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by spinlock 13y ago
The thing that turns me off to unions are the work rules. Could you imagine if you couldn't use git because that work was reserved for source-code engineers? Work rules are the reason that you've never heard of an intellectually s
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by spinlock 13y ago
Vendor lock in through dumbing down your clients ... I like it.
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by spinlock 13y ago
Waz was the 1% before it was cool.
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by spinlock 13y ago
You just made me realize that github needs better search. I like the presentation on github but, without git grep, I just pull it local and read from there.
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by spinlock 13y ago
So, the fines were levied in 2012. Causality's a tricky thing but events in the future can't usually impact those in that happened in the past.
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by spinlock 13y ago
Congress shouldn't have that much influence over the SEC. I always assumed it was because Dimon is the only CEO able to admit he's not infallable. I also think JPM is ahead of the curve on action against them. Again, they'll
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by spinlock 13y ago
Shorting is absolutely open to abuse, especially naked shorting (i.e. you sell the stock without buying it first). Google the CEO of Overstock.com. He had a lot to say about naked shorts being abused. Regular shorts aren't abused as mu
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by spinlock 13y ago
I'm thinking of Guys like Chanos. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Chanos
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by spinlock 13y ago
The crimes happened at Bear and WaMu. It did not happen on Jamie Diamon's watch.
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by spinlock 13y ago
That happened in 2008.
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by spinlock 13y ago
> When assessing risks of this size, I am glad that JPM seemed to be asking all the right questions about Madoff (which no one else, not even the SEC, was asking), it is funny JPM is being penalized for this. It's amazing what JPM i
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by spinlock 13y ago
No, the Apple example is excellent. I forget what the name of the blog is but there's an investor who investigates firms for fraud, shorts their stock, then publishes his finding. It's not illegal in the slightest and is a public
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by spinlock 13y ago
So, you think the punishment should fit the revenue rather than the crime? JPM reported Madoff to the SEC in the 90's. They also reported him to the British banking authorities much more recently. The "crime" is actually look
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by spinlock 13y ago
KYC is about not doing business with terrorists or other undesirables. Madoff was not one of those. He was running a ponzi scheme but was otherwise an upstanding citizen. No bank would have any reason not to do business with him due to KYC
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by spinlock 13y ago
This is a huge advantage when you're trying to win business from curmudgeons like me.
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by spinlock 13y ago
I bet the police dispatch described the suspect as a young black man wearing jeans and a black hoodie.
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by spinlock 13y ago
If you've ever watched a stone mason work, the tallented ones exert much less effort. My example comes from bar tending. I used to work for a high end catering company so I poured a lot of champaign. After a while, I could pour a bottl
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by spinlock 13y ago
Yes it should. I surf HN on my phone and google likes to auto correct stuff in weird ways. I mean, hoe did they even know I'd been classified? And, yes, I do mean "how" and not "hoe". Autocorrect. More like automist
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by spinlock 13y ago
The bar that I was watching the game in exploded when that happened. You wouldn't believe the number of people calling him all sorts of names for making that call. And, I think it was a good call too. The point is that being risk avers
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by spinlock 13y ago
I think our files must have gotten switched at the credit card company. What I don't understand is why Cindy didn't remove the chargeback. That should settle things for you, right?
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by spinlock 13y ago
4 days is very reasonable. My broker settles most trades in 3 days. And, that's for public stocks which have been around for a couple hundred years and are well understood. 4 days is also in line with what credit card gateways will se
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by spinlock 13y ago
Would their patent be enforceable? Their claims include anonymity. How do you know who to sue if the payments are anonymous?
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by spinlock 13y ago
I have the same refund policy specifically for chargebacks. Here's a fun side note: despite the fact that I always issue a full refund, I had one customer chargeback a purchase. I decided to contest the chargeback and, amazingly, I won
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by spinlock 13y ago
Our government has a long history of abusing its power to prevent evidence from being admitted in court. In fact, the "State's Secrets" privilege granted to the executive branch was based on exactly that. The case that establ
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by spinlock 13y ago
That's the kind of combination an idiot puts on his luggage.
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by spinlock 13y ago
Ask Nick Saban how trying to kick a field goal with 1 second left in the Baylor game is working out for him. There are plenty of people saying that any other coach would be fired.
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by spinlock 13y ago
I think your assertion that havesting grain led to civilization is the most likely hypothesis but, I'm not convinced we started harvesting grain for food. We've discovered cups with trace amounts of beer that pedate plates with tr
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by spinlock 13y ago
I can't second this suggestion strongly enough. The technology will be the easy part. Connecting with people who need help will be very difficult. I don't even want to think about how hard it will be to protect against the trolls.
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by spinlock 13y ago
Humans have only eaten grains for the last 10,000 years or so. For the millions of years before that, we evolved on a diet that didn't include grain. Of courses those assertions don't prove anything but they do make me question th
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by spinlock 13y ago
Investors look for validation from peers, competitors, anyone. Having interest is good as long as you can win in terms of executing on the product.

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