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by ucha 12y ago
A box plot is another - I think better - way to represent the variance in a control group A. See http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/screensh...
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by ucha 12y ago
You could hedge that risk by shorting the BABA stock at the same time you own YHOO. That way, you have no exposure to BABA.
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by ucha 12y ago
This is the only outcome that made sense. - Yahoo already has 7B in after-tax cash from the sale of a 7% share in Alibaba. - Yahoo could not just sell more BABA shares, incur a 35% tax just to complete some large acquisition while they alre
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by ucha 12y ago
It's the same thing. Distributing the shares or creating a spin-off that current Yahoo shareholders will own is the same. The other option would have been to sell the Alibaba shares and give the proceeds to shareholders but in that cas
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On Artificial Intelligence(aeon.co)
49 points by ucha 12y ago|52 comments
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by ucha 12y ago
You must be right when you say that big players will be able to sell a lot of bitcoins with a measured market impact. That's closely related to an improved liquidity on the markets which will help grow Bitcoin. Otherwise, no large exch
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by ucha 12y ago
Transaction costs have nothing to do with the sponsor's fee. If you want to "invest" in bitcoin and by that I mean buy some bitcoins and hold them for years, sure, you shouldn't buy an ETF. If you want to trade bitcoins,
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by ucha 12y ago
If the SEC approves it, this would be great news for bitcoin. Assuming the ETF is sufficiently liquid, it would allow: - easy shorting of bitcoins which facilitate price discovery - lower transaction costs. The cheapest and most liquid ex
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Suddenly, Google Looks Shaky(businessinsider.com)
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Purest of the Purists: The Puzzling Case of Grigori Perelman(nautil.us)
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The Marvelous Piraha(ascentofhumanity.com)
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[video] Alibaba IPO: Jack Ma's Original Sales Pitch in 1999(youtube.com)
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Humans need not apply(youtube.com)
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Great Seal bug(en.wikipedia.org)
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French Cellphone Carrier Iliad Makes Offer for T-Mobile US, but Is Turned Down(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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by ucha 12y ago
Iliad is awesome. They own "Free" in France. It's the company that started offering TV + phone + broadband at 30€/month that every other company had to align with in the mid-2000s. They entered the mobile carrier market
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by ucha 12y ago
You're absolutely right when you say that the brokerage could make money by front-running you. But so do the exchanges the broker is operating on. After all, we don't even know who operates btc-e, Bitstamp is slightly more transpa
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Bill Ackman Still Not an Herbalife Fan(bloombergview.com)
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by ucha 12y ago
In short, you're saying that by diversifying your holdings across thousands of companies, you can statistically arbitrage the signal but it is not true. You could make predictions for every company in the world but you'd need both
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by ucha 12y ago
It doesn't matter that the effect is tradable. What matters is that there is no possible arbitrage i.e. a way to make money with a 100% probability. For example, would you enter a bet in which you have a 50% chance of loosing $1000 and
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A quasi-polynomial algorithm for discrete logarithm in finite fields(arxiv.org)
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Twitter stock down 17%(google.com)
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[scam] Healbe GoBe: The Only Way to Automatically Measure Calorie Intake(indiegogo.com)
1 points by ucha 13y ago|0 comments
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by ucha 13y ago
That is why AWS has billing alerts that will send you an email or text if you reach a predefined spending threshold. I had some trouble to find at first on their website so maybe it should be more visible. The cool thing with Amazon is that
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by ucha 13y ago
He joined less than a year ago. Assuming he received a standard options package, I doubt his options vested.
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by ucha 13y ago
>> Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who sits on Facebook’s board of directors, recused himself from the negotiations. I would really like to understand how these sort of conflicts of interest are dealt with and if they are investig
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by ucha 13y ago
They are. Have a look at the last document.
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by ucha 13y ago
I don't know and I doubt that can be done for a large tech company. I only mentioned averages.
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by ucha 13y ago
The same way the SEC opens insider trading investigations based solely on market data - eg. unusual volume of transaction preceding a major unplanned announcement - a government body should mine employment data from LinkedIn for example and
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Our Comrade The Electron(static.pinboard.in)
3 points by ucha 13y ago|0 comments

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