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by zeusk 9y ago
> There was a stock broker looking for new business. He cold called 512 people (he must have been a quant); half he told to sell X stock, half he told to buy. The next week he called the 256 for whom he'd made the right prediction a
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by zeusk 9y ago
Nah, that's actually sane behavior for a SPA. If you scroll into a different article, they push the last article's URL into history and pop that until different domain is reached when pressing back.
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by zeusk 9y ago
> How much social media activity/growth is not human? As much as I agree with you, that kind of activity especially by first party or those related is called market manipulation. SEC and investors won't take lightly to it.
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by zeusk 9y ago
I was approached to schedule an interview, but US based students are limited to US internships only! - that was a bummer! I don't want to work in the US as that'll eat away my already limited work authorization which I want to saf
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by zeusk 9y ago
I'm curious, you mention that users can request a paycheck advance of $250 with no-interest - but then how do you capitalize that, moreover aren't you losing the interest on the lent money for that month?
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by zeusk 9y ago
Since (s)he graduated from Duke and worked with Google in golang (relatively recent), very likely that (s)he is either on STEM OPT or already have H1b. Also, that's a very odd use for a throwaway account.
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by zeusk 10y ago
not really, and it's been done (not entirely successfully though). https://twitter.com/CotullaCode/status/352176812194922496 I worked with Cotulla in the HD2 community during the htc-linux days and we had iOS
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by zeusk 10y ago
Historically, "hedge fund" was named after a private fund that did pairs trade by shorting one security as they long other to hedge their losses in a downturn or broader market decline. Modern hedge funds use futures, swaps and de
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by zeusk 10y ago
also, LTCM managers were partners in the firm.
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by zeusk 10y ago
The idea of "hedge" fund is also to hedge their bets and preserve capital in-case of downside. Ackman doubled down on his biggest losing bet (Valeant), actually more than quadrupled down by taking up exposure to options that were
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by zeusk 10y ago
You're kidding me, right? What do you think "hedge" fund means? Good luck on the next job if you lose a firm $44B
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by zeusk 10y ago
Yep.
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by zeusk 10y ago
"Disclosed" funding and deals often trail the real rounds by anywhere from 6 months to two years.
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by zeusk 10y ago
Depends entirely on when they plan to retire and life expectancy. Yields went negative during the crisis and with 10 years since, have only returned to 75 to 100 bps while real interest rates still lie below 0%. 4% withdrawal rate with zero
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by zeusk 10y ago
LTCM was a special bunch though, especially because of the astounding amount of leverage at play. There are certainly more modern examples like Pershing Square which bet big on Valeant, Chipotle and (short) Herbal-Life. If you notice, the c
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by zeusk 10y ago
This is definitely not a documented "API" but if you want to take the user to sourcegraph for a specific repo/file:line@commit then the url (currently) is: sourcegraph.com/[repo]@[commit]/-/blob/[path&#x2F
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by zeusk 10y ago
Windows 10 S works with any Windows app available in the Store. Win32 apps have been available in the store since quite some time now and all 10 S users have a free upgrade to 10 Pro as long as their machine supports it till end of 2017 and
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by zeusk 10y ago
AFAIK that's a custom blend of alcantara which is also used in high-end sports and luxury vehicles for interior. And honestly, I'd prefer fabric over slit wrist inducing metal Apple uses which also makes the laptop toasty undernea
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by zeusk 10y ago
> 3. Very balanced outlook towards global users - even though SV (or even US) didn't recognize their traction, he always understood that there is a big world out there where not everyone has an iPhone. This impressed me the most, be
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by zeusk 10y ago
I can't find much on `4630QM` but a friend of mine bought a laptop from HP that had 4770HQ and it definitely throttled even with the fan at take-off levels. Hell, especially the (r)macbook pro 15 that I got from my company which had th
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by zeusk 10y ago
I'm an international student in US, currently looking for a Fall Internship - are you aware if Shopify provides visa assistance to interns or if there is a Fall/Winter program?
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by zeusk 10y ago
and who decides what is a better product and on what basis? a `better` product isn't always what a consumer wants - value for money is a thing.
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by zeusk 10y ago
Nonsense. Free market, which btw has grown to become a economical and political buzzword, is not "the ideal market of whatever one's personal ideology thinks will work best"; The core ideology behind it was to let the buyer a
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by zeusk 10y ago
What you're describing is a fair market, not a free one.
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by zeusk 10y ago
I'm an Indian, and the article is factually correct in that most engineers are unfit for software development albeit I wouldn't quote an exact figure. Perhaps your experience was such because most of these "engineers" re
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by zeusk 10y ago
adblock;dr
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by zeusk 10y ago
deanonymization is no big deal; At 33c3 they bought data, deannonymized to find a EU politician and confronted her with it. https://youtu.be/VhVpMPkFUI8?t=103
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by zeusk 10y ago
There was never a 860 pro, we had 850 pro (2.5" SATA) and then 950 and 960 pro which are m.2 only afaik (and nvme)
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by zeusk 10y ago
But you can't have your cake and eat it too. The language does not implement those checks because perhaps they're not so trivially implementable in the language. Sure, rust is "safer" than C, but is it a better language?
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by zeusk 10y ago
> upcomingfitnesstrackers | 11 months ago What's the discussion here?

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