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by elamje 7y ago
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. Can someone show that a company that does not install wind turbines at your house can guarantee that you will be receiving power only produced by wind turbines? I could be misunderstanding something,
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by elamje 7y ago
Texas resident here. If you have ever driven by a refinery of any type you will see where energy goes. The shear amount of energy to convert oil to usable gas/plastics/etc. is pretty crazy. Texas has the biggest oil refinery prese
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by elamje 7y ago
Can you explain why the RISC-V needs to happen? I am not familiar with the chip industry, so I don't understand why the RISC-V will move computing forward and x86/ARM won't move it forward. Edit: Does it have to do with being
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by elamje 7y ago
The concept of "fair" is driving so much policy in the world right now, but there is no one definition. The concept that no one can settle on a definition for, is the concept that is, and will increasingly be, at the forefront of
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by elamje 7y ago
Thank you for clarifying my misunderstanding.
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by elamje 7y ago
I don’t mind it. Personally I find that it gives an incredible amount of dollar cost averaging, since as little as $5 gets invested at a time. All transaction fees are included with the $1-$2 a month. Additionally it’s not a black box becau
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by elamje 7y ago
I have had similar thoughts about big tech companies, but lately I have started to realize the progress they have brought. To name a few: - Google, FB, Amazon basically wrote the book on distributed systems (Read Designing Data Intensive Ap
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by elamje 7y ago
I appreciate your comment. Can you clarify how Robinhood gets compensated for Payment for Order flow? Additionally why is it that they get a better rate than most retail brokerage houses with much more volume?
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by elamje 7y ago
I'm pretty confident we are talking about the same thing. I was referring to market makers as the middle men because they are not the stock exchange. Call it whatever you want, but trading the spread is arbitrage, i.e. a price mismatch
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by elamje 7y ago
Brokers are required to, yes. But Robinhood doesn’t submit orders directly to exchanges, it always passes through a middle man who has to collect some fee for their service.
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by elamje 7y ago
That’s exactly what Acorns does. Only uses Vangaurd popular indexes.
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by elamje 7y ago
I am confident that everyone’s IRA would be better kept by Acorns. Robinhood encourages getting in and out of positions to frequently.
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by elamje 7y ago
TLDR; question answer: An HFT makes money because they see you want to buy 100 shares of Apple. Their servers are located in the exchanges, so they can buy the 100 shares of Apple for $99.99 each quickly, then flip them to you for $100 each
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by elamje 7y ago
I was in your boat at the beginning of 2019. Went with Clojure, and it’s transformed my thinking. A good free starting book is Clojure for the Brave and True. Heard good stuff about Elixir and Rust as well.
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by elamje 7y ago
Yep, Bill Browder is basically the most effective person to ever lobby multiple world powers into creating legislation to blacklist people by name ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act#Individuals_affe... ) from
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by elamje 7y ago
Hey muppetman, I would appreciate an invite too. twitter dm @elamje
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by elamje 7y ago
Genuine question: what are some other communities on the internet that have a quality level similar to HN? I have really enjoyed this site and want to find one or two others.
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The difficulty with Netflix and the like moving to a platform with a recommendation engine, is that no matter how good the machine learning is, it will have a strong incentive(minimization function) to show cheap content. Netflix has awesom
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by elamje 7y ago
I wonder if this actually has more to do with trying to sell HIBP, than abuse. He just announced that he was selling HIBP a month or two ago. Presumably, if he can get people to pay a nominal fee now for access to the api, it makes HIBP muc
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by elamje 7y ago
I would be interested to see if Jamie Dimon or Jeff Bezos could slip by owning a JP Morgan office building or Amazon warehouse, respectively. You pass it off like it is the norm. If it is normal, please cite several examples that come to mi
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by elamje 7y ago
So is Subway the good guy or the bad guy in your comparison? I can’t tell based on your phrasing.
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by elamje 7y ago
To some extent this makes sense for a franchise. It allows McDonalds to use it’s real estate expertise to negotiate the best possible deal, then pass on the deal to the franchisee. If this wasn’t the case, every franchisee would have to bec
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by elamje 7y ago
I would like to see a source for this because I heard the same thing, but don’t want to spread disinformation. If it’s true, that’s not a good look for him or the company.
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by elamje 7y ago
Yeah, I just asked a similar question on HN and didn't get many responses, but one overwhelming book rec was "Designing Data Intensive Applications" Basically a high level guide through modern architectures, frameworks, and d
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by elamje 7y ago
I guess I have just replaced it then :/
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by elamje 7y ago
Games can be an escape, just as book reading can be an escape. The problem lies in that the book ends, but the game goes on for months, years, or decades. Many people bring up the positivity of quitting, or minimizing, social media. The sam
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by elamje 7y ago
No matter where you look on YouTube, there always seems to be a pyramid scheme to hop onto: https://youtu.be/PKqKLntvLFE I hope he was able to retire after all!
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Ask HN: What is an interesting way people use Airtable?
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Ask HN: (Startup School 2019) Advice for cofounders about to work on MVP?
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by elamje 7y ago
Great advice! I actually got that book last night as I researched more. I’ll be looking into the Berkeley class as well!

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