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by scott00 9y ago
I believe you have picked an actual nit. He reported to Zecco (his actual broker) and Penson (Zecco's clearing firm). Both were SEC-registered broker-dealers at the time, neither were banks.
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by scott00 9y ago
No damages, assuming no unauthorized trades were executed in his account as a result of the unpatched vulnerability.
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by scott00 9y ago
I'd love to hear what people are using the f1 instances for. I would have guessed that most systems with the scale to make FPGA development economical would also make operating a datacenter economical and thus not be running on AWS. (B
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by scott00 9y ago
I get a /60 from Comcast in Chicago.
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by scott00 10y ago
Maybe we'll get some old hands to tell the real story, but here's my guess: early web stuff all tended to be very permissive of the inputs, the idea being showing a user some weirdly formatted half right page was better than showi
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by scott00 10y ago
Optimality's really never necessary. But it's a good idea sometimes. The two main ways of considering optimality are maximizing revenue and "efficiency". Efficiency is a technical term roughly similar to fairness and th
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by scott00 10y ago
It depends on what price the auction winners get. If they get the price they bid, it's not optimal. If they all get the price of the most aggressive non-winner it is optimal. It's the difference between a sealed bid first price au
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by scott00 10y ago
Not a lawyer, but it's really very simple. The law defines the minimum compensation an airline must offer a passenger denied boarding. It does not define a maximum amount. As is generally true for most entities, there is nothing preven
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by scott00 10y ago
This vulnerability didn't affect Android or iOS apps. A user could have transcribed passwords from mobile to browser for a few days.
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by scott00 10y ago
Not an adtech guy... do they actually buy ad slots just hoping that they manage to get someone they can retarget? Or do they know who you are pre-auction so they can bid higher? Just shooting from the hip I would guess the latter is more l
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by scott00 10y ago
Anybody know an FTC commisioner's email address? I've always thought it would be funny to put that into every subscription nag I see. (The FTC is in charge of enforcing US spam laws.)
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by scott00 10y ago
The massive data required for machine learning presents an opportunity to create a moat around those businesses. Releasing the algo but not the data doesn't help competitors much. There's also often a first-mover advantage in data
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by scott00 10y ago
I'd really like to hear some specifics on this. What kind of job descriptions do they have? Roughly how many are there? Are they executives, managers, or individual contributors? Does this only happen in bonus form for extraordinary pe
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by scott00 10y ago
What positions at Google pay $1M/year? FWIW, my rant was not intended as a rant against immigrants, just a rant against people that spin their personal or corporate financial interests as a national crisis.
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by scott00 10y ago
I see your point, and thinking about it helped clarify my thinking, so first, thank you for that. I think another way of phrasing my opinion is that the US labor market is a large, reasonably efficient market; that it's reasonably well
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by scott00 10y ago
Public service announcement: There is no such thing as a labor shortage. Having trouble hiring developers? Offer a salary of $1 million per year. Your new problem will be job applicant crowd-control. Whenever an employer reports a labor sho
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by scott00 10y ago
I'm not seeing what is confusing about dilution, or how that is exacerbated by multiple note rounds. Can anybody give an example along with the correct and incorrect interpretations of terms investors are prone to?
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by scott00 10y ago
Assuming that those numbers are known precisely, the 5%/$200M is clearly the better option. But in practice it's basically impossible to distinguish a 1% success rate business from a 5% success rate business. On the other hand, it
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by scott00 10y ago
I think the second is actually much less worrisome than the first. With absolute job losses, people who lose their jobs need to retrain or accept (probably much) lower pay in different fields. Both of those are hard on people psychologicall
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by scott00 10y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what I had in mind.
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by scott00 10y ago
Why no federation for key servers?
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by scott00 10y ago
You didn't mention whether it was a cash account or a margin account, or if there's an exception for fully paid securities. If it's a margin account, that is indeed how it works for non-fully paid securities. If it's a c
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by scott00 10y ago
> Most broker agreements allow them to lend out your shares without your consent or knowledge. This is straddling the line between completely untrue and highly misleading. For cash accounts, brokers cannot lend your shares without a writ
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by scott00 10y ago
Securities in a cash account can't be lent out by the broker without the written agreement of the customer. The necessary language could theoretically be put into the standard account agreement, so if you care you should read it. Howev
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by scott00 10y ago
Every company has some process for buying something and paying for it. They have to. And similarly they have to have someone who, on a regular basis, approves purchases. Most don't have a process or person for approving donations. So a
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by scott00 10y ago
You mention that you were "entitled" to options. Do you have any record of this promise? Even if it's an informal email, if they promised you options or ownership, especially a particular amount, that could be very important.
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by scott00 10y ago
What law/regulation/contract is requiring healthcare providers to take Medicare?
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by scott00 10y ago
> Vacating and dismissal are not findings of innocence in the legal system. Actual legal question not related to the specifics of this case: why not? Doesn't the US justice system operate under the principle of "innocent until
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by scott00 10y ago
Headline is wildly misleading. The company that is the subject of the article pays $21/hour, which works out to $42,000 a year, probably without benefits. The 25th percentile for a US high school teacher is $45,520, plus significant be
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by scott00 10y ago
Anybody have a link to the complaint/application for a TRO? A lot of the comments here are talking about copyright law, but most protection or attempted protection of data is done with licensing agreements. I would guess FIDE could req

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