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by hasker 9y ago
LIBOR refers to a package or rates of which the US Dollar 3 month Interbank offer rate is the most famous. If the Bank of England wanted to control this rate, they would have to come in with infinite liquidity to control the rate. The Fed e
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by hasker 13y ago
Maybe they could just write a check to electrify the caltrain a few years faster: http://sonic.net/~mly/Caltrain-Electrification/electrificati... . I never got why it has taken CA so long to make this happne.
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by hasker 13y ago
black-scholes also assumes the ability to dynamically, instantaneously hedge with very low transaction costs I recall. The market-maker has to charge even more to recover costs in this case since they cannot dynamically hedge and bid-offer
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by hasker 13y ago
I suppose you feel the same way about TV ads?
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by hasker 13y ago
Actually, when entities regulate their employees' trades in public and non-public equities, they typically also require pre-clearance for an member of one's household. At least that was the case for me. As a client paying sometimes in exc
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by hasker 13y ago
I think the dealership model in general creates a bad experience for customers. I highly respect Apple for their single price policy. Rarely do any of their products go on sale. Outside of a few cashback, bundled item specials, or loopho
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by hasker 13y ago
Obviously speed and implementation details matter significantly. Your firm may have a better backend or superior code that allows the strategy to work better. Much of finance is working with attorneys to shift the system in one's favor.
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by hasker 13y ago
Excuse my pedanticism, but QCOM's market cap has more to do with their intellectual property connected to CDMA, 3G, and LTE standards than anything else.
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by hasker 13y ago
Commercial real estate often operates with longterm leases and sometimes pre-defined renewal options. It is quite possible this restaurant signed a ten year lease in the shambles of the last tech bubble and now needs to renew the lease.
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by hasker 13y ago
Perhaps they want to sell the x86 business and focus on the emerging ARM/alternative architecture business. I wonder what sort of non-compete the deal would include.
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by hasker 13y ago
I totally agree. Comcast is not the worst. My parents happen to live in an area serviced by a ma and pop cable company (Service Electric Cablevision). 20/2 internet with a 200GB cap for $51 a month. Comcast, which is available to the co
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by hasker 13y ago
Property values for tax purposes are reassessed less than once per decade in many jurisdictions in the US. This is true on the downside also. In some cases, houses sell for multiples of their tax assessment, yet even a transaction will no
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by hasker 14y ago
You should read about transfer pricing. In many cases it is entirely possible to assign where a large firm's income is made for tax purposes by internally transferring intellectual property. On the point of why would tech companies want to
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by hasker 14y ago
I think many exchanges actually already do this, with a rebate provided for actually orders that are executed. The idea being that it is fine to cancel five orders for every one fill or some other ratio of cancels to fills. Check the pri
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by hasker 14y ago
I take issue with how this article represents Lance Armstrong's doping as a fact. He never tested positive. From what I understand, someone just testified that they saw him shooting up with something. Who knows what Lance and his team re
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by hasker 14y ago
It looks like if you preorder by September 14 you can avoid sales tax in CA! I checked on some other preorder items that will not ship before Amazon starts charging CA tax.
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by hasker 14y ago
According to David Pogue Apple will have a new Mac Pro, possibly in 2013: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/an-explanation-of-...
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by hasker 14y ago
In all seriousness, I am not sure Steve cares. He had a obsessive dedication to the product and the game. Bill Gates used technology to get to the point where he had enough wealth to be the world's best philanthropist, even if he made a l
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by hasker 14y ago
Let me get this straight because I think this is what other sources are implying: HBO sells a license to their channels to the cable companies for a flat fee. The cable providers then recoup this by selling subscriptions to HBO or pushing
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by hasker 14y ago
The WSJ has an interesting article on Groupon today also. Actually, it is more of an excerpt from "Groupon's Biggest Deal Ever" ( http://www.amazon.com/Groupons-Biggest-Deal-Ever-Unbelievabl... ). "Behind Groupon's $6 Billion Brushoff" (
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by hasker 14y ago
Yes, but then that bogus certificate is in the wild. Once once someone has a copy of a bogus certificate, then they can prove that that CA is corrupt. That CA loses its business model. What I am saying does not prevent one-off attacks,
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by hasker 14y ago
Yes, but that would be likely detected, and the CA that had its private key stolen or coerced for government use would be exposed nonrepudiatably. All browser makers would immediately drop the bad certificate. In the case of targeted conn
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by hasker 14y ago
I am totally naive to these cat and mouse games, but why does not Google just force SSL in China? They would have to turn off the partial searches feature, which has been shown to leak the cleartext, but I think it would totally fix any so
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by hasker 14y ago
The same is true of most if not all hospitals in the US to my understanding. They cannot turn away patients in the emergency room for ability to pay. Still, the hospital can try to bill excessive amounts. Also, this does not guarantee th
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by hasker 14y ago
Read the article. He is complaining about how the casino operated, not how he bet. One of the most crucial piecing of information in professional trading is knowing your exact risk position. NASDAQ apparently was unable to confirm whethe
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by hasker 14y ago
Some would say the same thing about removing in-flight beverage service or tossing blankets, pillows, and airline magazines to save weights, yet airlines do it. I think it is equally ridiculous to care about such costs, especially at the c
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by hasker 14y ago
You probably have a pretty valid point. One of my aspiration toys, the Diamond Star DA42 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_DA42 ) burns diesel or Jet-A in a internal combustion engines. I forget the economy figures, but I think this
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by hasker 14y ago
Sometimes you can actually game this. For example, I have noticed cheaptickets.com sometimes fails to update their prices quickly enough. All of the other websites have moved their prices to the new fare, but they slack behind. I know th
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by hasker 14y ago
I think that would be illegal, as in the type of illegal that is much more serious than piracy.
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by hasker 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. Well connected people essentially raise money on no-cap convertible notes in their seed round at a sum of a few million dollars with no product yet. That means their VCs and angels want in so badly that they essential

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