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by princeb 10y ago
i have never been in fx but this is what I heard: these kind of clients 1. don't want to pay fees 2. don't want any risk 3. just want a single publicly available price (the WMR fix) to simplify accounting (fx, financial, mgmt, ris
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by princeb 10y ago
those are not even the most egregious examples. think of something like this: you go to a big box store to buy a bunch of home electronics for a new house. you ask the salesperson to throw in some freebies because you're going to be bu
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by princeb 10y ago
just as an aside, Luxembourg is not really an unregulated economy. it's very popular for fin companies because in addition to access to EU, the regulators (so I hear from my peers in legal) are very proactive speaking to companies to m
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by princeb 10y ago
interesting mention of "namaste" - in many cultures the origin of words no longer play a part in their meaning anymore, but i don't know if this applies to namaste 'goodbye' has no religious interpretation. neither
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by princeb 10y ago
i don't think this company is suggesting anything of that kind, because this myth has been perpetuated since the start of retail financial markets, and possibly both the brokerages and other retail investors are to blame for this. ever
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by princeb 10y ago
it's a free country and people are free to trade however they want (with restrictions haha). they just need to be aware that retail traders are not going to get the same kind of competitive advantages that the big boys like Citadel or
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by princeb 10y ago
as far as my limited experience goes, diamonds are a dime a dozen... BUT gem-quality diamonds are extremely rare, even synthetic ones. if you need to buy IF/F with an ideal cut at 0.5cts and above, it's going to be pricey, lab gro
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by princeb 10y ago
if you are the audiophile kind, then you may already have an portable dac/amp that you use with your phone, or have attached to your pc through spdif/usb that then goes into your headphones, bypassing the onboard dac/amp. wha
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by princeb 10y ago
posted in reference to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11895582
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Anatomy of LinkedIn Options Bet That Probably Lost Money: Chart(bloomberg.com)
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by princeb 10y ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-13/anatomy-of... another look at this trade thinks its part of a short vol trade - this kind of trades lose money when the price moves too much too fast. the onl
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by princeb 10y ago
guessing china didn't grow up with star wars 4-6 or the disney renaissance but they did with WC so this particular IP naturally did better at the theatres
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by princeb 10y ago
thiel couldn't nail them when they wrote about him. it was in bad taste, but totally defensible. they crossed the line when they posted a private sex tape without consent. if you can defend that, you can defend revenge porn (that is, y
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by princeb 10y ago
what precedent? that if you say something, you stand by the consequences, financial and all? that people take responsibility for what they say is not a new development. new journals are free to start up and take the place of gawker. nothing
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by princeb 10y ago
> Torture the data until it confesses such a sad and tragic misunderstanding of the meaning of this phrase.
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by princeb 10y ago
management science is a great topic and is one of the important applications of various optimization algorithms in mathematics. it's roughly the same field as industrial engineering. most people get by just figuring out how to put prob
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by princeb 10y ago
yup. obviously there are limitations. how do you even plan to 100% restrict that information? i guess you can lock up the research analysts and bankers in monitored cells after work...
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by princeb 10y ago
it works just like a industrial grade router firewall - the router is connected to a gas main, which directs a stream of gas over the back the of router where the rj45s go into, and a flame continuously burns any nasty hackers attempting to
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by princeb 10y ago
I have been thinking about getting a filco mech keyboard to replace the bloomberg keyboard at work - and I would just need to make custom keycaps with the yellow keywords printed on the f keys, but i'm just wondering what do i do with
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by princeb 10y ago
stochastic calculus really hurt me. i did well for it, I TA'd for it, i look at it from time to time in my work, but I still find it very difficult. i don't think i'm much good at mathematics, i just try very hard and hope fo
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by princeb 10y ago
I've never thought about it too much, but once I attempted to avoid filler words. I ended up sounding like William Shatner, I was told, and that is apparently not a good thing.
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by princeb 10y ago
haha. "Let's take a hypothetical view and say, in 7 to 10 years, when I make partner, there might be an opportunity for me to work on an account - a company with an unusual structure, with a novel, ground-breaking business, and un
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by princeb 10y ago
long story short, different companies have different economic circumstances - different assets, different risks, different cashflow, supplier and customer arrangements, different operating structure, different expenses, etc that will all in
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by princeb 11y ago
the street doesn't make that distinction
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by princeb 11y ago
that is amusing. there isn't swiftkey but on Windows Phone but there is some native predictive typing which is pretty good - i try to remember to use it because it's actually useful at times but more often than not i revert to sim
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by princeb 11y ago
Mathematics is hard to learn because the way classes and performance testing is done, there is often only one answer and until you get to the answer the question is not complete. the end state is binary - either the student was successful i
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by princeb 11y ago
i think your friends, network and environment dictates the kind of success you have. the things you mentioned, going to good schools, getting into a career with plenty of successful people around you, begets that kind of success. but i also
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by princeb 11y ago
>replicate stochastic ML results (1) use an off the shelf prng (2) provide the data (3) provide the seed
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by princeb 11y ago
rote learning is incredibly powerful. it's one thing to understand what you need to do, and it's something else to have it at the tip of your fingers all the time. some of my friends in the fuzzy field - policy making, legal - hav
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by princeb 11y ago
the KS test is quite sensitive. if you are specifically testing against the normal dist the jarque bera test might be better, although also rather sensitive (prone to false negatives). for two samples if you have enough data to bin, the chi

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