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by nissimk 11y ago
This is a really good write up and analysis. I'd like to point out a couple of things: the subprime market has moved to FHA and Ginnie Mae securities. I'm not sure if they have the same detail of loan level data available online,
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If interest rates begin to rise, this can really be a serious problem. If people start liquidating their bond mutual funds and etf's and there is no liquidity in the underlying bonds, there will be a large dislocation. But isn't
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by nissimk 11y ago
That's because apple's apps come pre-installed on your iPhone.
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Coupon payments for bonds, dividend patients for stocks. Disintermediation of banking entities currently tracking holdings. This has a lot of potential.
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The article is very good and the business idea seems solid too. It reminded me of the article from last week about how etsy is a "B corporation" and they've committed to put social and environmental concerns before profit.
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by nissimk 11y ago
I'm not opposed to GMO, but I am certainly opposed to patents on biological organisms. Also, I worry about increased use of pesticides and herbicides. The most common GMO crops are: canola, corn, cotton, soy and sugar beets. Canola, s
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Isn't GMO usually equivalent to excessive use of herbicides? Isn't the most common genetic modification "roundup readiness?" Adding vitamin A producing genes to rice sounds good, but spraying all of our foods with herb
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by nissimk 11y ago
It's not just international roaming. StraightTalk does not support international texting. There is no way to text canadian phones from StraightTalk US. If you want International calling you can get that, but it costs more.
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Zerohedge gloating: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-21/step-step-guide-how... Is there a difference between Layering/Spoofing and "quote stuffing?" I thought quote stuffing was a technique in
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by nissimk 11y ago
From the complaint: 35. According to Consulting Group analysts and the expert, that day, SARAO was active in the E-Mini market on the CME, and contributed to the orderbook imbalance that the CFTC and the Securities Exchange Commission have
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by nissimk 11y ago
Why should lead generation be outside the control of the sales group? Isn't marketing about a lot more than just lead generation? I always thought the best salespeople either come with there own long list of leads, or they are good a
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by nissimk 12y ago
I get the HTTP 416 on windows 8.1 + iis 8.5 unpatched even after turning kernel caching off and restarting iis. Even after rebooting.
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by nissimk 12y ago
If you don't have the kernel caching enabled, does this vulnerability still work?
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Opting out of NY tests an act of courage(nydailynews.com)
1 points by nissimk 12y ago|0 comments
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I enjoy the plot where multiple groups converge on a single location to get their hands on some key object. It's the same structure as two of my favorite movies: The Fifth Element and True Romance. When the groups are stereotypes as
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What Happens When Students Boycott a Standardized Test?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by nissimk 12y ago|0 comments
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I liked it, but I am a big Stephenson fan. I skipped Anathem and the baroque cycle books, but Diamond Age is one of my favorite books and I also like Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon a lot. Reamde was pretty good, and this is an interesting se
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by nissimk 12y ago
I forgot the other one: "epic." I can't put my finger on exactly what it is, but it really disturbs me. It's just too serious sounding, like it's presumptuous to declare any component of your program as "epic
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by nissimk 12y ago
Yes, I was wondering why they sent 4 episodes for review. Then I watched the first episode and I saw why...nothing is going to happen until the 4th episode. They've been teasing us with white walkers since season 1. And those dragon
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Yeah, I feel like the language is one of the worst things. A "scrum" is a bunch of sweaty men moving down a field in a pile. The idea of that makes me want to get a different job. I'm attracted to programming because I lov
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by nissimk 12y ago
Uber used a classic wall st. move to get where they are: regulatory arbitrage. The law said that you can't pick up passengers that wave you down in the street unless you buy a yellow taxi medallion for $1.5m. But uber said that press
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by nissimk 12y ago
Exactly. If these small players start by acquiring deposits and investment accounts, they will be offsetting those deposits from the big banks. Once the small entrants reach a certain size they will themselves be able to play in the large
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by nissimk 12y ago
It's been going on like that for years. Think of all the wall st folks who made their careers on tech stocks of the past, like Rick Sherlund at Goldman with Microsoft, and Mary Meeker. The funny thing about the overwhelming attitude
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by nissimk 12y ago
They probably both copy/pasted the same press release.
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Why are you using LPUSH/LPOP instead of PUBLISH/PSUBSCRIBE? I guess you get storage that way, but only one consumer of each message. It would be nice if it was optional in case you had a different application where you need to ha
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by nissimk 12y ago
What about eliminating all of the risks that employee stock holders own: Dilution Liquidation preference Change of control Investors get terms to protect them from these scenarios, but employee stockholders do not. If your market
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I agree, but not just textbooks, also lesson plans and workbooks. The problem is that if Pearson makes the test and the test results are the most important metric for teachers and administrations, then they are compelled to use the material
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Real estate has two primary advantages over equities: Large amounts of leverage are both legal and easily acquired for real estate transactions. Most of the remaining tax shelters in the US are related to real estate see "Full time rea
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Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Collaborative Commons(medium.com)
45 points by nissimk 12y ago|55 comments
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by nissimk 12y ago
It all boils down to: Javascript developers were already used to this paradigm in the browser.

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