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by hidenotslide 9y ago
I think outgoing wires are almost never free, maybe you are thinking of ACH transfers? The rest of the things sound unfortunate though, and potentially illegal in the case of converting to a fee account without notice. Customer friendliness
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
A lot of that trading activity is still leveraged even if self-clearing. Futures/options trades are based on margin for instance, e.g. $4800 ES margin vs. $140,000 (50x2800) notional means 29:1 leverage.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Nothing? That person was also collecting social security and medicare if they were old enough.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Treasuries are liabilities when the government issues them and assets when the Fed holds them. One person's liability is another person's asset.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
I don't really want to go down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole of who does what at the Fed but it's main decision makers are government appointees, it was established by an act of Congress, and it remits its profits to the Treas
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Almost assuredly false. The Federal Reserve balance sheet is US treasuries and mortgages, and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac are mortgages as well. Probably not a complete data set.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
This person gets paid 1 million dollars per year for twenty days of not-rocking-the-boat. It's not their money and the only way they get fired is by asking questions like that. Why investors put up with it is a better question. I think
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Nice idea, here's a little WebGL version inspired by your post. I just used a noise function rather than the polygons though. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/lt2BRm
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
I find it a bit surprising that investors would want it under those terms. Aside from the (negative) signaling value of insider sales, the company is still burning cash and it's a little weird that over half the capital they are raisin
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
It reminds me of the old way Chrome didn't hide saved passwords. It made sense under the threat model they had for the feature, but it wasn't the security model end users expected would be the default. A simple UI fix would be to
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Please provide a source if you have one. Dumping usually refers to the international trade context, I don't see how it could be applied in this case.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
So are you against municipalities having the right to determine their own laws and regulations then? Just because you don't like the law doesn't mean you can ignore it. My point is not whether or not the regulations should exist,
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
What does real estate have to do with the dollar? 1 dollar does not entitle you to any US land. Inflation is not driven by land or land development. The value of the dollar is stable because people trust it to be stable and because there is
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
I suspect Eugene Fama would say it is priced exactly right.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
In the US predatory pricing only applies to companies who use their market power to earn above-competitive profits. So the earlier actions could only be dealt with by the FTC after they drove competitors out of the market and raised prices.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
I found it interesting that the employees of Renaissance finally convinced him to boot Robert Mercer. Simons has accomplished great things in mathematics, investing, autism research and math education. But he has also enabled a Bond villain
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Fair, but I'm still not aware of any practical applications for "systems of equations" like the person I responded to mentioned. If you know any please share. The determinant intuition for me is the signed volume factor for a
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
That is what Twitch does with "bits", it should definitely work here as well.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
I don't understand, can you give an example? For most of the classical applications determinants are computationally terrible compared to factorization methods, e.g. for matrix inverse elimination is O(n^3) and Cramer's rule is so
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
I saw a talk on this paper a couple years ago. https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02531 The method is to train a smaller model on the predictions of a large model or ensemble. I'd be interested in knowing other techniques
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
The difference is stocks vs. flows. $100 capex only shows up in year one, but the balance sheet goes up permanently (depreciating of course). When the parent mentions "level of infrastructure" it refers to the balance sheet accoun
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
You are referring to Earnings/Share, not Price/Earnings. It doesn't matter much anyway, if they can make the same amount of money with less invested capital that should increase their metrics. And there are good tax reasons t
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
I agree, I should have mentioned free cash flow. Of course the real answer is to look at many metrics and get a broad picture. But I doubt you are going to find a "value investing" reason to buy AMZN at these levels, it's cle
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
P/E is a very meaningful metric. It's not that Amazon has infrastructure that matters, it's that they are reinvesting their earnings at a higher rate than other companies. If they returned capital to investors because they di
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Rybolovlev was the seller, the question is who is paying him and who did he buy it from for $127 million in the first place? At this high a price it seems more like money laundering than painting the tape, but who knows.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
You are right, I miscopied from their website. 3 million trades, billions of shares daily. Whether market making is beating the market is mostly semantics, I was just responding to the guy who said they flipped heads 10 times and got lucky.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
This article leaves more questions than it answers. Is top 5% of patents really a good measure of scientist productivity as opposed to published articles or research awards? Is outmigration more relevant than absolute residency numbers? If
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Sorry for the late reply. You are right that they are closely related, as revenue is a pretty important part of running a business. But I find it useful to distinguish between them, as do most business schools. Mergers are part of corporate
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Another competitor is CoCalc ( https://cocalc.com/ ) created by the SageMath developers.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
A number of countries run these types of programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State-sponsored_Internet_propa... All promote their own propaganda and many also attack their rivals via sock puppets. As far as I know t

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