ddmitriev

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by ddmitriev 5mo ago
> where you can still buy a normally aspirated, stick shift, driver's car The problem is that you can't buy them. All of these "interesting" 911s are limited production in practice even when not limited editions per s
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by ddmitriev 2y ago
This does not sound right. Maybe venture capital funds work this way? (I wouldn't know about them.) But with regular hedge funds, you are joining a portfolio and you do get the return even on the positions that were in place at the
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by ddmitriev 2y ago
I think they usually say that they are focused on alpha while minimizing beta, i.e. don't compare us to the S&P or other indices because we are market neutral. And in my experience, the large, old firms that I am personally fam
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by ddmitriev 2y ago
I have been using a ".capital" email domain for work for the last few years, and the only issue I've encountered is form validation regexes that believe that the TLD portion must be between 2 and 5 characters long (literally
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by ddmitriev 2y ago
I replaced the head unit on my car from the same era with an aftermarket Sony XAV-9000ES unit that has wireless carplay support. It takes about 10 seconds to connect after powering up the electronics but is otherwise seamless. Full steering
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by ddmitriev 3y ago
Wave ( https://www.waveapps.com/ ) works well for me. Admittedly, I have not explored things like accrual accounting (I just do everything on a cash basis), so I don’t know how well this is supported, and I’m perplexed that t
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by ddmitriev 3y ago
Thank you for providing the context. To me, it's the 20 FTEs requirement that is the most unexpected. The small businesses that I or the people I know have worked at or have interacted with were generally in the 2-10 FTE range. For wha
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by ddmitriev 3y ago
[1] lists exceptions in section 8. Mostly, they are entities that are already subject to substantially more stringent reporting requirements such as banks, entities registered with the SEC, and so on: > Many of these exempt entities are
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by ddmitriev 3y ago
I am reminded of "accidental Americans" who discovered they owe FinCEN hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties for not reporting their foreign (i.e., local to them) bank accounts. Now, it's the forgotten-but-not-dissolv
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by ddmitriev 4y ago
Each trade is bilateral. Futures, both regular and these "perpetual swaps" are zero-sum. A person buying is another person selling and vice versa. The exchange does not need to hedge the underlying because the exchange/cleari
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by ddmitriev 4y ago
Eons (>15 years) ago, I sold software that relied on having a working TeX installation, and to make it easier on my users, my installer provided a very very trimmed down version of MiKTeX as an optional download. The beautiful thing abou
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by ddmitriev 4y ago
Trading connections that go over private links such as cross-connects between the firm's and the exchange's equipment within a colocation facility are not encrypted.
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by ddmitriev 4y ago
Schwab has Zelle in the phone app.