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by sseveran 10y ago
The results are not really too dissimilar from the Fed study sited by The Atlantic earlier this year. In my not so humble opinion the question asked as part of the Fed study is more robust but the conclusion is similar. http://ww
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The ACLU was pivotal in forcing through the policy changes. They even take credit for it on their website: https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-mental-institutions?... I do have first hand experience with a family m
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by sseveran 10y ago
I have never shared one companies offer with another, nor would I. Of course if I company was not willing to negotiate I would immediately walk. I have just learned a lot about the people who work there.
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I spent 10 years in the medical research world. Not having IRB approval is such a basic error. IRBs are set up to ensure that all research conducted on humans is safe and ethical. If this was not Theranos and someone was say giving high lev
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by sseveran 10y ago
I don't think there needs to be malice here. They do need to sell newspapers and Theranos cultivated a high profile media image so people are interested in them.
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by sseveran 10y ago
I was fortunate enough to have friends who enjoyed playing them with me. My first was France 1940 followed by 1776, both of which I got at a thrift store after hearing about AH from my pediatrician. I played Squad Leader quite extensively.
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by sseveran 10y ago
You can get a whole world index. MSCI offers an ETF like this ( https://www.ishares.com/us/products/239600/ishares-msci-acwi... ).
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by sseveran 10y ago
Its not semantics. You simply don't know much about the asset management business. Vanguard has numerous actively managed offerings. For example Windsor ( http://performance.morningstar.com/fund/performance-return.a
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Buy and hold is a directional view.
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One of the original court cases covering this was eBay vs Bidders Edge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay_v._Bidder%27s_Edge The courts have generally disagreed with that interpretation.
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by sseveran 10y ago
You can see the breakdown of swaps here. http://www.bis.org/statistics/derstats.htm You will note that as others have said the majority are either FX or IRS. Also its gross exposure not net exposure.
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It depends on what you mean by impact. A market makers role is to provide market participants the instantaneous ability to buy or sell a security. They compensated a small amount for providing this service. If someone is using very poor exe
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It does no such thing. Market makers prefer not to interact with people that have a directional view as they may move the market. If a market maker gets caught with inventory and the price is moving they will lose money. Market makers tend
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by sseveran 10y ago
Many hedge funds are not able to charge 2% anymore.
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by sseveran 10y ago
I use RDS Postgres and gladly pay for it. Love its snapshotting, backing up and failover.
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by sseveran 10y ago
AWS gives away a some as well. https://aws.amazon.com/activate/
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by sseveran 10y ago
The value of AWS is all the other services that they offer. While you could assemble them yourself, building on AWS allows you to move really fast and scalable infrastructure.
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by sseveran 10y ago
I have not used MaxMind but with another geo data provider in addition to the centroid it returned the shape and the type of match it was (exact address, city, county, state, country,etc...). So you know whether the IP has an exact address
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by sseveran 10y ago
Thats part of their business model. I have not used their data but I can tell you that all tick data is not created equally. We are unlikely to ever see CDS data for free since individuals cannot trade them as most retail investors are not
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by sseveran 10y ago
CDS isn't an OTC instruments. Swaps are now traded on SEFs like MarketAxess or TradeWeb. Just because you don't have access to the data don't think that professionals don't. But this isn't OHLC data for listed equit
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by sseveran 10y ago
What you really want is more transparent data. There are plenty of data points but they are not easily accessible.
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CDS and debt are not really inefficient markets. Some bonds are less liquid than others but there is currently a rapid conversion to electronic trading going on. CDS is also a very mature market. Not saying that those markets don't con
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by sseveran 10y ago
While not perfect it may not have 0 value. I work in a somewhat esoteric part of finance and it is very easy to distinguish experts from people with a medium amount of knowledge. It forces your adversary to become far more committed and use
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by sseveran 10y ago
And anyone entering their business would have to as well. The large banks are happy to have these regulations in some ways as it makes it hard for midsized banks to grow and compete with them.
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SEC Whistleblower Program https://www.sec.gov/whistleblower
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Cool. I am always a little wary of distributed algorithms that don't go through that level of validation. But I recognize that few commercial firms do that, although AWS is a stand out. I had the same criticism of ZooKeeper for a long
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Did you make formal specification of your algorithms in something like TLA+?
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I talked to a company recently that is working with Amazon to make a PTP feed available in EC2.
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They do need to market. Medallion is closed to non-employees. REIF competes with other hedgefund strategies.
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by sseveran 10y ago
Startups aren't about "fake it til you make it". At its core a startup (and its founders and investors) are typically making a contrarian bet that must be right. Theranos bet that it could use a small amount of blood could be

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