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by andr 18y ago
Ah, but you missed the "other things being equal" part. ;) If the markets move as a whole and hedge funds are heavily long on the market, but others are market-neutral, or even short, things are not equal.
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by andr 18y ago
Hedge funds are really specialized. Usually, different people trade different things - one team on stocks (or even a narrow subset of stocks), another team on commodities, etc. It takes a lot of experience to get good at an instrument. And
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by andr 18y ago
365 * (0.05%) = 0.1825 ... days. Or about 4 hours.
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by andr 18y ago
That's not the full picture, really. 1) Since a large chunk of the money on financial markets flows between funds, and this is pretty much a zero sum game, the average hedge fund performance is bound to be around 0%, other things being equa
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by andr 18y ago
#1 free tool that causes people to abandon your website: porn.
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by andr 18y ago
uncov should mock PressFlip.
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by andr 18y ago
Now that he got a Businessweek plug, it looks like all of PG's efforts with YCombinator have finally paid off ;)
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by andr 18y ago
So you must be a trillionaire now? Seriously, take one of the ideas and run with it. Ideas are easy. Execution is what counts.
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by andr 18y ago
While spending per person in dollars may be higher, there is gross gross inflation in the health care sector, resulting in the hospital charging you $100 for a pack of Kleenex, because it's usually the insurance company that pays it.
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by andr 18y ago
My email is also in my profile.
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by andr 18y ago
So what is the idea?
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by andr 18y ago
1) Jobs are investment banks and asset management are not risk free and not conservative. There is almost zero job security and - as seen - you won't know you were fired until the day you are. With small startups CEOs will communicate thing
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by andr 18y ago
Over the years people kept telling me that the magic wand just selected lots of pixels, yet I still believed there was something magical about it.
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by andr 18y ago
XLSX is zipped XMLs, so you might try reverse-engineering. Also consider having a static XLS which imports data from a web-based CSV.
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by andr 18y ago
This is designed to distort Bayesian filters. From an economic perspective, this is fairly interesting, because the spammer that sends this gets no rent, or direct profit, from it, but helps the spammer ecosystem.
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Google Chrome(google.com)
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by andr 18y ago
I press a little button every once in a while. If I don't the Earth's spin will slow down and everyone will die.
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by andr 18y ago
As a person that started programming on X11 in the late 80s and still uses vim daily, I can't think of a better environment than Visual Studio (possibly with the vi plugin) for programming. It is actually sad that guys like the author of th
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by andr 18y ago
They were first introduced for the Christmas 2005 shopping season to handle large queues. Can we say old news? Those devices have barcode scanners and credit card readers - features which are a must for a portable POS terminal, but are not
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by andr 18y ago
Talk about lack of redundancy.
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by andr 18y ago
MBTA, the system they hacked, is notoriously inefficient. Apart from fares, they get 20% of state sales tax, or 1 cent of every dollar you spend in the state, even if you don't live in a place that has a train station. The new (electronic)
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by andr 18y ago
VNC.
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by andr 18y ago
Are you serious? I'd much rather have TechCrunch's unique, seriously opinionated, and void of content, representation of a startup than exploring the startup myself. After all, would you see news first hand or have FOX report them to you in
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by andr 18y ago
Freedom of opinion, open debating, non-fundamentalism. While the post is not 100% spot on, it has some valid points.
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by andr 18y ago
so you tweet about tipping a tweet? now that's meta...
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by andr 18y ago
better yet, tip your own tweets ;)
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by andr 18y ago
One for the Black Hat on his dark Aeron, In the Land of Mordor where the Lurkers lie. One Sun to rule them all, One Mac to find them, One router to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor wh
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by andr 18y ago
yes
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by andr 18y ago
better yet, do it via trackback or whatever variant is hip those days
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by andr 18y ago
Reminds me of Brijit, which provided 100-word summaries of articles in major newspapers and magazines. Unfortunately, it ran out of money, because its business model involved paying people to write the summaries.

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