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by wgerard 9y ago
I think you kinda answered your own question: > P.S. I tried using Pixelmator (non-free), GIMP, OpenShot and a few more open-source editors - they don't stand the competition. It's really hard to do it right, and even if you do
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by wgerard 9y ago
Actually, there's plenty reason to be surprised here since it flies in the face of the efficient market hypothesis a bit.
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Oh sure, no doubt. It makes sense to spend $10 a month on something if it saves you 10 hours of time and you can potentially make $10 million from it. I was mostly just surprised at how quick the process was. Hedge funds are much more afrai
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by wgerard 9y ago
We moved on - my friend was in business school at the time, and thought that continuing on with the project would be detrimental to his job search (he was looking at joining a hedge fund). Yeah, it was a very sudden shift. We always knew th
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by wgerard 9y ago
Basically, anyone who launched a public campaign qualifies. If you're just short selling without any related posts about why you're short, etc. you're not an activist short seller. It's ambiguous, no doubt, but actually
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by wgerard 9y ago
The info was gated behind a paid login, so thankfully we didn't have to worry too much about scrapers. We also set up a notification system when new campaigns came out, so they didn't have to long poll for new info. We actually di
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by wgerard 9y ago
Not surprised at all. Anecdote: A friend and I used to run a website that tracked activist short sellers and their campaigns, and published all that information as a nice centralized database basically. Hedge funds were, by far, the most in
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by wgerard 9y ago
True! That being said, using the Vanguard website is... significantly different from using the RH app.
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by wgerard 9y ago
> My concern is that overall, the product and marketing seem to be geared towards speculative, short-term trading. When I first signed up, the app was recommending that I check out stocks like Apple, Netflix, and Snapchat, not index fund
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by wgerard 9y ago
> Most people should arguably be putting their money into index funds and holding for the long term I think Robinhood is great for that! Zero commission means you can afford to buy small amounts without worrying about fees eating into yo
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by wgerard 9y ago
> Markets left to their own accord incentivize dishonesty and manipulation. Sort of? There's also a strong financial incentive to expose that dishonesty and manipulation - I mean, that's basically why Jim Chanos is famous. I&#x
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by wgerard 9y ago
To be fair, for New York (where Blue Apron is based out of) it actually makes some sense. Grocery shopping in New York can be (heavily depending on where you go) a taxing experience. Especially in Manhattan. Space is expensive, so stores of
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by wgerard 9y ago
Off the top of my head, it could easily be the case that Facebook is: 1) Aware of construction happening close to your place of employment (in any number of ways that doesn't require any super advanced knowledge) 2) Knows that people u
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by wgerard 9y ago
Yeah, I didn't mean that as a dig at target. More so I meant that Facebook is probably just leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else. That being said, that's totally based on just a hunch and I have no real data to back up that ass
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by wgerard 9y ago
also a very good point! I just wouldn't be shocked if it was a coincidence as well, or something else driving it. For example, the company mentioned in the OP could be something mentioned in the news recently or in a hot market positio
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by wgerard 9y ago
The simple explanation and (maybe scary) truth is that we're a lot more predictable than we think. Remember when Target got into hot water for outing a pregnant teenager based on an assortment of items she bought [1]? That was based on
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by wgerard 9y ago
FWIW I actually agree with you re: squeezing, just something about the numbers either way didn't seem to add up (others were quoting $13/hr, study was saying $3/hr).
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by wgerard 9y ago
I feel somewhat vindicated now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16503558
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> I think people are hesitant to over-criticise academia. Really? Maybe inside academia itself that's true, but I think people outside are fairly eager to criticize academia and put down academics. I feel like anytime a study with e
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by wgerard 9y ago
Hm interesting, the report suggests that 8-hour drivers are doing more like 60 miles per shift (($4.79 * 8) / 0.6). Curious what the huge discrepancy is there (between self-reported and gathered data), though without being able to see
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by wgerard 9y ago
Usage costs for cars are usually tagged at around $0.50-$0.60 per mile [1]. Looking around, seems like the average 8 hour uber driver is putting on about 100-200 miles per shift [2]. So assuming 150 miles per 8 hours, the average uber drive
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by wgerard 9y ago
> I think that's mostly due to wider and more public acceptance of conspiracy theory, Fox News, and your Rush Limbaughs, etc.. That's a pretty serious shift!
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by wgerard 9y ago
Huh, your comment actually caused me to re-evaluate my thinking a little bit. Because you're right, in general this is true: > There were no good ol' days of citizen-statesmen calmly discussing their political differences and c
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by wgerard 9y ago
Somewhat of a counterpoint, though with a huge caveat because I was just a grunt: I used to work at Etsy, and Amazon launched a competing product in 2015. Cue the frenzy about Etsy's imminent doom. Hasn't happened yet. Etsy's
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by wgerard 9y ago
> you're less inclined to talk about work stuff because neither of you will understand the nuances of the other's job. Yes, thank you for this! I was struggling to articulate why those novel conversations happen, but this is to
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by wgerard 9y ago
> The diversity of startups is huge: marketing, software for construction project management, dog walking apps, you get the idea. Sure, but they're software startups first and foremost. Conversations felt like they inevitably drifte
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by wgerard 9y ago
> Shouldn’t be hard to step out of the bubble It really was. It's been substantially easier to step out of the bubble in NYC. So easy that I didn't even have to intentionally do it.
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by wgerard 9y ago
> the presence of other industries like finance, media and advertising This is a huge part of why I didn't enjoy being in SF (admittedly for a very short few months). Every party I went to, most conversations I had (or overheard in
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by wgerard 9y ago
It's likely that if they're being denied paid breaks, taking an unpaid break would result in being fired.
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by wgerard 9y ago
Really awesome idea! Excited to try this out. > Working as full stack devs, we constantly had to do this translation by hand. It was our least favorite part of our jobs, since the creative work had already been done by the mockup designe

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