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by tdees40 4y ago
So it may not be illegal in all cases (although it is in many cases), but how does failing to deliver close out a short position?
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by tdees40 4y ago
I work in markets. No, you cannot just fail to deliver. I'm also not sure how the ETF thing would work. If it's 1% of the ETF you're going to hedge out the position using a giant notional. It doesn't work.
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by tdees40 8y ago
It amazes me that a fourteen year old company with a mature business model requires equity financing. I'll never really understand how tech companies work, I guess.
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by tdees40 8y ago
Why do they need financing? How is a company that sells $2000 exercise bikes not profitable?
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by tdees40 9y ago
Wendy and Lucy! Also, TV is better: Atlanta and the Wire are great about poverty.
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by tdees40 9y ago
I'm genuinely fascinated by this comment. You're saying that mutuals offer lower prices (not typically true), but they were out-competed by private companies? I'm not sure that makes sense. In my sector (life insurance), t
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by tdees40 9y ago
Yes, but the dollar also has a very long history of being extremely stable. Said another way, the dollar has never had a 30% shock in a year (BTC did today...)
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by tdees40 9y ago
Sure, but there's like umpteen million terrible accounts...seems like a lot to ask of your users.
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by tdees40 9y ago
No, how about users (me, at least) are leaving Twitter because it's a rotten cesspool of misogyny, racism and stupidity. Maybe users should get a choice to avoid some of this?
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by tdees40 9y ago
If you were looking to exercise, wouldn't you just ... ride a bike? And if you aren't looking to exercise, why do you want to walk on a treadmill while riding an e-bike?
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by tdees40 9y ago
Yes, there are lots of complaints about it handling curves poorly, misreading overpasses as solid objects, etc. etc.
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by tdees40 9y ago
I just ordered a Model S with Autopilot, and as I've been reading the comments on the various Tesla forums, I'm not sure I'm ever going to use it. Some of the stories are honestly terrifying (sudden deceleration on the highw
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by tdees40 9y ago
It's a food company, and its product is fully baked. Why aren't they bootstrapping? Are they not profitable? If so, how do they have a business? If I sold ketchup at a loss, would I be able to close a $50M financing round?
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by tdees40 10y ago
My weird and unrelated question is: if I donate software to an open source group like the Linux Foundation, can I write it off my taxes? And if so, how do I assess the value of it? RethinkDB probably has some legitimate market value...can
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by tdees40 10y ago
Yes, but Keras works just fine using Theano as a backend as well...
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by tdees40 10y ago
At this point I've used PyTorch, Tensorflow and Theano. Which one do people prefer? I haven't done a ton of benchmarking, but I'm not seeing huge differences in speed (mostly executing on the GPU).
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Zinc-Air Batteries at $160/kwh(eosenergystorage.com)
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by tdees40 10y ago
I mean sure, there are. In fact, there are lots of pretty standard ideas of what constitutes profitability. But if you just say, we're profitable, most people will assume you mean on a GAAP net income basis. If you don't mean t
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by tdees40 10y ago
I want to put this comment in a time capsule so I can tell my kids what start-up life was like in 2016.
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by tdees40 10y ago
I've always wondered why more companies don't do this. Offer a 30 or 35 hour work week and watch the top-notch candidates roll in, even though you can't offer a top-notch salary.
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by tdees40 11y ago
I often played FIFA on my phone, and the trick was just to hire to best possible scout and then constantly send him out, and your team would be unstoppable pretty quickly. Scouts found outrageously good players with unrealistic frequency.
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by tdees40 11y ago
Banks and Bitcoin serve radically different purposes. (Try getting a mortgage from Bitcoin!) A more appropriate comparison would be the percentage of bank energy that goes to payment processing, which is probably pretty low.
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by tdees40 11y ago
I read Koine/Classical/Homeric Greek reasonably well. Message me (e-mail in profile) if you have any questions.
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by tdees40 11y ago
There's a growing body of evidence that Alzheimer's is really just "Type 3 Diabetes": http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769828/
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by tdees40 11y ago
I dunno the model but my dad had one.
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by tdees40 11y ago
This is a pretty silly piece. First of all, the vast majority of LTCM's trades had nothing at all to do with the Black-Scholes-Merton formula (BSM). They were just highly levered mean reversion trades. The fall of LTCM had nothing to
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by tdees40 11y ago
N=1
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by tdees40 11y ago
I love Idris as much as the next guy, but I doubt virtually anyone is using it for production code. By contrast, there are millions upon millions of lines of Haskell code in production all over the world.
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by tdees40 11y ago
I love the idea that Haskell users are all wringing their hands about .... Idris.
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by tdees40 11y ago
The language in this is a bit silly: "Nowhere is that more evident than in the U.S., where lending to the government should be far safer than speculating on the direction of interest rates with Wall Street banks." You aren't

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