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by velavar 4y ago
The reason that a lot of retail investors may not have heard of Alameda Research is that they are an institutional investor and don't lend directly to customers (afaik?). However, they do pack the monetary heft to make a lot of the int
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by velavar 4y ago
I'm curious as to why affirmative action in the US has always been race-based and not economic-status or household income based? Asking as someone with no skin in the game; I'm merely curious if anyone has any constructive opinio
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by velavar 4y ago
As an Indian woman that studied and worked for a bit in India, this is not surprising at all. When prepping for job placements in my University, we would sometimes practice answers to questions around why they should hire a woman who might
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by velavar 4y ago
> True, but we don't always get the balance right. Agreed :) > Take, for example, many sites asking for the CVV code when using a saved card. In many cases, why?? If I supplied the CVV once and I haven't changed anything sin
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by velavar 4y ago
I've spent most of the last decade working in fraud risk management and I love the message that this article conveys. It's great to see someone saying the exact thing I've innately understood but couldn't put into words
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by velavar 4y ago
While this article is pretty hand-wavy, there are some interesting trends that do arise in fraud during a downturn. I do not fully know what drives it but I suspect the following: * With more people being laid off, taking pay cuts etc. and
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by velavar 7y ago
Hi lamchau - Thank you for taking the time to post this! The email address in your profile doesn't seem to be working.. Any other address that I could email you at?
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by velavar 7y ago
Some of Ken Liu's stories in The Paper Menagerie filled that gap for me. They are fabulous in their own right, though, maybe a lot more "dream"-like.
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by velavar 11y ago
Nowadays I've taken to creating a to-do list before setting out to code and I always make sure to add a couple of tasks that are somewhat simple and I'm sure I can usually complete before bedtime. That way, even when I haven'
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by velavar 11y ago
This is the site I usually turn to, when I'm on the prowl for interesting datasets: http://rs.io/100-interesting-data-sets-for-statistics/ These datasets will make for some nice additions to this list.
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by velavar 11y ago
Though theoretically predicted long ago, I suppose the Higgs boson can be said to have been "discovered" in 2012 when its presence was first confirmed.
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Uber now allows booking auto (tuk-tuk) rides in India(blogs.wsj.com)
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