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by sseveran 8y ago
It's an isolated cloud region(s) not connected to the internet and connected to a private government network. AWS built one of these for the CIA.
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by sseveran 8y ago
That's because zip codes don't really align with anything in the general case. There are even zip codes that span multiple states. https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/53918/determining-wh...
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by sseveran 8y ago
MTR in Hong Kong was making $2B per year in profit. The model they use is largely the same one being tried in Florida where real estate projects are integrated with the rail system. http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/30&
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by sseveran 8y ago
I think there are a few reasons that no one from senior management of a major bank went to jail related to RMBS. One reason is that the Justice department lost its first big case which was brought against two hedge fund managers from Bear S
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by sseveran 8y ago
I think his point was the money is not being taken from them forcibly by the state, as is the case with a tax. One could rightly argue that the state should also not be in the lottery business. In this case though there is no coercion.
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by sseveran 8y ago
I have seen this as well. At a role earlier in my career it turned out we had a major engagement with McKinsey around figuring out what was actually happening in some of the most areas most critical to the future. One could rightly point ou
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by sseveran 8y ago
SFO is hardly the only airport where this has been occurring. A TSA employee at Newark stole $800K worth of items. https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/convicted-tsa-officer-reveals...
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by sseveran 8y ago
The Trumpster is known to use email little or not at all. Maybe that has changed now but I would suspect not. https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/29/politics/donald-trump-compute...
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by sseveran 8y ago
Wall St (well most of it) would not want to strip people of their pensions. There is too much money in managing the assets in those pensions and they would I am sure advocate for federal money to make up for the shortfall.
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by sseveran 8y ago
The federal bailout is exactly what is going to happen. The Pew numbers are somewhat optimistic in terms of overall liabilities. My estimation (and its just that) is that when we really dig in we are going to find that things are much, much
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by sseveran 9y ago
That could be true, but I suspect not. Fortress does have a reasonable sized distressed business which include both debt and credit. Also the loan Fortress gave them was contingent on certain milestones being met, so its not like they just
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by sseveran 9y ago
Where I grew up in Baltimore the problem wasn't the funding of the schools. Indeed, when I was in school Baltimore City spent just a bit less per pupil than Montgomery county which was one of the 10 wealthiest counties in the nation. H
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by sseveran 9y ago
Well for one you would have to show that Carl knew that the tariffs were coming. Otherwise he started selling the stock within a couple of days of earnings when the stock had already experienced a pretty large price drop. Unless there was p
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by sseveran 9y ago
If it is discovered that Amazon is stealing data from AWS customers than AWS will go out of business fairly quickly. Also even though Mana is new they do have ~$1B AUM.
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by sseveran 9y ago
Why? The reasons for having their own datacenters are either legacy or needing some sort of specialized hardware that is not available at a cloud provider. Mana which is a new pure quant fund uses AWS extensively.
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by sseveran 9y ago
I don't know if they still do but historically they had to pay. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2016/08...
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by sseveran 9y ago
Nah, the SEC rarely actually prosecutes someone (or more correctly works with DOJ to indict them and try them.) It is just how the SEC typically does business. They, (and other regulators, CTFC, SROs) take these little actions all the time
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by sseveran 9y ago
Well he did mouth off to congress. Once that happened they were always IMHO going to dig until they got him on something.
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by sseveran 9y ago
Plus his website has a bunch of good resources linked from it. http://www.lamport.org
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by sseveran 9y ago
I don't think butchers are unskilled, but I have run across people who do. Having an actual butcher has made me a better book :-)
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by sseveran 9y ago
If you read 0 to 1 his support for Trump was really unsurprising whatever you think about it. He outlined what he viewed as important and acted accordingly. I think he like most people today however have the wrong diagnosis to what is going
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by sseveran 9y ago
So it turns out that "customer service" is actually a good in and of itself that has a price and needs customers willing to pay that price. A Walmart shopper is typically not willing or able to trade some of their disposable incom
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by sseveran 9y ago
I had tried to do the same. However given the CPU/GPU imbalance on AWS GPU instances I have resorted to building a fully "rendered" training set and doing all the transforms in spark. See: https://github.com/t
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by sseveran 9y ago
It turns out that people in general buy airline tickets based almost exclusively on price. Airlines are actually showing very long term thinking given that they have very high capital costs and need to make those investments pay off in the
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by sseveran 9y ago
It is a good sized spread. I do think there is more interesting things going on there if you really start pulling the data apart. Although there is no technical definition of super majority that applies to all cases I like the 66% number wh
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by sseveran 9y ago
Mrs. Clinton won college educated voters by 9 percentage points which is not exactly a super majority. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trump...
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by sseveran 9y ago
I too remember with fondness going to the 2600 meetup at a B&N. I am not sure I would link drug addiction to the lack of people going to bookstores, but I do agree that they were a social place as well and I used them as such. Some of t
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by sseveran 9y ago
I agree with the beginning, especially about the deck chairs as its an expression I often use. Let's be clear its people like me who killed Barnes and Noble not its executives. I have two or three sets of bookshelves downstairs in my o
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by sseveran 9y ago
This has to do with the IPO. Ideally the lawsuit will be done before the IPO so there is no uncertainty about future liabilities. Even if Uber won its unlikely that the appeals will be done before Uber wants to IPO.
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by sseveran 9y ago
Of course. If you think you need a lawyer you want to be the one paying them. A company lawyer ultimately works for the company.

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