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Ask HN: Why do so many digital banks have such unreliable APIs?
1 points by am3101 7mo ago|0 comments
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by am3101 10mo ago
It’s a much simpler answer. There is a shortage of skilled blue collar workers. When demand outstrips supply for talent, talent becomes more expensive and low-quality talent survives longer. It’s the exact same in construction which is why
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by am3101 1y ago
Bourbon was definitely on the downswing before this (note that any spirit made in the US will have the same issue with tariffs). First, as noted, there are generational (and cyclical) shifts in spirits. Second, bourbon’s “box” is very narro
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by am3101 1y ago
I think this is more a function of “development is hard and there are a lot of fraudsters” vs conversions specifically. Conversions are harder than an average development but there are hundreds of similar stories for normal ground up.
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by am3101 1y ago
Not just regulations. Basic issues like - office floor plates are wide, but all bedrooms need windows so you end up with weird sliver rectangular floor plans bc you can’t have an all interior apartment. Or - the plumbing in office runs up t
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by am3101 1y ago
Just to put this in perspective, the Mamdani housing plan is 200k homes over ten years which would be far below the historic pace of new construction in nyc. Conversions are great but a drop in the bucket.
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by am3101 1y ago
That’s true though: (1) while Tolkien isn’t trying to write an allegory he is trying to tell a story and build a world that is internally consistent (he famously builds up from language, as a philologist) and so this kind of criticism is ap
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by am3101 1y ago
Canavan is eminently more qualified to talk about Tolkien than I am, though I am surprised (as another commenter noted) that there are no references to any of the legendarium beyond LOTR. I am however surprised because leftists have histori
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by am3101 1y ago
By "insider trading" I assume you mean illegal insider trading. There are a few levels: (1) explicitly illegal insider trading where you trade on MNPI and hope no one notices (e.g., CEO sells shares before bad-news results). I don
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by am3101 1y ago
This is really hard to quantitatively track, but there is a similar concept called the "hairy back chart" where you compare management guidance to actuals (or street guidance, which is usually developed in conjunction with managem
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by am3101 1y ago
I think this goes back a bit to what personas you are trying to solve for. Many companies have a generic investor presentation on the website.[1] Every professional investor will have access to sell-side coverage and initiations of coverage
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by am3101 1y ago
there are definitely times when you care about absolute price—e.g., if you are trading options that strike at given prices, or if the company has convertible debt that can be converted at a given strike price, or if there is a risk of the e
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by am3101 1y ago
For sure though I assume this is targeting small shops without R&D teams. R&D teams prob have built this tooling / you can get it from Bloomberg. Target shops don’t have time to dedicate to elbow grease
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by am3101 1y ago
I am a portfolio manager of a small/mid-cap equity fund. This is definitely cool and clearly took a lot of time and thought! If this is a side project, that's amazing and I love it. If you did want to take it further though, I wou
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by am3101 4y ago
Small note: it’s Cliff Asness from AQR who came up with the illiquidity “premium,” though Levine does report it a lot. This matters a bit bc AQR is a large hedge fund that trades in liquids and therefore is marked frequently… there’s a bit
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by am3101 4y ago
The two biggest threads that seem to be coming out: 1- a number of large shareholders are on board 2- (probably related to the prior point) no one seriously thought Musk would be able to secure the financing, but he did. Remember, this is t
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by am3101 5y ago
I went to Princeton and actually found the "COS" department was excellent at introductory programming. A lot of people took COS 126 (the introductory class—equivalent of AP Computer Science) with no programming background and did
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by am3101 5y ago
Also, really only relevant in NYC, but [Subwaydle]( https://www.subwaydle.com/ )
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by am3101 5y ago
I think this article drastically underestimates how hard it is to build and acquire new businesses. It reads like a caricature of a first-year management consultant’s recommendation—step 1, acquire adjacent businesses. Step 2, profit. (Edit
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Ask HN: Is the Google New York office the most popular transfer destination?
1 points by am3101 5y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Corporate Carveouts for Venture?
1 points by am3101 5y ago|0 comments