secretasiandan

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by secretasiandan 16y ago
News coverage/summary here http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-04/islam-blamers-ignor...
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Do Natural Resources Fuel Authoritarianism?(papers.ssrn.com)
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
First class and business class are different things. You don't always simultaneously have both, but you can. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_class_travel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_class
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
"Liquidity is needed most when markets are falling outside the norm" True but humans have fail-safes and kill switches too, thus this is not a valid argument against HFT in favor of human market makers. At any time, humans could step in an
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
What information/experience informs your critique of markets/HFT?
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Could an unintended side effect of this be that it encourages spammers to create even more botnets to run these computations?
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
If you question the government's ability to decide if it should go to hard science or 20K startups, then how can you trust their ability to choose which 20K startups? In general, if you don't trust the government's ability to make a decisio
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Because there's much lower hanging fruit. Extracting information and optimizing actions based on it via purchasing/timing decisions. Requires much less capital commitment and potentially much higher ROI.
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
One creates directly attributable profits with little, if any, ongoing exposure. The other creates little, if any directly attributable profits. Furthermore, if the transfer is from one bank to another, the sender wants to hold onto the fu
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
I really just wanted him to describe why he thought that obligation was "expensive"
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Can you tell me more about these commitments and what makes them expensive? No one may explicitly choose to trade with HFT firms, but that doesn't mean they don't value their presence "Although Vanguard does not engage in "high frequency t
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Not all ideas can or should be taught in (elite) colleges. The framework to analyze any idea should be and generally is taught at colleges. Repackaging and selling things is foundational to creating value. The insurance industry is perhap
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
"And it seems like the smarter the employees, the less likely they are to actually be providing any real services to people" I would call this a negotiation that they are winning. Just like startup founders win in their negotiation with em
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
the quant finance that takes the best and the brightest (as opposed to the bankers and sales traders), uses informational and computational advantage to make money. How are internet startups any different? Also, even the bankers and sales t
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
These startups are directly profiting from their ability to extract information that others can't. They're NOT serving you recommendations of others' products. They're NOT serving you ads.
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
In fairness just because something is SOLD on the web doesn't mean it is NOT in the public domain.
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Here is a link to an article from his official web page where he appears to be stating a generally anti-nuclear point of view http://www.sigmar-gabriel.de/Nachrichten/details/20110313_at... This gives his statement about Merkel's move jus
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
efficient > slightly inefficient > inefficient > pretty inefficient My comment was not meant to start a conversation about the meaning of efficient markets, but to get wheaties to explain his reasoning.
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
I don't think this is a knee jerk reaction. I think this is a move for short term political gains without regard for the long term societal costs. They had decided to extend the life of the reactors just last year. No new risk inherent to
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
You must think markets are pretty inefficient. Can you explain why this is time to start buying? If you can explain why people are selling so much so fast right now, that might help your argument.
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
The following two statements do not jive 1) "Tembo Trunks don’t use batteries" 2) "Tembo Trunks amplify the music from your iPod’s earbuds to 80dB of clarity-enhanced Stereo Sound (3x the sound)" Powerless sound amplification! Additionall
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
I'm not sure that the cisterns he speaks of are meant for drinking, I think they're meant for fighting fires. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Fire_Department_A... If they were used for drinking in the case of an emergency, I th
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
While the article was a decent read, he is not an expert in this field. His work is in Supply Chain/Management http://lean.mit.edu/about/lai-structure/faculty-researchers-... Where does he get his expertise in nuclear reactors? Accordin
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
I more than readily accept your skepticism re NLP. But the first paper he talks about got into Science http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5986/1712.abstract?sid... I don't have access to the article itself, but I assume the writer did
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
"As for the notion of a thought vacuum, I think its incredible to consider that no matter how bleak an environment you may find yourself in, or how dull an object you may find yourself holding, these things are always influencing how you th
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
In the article, there's a link to an article of what appears to be a modern day production version, combining conventional ship propulsion with a Flettner drive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Ship_1 It looks like it takes advantage of th
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
The 15 year ago vintage class does have amazing returns. However, assume for a second we can take different vintage years and say that return(t-20 to t-0) = return(t-20 to t-15)*return(t-15 to t-0). Then all the money was made from t-15 to
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
A) The quarterly pooled MEAN metric does not necessarily tell you how the majority of venture firms perform over any sustained duration. Looking at the MEDIAN vintage year performance on page 7 does (at least a better job of it). From tha
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
6th paragraph "The median net return to VC fund investors has not been positive for any vintage year since 1998." I'm curious, did you read the article and miss all the talk about vintage years? Or did you only skim it? Or did you only re
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Your second and third paragraphs appear to be in conflict re bio-tech unless "faster moving" doesn't trump any negative side effects of removing patents. Can you elaborate? I can see the argument for patents in areas like biotech where the

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