furiouslol

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by furiouslol 18y ago
it is better to have cash on hand in case their own asset-backed securities become worthless. Even lending it to a __perfect borrower__ is riskier in that case, because even if the borrower can repay, it's no good to the bank if they need
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by furiouslol 18y ago
loan amounts are not decreasing Yes. But because of decreased supply, the cost of borrowing is higher now.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
No. It's not the same thing. Eg. Usually I loan out $1 billion. But now, my risk appetite is smaller because of my desire for a smaller leveraged balance sheet, hence i will loan out only $100 million. So even if I trust that you are able t
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by furiouslol 18y ago
I think it's time to dismiss one of the falsehoods perpetuated by MSM and this article: that the main reason why the credit market is seizing is because banks do not trust each other.... wrong! the real reason is they either don't have any
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by furiouslol 18y ago
And live under the rule of Palin? Oh god no!
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Invest in soft commodities. World population is still growing and people still need to eat. Oh yes. Just in case it gets ugly. Attend some MMA classes and load up on ammo.
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We need a better video search engine
2 points by furiouslol 18y ago|1 comments
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by furiouslol 18y ago
I must say sir. That is brilliant. $15/mth for a pseudo realtime quote API is dirt cheap.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Haha. Yeah. That's why i inserted the word 'almost' before 'risk-free'
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Not for MS. The probability of MS getting nationalized or going bankrupt is 90%. So it's 0.9 * 0 + 0.1 * 3 = 0.3 = -70%. Whoops.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Long agricultural commodities Short equities
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Yes. That's what we did. But the memory usage was still higher than the PHP option.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
There's a reason why those trailing P/E are lows. The E will decrease drastically in the future. You have to make really good guesstimate on what the E will be in the future before you can determine whether it is cheap. There's a lot of dan
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by furiouslol 18y ago
An almost risk-free way to money in the stock market is to put most of your money in fixed income while apportioning a small % in long dated options. Eg. you think Morgan Stanley is dirt cheap at current levels ($10) and you are willing to
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Here is my experience. I used Rails for one project of mine that requires processing of millions of data rows. Because the Rails ORM create an object for each data row, we end up using a lot of memory. We had to get a 2GB memory server to h
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by furiouslol 18y ago
try quotemedia, esignal etc.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
i use IB as my broker too. I don't think they offer data sales separately.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
I'm going to call it right here right now: Facebook will be irrelevant 3 years from now.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
There's a free A/B testing app offered by Google http://www.google.com/websiteoptimizer/
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by furiouslol 18y ago
You are spot on. All these manifestations are the by-products of deleveraging It's happening everywhere. Housing, equity, bond, commodities etc. The term "There's always a bull market somewhere" is no longer relevant at this period of time.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Ever thought of moving back to starting up again?
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Ask YC: Is this the beginning of the end of Facebook?
2 points by furiouslol 18y ago|0 comments
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Would it weaken his position if he is well paid for his work?
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Terminator need a bailout(reuters.com)
1 points by furiouslol 18y ago|0 comments
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Look on the bright side. This is actually good news for startups overall as it usually means less competition and survival of the leanest. If you are bootstrapping, you should be particularly happy because you'll be seeing less competitors
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Maybe I'm not cool enough for the tech scene but I'd rather be in the office working on my product than be at the nightclubs partying.
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by furiouslol 18y ago
No you shouldn't. You should invest them. If you are conservative, you can go for Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS)
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by furiouslol 18y ago
Ok here's a tip/hack: For optimal SEO results, use common superlatives like "best ever", "most XXX", "top 10" in your HTML title
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The $55 trillion ticking time bomb(money.cnn.com)
1 points by furiouslol 18y ago|0 comments
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by furiouslol 18y ago
And FBML

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