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by maest 7y ago
Though I would miss the daily K post, but here it is!
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by maest 7y ago
I'm talking about the "Earned Income" section they show here: https://khanacademyannualreport.org/financial-information/ (you have to scroll down to the second piechart) It's separate from donations
933.
by maest 7y ago
Biling alerts are not real time. - Some guy
934.
by maest 7y ago
Billing alerts are not real time; far from it, actually.
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by maest 7y ago
Just because the decisions are difficult to make doesn't mean there's no need for this feature or ways to implement it.
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by maest 7y ago
They do have an income source, though.
937.
by maest 7y ago
Not that familiar with Khan Academy, but shouldn't their income also be at 250% normal load?
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by maest 7y ago
Do you disagree with the estimated mortality rates or with the tradeoff between economic and human loss?
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by maest 7y ago
> a steady increase which is remarkably linear, apart from a sad bump in late teens and early 20’s, whose cause is all too clear. Any idea what this "clear" cause is?
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by maest 7y ago
The responses there are predictable and uninteresting. I'm much more interested to see how a cop subreddit responds to this.
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by maest 7y ago
The post on r/protectandserve got immediately locked: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtectAndServe/comments/fl57x6/nyp...
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by maest 7y ago
It's so weird having one k post a day, like clockwork.
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by maest 7y ago
Sure - in the same way Dropbox is FTP + SVN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by maest 7y ago
In a past life I've made extensive use of the q/kdb excel plugin to do my financial analysis (backtesting, model fitting etc). The basic setup was: 1. set up a q server and load lots of price data and signal tables in memory 2. op
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by maest 7y ago
Is Shakti the reason we've had such a large influx of APL/kdb/q posts on HN recently?
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by maest 7y ago
This is in no way Python-specific.
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by maest 7y ago
Bezos shouldn't be taxed because his company is offering a service people are using?
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by maest 7y ago
Honest question - should taxes be abolished?
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by maest 7y ago
It's really baffling that the WHO is actively recommending _against_ face masks. They even go as far as saying not to wear a mask _even if you already own one_ which they arguably wouldn't do if they were worried about shortages.
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by maest 7y ago
Analogous reasoning suggests that, if you have a 401k and thus probably own some shares in, say, Starbucks, then it's in your interest to spend as much as possible at their shops.
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by maest 7y ago
That's almost correct. You have to qualify those values as "risk adjusted".
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by maest 7y ago
I agree that he gravitates towards quirky ends of the market - it's a big part of what makes it enjoyable to watch. To his credit, however, whenever he discusses a mechanism breaking, he usually starts by explaining how the machanism u
953.
by maest 7y ago
It really depends on the book. The main issue regarding historical books is that they can very easily become dated. I've also read Reminiscence of a Stock Operator and I found that, while interesting, very little of that informs how th
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by maest 7y ago
There's a gargantuan step to be made between saying "there are _some_ similarities between human and fish brains" to "the stock market behaves non-randomly like a school of fish". And an even bigger one to saying &q
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by maest 7y ago
I have almost 10 years in the finance industry, both buyside and sellside and my take is that, while there are some fundamental principles at play, the world of finance is too messy and complicated for any one book to describe it. An even s
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by maest 7y ago
They still care about share price, which depends on outside investors willing to buy the shares, which depends on MS having good IR, which some of the board members help with.
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by maest 7y ago
It's amazing how much impact leaving this information out has.
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by maest 7y ago
Why?
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by maest 7y ago
Shutting down borders helps if the virus hasn't reached your country. If it has, there's no point in banning incoming people (maybe you can stop people from leaving so other regions don't get infected, but that's a less
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by maest 7y ago
This is blatanly false. > there isn't anything governments can do about it. Banning public events, locking down geographical areas, closing schools, pulling in retired medical workforce etc. > doesn't mean that that somethin

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