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by bingdig 6y ago
Why are you letting people without deposits get in on the drawings? Seems like I could just spam you with mail and get a bunch of entries without depositing savings, at the cost of users who are depositing. From the website: > Mailing In
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Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loan-Level Data(kaggle.com)
1 points by bingdig 6y ago|0 comments
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Jenna Marbles Quits YouTube [video](youtube.com)
7 points by bingdig 6y ago|0 comments
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by bingdig 6y ago
Most detailed font description I've ever seen
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Trump Made $70k by Praising Foreign Leaders and Bashing the Fed on Twitter(govtrades.org)
3 points by bingdig 6y ago|1 comments
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by bingdig 6y ago
Weather Underground has a questionable track record with respect to foreclosing public access to weather data. Leadership at both the Weather Company and Accuweather are good friends with Trump. Shortly after Trump appointed Barry Myers hea
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by bingdig 6y ago
Not irreversible (but the DOJ rarely breaks up already merged companies due to the difficulty of "unscrambling the eggs")! This event could create a reason to block the merger ex post, especially given last week's news that D
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by bingdig 6y ago
Thanks so much for all the support and volunteers on our original Show HN post showing senate data! We've been able to add executive branch data and are well on our way to adding data for members of the House of Representatives. Hope y
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Explore the President's Stock and Business Returns(govtrades.com)
2 points by bingdig 6y ago|2 comments
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by bingdig 6y ago
Fair point, although the losses seem to be from the huge repetitional harm he's taken. He still may be trying to leverage the presidency to do what he can to improve his finances.
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by bingdig 6y ago
Unless he's been lying on his legally mandated personal finance disclosure docs for the past three years, it is: https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/President%20and%20...
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Show HN: Explore Trump's Stock and Business Returns(govtrades.com)
17 points by bingdig 6y ago|7 comments
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by bingdig 6y ago
Yup, that's exactly what the linked article describes, but you have to take into account barriers to entry. Consumers prefer short term, lower prices on Amazon, others are pushed out, Amazon raises prices in the long run (already seein
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by bingdig 6y ago
Theoretical competition =/= actual competition. Yes, that could technically happen, but Amazon's market power makes it extremely difficult. Here, there's a two-sided marketplace (consumers and sellers) where Amazon has both s
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by bingdig 6y ago
Sure, there could be some corruption going on, but theres a much more mundane legal reason the DOJ won't bring cases. They often won't prosecute because the costs of losing anti-trust cases are so high, largely because of the way
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by bingdig 6y ago
The Chinese government and Chinese firms are often willing to share tons of data with researchers. One of my professors was able to get data on cell phone locations, metadata on all text messages sent and received, and occupations of cell p
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by bingdig 6y ago
The main problem is that current antitrust law doesn't clearly prohibit anti-competitive behavior like this. Modern antitrust law has largely been created by judges (often without any economic training) interpreting early 20th century
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How Richard Burr Made $185,000 During the Covid-19 Pandemic(govtrades.com)
2 points by bingdig 6y ago|1 comments
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by bingdig 6y ago
That's a great idea and something we have in the works!
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by bingdig 6y ago
That's pretty much it, but charts are made with Plotly (R) and then hosted on AWS S3. We embed them in Squarespace code through Amazon Cloudfront to speed things up a bit. There area probably better ways to do this, but we don't k
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by bingdig 6y ago
Sure, we've gotten a couple requests for this and think it'd be really helpful. State and party affiliation will be up in 1-2 days
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by bingdig 6y ago
Sure, we have a very limited tech knowledge - mostly from statistics and economics - so I'm sure it's not that optimized but was easy for us to get up fairly quickly. Site is hosted on Squarespace and all the data visualizations a
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by bingdig 6y ago
True although it's not quite that simple. Most senators have less risky portfolios than the S&P 500 with lots of bond ETFs and the like, so that's not a perfect comparison. We're working on creating a risk-adjusted return
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by bingdig 6y ago
Yes, that's in the works along with Executive branch data!
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by bingdig 6y ago
Almost all her stock holdings are of RealNetworks, a company she worked for in the 90s and that has been on the decline since the Dotcom bust: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Cantwell
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by bingdig 6y ago
Hey Alex, it's as accurate as the data the senator's report, but we've noticed a lot of inaccuracies that are later corrected - maybe some haven't yet been corrected? Two points on that specific trade: 1) stocks include
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by bingdig 6y ago
All the info is from the senate's personal finance disclosure documents: https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/home/
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by bingdig 6y ago
We're not planning on doing anything right now related to that. But long term when we have some more time it'd definitely be more doable using a service like Alpaca
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Show HN: Stock Performance of US Senators(govtrades.com)
246 points by bingdig 6y ago|113 comments
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by bingdig 6y ago
If you're interested in politics and transparency, we're looking for help over at https://www.govtrades.com

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