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541.
by minimax 13y ago
It's good to see Slate standing up for its competitors.
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There’s one key difference between kids who excel at math and those who don’t(qz.com)
14 points by minimax 13y ago|3 comments
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by minimax 13y ago
Your comments on Las Vegas reminded me of a recent set of photos in Wired: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2013/09/michael-light-aerial-ph...
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by minimax 13y ago
They unintentionally built up a huge position well beyond their internal capital thresholds. You don't have worry about mark to market to detect that. If you think your FX strategy could end up with max notional of let's say £50MM
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Silicon Valley’s Secessionist Movement Is Growing(nymag.com)
9 points by minimax 13y ago|0 comments
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Beauty in the Bronx: to create is human, but art is too often a privilege(theguardian.com)
2 points by minimax 13y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 13y ago
How did you get in contact with the banks? Neither founder seems to have a background business development or banking, so I'm curious how you were able to pitch to them.
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by minimax 13y ago
That's a good point, but when I think of the typical code for non-range-based for loop it looks like: for (vector<string>::iterator i = data.begin(); i != data.end(); ++i) { ofile << *i << std::endl;
549.
by minimax 13y ago
I think people sometimes feel compelled to combine auto and the range based for loop when they shouldn't. In this example the range based for loop adds clarity but the use of auto doesn't. I would have written something like:
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by minimax 13y ago
The shallow end of the pool is simple RISC CPUs e.g. Atmel 8-bit AVR. The complete instruction manual is something like 160 pages (compare to x86 at 3k+) and there are tons of beginner resources for doing assembler on those chips.
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SEC's New Market Structure Data Visualization Site(sec.gov)
2 points by minimax 13y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 13y ago
It's hard to find tech specs on the Perspective Pixel displays, but at least one source† says they are 1920x1080. The idea of doing lots of text-oriented work sitting inches away from a 55" 1080p monitor sounds horrible , but I g
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by minimax 13y ago
Thanks for following up!
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Google Gives Android Developers Improved Analytics(techcrunch.com)
67 points by minimax 13y ago|3 comments
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by minimax 13y ago
Hundreds of IPOs in the past 12 months?
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by minimax 13y ago
$ curl -s https://agent.sealion.com | sudo bash /dev/stdin -o [UUID] Is this actually something people are willing to do? I.e. pipe from the Internet directly into a root shell? It seems especially crazy since none o
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by minimax 13y ago
It does. Thanks!
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by minimax 13y ago
You're right. I looked a little more on their site and found: The policies are reinsured by Swiss RE Corporate Solutions Ltd which also has an A.M. Best rating of "A+" (Superior). It looks like Swiss Re has a pretty signifi
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by minimax 13y ago
How was a startup able to offer an insurance product with only a few tens of millions in VC? Were they partnering with someone? I would love to read more about their business model.
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by minimax 13y ago
The only difference is the "hold the whole market first" strategy requires more capital. That's not the only difference. It's not even the biggest difference. The major difference is that in your scenario you have a
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by minimax 13y ago
All of your profit in this scenario comes from the market going up, not D going down. That's not a short (or synthetic short) position.
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by minimax 13y ago
If you are a startup and you think valuations are peaking, wouldn't it be smart to raise as much money as you can while valuations are still high?
563.
by minimax 13y ago
Market microstructure is such a massively complicated topic that few insiders, much less the SEC, thoroughly understand it. It's actually not super complicated. A limit order book is a straightforward thing. If you can do FizzBuzz, y
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by minimax 13y ago
It would be nice to hear a little bit more about how the FOMC results get into the electronic news feed. If anything, it seems more fair to release the news simultaneously in NY and Chicago so that traders in NY couldn't pick-off marke
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by minimax 13y ago
How does the power usage of the wifi radio compare to the cell radio? Does it use more or less power?
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by minimax 13y ago
I live in Chicago but I'm originally from the south. I feel exactly the opposite. To me, it feels a little bit warm in the summer for all of a month or two, then it's cold as hell in January and February.
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by minimax 13y ago
Mehta tells TechCrunch that “33 percent of the year, Chicago has some form of precipitation” and that his company has learned in the San Francisco area that “people just do not like grocery shopping when it’s raining.” I think in Chicago
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by minimax 13y ago
I understand the theory, but when I look at the data it looks like: http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=mth The last real period of rising mortgage rates was in the 70s. You can pretty clearly see that h
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by minimax 13y ago
I have seen this argument (that higher interest rates will lead to lower prices), but it would be nice to see some historical (or at least anecdotal) evidence of it. I think at least one problem is that it assumes wages will remain flat. If
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by minimax 13y ago
This argument only makes sense when home prices stay flat or go up, which isn't always the case. I'd rather be "flushing my money away" each month than get stuck tens of thousands of dollars underwater on a mortgage.

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