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by hidenotslide 9y ago
I don't know anything about this particular case, but it reminds me of a similar episode in 2015 against a South Korean Hearthstone player. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/witch-hunt-against-fake-fe... Point 3 a
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Sort of conflates marketing strategy and corporate strategy, though there is overlap. The flow charts are vague enough to apply to any type of problem. Marketing strategy covers anything related to sales/revenue, such as customers, pro
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Not an expert, but the only part I see like this is section 512(a) here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_... This seems to apply to network traffic, whereas I'd guess what to host on th
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Virtu trades 3 million shares a day, they are way out on the bell curve in terms of statistical significance. There are of course many risks to their business model, e.g. high fixed costs, competition, regulatory risk, technical malfunction
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
It is a textbook example of a speculative bubble. Shiller's book Irrational Exuberance is a great exposition on the topic. Almost every criterion he cites is satisfied: dramatic price increases, "new era" stories, mass media
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Tldr: Government debt isn't like household debt. If anything you should be worried about growing deficits outside recessions, and even that just leads to some inflation. There is no need to pay off the debt, as long as it grows slower
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
If by statistical pattern you mean that political enemies of Putin are statistically more likely to be assassinated. https://extranewsfeed.com/the-trail-of-dead-russians-da27ee4... Erovinkin in particular is generally consi
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Thanks, this is a pretty interesting distinction I never realized. Now I want to go find a good modern political science book and learn more.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
It seems like this is the bigger problem. Few people think RT/Sputnik are unbiased, but when you have some foreign intelligence agency micro-targeting voters it's hard to even judge the extent of the influence operations taking pl
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Literally the biggest patent troll around. Sources: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/stupid-patent-month-me... http://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-patent-holding-compan...
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
It is calculated from the (theoretical) implied volatility of listed S&P options, so it is indeed forward looking (not past variance). But it is riddled with microstructural issues and to my knowledge doesn't really have any track
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
This article shows that IT has emerged as an important new industry, but it doesn't really convince me that it is the primary cause of inequality. One of my favorite surveys of income inequality is a Krugman essay from 15 years ago (be
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
That whole "Otto Trucking" portion was embarrassing, and not for Larry.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
They came back after WW1 just long enough to cause the Great Depression though. Totally gone by the mid 1930's.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
The primary mechanism that "creates" money is ordinary banks loaning money in the fractional reserve system. The Federal Reserve does not have as much control as people think.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
This reminds me to re-read Coase's "The Nature of the Firm." 80 years old and still brilliant.
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by hidenotslide 9y ago
Given knowledge of the matching engine (lack of circuit breakers, automatic margin calls), the number of bids in the limit order book, and the amount of margin being employed this could have been executed as a purely mechanical arbitrage. O