crazyideaman

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by crazyideaman 4y ago
I just ran across my 3.5" disks for this along with some of the support tools! Finding this book in the mall bookstore and seeing the ad in the back was a revelation for me. Best $20 I ever spent. I wanted to learn how to make .exe fil
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by crazyideaman 6y ago
Funniest rejection I've gotten: I once applied to mid-size company and during the phone screen helped them understand the role they wanted/needed was actually a senior program manager position. They later contacted me to thank me
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by crazyideaman 6y ago
Looks like the report I was looking at was a bit dated and they don't provide the same chart in the 2019 annual report. Here is an older one though on page 92. https://www.goldmansachs.com/s/2012annual/assets&
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by crazyideaman 6y ago
They are investigated for shorting a market? I find that unlikely. I'm not trying to pick on Goldman. They were just an example of a large institution that makes huge amounts of money by doing exactly what these guys did. Betting again
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by crazyideaman 6y ago
No. They sold an equal number of future contracts so they were flat and did not need to take inventory. That part is a routine shorting scenario. The odd part of this is that market conditions caused demand to drop so far that sellers paid
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by crazyideaman 6y ago
The TAS contracts required them to buy at settlement price. They obviously did not want inventory so they sold an equal number of contracts. (Sell high, buy low). That much is a routine short scenario. The unusual part of this scenario is t
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by crazyideaman 6y ago
A group of retail traders buy contracts requiring them to buy at settlement price. (TAS) They then sell contracts to get them to a flat position so they don't actually have to take physical stock. This part is very routine. The unusual
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by crazyideaman 6y ago
53% of their revenue is from sales and trading. I'm only saying is that if Goldman Sachs had done this short there would not have been any outrage, calls for investigation and so on. Institutions routinely pull off massive profits from
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by crazyideaman 6y ago
Last year Goldman Sachs made 18 billion dollars and were profitable 236/251 days. 41 of those days they made more than 100 million dollars. Institutional traders like this routinely manipulate prices to temporarily raise/lower pri
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by crazyideaman 8y ago
Vue's single file components (SFC) require a build tool such as Webpack or Browserify. See https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/single-file-components.html
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by crazyideaman 11y ago
You could remove all perverse incentives by putting all fines, fees, etc into a state fund that is paid back annually to citizens via a rebate of some sort. All funding of government would come only from taxes. This would eliminate any fina