AmericanBlarney

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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
Are you sure it's not regulatory? Banks don't typically cut off an industry unless they're either told to, or they're seeing extremely high fraud rates for a particular type of transaction (e.g. calling their credit card
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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
Worked in tech at a large financial - while it may be second largest by headcount, I would guess perhaps not by total number of MDs/Partners? In my experience at a similar company, the off-shore offices were not viewed as being innovat
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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
Ehhh... Have been hearing some variation of this for 20 years. Canada and Singapore already have some tech presence (Singapore is huge for banking), so I don't think those are a particularly bold prediction. I would love for the Caribb
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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
I believe a more appropriate title would be "facilitate money laundering, you go to jail"
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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
Fair enough about the sign, but what about showing the property or a home inspection (which usually takes several hours)?
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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
Sure, but you've invalidated the argument with your own example - there was a personal link. In this case, it seems to have been a complete stranger given the"seller" was an imposter.
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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
I knew a few people who quit Goldman's because of Slang, although the reactive graph portion of SecDB carried over around the industry.
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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
Almost definitely false. Provided you weren't doing anything intentionally malicious with it, the risk would be that regulators might fine the bank for inadequate controls. As such, the bank might fire you for doing something that coul
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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
Yes, although doing it in distributed fashion at the scale of SecDB or Athena introduces quite a few more complexities.
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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
The author seems naive to think that being "cyber" somehow justifies immunity to regulation by any country. As the Internet has already shown - it doesn't exempt you, if anything it makes you subject to every legal jurisdicti
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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
Seems pretty questionable as to whether due diligence was done given the first indicator neighbors had of the sale was after the transaction occurred. At least in the U.S. it's typically pretty tough to miss that a house is up for sale
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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
On one hand, sure but if your take home pay after taxes is also less, than it's affordability (cost/income after taxes) may be lower.
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by AmericanBlarney 5y ago
It doesn't work like that... many of life's biggest expenses are priced based on market rates (e.g. housing). If more work is available and some people choose to work more hours, they will be able to outbid tier who don't and
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by AmericanBlarney 6y ago
I work with teams around the world - it's a real challenge, as there's no single time that everyone is online. Should run that analysis by time zone + education. Also, software development is not as fungible as you might think. So
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by AmericanBlarney 7y ago
Many applications solve this by using memory caching (e.g. Redid, memcached, etc.) of performance sensitive datasets. There are a lot of drawbacks to the approach, to the point that I would avoid it altogether.
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by AmericanBlarney 7y ago
Ehhh... Google Finance's news section has become a total crap fest, lately featuring user generated sales pitches from SeekingAlpha and some shady looking crypto currency sites. Seems less political them desperate (not that most of the
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by AmericanBlarney 8y ago
It's certainly interesting but reminds me of DeepBlue playing Jeopardy against humans but having nd the questions fed to it electronically. Half the challenge of the game is buzzing in first. For humans, requires reading/listening
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by AmericanBlarney 8y ago
I used what was termed a "transactional broker" when selling my previous home - I paid a flat fee of a few hundred bucks to them as the seller's agent, plus 3% to the buyer's agent. As the article mentioned, there's
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by AmericanBlarney 8y ago
At it's core, WeWork's business model seems solid and every time I've been in one, it's been at least close to full. If the main driver of the losses is the initial investment in acquiring and remodeling the real estate,