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by sceew 4y ago
Its like the researchers back-solved for a headline, and even tried to optimize for what would make HN front page
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by sceew 5y ago
Cash-flow producing assets become more valuable during inflation. The rich own assets, they financed these assets with debt. Debt becomes less burdensome with inflation, increasing their equity. At the same time, lendors lose with inflation
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by sceew 5y ago
Not sure why the % returns really matter here. Even if you lose money, insider trading is still insider trading. Congress + senators 100% receive insider information. Even if its not near-term merger announcements or big federal contracts -
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by sceew 5y ago
"The thing I have noticed is when the anecdotes and the data disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. There's something wrong with the way you are measuring it," - Jeff Bezos
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by sceew 5y ago
I think Matthew Ball on Twitter is responsible for the increased usage of "Metaverse" amongst investors, business strategists, etc. He recently launched an ETF ($META) that indexes to "Metaverse" companies (Roblox, Unity
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by sceew 5y ago
Also the comments are a big indicator of social media clout.
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by sceew 5y ago
I'm not bullish on Coinbase, but the upside case is the market cap of Visa, Mastercard, Ant Financial, Paypal, Square, Stripe, Payment Processors, Bank, Asset Managers, etc -- not just the NYSE. Again, I don't think this will ever
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by sceew 5y ago
FactSet and CapIQ have the capability to do this. A lot of this job is 'automated' to a certain extent, so it's not like the hours are being driven by antique software. There's just so much bespoke / custom work tha
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by sceew 6y ago
These (software) are the most incredible the companies the world has ever seen. Sure, valuations may look crazy compared to historical norms in different industries, and may be due for a correction. But still, best businesses ever built.
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by sceew 6y ago
Chapter 11 usually happens when a company has a level of debt that was issued at a certain valuation or time in their business performance. And then for whatever reason, the company has poor performance and the debt level no longer makes se
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by sceew 6y ago
This seems pretty speculative and a huge risk for Citadel as an institution. I think most of their profit is coming from volume as a market maker. They capture small dollars on the bid/ask spread. Will be interesting to see the fallout
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by sceew 6y ago
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.” - Ben Graham This mostly holds true depending on you define 'long run.'
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by sceew 9y ago
Don't forget instagram.
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by sceew 9y ago
If this leads to lower price while keeping quality constant, sign me up.
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by sceew 9y ago
Just got it for $140 on ATT. Bought the subsidized pre-paid version (same phone), but it works for postpaid ATT.
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by sceew 9y ago
What are your favorite forms of high fat? Looking for accessibility, healthiness, and satiety.
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by sceew 9y ago
Aren't we always going to have two pilots? a captain in case the computers fail, another in case the captain fails. Automation (airpilot) has already been around...?
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by sceew 9y ago
Here's what's in my daily website 'checklist' folder: WSJ Bloomberg Fortune Valuewalk Techcrunch Dealbook Fortune's Termsheet (usually just read dan primarks pro rata) Naked Capitalism Hacker News Pocket Financial
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by sceew 9y ago
Laptops are more convenient than phone + monitor.
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by sceew 9y ago
Volume DNE extent.
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by sceew 9y ago
What are the primary skills of the 'Wharton data scientists' you are talking about? Is it excel, SQL, R, Python?
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by sceew 9y ago
Apple is very hostile about this, especially when it comes to iMessage.
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by sceew 9y ago
China free-rode off of that investment by adopting Western technology with no virtually no R&D, greatly benefiting.
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by sceew 9y ago
Uh, citation needed. Isn't the 1.5 trillion number the total cost projected out to 2070 or so? (with maintenance included) You can't take the cost of the whole program to 2070 and then state that nobody would miss the program. Not
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by sceew 9y ago
So what is the solution? What do you do about the expansion of populations ( http://www.nzdl.org/gsdl/collect/fnl2.2/archives/HASH8cd2.di... ) in developing countries that are still waiting for rapid growt
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by sceew 9y ago
In my experience with some conservatives, it seems that they believe global warming is happening but they are skeptical of how effective left-leaning politicians can be in combating climate change. Therefore it is not worth conceding politi
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by sceew 9y ago
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/03/politics/germany-media-spy...
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by sceew 9y ago
It's easy to say that when you lean left. Not sure what 'protecting journalists' entails. They should by treated just like every other citizen. Don't forget about JournoList: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by sceew 9y ago
Sounds like a huge grey area.
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by sceew 9y ago
How is GM irrelevant in self-driving AI? They acquired Cruise Automation: https://www.getcruise.com/ or https://fortunedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/cru10_c.jp... .

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