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by bradj 5y ago
This is awesome, well done.
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by bradj 5y ago
For sure shipping equities with exposure to freight rates like Maersk, and maybe other logistics equities, like railroads.
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by bradj 5y ago
Private railroads also have police with law enforcement powers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_police
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The Crisis of Venture Capital: Fixing America’s Broken Startup System(americanaffairsjournal.org)
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Integrating Rust into Python(vortexa.com)
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by bradj 6y ago
Just as comparison, an entry level firefighter in Bessemer makes about $12/hour starting out. https://www.pbjcal.org/documents/salary/03BS/firefighter.pdf
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Using Rust to corrode insane Python run-times(vortexa.com)
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by bradj 6y ago
There's a lot in this article, but one of the key points is that in addition to their upstream and downstream competencies, the largest oil companies (excepting Exxon and Chevron) are also extremely successful at trading commodities, i
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Big Oil's Secret World of Trading Fuels Profits as Climate Change Worries Rise(bloomberg.com)
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by bradj 6y ago
The FT is well worth the cost if you are a daily reader of their reporting.
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by bradj 6y ago
Niche, but very important to participants in the market. There is a growing industry of cargo and vessel tracking SaaS solutions (including https://Vortexa.com )
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by bradj 6y ago
They can easily switch to other retail power providers. There are other services in Texas that you can subscribe to that will automatically switch your retail provider based on whoever happens to be providing the best deal on any particular
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by bradj 6y ago
Most of the data on Bloomberg or any other market data terminal is going to from another data source. Either from an exchange, ratings agency, SEC reports, price reporting agencies, etc. They’ll also have proprietary data that are exclusive
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by bradj 6y ago
There are lots of industry alternatives to Bloomberg, such as Refinitiv Eikon, FactSet, CapIQ, etc. There is a lot of technical infrastructure required to be able to constantly provide real-time data with no downtime. Also, some data sets a
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by bradj 6y ago
How would they plan to fight against other high maneuverability aircraft without comparable or better aircraft? There is definitely a goal of going unmanned at some point in the future in order to save lives, but the job still needs to be d
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by bradj 6y ago
My wife is a pharmacist and she has a love-hate relationship with GoodRX. She deals with lots of people who don’t have good insurance or can’t afford their prescriptions and she is glad GoodRX offers benefits to these people but it is also
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by bradj 6y ago
What's the alternative supposed to be? Another CEO that has the absolute right to decide what goes on Facebook? I think Zuckerberg is in an impossible decision. I think the fundamental problem is that social support for a classic under
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The New Ruling Class(hedgehogreview.com)
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MindGeek: The secretive owner of Pornhub and RedTube(ft.com)
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by bradj 6y ago
I think you’ll find that that is true of all southern metros. Atlanta is different from Calhoun, Birmingham from Anniston, Huntsville from Madison, etc. It’s not that people are choosing to insulate - the metros are where the jobs are. Thos
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S&P to Buy IHS for $39B in Year’s Second-Biggest Deal(bloomberg.com)
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Jerusalem and Athens: Some Introductory Reflections (1967)(commentarymagazine.com)
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Justice Thomas writes respecting Section 230 in Malwarebytes vs. Enigma Software [pdf](supremecourt.gov)
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by bradj 6y ago
Teams work cross-functionally, which means that in addition to the org-chart there are informal power dynamics between groups and individuals in those groups.
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Information sharing and collaboration in the US intelligence community [pdf](cryptome.wikileaks.org)
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by bradj 6y ago
The entire precious metals desk did $250 million in profit a year. I doubt spoofing is responsible anything close to a majority of that.
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by bradj 6y ago
Isn’t this evidence that it isn’t tolerated? The bank is paying a billion dollars and three of the traders involved, including the executive, are facing criminal fraud charges in a RICO case.
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by bradj 6y ago
Rulebook and player guide available on the RAND website for free: https://www.rand.org/pubs/tools/TL301.html
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Want to learn how the Pentagon works? Then play this board game(foreignpolicy.com)
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A Perspective on the Electoral College(bradj.substack.com)
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