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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
The panic was in the equities market, but was triggered by the signals from the bond market.
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
> It was, therefore, just a matter of time before the discovery that inverted yield curves often anticipate recessions resulted in the world’s first yield-curve induced panic This is backwards from what I understand. It's the bond m
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
My understanding of Tor is that proxy keys are shared in a gossip network, and that without access to that gossip network you're vulnerable to being sybil attacked. How does Lightnion solve this? Or am I misunderstanding Tor?
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
While a fair point, cost is not value. It is the lower bound of value. It could be that targeted ads are creating $10 value per person but it only cost $1 per person, $9 of which goes to the advertiser/consumer.
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
1) Irreversibility. You have a payment system with that small companies can actually build gateways to true cryptos. Not to mention the “high risk” businesses locked out or priced out of fiat gateways 2) Cryptographic proofs of payment. Wit
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
Libra isn't a cypherpunk wet dream, but it moves us in that direction and thats a good thing. This article is written from the perspective that crypto mass-adoption is right around the corner (i.e. just a few UX tweaks) and that Libra
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
This could occupy a useful space, but it is by no means a Metamask replacement (which they explain why).
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
Affiliate marketing is the closest thing to truly passive incom outside investing. That said, it's harder than it looks unless you can find a sticky niche with little competition.
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
Different jurisdictions have different compliance requirements. Not sure, but my guess is the goal of this project is to allow regulatory arbitrage with a single unified interface.
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
0x is a decentralized, non-custodial exchange protocol. The UI could have malware though, which is why it makes sense for various relayers to have a single UI.
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
I'm a little confused what the use case is for this. Can someone elaborate?
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
Ive consulted for a few years in the US, never had this happen to me or heard it happening to fellow consultants.
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
Ah. Yes I think Foreman was a bad example of what I was trying to get at. I think my main point was that if Howey had 100 fungible orange groves, and one was sold as a security and 99 were sold straight up, that wouldn't make all 100 o
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
In United Housing v Foreman, a sale of stock was considered not to be a securities transaction, even though a stock is explicitly a security.
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by aakilfernandes 7y ago
IANAL, but: The interesting thing about securities is that although we think of a security as a "thing" (like Kin) its actually a transaction - as in a "securities transaction". Meaning with two transactions involving Ki
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
I don't think your assessment of 538's models is correct. They used to have something called the "nowcast" which is what your referring to, but they got rid of that.
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
A neural network trained on HN comments would probably give a scathing critique of a tangentially related project.
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
There's a simple way to prevent re-entrency. ---------- bool isEntered = false; function doSomething() { if (isEntered) { throw; } isEntered = true; ...; isEntered = false; } ---------- I don't really understand why th
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
IMHO the VM here isn't really the problem. Its the compiler. The way I look at it this is really a compiler bug, that only gets "activated" with this upgrade.
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
Yikes. And this is why we don't use "clever" solutions. For some context, gas (or operations expense) usage was never designed for re-entrency protection. After the DAO attack, in order to prevent re-entrency attacks the Soli
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
My hunch is that the only people buying into these obvious scams is other scammers. They look at it and think "hey, I bet a bunch of people will fall for this. I'll buy some first.". But maybe I'm too naive =/.
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
Do passwords get shared with Plaid?
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
Name of service please?
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
I guess it depends on how you read the statue. we protect (money with a brokerage firm) that is used for the purchase of securities or we protect money with a (brokerage firm that is used for the purchase of securities) Unfortunately, due t
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
What other reason would you have an Ameritrade account?
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
> But how many axioms does one need? And how simple can they be? In this article, what does "simple" mean? At first I assume it is "simple to understand" but clearly thats not the case.
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
I got lost quite a bit on this, but luckily I stayed through the end. > It’s a similar problem in natural science. You see some elaborate set of things happening in some biological system. Can one “reverse engineer” these to find an “exp
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
Because moving has transaction costs. Imagine two lots right next to each other going for a million, but it takes another $100k to set up the store and move in everything. Walmart moves into one of the lots, then someone offers them 1 milli
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by aakilfernandes 8y ago
Lying to the shareholders is criminal (maybe civil offense, IANAL) if you're a public company.
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A16z crypto purchases 6% of MKR, backing Stablecoin Vanguard MakerDAO(medium.com)
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