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by nstj 10y ago
No disrespect to Nintendo, as I think the game looks pretty cool, but it's awesome how the average human's investment memory is now down to 45 days (remember when Nintendo stock ripped after Pokemon Go?)[0] > Shares in Nintendo
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by nstj 10y ago
I missed the part in the article where it describes how the change in branding will result in someone's death?
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The “Glasgow Ice Cream Wars” was a bloody battle between(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by nstj 10y ago|0 comments
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by nstj 10y ago
That is truly hilarious. Adding to "new" now.
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by nstj 10y ago
Sure - but we're all here to learn more, so numbers which we're basing discussion on should have some factual basis :). If you're really interested in this stuff you should read up on some of the material from William K Bla
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by nstj 10y ago
So the $670bn number is the volume of wire transfers which were not adequately monitored by HSBC, not a "total laundered amount" > HSBC was accused of failing to monitor more than $670 billion in wire transfers I'm no He
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How $762m in USD100 bills made their way from the NY Fed to Baghdad (2004)(nytimes.com)
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by nstj 10y ago
This article in no way describes the process behind disguising the source of funds (ie: "money laundering"). A more appropriate title would be "Restaurant in foreign country is used for money laundering, US officials upset&qu
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by nstj 10y ago
How would running WebObjects be relevant here? Because it's an old platform?
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by nstj 10y ago
Just discovered that the original warrant canary (2005) was purportedly created by a librarian, being a sign in her library reading: “The FBI has not been here (watch very closely for the removal of this sign).”[0] [0]: http://jo
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by nstj 10y ago
apologies, s/"creds"/"user data"
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by nstj 10y ago
Fun fact: Have I Been Pwned neither salts nor hashes the creds which it stores on its website, potentially making itself an interesting target for hackers[0] [0]: http://risky.biz/RB388
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by nstj 10y ago
You could say the same about your bank - even though you don't really know how they invest your deposit money, you try and gain an intuition based on other factors (stock price, professionalism, reputation, prestige, etc). Not sayin
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by nstj 10y ago
> Captiv8, a company that connects brands to influencers, says someone with three million to seven million followers can charge, on average, $187,500 for a post on YouTube, $75,000 for a post on Instagram or Snapchat and $30,000 for a po
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by nstj 10y ago
Note that all 5 of the letters written to the SEC in response to the proposal can be found here [0] [0]: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-batsbzx-2016-30/batsbzx20163...
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by nstj 10y ago
It's a shame, because common logic and good reporting should require no real domain knowledge. I wish there was some more level headed mainstream commentary on financial markets beyond what Matt Levine gets down for Bloomberg.
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by nstj 10y ago
Money laundering != systemic instability. While this is an interesting article it seems hard to draw a direct connection between the alleged money laundering activity described and the systemic instability created by DB's gargantuan
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Parrot fixed wing consumer drone will launch in September(techcrunch.com)
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by nstj 10y ago
There's a great episode of the security podcast "Risky Business" which profiles the featured security researcher in this article[0] [0]: http://risky.biz/RB406
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by nstj 10y ago
Ironically, it seems the HFT's have started eating their own lunch too [0] > Overall, HFT firms’ revenues in the US have slumped from about USD 7.2 bn in 2009 to USD 1.3 bn in 2014 (see chart 3) [0]: https://www.dbresearc
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by nstj 10y ago
A perfectly reasonable observation but I'm sure there have to be counterexamples of engineers who are great product designers. Now I just have to go and find them :)
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by nstj 10y ago
> The average daily rate for staying at U.S. hotels is $111. The average number of tubes of toothpaste these hotels provide is zero. I've never stayed in a high end hotel in the US which didn't provide a toothpaste and toothbru
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by nstj 10y ago
It's funny how stuff like this is so important, but can go to the back of your mind when you're thinking about DOM rendering or 99th percentile page load times or similar.
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by nstj 10y ago
Without being sarcastic, I think the best part of this article was discovering that Tom Selleck starred in a 1990 Western set in Australia called "Quigley Down Under"[0]. And I tend to agree with the general sentiment of other com
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Former employee sues startup for financials in order to value granted stock(wsj.com)
231 points by nstj 10y ago|66 comments
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by nstj 10y ago
Not that people's bets mean much, but you can look at how financial markets expect rates to move using the interest rate futures market. These contracts allow you to infer what the market really expects rates to do (as people are putt
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by nstj 10y ago
For interests sake, the top global incarceration rates[0] are listed below. Note that influencing the Seychelles number is their small population (around 100,000) and the fact that they house a number of jailed Somali pirates. Prisoners pe
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by nstj 10y ago
Letsencrypt is really a fantastic project. I can (sorta) understand why people might squeal about 90 day cert lifetimes, but just wanted to put it out there that I think that LE makes the internet a better place. @jaas adding to this thre
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Tesla Adjusts Its Autopilot Pitch in China(wsj.com)
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by nstj 10y ago
It seems like a lot of people have been rubbed the wrong way with this post

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