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by minimax 12y ago
There is some chance I'm misreading your sarcasm here, but if you are willing to accept that arbitrageurs provide a useful function in the markets by keeping prices equal for roughly equivalent instruments traded on geographically dive
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A Russian Soldier Vanishes in Ukraine(nytimes.com)
3 points by minimax 12y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 12y ago
This could be one of the reasons the SEC hasn't approved the ETF for sale to the public. The first S-1 for this ETF is dated 2013-07-01, so it's not like the SEC hasn't had time to look at it. That said, there is a whole univ
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by minimax 12y ago
What will definitely fall out is whatever fees the Winklevoss brothers decide to pay themselves. We don't know what those fees are though, because they haven't said. You can ctrl-f around in the S-1 for "sponsor's fee&qu
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by minimax 12y ago
That is only for "Authorized Participants" converting between bitcoin and shares in the ETF. It's the so called "creation and redemption" process and virtually all ETFs use a similar scheme. If the shares trade publ
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by minimax 12y ago
This is just a new version of the S-1. The SEC still hasn't approved the ETF for sale.
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by minimax 12y ago
This is not a Maude Flanders "won't someone think of the children!" type issue. This is bad guys actively and horrifically abusing children. It's a good thing the LEAs are going after them with technologically sophistica
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by minimax 12y ago
The good news is that law enforcement agencies aren't completely helpless in these cases and are actively developing technology (a la Torpedo†) to infiltrate these sites and prosecute their users. † http://www.wired.com&#x2F
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by minimax 12y ago
If you're still anti-Snowden and/or pro-NSA after all the stuff that has come out then ... you believe deep down that foreign terrorists are plentiful and out to destroy USA. I was taking issue with that bit. There are good reas
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by minimax 12y ago
There are plenty of people out there who aren't paranoid xenophobes that think what Snowden did was wrong. I think Marc Andreesen and Benedict Evans from a16z are probably two names most HN readers would recognize. Edward Lucas (a repo
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by minimax 12y ago
If you look at it from the perspective of a city like Houston, where a big chunk of the local economy is driven by the oil industry, you can see why it's a big problem for some people. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/bu
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by minimax 12y ago
Most engineering jobs at finance companies are cost-center roles. I think this will vary based on the size of the firm. Larger firms that trade in multiple markets and in different asset classes or firms that become registered broker deal
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by minimax 12y ago
I think a case can be made that a substantial percentage of profits earned by the financial industry derive from economic "rent seeking" and are not materially contributing to productivity in society. This is a hugely popular se
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by minimax 12y ago
In Chicago we have 24 hour service on the most popular subway routes (the red and blue lines). Several of the busiest bus routes are 24 hours as well.
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Meet the SEC’s Brainy New Crime Fighters(wsj.com)
2 points by minimax 12y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 12y ago
Snowden's principles are exactly what make him such a great Russian agent. They don't have to sell him on the ideology since he already has it. It's like Aikido. All they have to do is take the momentum of his enormous ego an
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by minimax 12y ago
Chart of valuations the curious: https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
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by minimax 12y ago
If you were an Eastern European person who made it into West Berlin with thousands of secret Soviet intelligence documents in the 1960s, then you probably were a spy.
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by minimax 12y ago
If a North Korean signals intelligence officer managed to smuggle thousands of strategic DPRK intelligence documents and himself out of North Korea, I would assume it was with the help of a foreign government.
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by minimax 12y ago
We hear a lot about Russian dissidents leaving Russia because they have their freedom limited. Snowden and Julian Assange have had their freedom limited to much more so than any of the Putin dissidents. (With the exception of the possibili
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America Is Shaking Off Its Addiction to Oil(bloomberg.com)
6 points by minimax 12y ago|1 comments
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by minimax 12y ago
EvoLisa was a great post. I spent a few nights trying to reproduce it and I'm sure I wasn't the only one. I eventually got to the point where I was using SSE instructions (I think it was PSADBW) to speed up the fitness function. I
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by minimax 12y ago
Please don't submit articles which are behind paywalls. I'm pretty sure if that's what the moderators wanted, they could just block wsj.com and ft.com directly. Personally I would rather see more payed content because I thi
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Will this be the end of trading pits at CME?(chicagobusiness.com)
1 points by minimax 12y ago|0 comments
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Buick Dealership Offers a Free Car – And a Lesson in the Derivatives Market(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by minimax 12y ago|0 comments
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Michael Dell: Going Private Is Paying Off for Dell(online.wsj.com)
2 points by minimax 12y ago|0 comments
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by minimax 12y ago
The Saudi infections are obviously a decoy and the main target is clearly Russia. Latvia, as a former SSR and recent NATO addition, is nervous about Putin's next moves in the region. Wasn't there also recently a Russian sub spotte
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by minimax 12y ago
Maybe the next employer doesn't have a full time lawyer or doesn't think it's worth the hassle. Or they don't want to hire someone who is going to have to quit in a month because they decide the contract is enforceable
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by minimax 12y ago
Why do you say you can't reliably get the closing price? You should be able to send an MOC order to the listing exchange to get the official closing price.
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How Power Peg Brought Down a Knight(futuresmag.com)
18 points by minimax 12y ago|5 comments

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