And why shouldn't they. People love their trucks. They sold more F-150s last month than Tesla will sell vehicles all year (assuming they were making 5k model 3's a month since January 1). And that's across all Tesla models.
]Tesla's] margins are higher than any other car maker.
Ford makes $13,000 per F-150. That's more than those engineers in Germany said Tesla may approach once they're making 10k/model 3's a week. (And that number includes getting the batteries from panasonic at raw materials cost)
Based just on the F-150 and the entire line of Tesla, I've gotta say it looks like the entire Tesla line is worth what the F-150 is. And while the F-150 is subject to oil price shocks, the number of rare metals used makes the Tesla line pretty subject shocks too. For instance in Cobalt.
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The "last time you went the the Toys R Us", they were in year 7-10 of being Bain'd. That's why they had no money to set up displays. Because Bain fucked them over.
There's a giant difference between "pushing on a button causes action" and "using a camera through ML algorithms to cause an action" If you were serious, I'm actually not sure how to continue the conversation, cause that's pretty insane.
Sure, but it doesn't have to... other countries manage to run it well.
Look at T-mobile's zero rating. Anyone can meet their zero-rating rules with out paying them cash. All you had to do was meet some fairly easy* technical requirements and respond to their commands to downgrade video. That's good zero-rating.
* Easy if you're building a video streaming company. Probably not easy enough if you're one guy serving videos off your home server. Although if you're that kind of person, maybe you want to tackle those as a fun project.
I'd say that making it open to all players based solely on technical, not business, requirements is a valid way to play it. With some watching to make sure teh technical requirements aren't business requirements in disguise (e.g. must use CodecX, available only from us for a license fee of Y)
I don't know where you live, but that seems to be something that only exists in pretty badly run mass transit.
If Uber runs the market, this is true. If the city does as a public utility (like trains/buses are run), a lot of those problems start fading away.
It is proportional. It's also inversely proportional to the build quality, which is proportional to the cost. I guess what I'm saying is smaller converters are lower in power or made better.
I hate those adapters. I want the larger power brick and the corresponding lighter cord. I hate adapters that think they should be in the middle of the cord, which means they drag or otherwise prevent easy movement.
I suppose I should point out my UPSes and power strips have extra space between the plugs for just that reason. I recommend those models
I'm literally not sure whether you're talking about the 1980's or 2008. I'm going to assume the 1980's
The bubbles were primarily US only. And I reject "other countries that don't make up 1/3 of the free market didn't react like the US" as a compelling argument. The US is so big, and so many transactions at least partially ran through the US and needed to follow US law, that it's a much more complicated question than "what country you in".
Actually, the 1980's were what gave birth to the whole junk bond thing.
The goal of G-S isn't to stop the crash. It's to prevent the crash from causing a recession. Which when the bubbles in the 80's burst did not cause a recession and in 2008 did.
The same reason a lot of drivers broke speed limits and should pay fines... clearly that's not happening, so what is happening?
No, a teacher cannot use a copyrighted movie just because it's for educational purposes. That rule would make it awful hard to make educational materials.
That's not true. Fair use lets you use copyrighted materials without the owner's permission, but it's not as simple as "was it for non-commercial use". There are multipronged tests and lots of gray areas. Even for educational use can be not fair use.
It could be malicious ads, or pages that just ask for permissions without thinking, or a dozen other reasons. If you go into your settings (maybe the advanced one by visiting the URL about:config) you should be able to set it to "always no" (Or "never ask" or similar)
Which solves the problem of not being disturbed by the call, but does not solve the problem of telling the other person "I'm not taking calls right now." A lack of response could be "not taking calls, will call back" or it could be 100 other things.
Exactly my point.
The 1980's also featured a housing market bubble burst. Possibly worse than 2008.
Limit the damage a bubble burst puts into the system by at least creating a distinction between commercial and investment banks, and ensuring that commercial banks continue to function in a burst. That was erased in 1999. So compare the recessions of 1987 and 2008. That's what I want Glass-Stegal to do.
He never talked about downloading recordings. He talked about proxying it through your home network. And by limiting the upload speed (cable modems are asymmetric) Comcast can prevent that.
You think that Xfinity is still going to allow VPNs or uploading enough data from your desktop to stream? That's cute.
But in all seriousness, your solution probably will work until just after the 2020 election. After all, why risk making it a voting issue?
If that was the point. But it's not. The buyer pays a higher price and the seller gets a lower price. Because that's how HFT works. Okay, on any given transaction only one of those may take place, but the way it works is person A wants to sell X for say 0.48. Person B wants to buy X for 0.50. Instead of ending up with A and B having a transaction somewhere between 0.48 and 0.50, A transacts at 0.48 with the HFT and B transacts at 0.50 with the HFT. So that 0.02/X is siphoned off. Otherwise, either A gets or B keeps that cash.
You mean, the post I responded to that started this conversation? The only thing I ignored was your point about Canada. I guess I considered a small (economically and population wise) country to be different from the US.
Oh, I'm in total agreement there.
That's not true. First, JP Morgan was owned by Chase, Solomon Smith Barney with Citibank.. Second, since 2008, most of the investment banks that were independent are now merged with banks that take deposits.
Also, that just points to the need for a more constrained definition of investment bank.
I agree. I'm not saying Glass-Stegal is perfect... I'm saying it's better than what replaced it (nothing) when it was (partially) repealed in 1999.
But while size is one metric, it seems insufficient. After all, how hard is it to create a dozen LLC subsidiaries? We need more and better regulations, sure. But keeping imperfect regulations are all we're likely to get under this President (frankly, or under his opponent from 2016)
I'm not sure what you mean. It seems to have worked pretty well when it was in place. Any examples of it being ineffective?
When you value a company higher than it's competitors, acquisition is no longer an exit strategy.
And why shouldn't they. People love their trucks. They sold more F-150s last month than Tesla will sell vehicles all year (assuming they were making 5k model 3's a month since January 1). And that's across all Tesla models.
Ford makes $13,000 per F-150. That's more than those engineers in Germany said Tesla may approach once they're making 10k/model 3's a week. (And that number includes getting the batteries from panasonic at raw materials cost)
Based just on the F-150 and the entire line of Tesla, I've gotta say it looks like the entire Tesla line is worth what the F-150 is. And while the F-150 is subject to oil price shocks, the number of rare metals used makes the Tesla line pretty subject shocks too. For instance in Cobalt.
It's a parasitic strategy, that's why it seems like it is.
No,it's not making money out of thin air. It's skimming money out of every transaction in the stock market. Taking money from every investor.