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Friends Without Benefits(vanityfair.com)
25 points by fanboy123 13y ago|11 comments
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by fanboy123 15y ago
He's also currently ranked 2nd in PER right behind LeBron James who by most metrics is the most dominant player in the NBA. PER is a metric for player efficiency adjusted for pace and time played etc. Pretty nuts. http://insider.espn.go.co
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Yep. Also have counterparty risk. Just because you have a contract for a purchase and a sale doesn't guarantee that the transactions will go smoothly.
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Arbitrage is technically a set of simultaneous transactions where you buy and sell at the same time. Purchasing something and reselling it later for a higher price is not arbitrage. It is usually used to describe a riskless transaction.
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by fanboy123 15y ago
From Twitter: I'm going to be doing an IAMA on Reddit, Monday around 1230pmEST I don't know what IAMA or Reddit are, but I'll be doing that. awesome bunch of geeky-openness from ck.
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Maybe its still hard to explain exactly because they never hit it big. I think going back in time and explaining social networking to an audience would be tougher than it sounds.
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Originators underwrote the mortgages who usually sold them to banks who packaged them into bonds. Later on to streamline this process the banks bought mortgage originators (lehman bought bnc) because their appetite for product was huge. But
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Well, without them to pick up the slack we would have almost NO mortgages issued in this country, which some of us might think is bad. The alternative would be for rates to rise (some of us might think this is a good thing, which it might b
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by fanboy123 15y ago
because private label mortgage issuance shut down. over 90 pct of mortgage origination are now agency. this includes all refis which rolls crap out of private label onto the govt sheets. we went from investors loaning money to the taxpayer
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by fanboy123 15y ago
freddie and fannie started issuing "subprime" loans in the 90s, to lower income and minority borrowers with reasonable default rates. by the time the boom came around their marketshare in this market plummeted because everybody else dropped
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Misleading intro to article. The expansion of credit was not due to over ambitious politicans who wanted homeownership for the poor. It was fueled by lax accounting and regulatory standards which expanded private securitizations of mortgage
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Enjoyed the post. Do programmers really not know who Peter Drucker is?
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Public institutions generate revenue from patents as well. All in all not a bad system as long as the revenue flows to more research. A cut is taken along the way usually so that private business expertise can help the sales & marketing
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Thank you to the poster and the author of this document. Trying to read SICP on the new kindle in PDF format was impossible!
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Agreed. See quote below. The total direct and indirect cost of CVD and stroke in the United States for 2009 is estimated at $475.3 billion. This figure includes health expenditures (direct costs, which include the cost of physicians and oth
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by fanboy123 15y ago
They wait until late friday to make big changes to give the officaldom/industry a weekend to scramble/grab parachutes. They actually didnt release today until after the SPY stopped trading.
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by fanboy123 15y ago
from the press release: "The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed. "
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Has always had AAA rating since the start of sovereign ratings. Look out below.
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Diversification is usually a huge waste of money. It is hard for one company/culture to make money doing lots of things. Be glad they know their niche is ads and that they are doing everything they can to protect their castle (as a sharehol
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Sounds like a recipe for being hungry all the time.
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by fanboy123 15y ago
I don't really think its a conspiracy unless you consider advertising to the public to be very secretive and back-room. I agree mostly with what is said above but I think it is important to emphasize that what the public wants to buy is hea
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by fanboy123 15y ago
While all of that is true I think the real story is one of economics. It is VERY easy for me to eat as much swine as I feel like nowadays. If we assume that saturated fat/protein isn't bad for you then the fact that I can, in modern times,
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by fanboy123 15y ago
I think the real answer is because it is more systematically profitable to sell carb products and (food) companies are really really good at selling things to people. It is interesting to see comments on this forum that involve the strategy
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by fanboy123 15y ago
I don't have academic access to the actual article. A commonsensical result may not be surprising but I want to know how they did their metastudy. Anyone care to elaborate?
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by fanboy123 15y ago
CNBC Twitter: Three Largest Internet Poker Companies Charged With Fraud, Illegal Gambling - Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker, & Absolute Poker - Charged
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Facebook Stakeholder Says Web Asset Returns Peaked(noir.bloomberg.com)
1 points by fanboy123 15y ago|0 comments
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Stealing is a strong word. It's just business. It isn't AOL's fault your parents don't know better. BTW if you think that's bad this is still around for your grandparents: http://www.webtv.net/ In 2005 WebTV was still grossing US$150 mi
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by fanboy123 15y ago
I think Diamond is pointing out that it may be a misconception to think of hunting/gathering as a "terrible" quality of life to indicate that population pressure might have forced us into ag. This suggests an order to the chicken/egg proble
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Gary says explicitly there is no conclusive evidence. He is making the appeal for the studies to be done. I find little that is harmful about the attempt. He just wants something that is potentially dangerous to be studied scientifically. H
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by fanboy123 15y ago
Dr. Lustig is a nationally-recognized authority in the field of neuroendocrinology, with a specific emphasis on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system. He is currently investigating the contribution of biochemical, n

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