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by hendzen 9y ago
Market participants who sold BCH earlier today before the announcement to insiders who bought knowing that the price was sure to rise after this announcement?
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by hendzen 9y ago
IANAL, but with the existence of Bitcoin futures on CME and CBOE, the CFTC presumably has some jurisdiction over insider trading in BTC spot markets, insomuch as they affect futures prices. Under the 'Misappropriation Theory', ins
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by hendzen 9y ago
I wonder how much money Coinbase employees, friends and family made by insider trading on this announcement. Gotta love unregulated markets!
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Just wait until they discover factor models!
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Many quant funds are market neutral. For every dollar long they have a dollar short. Such funds aren’t necessarily benefiting from an upward rise in the market.
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"We would DELETE from those tables every few hours because we were only interested in the last 2 weeks worth of rows, so the dataset size was constrained/bounded, so slow downs weren't a result of tables getting larger."
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by hendzen 9y ago
What actually changes hands in a typical startup acquisition? Hint: it's usually not cash.
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"CME is fairly anonymous". What planet do you live on?
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by hendzen 9y ago
"find the minimum of the elements being pointed at" - doing that efficiently (e.g. with a heap) is the 'trick' to the problem.
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by hendzen 9y ago
> There's no such thing as a trivial change to the bitcoin consensus rules, especially when that change requires everyone to upgrade their software at once on pain of financial loss. We're talking something that's never be
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by hendzen 9y ago
That's not really true anymore. Linux AIO works fine on XFS. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/io_submit.2.html
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by hendzen 9y ago
Not for strategies that are trading frequently with 1-3 day holding periods...
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by hendzen 9y ago
What kind of work do you do - and what qualifies as interesting work? I assure you a talented software developer can earn as much if not more in NYC than SF.
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people who don't want to get woken up if Amazon decides to terminate said i3.16xlarge...
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by hendzen 9y ago
There is a brand on Amazon (Zinus) that sells reasonable quality foam mattresses with low markups. I bought their Queen [0] for $289, and have been happy with it. I'm assuming that Amazon will also eventually introduce an Amazon Basics
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by hendzen 9y ago
The citizens of South Korea love to trade financial instruments. The KOSPI 200 index future used to be the most liquid equity index future in the world - mostly fueled by Korean retail traders [0]. Eventually, then, as now, the government h
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by hendzen 9y ago
Everyone looks like a genius in a bull market.
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The target demographic is gullible, greedy software engineers who have a lot of disposable income but lack experience in conducting due diligence on speculative investments. Basically, Hacker News readers. Why do you think there are so many
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I'm holding out for Android Diet Mountain Dew
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by hendzen 9y ago
Honestly, none of these ICO's are generating any real value yet. What is a widely used product that has been funded by an ICO? Even 0x is a protocol for trading tokens. That implies you need tokens worth trading... ICO madness is just
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by hendzen 9y ago
The employees of the fund, who reside in the US presumably, will be taxed on the income they earn from the fund. Why should they be taxed twice? Google & Apple, etc play the same jurisdictional tricks, as do pretty much all multinationa
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by hendzen 9y ago
Good points. For what its worth there are other successful MongoDB hosting providers - mLab (originally MongoLab), compose (originally MongoHQ), and ObjectRocket - so they (MongoDB, Inc) don't have complete control over the ecosystem,
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by hendzen 9y ago
Nutanix, Twilio are two recent ones (IPO'd in 2016). They both were great performers last year. I don't have the time to dig up all the data and do a comparison of the correlation between returns on companies that used the confide
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by hendzen 9y ago
It's not the same exact market but its essentially the same business model - build a community around an open source system and then upsell enterprise customers on support, consulting & services.
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Both Hortonworks & Cloudera are the most similar recent IPOs. Hortonworks is below the offering price, Cloudera has been basically flat. And this is in the context of an insane bull market for tech stocks and the market in general. So w
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by hendzen 9y ago
The "ecosystem" was on the path to destroying the company. The 3rd party Twitter clients had huge chunks of the Twitter userbase - back in 2010-2011, 20% of Twitter users used EchoFon, 11% used TweetDeck, etc. If they had let the
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[2013] a spoiler for the future – Bitcoin(blog.gardeviance.org)
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See this prescient article, written in 2013: http://blog.gardeviance.org/2013/11/a-spoiler-for-future-bit...
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by hendzen 9y ago
You should read the author's next post where he pokes a bit of fun at his metric: http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2013/12/valuation-and-...
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by hendzen 9y ago
People respond to incentives. If you can get paid 250K+ to sit around and hang out on reddit all day, why wouldn't you do that instead of busting your ass?

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