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by revel 4y ago
There was a question last week about mark-to-mark accounting for banks in the wake of the SVB failure. The question was (to paraphrase): why aren't banks forced to mark every asset for every financial statement. This article pretty com
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by revel 4y ago
There are liquidity, jurisdiction and tax considerations that go into bond accounting. Under both US GAAP and IFRS you can't flip between held to maturity, available for sale and m2m asset classification advantageously. I think this is
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by revel 4y ago
There are hundreds of blogs here without any description at all -- I wouldn't say this list is curated so much as it is categorized.
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by revel 4y ago
It's not mentioned here but one of the biggest mistake experienced hires make on side projects is throwing out all the project planning that would normally be done if it was anyone else's project. Honestly, if you can't draw
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by revel 4y ago
Google Maps has one of the most abusive license practices I've seen; effectively they force every one of their competitors to use OSM. As a consequence, OSM is the default for every company in this space.
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by revel 4y ago
So it's a problem that the wrong benchmarks are being selected, but also active funds should also be benchmarked against passively managed indexes
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by revel 4y ago
Quick question: how does this differ from keycloak? Are they competing products or do they work fundamentally differently?
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by revel 4y ago
I work at an international logistics unicorn and I used to work at Amazon in some of these groups. Amazon has a glass jaw. They are good at being an aggressor but I don't know how they will cope with some of the changes taking place in
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by revel 4y ago
Sounds like I had a similar experience to you, except many years prior. I actually worked on a desk where there was a front page-headline scandal, partly caused by lack of investment in tech. I would never recommend anyone work in finance b
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by revel 5y ago
There is no political will to fight for immigrants; skilled or otherwise. Without votes or the organized capital needed to lobby congress the immigration situation is only likely to get worse. The right wing's view of immigration has m
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by revel 5y ago
Maps also has one of the most restrictive licenses I've ever seen in the industry. If you stop using Maps you're required to delete all data and all derived data. The only time I've ever seen a more restrictive license was wh
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by revel 5y ago
just putting it out there as a random foreigner that happened to watch kabaddi randomly on tv while travelling -- kabaddi rules! Great spectator sport
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by revel 5y ago
This poster knows what they're talking about. The market making exception is there to prevent liquidity completely evaporating as it did during the flash crash. It's not there to encourage them to bend the rules -- it's to co
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by revel 5y ago
This makes a lot of sense for both companies. Activision need to clear out large swaths of their board and executive suite. Microsoft has consistently lost console market share to Sony with each console generation. They are also ceding grou
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by revel 5y ago
Yes. This used to be one of those things that made a significant difference but probably doesn't matter any more. I say "probably" because I haven't seen any code like this that wasn't spat out from a generator in a
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by revel 5y ago
There were a few other combinations I wanted to see -- how does docker-to-docker compare with socket communication on the same local machine? I would love to know if there's a difference. The results when running on other machines coul
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by revel 5y ago
You can go to any port town in the US and you will see containers stacked up like tiny towns. The equipment to move the containers is usually the bottleneck not the yard space.
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by revel 5y ago
I would love to hear why you think this won't help
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by revel 5y ago
This kind of cross-cutting issue is very challenging for even the best run organizations to deal with. Local government is not equipped to randomly start calling in experts and directing large scale projects because we, collectively, have c
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by revel 5y ago
This article is ridiculous. "It's so easy but nobody expected it to happen!" Most of freight is run off spreadsheets and over the phone or by email. Flexport is built around digitization and optimization. Half of the appeal o
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by revel 5y ago
Not sure if any of you folks have tried asking your friends which companies they wouldn't work for, irrespective of the pay, but it's interesting. Facebook and Palantir are the 2 recurring names whenever I've asked around. Th
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by revel 5y ago
Facebook studied it internally and covered it up in congressional testimony. That's literally what the article is about
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by revel 5y ago
Can we please not react to this article by immediately blaming teenage girls? You have an article that shows one of the most powerful corporations in the world exploiting teenagers to boost revenues and lying about it in testimony before co
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by revel 5y ago
Literally every major bank follows this model and has done for at least a decade There is nothing off the shelf with the level of sophistication you see in those systems.
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by revel 5y ago
Sorry to be a downer but I'm having a hard time being optimistic about the situation. My prediction is that pretty much every child in America will contract delta within the next month. The approach towards vaccinations and masking in
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by revel 5y ago
It doesn't look like delta has crested yet: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html... Also, yes, I agree with you that this is likely retaliation.
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by revel 5y ago
next question: how would one go about betting on Korean residential mortgage credit spreads as an American retail investor?
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by revel 5y ago
That was a charitable donation so the government literally got paid a negative amount in tax on $2.7B of wealth created. That's $0 from capital gains that otherwise would have been collected and it also reduces her tax burden; probably
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by revel 5y ago
Just a warning to those planning to do this: you are taking an incredible risk with your future that I think is undervalued. Circumstances beyond your control can make your plans financially unviable and by retiring so early you have absolu
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by revel 5y ago
We shouldn't celebrate too early on what appears to be a largely technical mistake. It's just a matter of time until the language is cleaned up and the issue goes away for the companies. We need long term structural fixes to addre

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