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by hogFeast 6y ago
January 2000 - $60 January 2010 - $30 I did just eyeball it from a few months before. And note, I said 2000...not 2001. And even at the end of 2001, it did nothing for a decade plus.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
And Microsoft multiplied their profits a few times between 2000 and 2010 while their stock dropped 75%. Valuations are important. Valuations are affected by the monetary policy/liquidity cycle. And Google's valuation is growing fa
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by hogFeast 6y ago
It is worth understanding that the European stock market, bar the UK and possibly Sweden, isn't like the US. Most companies finance themselves through banks. Whilst Europe as an economic unit is larger than the US, capital markets are
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Much of monetary policy theory today is premised on the notion that central bankers are very good at communicating their intentions to markets. ...as you have found, this is not true.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
English and Japanese - 5 names that start with the letter L, 2 that start with the letter R ...needs more work.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
It is also way easier to access and (often) faster...or so I am told. We are in 2020, and some guy in his mother's basement with a PHP site is able to provide better service than multi-billion dollar media companies... ...maybe if they
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Yep, the loss to these companies is not the price of the movie. It is not the tens of millions of dollars quoted. If you pirate a movie, the person buying it is rarely someone who would pay full price. I would be surprised if the actual los
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by hogFeast 6y ago
It will be profitable. The selling shareholders will dump their stock into the market and make big profits. Can't believe the cynicism on here. Selling bullshit IPOs is very profitable.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
This method of distributing products has been used since humans invented trade. You could ask: what is the value that grain traders provide? What is the value that wholesalers provide? Selling things isn't as simple as making them, and
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by hogFeast 6y ago
That wasn't the claim. You should read the reply chain but the point isn't about archaeology but our interpretation of civilization outside Rome and Greece. You wanted to know why these civilizations get that share of work...the r
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by hogFeast 6y ago
The work is in proportion to the amount of documents that are retained today. The reason why Rome and Greece are "popular" is they determined intellectual thought from the fall of the Western Rome until, probably, humanism (some o
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by hogFeast 6y ago
If you are in SV, it can seem like the world is moving very fast (and within SV, the number of things that people are trying and call "technology" is much larger than the number of things that people outside SV either want or need
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Yep, I am somewhere else in the world but benefited (although somewhat indirectly) from a similar kind of process and it is ludicrously unfair, arbitrary, and there is almost no oversight of how decisions are actually being made. The only e
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Correct, which is why I didn't say that no-one should be worried. I am saying that this doesn't apply for most people in most situations. And you want a national mandate to wear masks but you said that people wearing them got infe
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by hogFeast 6y ago
The only way that UBI can work is if you have a very strong labour market with high levels of flexibility. This is one of the tricky things about economic policy. If you are proposing UBI, you are likely to be the worst person possible to i
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Not your point but I think there is a definite issue here with perceptions around workplace safety. The US has a very good level of testing/mask usage. And, to be blunt, just wear a mask and wash your hands...you will be okay. I unders
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by hogFeast 6y ago
I think one issue with SQLAlchemy is that, somehow, they are the worst of all worlds. They have multiple ways to run queries (iirc, the "model" way, the non-model way, and the raw way) but it is all the "model" way under
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by hogFeast 6y ago
They didn't blow up. Blow up means lose all the money. Afaik, USO weren't trying to roll their whole book that day (the exchange put out a notice a month or so before telling people to roll...as the article says). The Chinese bank
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by hogFeast 6y ago
It isn't an order type. In many institutional markets, trades are settled at a price that isn't known when the trade is booked. This happens in rates (LIBOR rigging was an example, it happens elsewhere), it happens in forex (the d
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Er no. It is. The losers were Chinese banks/investors. Chinese banks created a ton of financial products linked to oil futures, they didn't know what they were doing and left it to the last minute to roll (afaik, none of the produ
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Read about political history in those countries. The Cameron govt's press department was run by people from News Corp. Blair's meeting with Murdoch pre-97 was infamous. Cameron's meetings pre-2010 are infamous. Brown had nume
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by hogFeast 6y ago
One of the examples in the splash video is a person incrementing account credit...if I was a finance guy, this would terrify me... ...obviously, technical stuff like consistency seems problematic too.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Then use partitioning (which the OP appears to be doing)? If you need to do some kind of full table scan, what exactly is going to be faster about noSQL? With SQL, your data is presumably going to be non-contiguous so you are going to get s
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Sky-high wages and low immigration were probably big factors here. Either way, there are alternatives: Give kids more vocational stuff to do at school. Most children grow up with almost no understanding of the world of work. Improve the hum
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Japanese did it. Their model for economic growth was late 19th century Germany, which was largely based on financial repression. The British did it. The UK had a huge stock of foreign assets at the start of the 20th century. They had to be
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Because none of the alternatives are large enough. If you are a central bank, and you need to deposit $100bn...you realise that you can't walk into your local branch of Chase and ask if they will take a cheque. If you give it to a bank
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by hogFeast 6y ago
They have a huge non-quant business. I believe they are actually mainly a non-quant firm now.
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by hogFeast 6y ago
How does this weird chicken-and-egg situation make sense to you? You seem to have this weird notion of which things come from other things??? It is very odd. Why are you posing a situation in which someone is using Shopify without a product
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by hogFeast 6y ago
You are thinking about cost like a middle manager. If you are using Shopify, that isn't a cost, it is an investment. It isn't like legal or finance, usually, because it is product-related and can be used to reduce prices/impr
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by hogFeast 6y ago
Why has no-one thought of this before?

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