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by nissimk 11y ago
I don't know about "most", but it is probably safe to say "many." Sallie Mae retains ownership of 25% of all outstanding student loan debt. If the debt was forgiven, I think it is safe to presume their equity stock
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by nissimk 11y ago
He says: Since no one understands how general unsupervised learning actually works, we're quite a ways off from building the general AIs you see in movies. Some people claim this is just a matter of getting more computing power --
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by nissimk 11y ago
Yukon XL Denali here I come! Seriously though, I thought Saudi and worldwide peak oil was in 2005. Is that a myth or are prices not really constrained by supply until way past the peak?
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Sneak Peek at Bitcoin's Upcoming Killer App – Open Bazaar(bravenewcoin.com)
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according to wikipedia, the chinese market circuit breakers operate on changes in both directions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_curb#China "If the CSI 300 Index rises or falls by 5%..." Also, when pe
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by nissimk 11y ago
I like web apps so much better than native apps. I like seeing the https in the address bar and I feel like I don't even trust that communications are encrypted in a native mobile app. Developers are always trying to migrate me into
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by nissimk 11y ago
Search for those terms in google and see what type of explanation makes the most sense to you. There are textbook definitions, legal explanations and more business oriented explanations. Read through threads like these specifically for pe
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by nissimk 11y ago
Information asymetry is the way people get screwed over in financial transactions. Most potential startup employees have no idea what common or preferred shares are. Let alone all of the other details like dilution, liquidation preference
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by nissimk 11y ago
Here's the github link :-) https://github.com/hyperledger/hyperledger TLDR: there's no code in that repo.
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by nissimk 11y ago
Here is the press release: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015... And the website: https://blockchain.linuxfoundation.org/ Please post if there is any more information.
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by nissimk 11y ago
That's because most of the risk models aren't modeling the most important and real risk in financial business: the risk of receiving margin calls in excess of your capital, or in other words, the risk of ruin. Models generate val
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by nissimk 11y ago
These sorts of bootcamps are more along the lines of an employment agency. They make the recruits pay the recruiting fee rather than the hiring company. They also maintain strong relationships with the hiring companies because they'v
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by nissimk 11y ago
Dealing with insecurity is very challenging and people approach it in different ways. This evidence based approach to improving confidence within a team using code review feedback and communication sound very good. I'd like to hear m
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Confidence Through Feedback, or Why Imposter Syndrome Is the Wrong Metaphor(blog.bethcodes.com)
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by nissimk 11y ago
I'm pretty sure that it's also quite difficult to go short on non publicly traded equity.
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JPMorgan a Victim of Large Customer Hack(bloomberg.com)
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There's a wide range of oppinions regarding the counter offer. It's interesting to read some of them if you search on google. One thing many people are not aware of is that as part of your counter offer acceptance you can demand
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With 'Brandeis' Project, Darpa Seeks to Advance Privacy Technology(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Yeah, and at certain data centers it is as simple as ordering a cross connect. There are many AWS services and each have many use cases where the customer is getting an excellent value. Unfortunately, just like deciphering all of the name
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Screw Texting. It's Time to Pick a Universal Messaging App(wired.com)
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This is presented as a weeding out technique but it is actually a negotiation step. This allows the employer to establish precedent that you work off hours from home. This allows the employer to identify candidates that are willing to do
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In the primary market, when debt is first issued through a syndicate of banks, there is not really much of a problem. There is a really great chapter about this process I think in the "The new Market Wizards" book by Schwager, t
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by nissimk 11y ago
You are correct regarding the low tps and the incompatibility with stock market transactions, but the rest of wall street dwarfs the stock market in market capitalization. The bank debt market they discussed in the article is very low tran
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by nissimk 11y ago
I agree with what many others on here have said. It's also a personal thing. In general I like to try to force myself to learn only the minimum required to do what I need to do. If that philosophy sounds good to you, I would recomme
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by nissimk 11y ago
It's also information asymetry. A classic financial arbitrage move. The founders offering the employees options understand all of the terms and scenarios that people in this thread are discussing, but most potential employees are not
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by nissimk 11y ago
Interesting how the trade group is pushing for more regulation of uber: Bhairavi Desai, who reps both yellow cab and Uber drivers for the union. Desai wants the TLC to cap the number of Uber drivers allowed to operate in the city, and requi
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Uber cars seized amid crackdown on illegal pickups(nypost.com)
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And this is how they got caught: "Believing that the Astros’ network had been compromised by a rogue hacker, Major League Baseball notified the F.B.I., and the authorities in Houston opened an investigation. Agents soon found that the
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by nissimk 11y ago
The data has certainly been available for a fee since earlier than 2001: https://www.corelogic.com/solutions/loan-performance-seconda...
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I think the analysis is not actually that shallow. There may be a lot of sophisticated algorithms and analysis that can be run, but the basic regressions are very effective and commonly used in practice. I also appreciate the use of a sql

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