wallst07

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by wallst07 6mo ago
Yes, 100%, it is information asymmetry. It happens in every "market" in the world. The goal should be to balance the information asymmetry, not burry it. Government officials using their power to affect war decisions ought to be a
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by wallst07 6mo ago
The hole point of a prediction market is to surface insider trading and information asymmetry by voting with what matters most [in trading markets], money. In other terms, it allows people to transfer risk to money , or information for mone
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by wallst07 6mo ago
Almost every very large company that relies on commodities will have a treasury desk whose sole purpose is to work with future markets, its very common practice. It doesn't matter if one npr article has a anecdote, it exists.
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by wallst07 6mo ago
The turnaround was 2.3m, I don't get your point. Texas doesn't require party affiliation.
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by wallst07 6mo ago
Nobody would insure this, and if they did, that policy would take months to be written, wouldn't cover the single probability of 1 event, etc... So you are renaming something that doesn't and won't ever exist.
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by wallst07 6mo ago
This sounds like a poor attempt at attempting to be on the right side of morality through manipulation and shame. There is nothing here that tries to help someone understand your viewpoint. Let's start of with something simple. Should
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by wallst07 6mo ago
The article is opinionated and sensationalist. The fact remains that prediction markets and financial markets are not the same thing. Bets between people happened all the time, and you would wager based on information asymmetry, that is the
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by wallst07 6mo ago
Yes, that definitely happens as an EM. You want your Senior/Staff engineers to architect out the new high-risk functionality into a doc for review. Then that Staff engineer either implements or has a junior/senior under their wing
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by wallst07 6mo ago
Yup, same as Phish. I used to buy VHS tapes of live Phish recordings from the person at the show. VHS because of the fidelity I guess.
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by wallst07 6mo ago
Leadership. Most here won't want to hear it, but the average person does not want to lead. They want to be told everything will be alright. Leading + consequences is difficult and stressful. Heck, just leading your own household is str
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by wallst07 6mo ago
I don't think so, not even close. In my past I got high enough to barely touch the ceiling of a multi-billion dollar public company. I routinely had 1:1s with directs to the CEO. Not one of them would be willing or able to take that CE
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by wallst07 6mo ago
"Retarded" "Mental Retardation" used to be a common term signed into law and documents but was removed in ~2010. Since then, it has become more of a slur than a description.
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by wallst07 9mo ago
Try reading?
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by wallst07 11mo ago
Rhone is pretty good, Lulu ABC are also nice.
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by wallst07 1y ago
Why is that a concern exactly? Why does every decision need an environmental impact? How do you know he doesn't plant a tree for every steak he eats?
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by wallst07 1y ago
What are you talking about and who is they?
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by wallst07 1y ago
>So why didn't crypto block or ban I think you have a misunderstanding of the technology.
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by wallst07 1y ago
Because VISA has two customers, me and Netflix. They want that to continue so they are in a good place to be efficient arbirtrators. Anyone else will be slow/inefficient (courts) or biased (Me or Netflix).
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by wallst07 1y ago
This is a supply/demand problem. Your solution is to restrict the supply of short term rentals. Restrictions rarely work, the hypothetical situation you mention would benefit from allowing more building of long term rentals.
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by wallst07 7y ago
Sorry this is BS, a city like NYC has many more healthy fast options than your average small city. The affluent neighborhoods have healthy grocery stores. The poorer parts of cities do lack good grocery options but this has little to do w
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Audi claims the A8 is the first production car to reach Level 3 autonomy(theverge.com)
223 points by wallst07 9y ago|205 comments