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by pmart123 8y ago
I think it depends. I think long-term investors should still look at short interest and read short thesis to understand counter-arguments. Regarding manipulation and herding, I think it depends. Someone could short Apple on merits of valuat
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by pmart123 8y ago
Honesty. For instance, investors can't short in India, and it happens to be one of the countries with a reputation of a high proportion of companies with accounting irregularities.
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by pmart123 8y ago
I believe you answered your own question. When there aren't many individuals left in the world with the associated expertise, and when a younger developer sees no growth potential for learning this expertise, you probably will have to
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by pmart123 8y ago
I'm referring to the taxi medallion owners are benefiting from passing legislation that limits rideshare licenses going forward at the potential expense of residences, particularly those affected by the shutdown.
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by pmart123 8y ago
https://technical.ly/brooklyn/2018/02/19/mta-announces-will-... It's less of a complaint, but rather my belief that the water ferry system currently transports so few passengers that I do not believ
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by pmart123 8y ago
NYC is closing down the L train next year for a year at the very least. So far, the city has proposed more water taxis as the primary solution to handle rerouting the 300k daily riders. Right now, the water taxi ridership is 1370 people per
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by pmart123 8y ago
Yes. I feel exactly the same way. Moreover, it also creates an extra step if I want to share the link with a friend quickly. I'd rather have them see bloomberg.com/<interesting-story> vs. google.com/amps/<etc&gt
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by pmart123 8y ago
Yep. I believe the Saudi sovereign wealth fund has divested from or has mandates to divest from fossil fuel related investments. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/01/saudi-arabi...
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by pmart123 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but given Amazon is off conquering the world, does anyone else feel as though Barnes & Noble could put together a data driven blog regarding trending books, topics, how different books are read, etc. much like OkCupi
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by pmart123 8y ago
Chatbots are a feature, not a product. I'm not a customer, but I would say Lemonade seems to have successfully used a chat-style bot as the main feature to onboard new customers. To me, I see context-driven "Google" searches
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Michael Bloomberg on Google's DOD Contract(bloomberg.com)
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by pmart123 8y ago
I eco #1 on your wish list. For the record, my company pays for the hosted version of Ghost.
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by pmart123 8y ago
Lower latencies would help any market makers that change bid/offer quotes more quickly when say the price of bitcoin changes on a different exchange, or the FX price changes in the quoted base currency.
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by pmart123 9y ago
I think those are great points in where the underlying business model could have underlying cracks. My take is that SaaS has desirable features in the current age of agile product development and data-driven business decisions. Selling an O
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by pmart123 9y ago
As someone who used Matlab and Mathematica in college, I'm not sure I'd want to have a closed source solution really take off again at this point. While they provided great products and documentation, they also made it much more d
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by pmart123 9y ago
I find this to be extremely annoying as well as it obscures the site link as well as it makes it very difficult to copy the source link if I want to share it. I think the comparison to AOL's strategy in 2000 is very warranted.
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by pmart123 9y ago
I think another interesting paradigm is breaking up companies by: 1. embracing technology early 2. chasing technology 3. last movers Recent examples of last movers that still have been extremely successful have been TJMaxx and Costco, both
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Watching David Bowie Argue with an Interviewer About the Future of the Internet(paleofuture.gizmodo.com)
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by pmart123 9y ago
I think Linkedin has the long tail advantage here in that since it was setup as a professional network, it tends to stay that way in regards to typical interactions and people will continue to build their network on Linkedin over their care
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by pmart123 9y ago
Perhaps Vanguard is an example of a mass mutual company that owes part of its success through its formation due to its ability to pass cost savings back to its customers in the form of lower fund fees?
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by pmart123 9y ago
This seems like a reaction to HBO's Mosaic app? The app/show hasn't released yet, but I would imagine Netflix wants a foot in the door if its a success. https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/08/hbo-mo
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by pmart123 9y ago
pandas is a great example of data science code at its best and its worst. If you look at the source code you will see every object and every function allows for way too many variations in input options and therefore about 20 conditional sta
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by pmart123 9y ago
Are you using a custom domain with Medium?
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10 Largest Corporate Fines in U.S. History(learn.censible.co)
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I understand they don't, but the execution options could matter. Retail brokerage platforms don't actually send your orders to the exchange: http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/nn/legal_compliance&#x
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by pmart123 9y ago
Personally, I struggle to see the competitive advantage Quantopian brings. They use retail brokerage platforms to facilitate trading, which rules out anything close to HFT. Then, they are tied to any financial data vendor (Morningstar in th
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by pmart123 9y ago
Actually, Nasdaq makes more money on licensing its data than on the rest of its businesses. You can go to each exchange and buy the historical data directly. Generally, this is better for backdating depth of book data than say a Bloomberg i
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by pmart123 10y ago
Good to see I'm not crazy! I think this can be easier than maintain, and with tools like Datagrip now, seems to make a lot of sense. Coming from the data science side, I observed many talented people spending time on projects like htt
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by pmart123 10y ago
The best example of this is Bloomberg. The first 20 terminals went to Merrill Lynch ( https://www.fastcompany.com/3051883/the-bloomberg-terminal ). In fintech, I think both the regulatory hurdle you mention, in addition
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by pmart123 10y ago
I think there are a few more factors to consider to accurately account for any discrepancy. Early admission candidates have a 3 times greater acceptance rate generally. My guess is more legacy candidates apply early. 2. How many of these le

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