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601.
by whatok 10y ago
> some (maybe most?) black box quants own their algorithm even if they leave the Hedge Fund. I've never observed this be the case at all.
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by whatok 10y ago
I was pleasantly surprised by the quality. Passable enough that I don't immediately Chromecast to another set of $$$ speakers.
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by whatok 10y ago
For the people who like Discover Weekly, what was your previous music discovery process?
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Outspoken Patent Critic Lee Cheng Leaves Newegg(law.com)
3 points by whatok 10y ago|0 comments
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by whatok 10y ago
A single "hedge fund founder" = "hedge funders"?
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The Intellectual yet Idiot(medium.com)
1 points by whatok 10y ago|0 comments
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by whatok 10y ago
My wife had the issue, it stopped for a while, and then popped up again right after the warranty ran out. She needed a replacement ASAP (otherwise I would have shopped it around at multiple stores) and they refused to acknowledge that it w
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by whatok 10y ago
You're looking at the yield; not the returns. You also cannot directly invest in the index but there are ETFs that track it.
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by whatok 10y ago
I'm not saying that it would be better to submit to the security guard but a random crazy person has less potential impact on my life than a random power tripping security guard. Security guard could arguably call the cops on me and m
610.
by whatok 10y ago
Or you could just not watch those movies. Hollywood is not entitled to your money in the same way that you are not entitled to free or or "cheap" access to their products.
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by whatok 10y ago
If Thiel financed a lawsuit for the lady whose rape video was posted or the Conde Nast exec who got outed, would anyone be protesting?
612.
by whatok 10y ago
Agreed. I just think it's sad that it actually took outside financing for a millionaire to participate in our legal system.
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by whatok 10y ago
> Even if they are reporting something that isn't libelous, they will always fear in the back of their mind that a wealthy person who doesn't like them will bring a case against them that will bankrupt them, even if what they w
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by whatok 10y ago
I think DTCC has some freely available live CDS data but I forget where and don't know how the APIs are.
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by whatok 10y ago
It's relatively insignificant when compared against the rest of the mutual fund complex.
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by whatok 10y ago
Yeah, I'm not seeing it either. I see this: > Affiliate Commitments. The Company is obligated to make payments, which represent TAC, to its Affiliates. As of December 31, 2014, these commitments totaled $2,087 million, of which
617.
by whatok 10y ago
All of the threads were flagged fairly soon after they were initially posted.
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by whatok 10y ago
Looks like it got unflagged. Thanks to dang if he was the one who did it.
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by whatok 10y ago
Looks like the FBI statement I posted got unflagged. Definitely disappointed in the flaggers who more than likely did not read it at all.
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FBI Statement on Clinton Email System(fbi.gov)
197 points by whatok 10y ago|174 comments
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by whatok 10y ago
How are you tying efficacy of advertising with busted exchange? I don't see it. This deal was upsized very close to the IPO date and completely oversubscribed with huge retail interest. Everyone wanted this deal to succeed and news b
622.
by whatok 10y ago
What do you mean by "going down"? The IPO price was the IPO price. If people are unable to trade during the day and the price is unchanged, it just means that the stock didn't have an opportunity to trade up.
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by whatok 10y ago
How are investors supposed to value the company right now at this moment?
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by whatok 10y ago
It absolutely has to do with the discussion. The reason for the tightness of the IPO and first day closing price of Facebook was because of those technical issues. Trading was disastrous and had Facebook not been a household name, it&#x27
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by whatok 10y ago
I don't see the point in comparing the two but if you want to, Twitter had much better near-term post-IPO performance than Facebook did. We all know what happened after that. It's almost as if during a period where little fundam
626.
by whatok 10y ago
I think it's very hard to argue that day 1 or near-term price action on any IPO is solely based on value instead of sentiment.
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by whatok 10y ago
Define missed in this context. Missed to means they had an opportunity to sell those 10mm shares @ $23.99 elsewhere. I don't think that would have been remotely possible.
628.
by whatok 10y ago
You're overanalyzing it. The company priced 10mm shares at $15 with the banks running the IPO so: company -> banks The first actual public trade was $23.99 so banks/clients of banks -> public markets.
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by whatok 10y ago
It's not just empty fluff marketing. If I asked people on my floor if they knew what the company does, they would have no idea. Watching a demo like this enables the company to emphasize the simplicity involved in their product and e
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by whatok 10y ago
Sentiment behind tech IPOs is already negative and complicating the IPO process would only further that sentiment. Hard to imagine the bookrunners would ever agree to that.

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