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by ralph84 6y ago
Indeed. EVERYONE involved in finance, from Warren Buffett on down, talks their book. EVERY transaction in finance involves asymmetric information. Might as well stop pretending these facts aren't true.
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by ralph84 6y ago
It can be, but the two biggest PON operators in the US (AT&T and Verizon) offer symmetric speeds.
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by ralph84 6y ago
RSA is owned by private equity so there's nothing to short. In any case, the patent on RSA is long-expired and OpenSSL drove the price of crypto libraries to $0, so any revenue RSA the company gets from RSA the cryptosystem is negligib
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by ralph84 6y ago
US sources of capital tend to have much higher time preference. Chinese sources of capital (i.e government entities) are willing to play the long game and accept below-market returns on capital for an extended period of time when it's
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by ralph84 6y ago
Unless you're a really shitty company or a fraud I still don't see many cases where selling to a SPAC gives a better exit than going public or selling to a strategic acquirer who'd be willing to pay more due to synergies and&
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by ralph84 6y ago
Muslims are hardly a unified front. Look at how many majority-Muslim countries have had civil wars or wars against each other at some point in the last 30 years.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Indeed, for a 25-year-old airframe with the utilization it would have at a major carrier like United there's basically no way the engines hanging on it now could be the same engines it was delivered with.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Indeed, the three email tracking services I'm familiar with (HubSpot, Yesware, and Outreach) all generate unique URLs per recipient. The only information you don't get for Gmail clients is location, but you get the most valuable i
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by ralph84 6y ago
Definitely a case of "if you have to ask, it's not for you"
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by ralph84 6y ago
So somebody started using software sold by a for-profit company and was surprised when that company wanted to follow-up? Is it really that hard to politely say "no thanks, I'm good"? Or just ignore the message completely? Mus
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by ralph84 6y ago
> Rich communities should want to welcome more residents, particularly those less fortunate than them. Sadly, in the Bay Area, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Is that the case anywhere in the world? Why single out the Bay Area.
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by ralph84 6y ago
> This is not at all how NBBO works Open to corrections > they still dont have any obligation to improve your price beyond NBBO But those that do price improvement use it as a marketing differentiator: https://www.fidelity.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Say the national best bid and offer (NBBO) is: Bid: $10.45 Ask: $10.55 You place a limit buy order at $10.55 for 100 shares. $0 commission broker that sells order flow: Your order is routed to the market maker buying your broker's orde
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by ralph84 6y ago
> I'm sorry, but it is a fact of banking that you can never, ever, admit to having liquidity issues. If it triggers a bank run, then the firm is dead, and, notably, not only the employees and managers of the firm suffer, but also th
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by ralph84 6y ago
Correct, but consistent fails to deliver over a period of many months certainly does.
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by ralph84 6y ago
So when people who want to buy and have the funds to buy are prevented from buying by their broker, would the resulting price be one that "does not reflect legitimate forces of supply and demand"?
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by ralph84 6y ago
What is an artificial price and how does it differ from a real price?
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by ralph84 6y ago
Retail traders aren’t their customers, they are the product. Same as any other “free” service.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Retail investors are supposed to buy and hold all of the stocks, because they couldn't possibly be smart enough to pick the good ones. Hedge funds are supposed to be allowed to naked short the stocks they don't like into oblivion,
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by ralph84 6y ago
With interest rates at 0% and a quarter of all US dollars in existence having been created in the last year, there is no other choice besides speculation to have any hope of getting ahead. Policymakers have made quite clear that "work
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by ralph84 6y ago
Just like almost every FIPS 140 validated crypto module has a "FIPS mode" that is what was validated but is never actually used in production, even by government customers.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Heck, Amazon themselves got locked-in to Oracle for the first 25 years of Amazon's existence. Vendor lock-in for your IT stack doesn't prevent you from becoming a successful business.
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by ralph84 6y ago
Big tech has a track record of conspiracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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by ralph84 6y ago
All of the research on masks published before it became a political issue said as much. The general public doesn't wear masks properly enough for masks to have an infection control effect.
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by ralph84 6y ago
They think they'll be the ones running the ministry.
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by ralph84 6y ago
> the idea that Joe Biden is going to suddenly start doing China's bidding is ridiculous The idea that Biden will take a hard line on China is equally ridiculous. He's been in the federal government since before Mao died. If he
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by ralph84 6y ago
Social media companies are protected by Section 230 while newspapers and magazines aren't. If social media companies are going to act like newspapers and magazines then they shouldn't be shielded from liability for their content.
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by ralph84 6y ago
After a windstorm my outlets weren't working but the lights were. Took me a while to figure out what was going on, but one of the hot wires had come loose at the weatherhead. The other hot and neutral were still connected. PG&E cam
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by ralph84 6y ago
> FireEye is a reputable security organization that is publicly traded So was RSA when they accepted $10 million from NSA to backdoor their crypto library. As long as FireEye keeps the customers who pay the bills happy they'll be fi
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by ralph84 6y ago
No. Actions is 100% free for public repos. Full stop.

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