nickpinkston

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by nickpinkston 17y ago
FWIW: I always thought that this case would make a great visual resume for a quant. A "stock" chart of your GPA improving over time using the visual analogy of a successful company turnaround.
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
Quite true - which makes one wonder why these standards aren't more explicitly stated via a standard model in the contract - as opposed to relying on a supposedly "impartial" source.
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
The real economics at work here are the economies of scale that comes with being the reserve currency of the world. Whoever owns the reserve currency holds the keys to the global economy - they're not backing anytime soon. Some say it could
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
Can someone actually find the source for this 93% figure? I haven't been able to. I just keep seeing the link back to the NYT page. I'd be good to actually see real numbers - not just Krugman's opinion.
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
It seems like Paul is only looking at one side of the table: the one to be hired. Certainty, we're all able to switch to better opportunities, but the long term signaling effect says you're not going to be their in tough times. Persistence
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
Why is no one here mentioning plug-in laws? With proper governance (ie: laws) we can remove the market externality that exists in the natural monopoly of telecom infrastructure. These laws force all infrastructure owners to sell access at b
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
The dude looks legit - but why isn't this more well known? France reprocesses their waste into fuel - which is expensive, but would that be a solution?
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
Apart from hating the big brother aspects of this, it won't reduce greenhouse gas as effectively. Fuel taxation would do the same thing and be more efficient at reducing CO2. The GPS is clever for reducing congestion, but I doubt they're ab
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
They're right - this won't kill the iPhone by any means, but RIM and especially MS are on notice. Too bad it took 3+ years to release a phone that's not even at parity with the original iPhone. Now we've got to wait for their app store to b
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
The internet is a natural monopoly, a very critical one, and just like water / sewer, gas, electric, etc. it must have some regulation to prevent negative externalities to society. I think the plug-in mandates, that force infrastructure own
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
It's funny to hear people refer to themselves as Keynesian, Neo-classical, or even Austrian like one school actually has all or even most of the answers. It's more than possible that current economic theory is much like current physics in t
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
It seems you're saying that small banks would be riskier because they have less influence overall in the market. I'm sure the JPMs of the world do take such risks into account, however I find it hard to believe that this consideration is gr
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
Let's change the reserve ratio requirement to a sliding scale with larger ratios required for larger deposit holding banks, we'd see large banks broken up naturally to take advantage of the better investment deals by being small. The FTC mi
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
Demo day was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed the opportunity to pitch, and we got some great leads for funding and customers. I'd definitely recommend the whole experience to anyone trying to do a startup. -Nick from CloudFab
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by nickpinkston 17y ago
There is a word for people who like knowledge: philomath. I'd say I'm one of those who's trying to become a polymath. Yes, I must agree that a strict polymath has made contributions to multiple fields, but that's very subjective. I'm not su