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by pgwhalen 11y ago
Do you have any evidence to support this theory? Certainly seems like the deniers believe it for real.
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by pgwhalen 11y ago
This is the most HN thing ever, I love it. Can't wait to see this public.
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by pgwhalen 11y ago
I don't think that the reason content is not available is an "arbitrary, thinly veiled assertion of power."
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by pgwhalen 11y ago
This certainly isn't a perfect answer, but for one, markets don't really do that. They climb steadily and drop quickly.
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by pgwhalen 11y ago
I have an extraordinarily limited understanding of these things, but I always thought it was because if you were gifted equity you had to pay taxes on it immediately, based on the current valuation, which is a major bummer.
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by pgwhalen 11y ago
I don't think Facebook was ever really don't about privacy. Exclusivity, perhaps, but not privacy.
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by pgwhalen 11y ago
Your definition of Occam's razor here seems to be "my opinion makes the most sense to me therefore it is correct."
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by pgwhalen 11y ago
To be fair, the actual transfer of money between stock market participants is no faster than it is for personal bank accounts.
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by pgwhalen 11y ago
I would say it's because non-deterministic things aren't testable, which make them fall out of the bounds of scientific investigation. Obviously that's not really true, but it adds a certain level of discomfort to to science.
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by pgwhalen 11y ago
Financiers are buyers and sellers of risk. They do so at prices that are generally advantageous to them. They are able to do so because they make a profession out of it: they have a lot of capital to work with, and they spend a lot of tim
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by pgwhalen 11y ago
Why do say it's a relatively small field? Outside of mobile, the desktop web is the front end target in all of computing these days, and JS is the only reasonable way to write for it.
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
As an avid sports fan and all around event-goer, this is very exciting. I'd love to see someone match (and surpass) the quality of StubHub.
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
The autohotkey script that pops up when you google "spotify autohotkey" broke, and that pretty much prevented me from listening at work for a week. Very annoying to not have a quick way to stop my music when a coworker taps me on
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
It's a bit foolish to assume that a landlord's sole expense is property tax.
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
Since he paints such broad strokes in different areas, it would be extremely time-consuming to address every one of his points. But, for one, simply saying HFT = front running shows an extremely shallow understanding of what HFT is. To say
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
This reads like you read one click-bait article about each subject mentioned and declared yourself an expert on all of the above. It really is woefully un-informed.
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
I think the "sizable group of technically competent citizens" realizes that espionage between nation-states is as old as nation-states themselves, and that because of the nature of humanity, it's not going away anytime soon.
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
Are there really SV dev salaries as low as $60k? That struck me as a bit low coming out of school even in Chicago, and I did not go to a "top-tier" school ("flagship" but nothing special state school).
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
It makes equally little sense to me, but "dragon" is routinely high on top password lists.
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
>It is also completely possible for an ensemble to do their own rehearsal preparation, and to perform without a conductor. It'll be fine and musical, but they're not including the interpretation that a conductor themselves can
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
Peapod is hiring heavily in Chicago after opening a new downtown space.
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
So it's like a dark pool (in the capital markets sense) for retail, in which you try to undercut the market maker's (Amazon) spread by narrowing it yourself and not telling anyone about how narrow it is? It's an interesting
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
I'd love to be a cynic, but my family's AT&T bill went down when we got on their new family plan back in February. And now we have way more data than we can use. I can only assume it was due to competition in the market in f
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by pgwhalen 12y ago
Man, would I love to hear what the only 3 or 4 "good" albums were last year.
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by pgwhalen 13y ago
I'd certainly like more specific data, but if you're a resident of the area you're examining, this is definitely revealing on its own.
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by pgwhalen 13y ago
Wow, this is really a superb way of describing finance concisely. Financiers often get tangled in certain interests in unfair or unscrupulous ways, but fundamentally it is not thievery.