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by pmart123 8y ago
Couldn’t you make the same argument regarding whether testing physics or organic chemistry aptitude is necessary for every specialty? The admissions office could at least nudge students to not pursue surgery if they have poor dexterity.
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by pmart123 8y ago
Is the lack of training the case, or not simply not testing med school applicants for dexterity? i.e. Wouldn't this be more like the NFL only using the Wonderlic test to assess quarterbacks?
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by pmart123 8y ago
-1 on my mental math, +1 on duckduckgo's UI for arithmetic.
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by pmart123 8y ago
I think you meant $280,000?
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by pmart123 8y ago
I only wish I could currently watch a video link to that instead... I guess it goes to show how much we take connectivity and uptime for granted these days.
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by pmart123 8y ago
Coming from a data science background, I wasn't surprised by this. * From doing Engineering problem sets in Matlab and also using Java and C/C++ in CS classes, Java's inability to overload operators made it unbearable for any
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by pmart123 8y ago
I agree. I think it is more important when a company is forthright about a breach quickly than the history of breaches. Both Sony and Equifax had large security breaches prior to the large hacks.
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by pmart123 8y ago
>>> A "creative index" is another term for a "fund." I agree with what you are saying, but I'm referring to the previous commenter conflating that a "creative index" or passive investing strategy
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by pmart123 8y ago
When you read the article, I believe they are alluding to the fact that Apple and Amazon did discover the vunerabilities. “In 2016, Apple informed Supermicro that it was severing their relationship entirely—a decision a spokesman for Apple
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by pmart123 8y ago
It might be helpful to take a look at what Graham called a “Net-Net.” If other investors perpetually undervalue your investment in a company that produces earnings, eventually the cash generated from those earnings could be given to shareho
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by pmart123 8y ago
I disagree with your definition strongly. An investment portfolio at the end of the day is just a collection of securities, and an index is a frictionless way to measure and evaluate a collection of securities, typically to a predefined met
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by pmart123 8y ago
Actually, he is correct. MasterCard process payments on transactions related to MasterCard branded cards. This is different than Amex, which acts as the network processor and the issuing bank.
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by pmart123 8y ago
I'm by no means an expert on the subject, but isn't there an advantage to having a JIT compiler use LLVM? On another note, I believe one thing that has been problematic for pypy adoption is that it does not automatically work with
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by pmart123 8y ago
hmm. That is not what I would have expected. I would have thought it would update the value of the first map with the key "iMac", otherwise, add the key to the top level. The same would go for: >>> del inv['IMac&#x27
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by pmart123 8y ago
Well, Celery uses Rabbit-MQ and typically Redis underneath. Rabbit-MQ to pass messages, and Redis to store results. You can scale up web servers to handle more requests, which then uses Celery to offload jobs to different clusters.
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by pmart123 8y ago
I think there is a difference between spending solely for the sake of sales and smart marketing. Most new consumer products aren't completely novel, so if you can figure out to gain sales with a low marketing cost, it gives you a huge
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by pmart123 8y ago
I think the critique and crisis stems more from research that presents optimistic, or potentially embellished results, rather than failed experiments, or experiments with small sample sizes. There seems to be pressure to generate “novel” re
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by pmart123 8y ago
Wow, you're right. I just noticed that. It's like the Skimm for men.
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by pmart123 8y ago
For startup investing the pure math explanation to invest in 1,000 companies makes more sense than in public markets. If you have 1 out of 1,000 startups return 1000%, 99 companies break even, and 900 companies go bust, you still make money
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by pmart123 8y ago
In Palihapitiya's defense, he presented a logical argument of how this could work when I heard him speak in person. Essentially: 1. More SaaS products like using Stripe for payments, AppAnnie, etc. can audit and monitor revenue. 2. Sma
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by pmart123 8y ago
Recently, I was contemplating something regarding customer service jobs and automation. I was at a fintech data conference listening to the work being put in to analyze customer support call log history to understand where prospects are in
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by pmart123 8y ago
Didn't Apple basically buy it as an acquihire and shut it down the next day?
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by pmart123 8y ago
This is definitely true, and both journalists and individuals often glance over things like trading fees versus best execution without regard to investing style or intent. If I'm a retail investor and I'm buying large-cap US stock
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by pmart123 8y ago
I haven't read anything recently, but typically, the idea is you can make money through: 1. Interest from lending securities to hedge funds to short them 2. Margin maintenance fees 3. Selling order flow to trading firms 4. Other servic
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by pmart123 8y ago
I've used EAV before after putting some time into thinking of a solution and I'd be curious if there was a better way. Basically, we were building a restricted stock database depending on either a client preference or a customizab
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by pmart123 8y ago
One newer fee structure to emerge on the endowment side is the 1-or-30 structure, which tries to incentivize managers when they outperform, but also allows managers to keep the lights in an underperforming period. https://www.ins
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by pmart123 8y ago
There can be several large issues with target date funds. 1. Ignores income streams from things like social security, reverse mortgages, held away assets 2. Ignorant to future medical advances that could change life expectancy 3. Built on p
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JPMorgan unveils free trading(cnbc.com)
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I would change the scale to profound vs. inconsequential or shallow.
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You know, I think the thing that is interesting is Buffett never really was as resolute in Dodd's philosophy as many of the famous long/short investors who have struggled recently seem to be. Buffet evolved as an investor: 1. He r

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