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by kchoudhu 9y ago
Al Jazeera been a continuous thorn in the rest of the Arab world's side, yes, but what caused tensions to boil over in 2017? Their arabic language coverage wasn't really any more abrasive last year than it was in 2011, 2005 or 199
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
Oman has maintained neutrality in the conflict, and their Sultan is doing shuttle diplomacy between Doha and Riyadh. In the interim, Qatar has rerouted all of its trans-shipping activity from Dubai to Muscat.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
The Al Jazeera thing always struck me as a canard: it's been in operation for the last 20 years, why did it suddenly become such a sticking point in 2017?
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
This is as good a summary of what's going on in the GCC these days as I've seen since the blockade began in July, which is to say that everyone can describe what is happening, but no one seems to be able to explain why it is h
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
You try getting a F500 company to change its retirement carrier.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
They have an obligation to provide me the investments described in the prospectus I was given when I decided to invest with them. Nothing in those prospectuses says anything about handicapping returns based on social responsibility. The siz
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
I'm interested in why Blackrock thinks it has the right to use my retirement funds to do anything other than maximize my gains. You want to drive social responsibility from corporations, fine -- but do it on your own dime. As every hon
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
Take that, Plato!
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
FreeBSD isn't two people in a garage, it's a foundational part of the internet developed by professionals who can be counted upon to do the right thing. Intel and Google don't have a leg to stand on: I'm super glad they
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
I didn't realize there was so much money in to-do lists.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
Oh for sure. We live in the middle east for 9 months of the year, and learned pretty quickly that if you're going to do anything in these kinds of temperatures, you do it late at night when temperatures are more reasonable and less lik
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
This is not too far from where I live in the US -- I had no idea it existed. I guess I know where I'm taking the kiddos when they next want to go hiking.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
Wow, this is pretty eye-opening for anyone looking to use FreeBSD in production as a database server. Anyone from FreeBSD devs have any thoughts on why we're so far behind?
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
Was this before 11? I regularly did 10+ table joins on Sybase, and the execution was stellar as long as you had the right indices set up.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
It's an unintentional side pocket. Hedge funds do this to avoid runs on the main fund when assets can't be priced, bitcoin exchanges have inadvertently stumbled on the model due to interface problems with the mainline banking indu
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
Not at all -- lots of opportunities for misunderstanding in this thread.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
Oh, I understood exactly what he was getting at. I was hoping he would use the opportunity to apologize, but hey, internet.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
I've been part of exciting conversations with desk heads attempting to justify database licensing fees in flat/falling trading environments where traders and people are being let go. Given those experiences, I personally stopped o
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
> obsolete language Huh?
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
Both investment banks I worked at were massive Sybase ASE shops. Oracle costs too much for what you get.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
I doubt Norwegian homeownership culture is anything as militant or debt-fueled as America's. Remember how the US nearly tanked itself with mortgage backed securities a few years ago?
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
You are missing my point. I don't care if credit reconciles immediately at the bank level or not, I care about what credit cards allow me to do, which is smooth over lumpy cashflow. If I have expenses of 100K a year, without access to
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
With respect, that's a horrible generalization, and does nothing to refute my point that households Europe are in much more debt (as a share of disposable income) than US households.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
> It creates a healthier society in long run if people cannot spend money they don't have Ok, now explain this: https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm Denmark, Holland and Norway are nobody's idea of
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
You think of credit cards as a way to transfer funds, but miss the "credit" part of the name. I like having the option to to buy now and pay later at the same price point as paying right now.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
Does cultivation of tech talent matter when the chance of execution by mortar shell is present? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/96...
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
Turns out 40% of several billion is a pretty large number.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
1. I can think of a hundred things more useful than bitcoin that renewable energy could be used for. 2. Gold has uses other than propping up speculative markets. This is a false equivalence.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
Ah, yes. Lots of stories about contras calling up and thanking you for letting good stuff out the door on A-day. Mistakes like this happened -all- the time at both the banks I worked at.
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by kchoudhu 9y ago
As in passthrough TBAs? How so?

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