jeletonskelly

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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
I'm talking about inter-broker settlements. Like settlements of securities between large banks. The actual physical securities that are stamped and all that.
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
I think secondary markets could benefit from a distributed trusted database with smart contracts. I also think that behind the scenes on wall street there are some interesting things around securities settlement, something that is very time
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Someone wants out and they know there's limited buy side liquidity. Once the primary market maker algos detect a big move, they get out of the way so they aren't overexposed long or short. Once they pull the liquidity it becomes a
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Don't let the order book fool you. Big players spoof the market all the time with these massive orders.
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
I think there are several projects trying to solve this, but DLT can make an impact in secondary markets for privately held equity. Ownership is difficult to verify, settlement is complicated, and there are many rules that govern the transf
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Trading volume has dropped significantly over the last 6 months. Large holders have been patient waiting for new money to enter the market. Eventually, when the only activity is a few automated traders and the exchange liquidity provider, l
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Cryptocurrency crash will hopefully bring expectations back in line with reality. Legit blockchain projects will only have to deal with the stigma from being associated with a giant pump and dump when they approach VCs.
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Difficulty adjusts dynamically to ensure there is always an incentive to mine.
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Northern Virginia was chosen for it's proximity to existing data centers (us-east), proximity to a growing AWS government client base, the size of the workforce, and possibly the consideration that they will win and service the DoD JED
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
I used to work at an OTA (online travel agency, ie Booking.com, Hotels.com). There's all kinds of complications to what seems to be a pretty simple thing: a building with rooms that are either occupied or not. There's multiple rat
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Billionaires Chase ‘SpaceX Moment’ for the Holy Grail of Energy(bloomberg.com)
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
How are USD backed cryptocurrencies not considered illegal USD surrogates? If they aren't yet, maybe they will be once there's a lawsuit.
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
It's part of the shadowy arms race that's been taking place for the last few decades in cyber space. The public has been kept mostly in the dark about it; either because the details are too technical and/or the stakes are amb
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Interesting, but not all that surprising. At this point it's fair to assume most security research institutions are co-opted to some degree by intelligence agencies.
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
This is great advice. The further you can get on your own dime will save you equity and get you better terms when you really do need capital investments. Early on, the biggest expense will be your time.
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Unless you're air-gapped you can usually assume that if the machines are syncing to public NTP then there's a way in and out.
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
The bounds of the computing power isn't even worth considering because we have no knowledge of the resources, let alone the nature of the reality, in either a parent universe or parent simulation. Sure, fidelity must drop in each neste
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
It's worth noting that licenses can represent assets of a company and have value in liquidation scenarios. Someone else looking for a license may just buy your failing company for $11m and get a $13m license.
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
It's just a probability thought experiment. If there is only one real universe and there are (hypothetical) at least 2 simulations of universes (regardless of their fidelity) then the odds that you, an inhabitant of a universe, is in o
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
There is only one "real" universe. If simulations are being run there's a potentially incomprehensible number of simulated universes. As a member of one of those universes, it is probable you are in one of the many simulation
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Given the immense size of our simulation and our relatively small presence in it, it could be that the simulators had no expectations of it becoming self-aware. It would seem that they simply picked some fundamental parameters (physics) and
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
If this is indeed the case, I'm surprised someone didn't catch something earlier when the device was calling "home" over their network. I'm wondering if China stole BlackRidge First Packet Authentication tech [1] to
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Yes, that's sort of what I'm getting at with that leading question. If we accept evolutionary biology then a headline like this wouldn't be all that surprising. All living things converge at the root.
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Can we make significant progress in carbon capture technologies within the next 20 years that would not require such dramatic changes to society?
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
There's an unbroken chain between everything current living thing and the first living thing, so don't we share DNA with well... everything?
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
Our simulation is written in a functional language using lazy evaluation, obviously. Observing a quantum state forces evaluation and consumes more memory on the machine running our simulation. If we observe too much the beings simulating us
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
So, aren't we sending out radio signals in a spiral as the planet rotates that would be massively spread out over a distance of 3 billion light years? If I were broadcasting something into space constantly some alien civilization would
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
You might want to consider classification as a "Proprietary Trading Firm" instead of a hedge fund
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
It's pretty metal to bleed metal
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by jeletonskelly 8y ago
A majority of the trading volume and, thus, the apparent market liquidity is in Tether. The problem with this is that Tether doesn't represent real liquidity since there's no way to redeem Tethers to actual USD. Tether currently r

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