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by whatok 11y ago
"A lot of people with positions of power think they are snap decision makers." Are you familiar with Paul Tudor?
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by whatok 11y ago
100%. People don't have time to dig into things and then get to the thesis. Several short bullet points followed up with whatever supporting data. Anyone in Paul Tudor's position is going to have an excellent BS detector; they
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by whatok 11y ago
While it's possible, in practice it's generally difficult to short IPOs because your broker needs to locate shares and underwriter restrictions in the borrow process.
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Twitter's Dorsey Apologizes to Developers for Past Conflicts(bloomberg.com)
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by whatok 11y ago
why is that relevant
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by whatok 11y ago
Ubuntu 14 worked after changing some EFI garbage in the BIOS on my 2015 Lenovo Carbon X1
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by whatok 11y ago
I've been using Notepad for quite a while and had no idea you could use F5 to insert a timestamp. Thank you for this.
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by whatok 11y ago
And the fact that if the military started slaughtering their own citizens with tanks and bombs, um that kinda might not be seen as too positive to the rest of the world.
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by whatok 11y ago
RE: #2, agree that this absolutely happens just seems implausible in this situation. For argument's sake, let's assume this happens but it's not widespread at Amazon. I have not read any former employee accounts of it and t
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by whatok 11y ago
You're approaching it from the employee perspective rather than the employer's. Given that Amazon put this out to repair their image, do you think they would risk a headline (even if eventually proven to be false) that says &quot
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by whatok 11y ago
Yeah that makes sense and also offers an explanation of their choice to publish on Medium.
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by whatok 11y ago
I can't imagine a corporate legal team on Earth that would advise someone to publish something libelous because they expected a former employee to not sue over it.
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by whatok 11y ago
I would probably have to side with Amazon's account since it would be pretty easy for the person who resigned to sue for libel if it were not true. Don't think Amazon would want to expose themselves like that.
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by whatok 11y ago
Did I miss out on some additional fallout after the article was initially published? I don't see why they're addressing this two months later.
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by whatok 11y ago
Former Minister of Propaganda aside, if his account of one of the key sources of the story is true, it kinda affects how it should be perceived, right?
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by whatok 11y ago
I'm sure it would have been a multi-month process to hire for a position like Carney's so it likely would have started well before that February date.
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by whatok 11y ago
An increased tax rate absolutely affects investment behavior. A wealthy person is going to evaluate whatever tax-advantaged investments there are and make a decision based on that. As long as a the US has a ridiculously complicated tax co
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by whatok 11y ago
It's beyond naive to expect American politicians to do anything remotely responsible with increased tax revenue. There are countless examples throughout recent and age-old history that show what happens when you give government money
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by whatok 11y ago
Agree completely. Should have qualified that with most at my spot/industry(finance) would be using it as an Excel replacement and just want to get things done; hence the value of existing packages.
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by whatok 11y ago
I'm primarily a Python user and can say that there's no contest that R has many packages that Python does not have an equivalent of yet. This includes stats stuff and especially finance/trading. Definitely not a showstopper
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by whatok 11y ago
The snottiness was okay when they primarily covered rock and generally accepted. It become truly painful when they discovered that there were other genres out there (esp. when they initially started covering rap and electronic music) and a
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by whatok 11y ago
Pitchfork has also expanded what they review so you might become hard pressed to find anything to play at all after a while.
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by whatok 11y ago
How did you discover music before Pitchfork?
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by whatok 11y ago
Is Pitchfork still cool with hipsters?
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by whatok 11y ago
Any info on whether this is just to appease shareholders or actual redundancies?
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by whatok 11y ago
Yeah, I was strictly talking about the software. Keyboard is sort of essential for operation.
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by whatok 11y ago
Most install the software on their own hardware. Definitely wasn't the case back in the day hence the moniker "terminal" for the desktop software.
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by whatok 11y ago
Have you used one before? The UI is not complicated at all.
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by whatok 11y ago
Yeah, unfortunately. True sham.
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by whatok 11y ago
Can you explain? If I know that I will recover less than expected if a counterparty defaults, I'm going to diversify my counterparties. That reduces moral hazard.

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