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by sseveran 9y ago
The reason oil is priced in dollars has nothing to do with Saudi Arabia or any US involvement there. The US has always (since the 1800s) been a major player in oil markets. The NYMEX futures contract for physical oil is the real reason oil
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by sseveran 9y ago
Now that I have Global Entry which also gives you TSA Pre security is a snap. I don't get to the airport 2 hours before, usually 15 to 20 minutes before we board if I am flying at a non-peak time. No taking off the shoes and no taking
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by sseveran 9y ago
In fact this is the case even if you are not a sophisticated investor, since the profits are not yours and are really just stolen property.
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by sseveran 9y ago
When I worked for a large company and had to cross an international border that was considered risky (e.g. China) we were issued a special phone and laptop just for that trip. They were wiped after each use. If one was especially paranoid i
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by sseveran 9y ago
Oh I am sure he knew. But just because he knew does not mean it will insider trading.
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It does not have to be related to this. INTC is at an 18 year high. They also crushed their Q3 earnings. Maybe this is a sign that there will be less crushing of their Q4 earnings. Technically this was a normal executive sale. He is holding
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by sseveran 9y ago
What you need is any pool of securities that is devalued by more than the capital base of the company. It was the way that the post partnership, publicly traded investment banks were financed that ultimately led to their collapse. When you
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by sseveran 9y ago
As were Cubist, Citadel, Winton, Optiver, Jump, MAN AHL, Voleon, DE Shaw, Hudson River and PDT. Not sure if I missed anyone.
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by sseveran 9y ago
The article alludes to this at the end but doesn't talk the real reason head on. As these are leveraged products the banks are exposed to large swings in the contract price via various clearing mechanisms. So they are looking at the vo
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You have the whole machine. There are no other colocated VMs.
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by sseveran 9y ago
Comcast wasn't negotiating the Netflix, it was negotiating with Cogent for how much bandwidth Cogent wanted. Netflix just happens to be a large driver of Cogent's interconnect needs but not the only one. Looking from the other dir
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by sseveran 9y ago
The issue typically is not that Comcast is oversubscribing their network, its that there is more traffic trying to enter their network from a specific peer than is provisioned. This is what was at the core of Cogent/Comcast dispute. If
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by sseveran 9y ago
Actually the whole Argentina situation has helped evolve how sovereign debt is issued. Argentina's bonds lacked what is called a collective action clause which allows the bonds of all bond holders to be restructured if a predetermined
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by sseveran 9y ago
The funds involved made far more than $20M. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/business/dealbook/how-arg...
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by sseveran 9y ago
I don't see what is not realistic about it. We are talking about things which are incredibly difficult to value because there is no market for them to set a competitive price. In your Apple example the most productive employees are all
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by sseveran 9y ago
This is just downright false. There is an entire field inside the tax world called transfer pricing. You cannot just transfer significant IP to a foreign entity for $1 and expect that you will only need to pay tax on that $1. The IRS will c
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by sseveran 9y ago
Broadly speaking the SEC regulates stock options as they are a derivative that reference a single underlying security, and that security is the equity in a company. Other securities like various swaps that reference a single security are co
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by sseveran 9y ago
I TRS has nothing to do with the beneficial owner. The company has no way of knowing that the TRS even exists.
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by sseveran 9y ago
We can get around this easily enough with a Total Return Swap. This way we can move the economic interest around with out ever moving the shares.
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by sseveran 9y ago
I don't think that anyone has accused the now former CEO of selling stock. It was always going to be the case that this would happen.
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by sseveran 9y ago
As a former blue apron customer I don't think it was ridiculous. I churned when my wife was out of the country. There are still recipes that they sent that I still cook. Now as a business I don't think they will be able to compete
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by sseveran 9y ago
This largely depends on which government. For the US or EU the choke point is dollars or euros. They just make it illegal for any bank to do business with any organization that accepts said cryptocurrency. It won't "destroy"
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by sseveran 9y ago
I think this horse left the barn a long time ago. At least they are actually going to court and not doing something like use the NSAs database and then utilize some parallel construction technology technique to lie in court about how they d
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by sseveran 9y ago
They are completely orthogonal. A market maker provides immediacy. Not all parties in a market want to trade at the same time. The market maker provides the service of immediacy, which they charge for. You are free not to use their service.
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by sseveran 9y ago
Personally I don't like that regulatory oversight is being outsourced to lawsuits both class action and from regulators. One might say that if Comcast were overcharging their customers they were defrauding them. And while I am generall
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by sseveran 9y ago
I don't think IO is unidiomatic at all, although 7 years ago I might have agreed. First if we really need to we can write haskell that looks a lot like C. Secondly if I find myself in a situation where I need to write a little block of
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by sseveran 9y ago
Where I live its not really the tax breaks, its you can get HOV lane stickers.
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Assembling property for development. Concealing ownership of certain assets. Keeping your name from appearing in certain public records.
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The employees of Good Technology would most likely beg to differ. https://venturebeat.com/2016/01/11/after-good-technologys-42...
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by sseveran 9y ago
A lot. However drug cartels often also fill in as a form of local government in the areas they control. Additionally they are often just as well armed as the police minus things like helicopters and armored vehicles.

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