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by whatok 10y ago
I don't agree with a lot of his political views but I'll trust him on the finance and economics front over a majority of politicians given that he worked for Salomon Brothers and arguably was an extremely well-accomplished mayor.
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by whatok 10y ago
I agree with the sentiment in this post personally but I'd be willing to be good money that for the majority of terminal subscribers, adapting to a traditional keyboard would be a complete non-starter. They're kinda trapped but t
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by whatok 10y ago
A lot of data you get through Bloomberg is repackaged from other sources. As far as I know, I don't use any Bloomberg proprietary data but there is a lot of data that while is not proprietary, it is essentially locked into Bloomberg d
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by whatok 10y ago
Strange, I don't think my firm's subscription came with that feature.
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by whatok 10y ago
Really hoping my older white one doesn't break. Love how loud the keys are.
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by whatok 10y ago
I wouldn't imagine he would be hostile to you unless he suspected you were a charlatan.
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by whatok 10y ago
http://www.themixingbowl.org
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by whatok 10y ago
You gear content towards Apple vs selling out the trunk and the content will change. Arguably for the worse. People will get paid but it definitely will not be the same. If you use 50 as an example, he absolutely would not exist with his
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by whatok 10y ago
Oh, definitely agree, I just can't stand him at all and have to express it at all times. Drake thinking he could rap on June 27 is borderline blasphemous and if Pimp C didn't want to do Big Pimpin' with Jay-Z, there's z
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by whatok 10y ago
i hate drake edit: I can point to Houston influence in so much music but yeah definitely dont get its due props.
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by whatok 10y ago
Houston was mainstream when Still Tippin blew up and Flip was doing his thing but that didn't really last and wasn't outside of a few artists. DJ Ayres and JD are my dudes. I don't know if I still have that CD but great mix.
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by whatok 10y ago
Yeah, typically mixtapes are kinda lawless re: copyright, serve purely as promo, and then might breakeven at the end of the day. A lot of the time people looked the other way because there wasn't a label to sue, the artist sure as hel
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by whatok 10y ago
Wow, never would have expected to see Z-Ro mentioned on HN. I really think he's one of the greatest ever and wish he was more successful but (and not to sound like a hipster or elitist) his music would absolutely not be the same if it
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by whatok 10y ago
Honestly, I used to love mixtapes because of the "look the other way" sentiment towards copyright at least in regards to using other rappers' beats. When a track was hot, you would hear everyone on it and you would hear peop
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by whatok 10y ago
Wow, Apple securing exclusives on mixtapes is some of the corniest shit I've heard of. Get money and all but damn.
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by whatok 10y ago
I'd imagine this is going to be more modernish stuff when things were starting to get distributed online, like slightly-post Napster days. There are definitely cassette mixtapes available via torrent but there just aren't that ma
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by whatok 10y ago
Crain's story is tragic. Geez.
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by whatok 10y ago
Three points: - Non-trival amount of resources go into hardware R&D and OSX development - Desktop and laptop computer market is increasingly shrinking - Revenue growth is flat It's not as simple as "well we make $x for every i
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by whatok 10y ago
Do you not get out much? Old people been using iPhones since forever.
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Apple computers were 10.9% of FY 2015 revenue. That percentage has been steadily dropping pretty much ever since the iPhone came out and revenue has not been growing.
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by whatok 10y ago
I agree with what you're saying but I was talking about the SPY example listed above. The prospectus [0] for SPY says that it's not actively managed and that it rebalances at least monthly. [0] https://www.spdrs.com&#x
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by whatok 10y ago
From the article: > Berkshire’s positions were disclosed in a 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, a quarterly requirement for investors managing more than $100 million. The report indicates the number of shares held a
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by whatok 10y ago
$1bn~ MV on a very heavily traded stock over a quarter does not seem like it would require any sort of acrobatics on BRK's side. Know nothing about their execution but really doesn't seem to be anything difficult.
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Uh, it's not only the easiest strategy but the only purpose the ETF exists. If people thought SPY had drifted from its benchmark, no one would use it.
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13F requires you to report all long listed option positions.
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by whatok 10y ago
To be fair, the author of the blog did not post this to HN. But yeah really hate seeing this kind of stuff here.
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by whatok 10y ago
For larger funds it's less of an issue from a keeping the lights on perspective but in general and especially now with poor performance, no one is going to keep money in a fund that is losing money. It takes time and a track record to
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by whatok 10y ago
Do not have the energy to get into a philosophical argument on this but here's an answer to your question: If a hedge fund grows from 5 to 10bn, it is unlikely to be able to continue its current strategy without returns suffering. You
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No BBM or text messages TO and from. Let's go with your scenario and say that she doesn't text. You're telling me that she didn't receive a single spam text message from her provider or a random text message from a fri
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You have some very definitive statements in this thread but also show no knowledge on the topic. I try to not speak strongly from a place of ignorance but do you. > Along with it? There definitely are businesses that grow linear with th

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