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by scott00 9y ago
Commodity exchanges are actually largely unregulated in the US. The existence of a large complicated federal law called the "Commodity Exchange Act" may at first blush make you think otherwise, but the CEA establishes rules for fu
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You have a controlled environment for the workers, who do their work on locked down software and hardware. Basically, employees don't get to bring any personal possessions into the room where they do the work, the software through whic
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What you're asking, in typical futures terminology(1), is how the futures market can function if futures positions and spot/physical positions are not cross-margined. This is actually typical in commodities futures. The same issue
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Switching from expensing a reserved instance cost to capitalizing and then depreciating it is actually a bad thing. It increases your short term paper profits and decreases your long term paper profits, but doesn't change your pre-tax
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If that were true, it would mean that a roofer would need to raise prices a great deal in order to reduce demand a small amount. In such circumstances, it would probably be very profitable for a roofer to increase prices. The opposite (roof
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US copyright law lets you sue for either actual damages plus the infringer's profits OR statutory damages. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/504
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I actually caught a semi-real one once. My new employer was MITMing all ssh traffic.
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Does anyone find the results of how users would travel absent Uber/Lyft strange to the point of disbelief? Only 1% of users would replace Uber/Lyft by a taxi?
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The biggest current mechanism is the case where driving beats commuter rail + walking, but commuter rail + ride hail beats driving. The other would be where a shared ride (ie, Uber pool rather than Uber X) is replacing a solo car trip.
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Source please. Must learn more.
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The logs in question would be AWS's S3 access logs. Having Accenture's credentials wouldn't let you delete those.
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For U2F, there are two issues. First, communication doesn't use a smart card protocol, it uses a custom protocol over USB/HID. So to implement U2F using the TPM you would need to write a virtual USB device driver, which is a pain.
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It appears to me that what they've accomplished is to devise an algorithm that can, in polynomial time, find a solution to the ATSP with cost no worse than a constant multiple of the optimal solution. Can any domain experts confirm or
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Why does the Jones act discourage trade between PR and the Caribbean? My understanding is it mandates use of US ships for shipping between US ports. It should therefore have no effect on shipping between PR and the various non-US Caribbean
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Basically because the velocity of money is variable and depends on societal factors (lending practices, payment technologies, even psychology). What the central bank is really looking to do is keep the amount of money that's in flight
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Not exactly sure what you're driving at. If there's enough evidence that these guys knew despite their protestations to the contrary, it doesn't matter what they say. It's not like they need to confess to get convicted.
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Created an account. It asks for and confirms email and phone number. Interestingly it does not ask for name or SSN. So it doesn't really represent an identity as a person but rather as a recipient of communications. Security-wise, star
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Hah, that's actually excellent news for those hoping for criminal consequences. It might be hard to put anybody in jail for their security negligence, but to me it looks like those three have served themselves up on a platter for an in
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That's a good question, but I don't have the data to answer it.
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I don't understand the question.
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95% confidence intervals for those curious about the statistical significance given the small Olin sample size: Olin: 1.80% - 4.06% MIT: 0.71% - 0.81% Stanford: 0.48% - 0.54%
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You may want to clarify whether your issues are with the tech stack or the domain or both; they raise different issues. I think of the tech stack as the programming language you use as well as the major libraries/frameworks/servic
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The leaders of most public companies are indeed influenced by analysts and investors. The reason is because the leaders of most publicly traded companies can be fired by the board, and the board's perception of leader performance is in
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Why do you think Wall Street strong armed them into dropping the motto? Isn't it more likely that the people in charge simply changed their minds about the best way to run the company? And, given the lack of formal control, what mechan
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Larry and Sergey own super-voting shares and can outvote all other shareholders combined.
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There really isn't such a thing as "the value people generate" beyond one-person businesses. As a simplified example, a business that sells software has two components: building software and selling software. The value of bui
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Breaching the corporate veil is definitely possible. An article from 1991 mentions ~2000 cases where it was attempted, 40% of which were successful[1]. However, this is much more common with smaller and more closely held corporate entities.
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If you like this story you may also be interested in the book "Paper Tiger" by Tom Coyne. Same idea of total dedication to making the PGA, but starting as a guy who played competitively in his youth, but had gotten rusty. He was s
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I think the implication is that after the technical staff came up with the proof of concept, the operation to actually deploy it probably got reviewed by a somewhat senior official charged with making policy. He's expressing more surpr
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US Supreme Court will require electronic filings and post them free online(washingtonpost.com)
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