ConfuciusSay

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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
Companies post fake ads that they never respond to in order to be "in compliance" with visa rules. Lawyers help them in their deception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCbFEgFajGU
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
Since 1987, higher education institutions have doubled the ratio of nonacademic employees to faculty. There are now two nonacademic employees at public and two and a half at private universities and colleges for every one full-time, tenure-
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
If you're growing like crazy, it's not that hard to turn down offers. Indeed that's what Facebook itself did, so there's your model.
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
Forget the NYTimes helping to send us to a war that killed over a million Iraqis. Forget FOX News that runs 24/7 propaganda, stoking divisions. GamerGate is truly journalism's death knell. /s
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
My interpretation of his "insert" comment, was that of 1). My response to that was to preempt the common refrain of HFT defenders who universally trot out the "liquidity" defense. As for the criticisms focusing on volati
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
When people point out that HFT's seem basically like a giant high speed frontrunning operation, as the OP did, the usual counter is that it's all fine and dandy, because they provide liquidity. Indeed right above your reply, is so
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
The big claim with HFT is they "add liquidity", but there's evidence that shows the opposite. Indeed it seems like HFT's only add liquidity when it's already plentiful, but reduces liquidity when it's really ne
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
The argument that is made is that because you can entirely abolish a whole slew of agencies and other programs (welfare etc.) it's not as simple as just looking at current budgets, you need to factor in the savings you get from axing t
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
Not with that attitude you won't!
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
Also, less bureaucracy to languish and become inneficient, entrenched, and corrupt.
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
Are you suggesting that monopolies never occur, or that monopolies automatically lead to bankruptcy? Because history would like to have a word with you... Even Adam Smith thought monopolies were the greatest threat to a functioning capitali
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
There's two other major factors beyond rent control and zoning. One is cheap credit, insured by the government, and the second is the massive flow of foreign money coming into NA real estate. If you don't take care of all those fa
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
But in Montreal, as in SF, if the tenant leaves you can adjust the rent back to "market rates", which does benefit a landlord who renovates. Also, a good percentage of the new "condo" towers going up are specifically ren
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
Probably not Politwoops, because they were using the API. But perhaps a successor that did not use the API, but scraped and screenshoted only might have a good chance.
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
If their TOS prevents someone from taking a photograph of their website on a screen, it probably wouldn't hold up in court.
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
It's a violation of TOS for an individual to take a photograph of Twitter on their screen?
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
Companies frequently put out job postings with no intention of hiring anyone. Is that wrong?
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
To me it's their pro-every-war stance. Especially Syria. Did we not learn any lesson from Iraq?
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
LOL, Steven Cohen is your example of SEC getting it right? He's the best example of how the insiders are allowed to do it, while everyone else is not. As long as you call it an "experts network" and as long as you structure y
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
If these trades were being done by DB or Citadel, there'd be a slap on the wrist. But if you're a rogue trader, or god forbid a lone 30 year old in your parents basement, off to the big house for you. If anything this just shows t
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
"the ownership obligates them to pay taxes" In theory you're right, and they often do pay taxes, but there are many schemes where the foreign investors pay zero taxes. There's no incentive on the industry's part to
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
The latest craze? I guess WSJ has been out to lunch for the past decade.
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/01/08/open-secrets-3
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
Google's ad settings page is "anti-Google marketing"?
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
You know when even the IMF is recommending we tax the rich more, there's probably something to the idea...
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
If anyone cared to look, the troubles with Enron's accounting were right there in their SEC filings - long before the shit hit the fan. In fact the reporter who broke the story did it by simply analyzing the SEC filings, as opposed to
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
It is not a binary "banks always want less regulation". Banks, like other entrenched interests, will be for or against regulations, depending on if they advance their interests or not. You see this in every industry. The energy in
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
Lines of code. >_<
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by ConfuciusSay 11y ago
Umm, 100k/year in 1950 would be roughly $994,966/year today. You're seriously going to argue you'd rather get paid 10 times less? Because you can buy cokes like celebrities? What is this nonsense? This sounds like the Fo

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