zephyr-wind

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   by zephyr-wind 5y ago

   "Read the paper" isn't exactly the answer I'm looking for, but thanks for trying. Only upon reading the paper do you discover that a "school-age cutoff", much like the famous hockey player study cited by Gladwe
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   by zephyr-wind 5y ago

   Dumb question but can someone explain why we think that (1) education improves intelligence, rather than the alternative conclusion that (2) the intelligent are more inclined to stay in education institutions longer?
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   by zephyr-wind 6y ago

   Of course, we don't know for sure. But it's strange to sell off future revenue shares for capital today when you can simply double-down using leverage.. unless they ran into their margin limit.
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   by zephyr-wind 6y ago

   Word on the street has that Melvin is down 80% YTD, some other L/S funds 20-30%.
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   by zephyr-wind 6y ago

   If it were only $55M in puts, they would not have needed the bailout. What people in the know think is that they sold calls to finance the puts to achieve a net-zero position... which would be an unlimited-risk synthetic short position.
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   Ask HN: How do you implement search in your app?

   1 points by zephyr-wind 6y ago|0 comments