thingylab

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by thingylab 4y ago
yawn
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by thingylab 7y ago
I do not believe aerodynamic stability depends on whether the inputs change or not. For instance, stall a Cessna 172 and it will tend to pitch down on its own even if you keep pulling on the yoke. Also an aerodynamically unstable plane isn&
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by thingylab 10y ago
Please look up what 'amnesty' means. Apple isn't doing anything wrong or illegal by keeping its cash outside of the US. Also note the the US tax code is the only one (in advanced countries) to try to tax earnings made outside
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by thingylab 10y ago
It's called a tariff. They're an incredibly blunt tool and they're generally not a good way to make anything "fair". Also the rarity of a skill does not necessarily correlate to its economic output. So you would red
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by thingylab 11y ago
Is it futuristic because it runs tests concurrently?
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by thingylab 11y ago
Are you saying that aviation is inherently less safe in non-predominantly english speaking countries?
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by thingylab 11y ago
I'm even less convinced about the usefulness knowing "how much of a trade a particular counter-party can absorb". And somehow deriving this information from the current book size (as opposed to available capital) also seems s
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by thingylab 11y ago
Correct maybe. Useful, certainly not.
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by thingylab 11y ago
1) I think you're asking too much of what is essentially a silly experiment. 2) What if potatoes become hip? 3) If you want auditable PPP conversion rates: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/PA.NUS.PPP
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by thingylab 11y ago
How good is your index if you don't capture local shocks?
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by thingylab 11y ago
Any practical reason you'd want a "non brand related" index? The way I understand it the Big Mac index is pretty good because it casts a wide net from the cost of producing (or importing) food to the price of labour, and ever
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by thingylab 12y ago
And: 3. The number of good developers is unrelated to the number of H1-B issued
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by thingylab 12y ago
1. There is no relationship whatsoever between the secrecy of their strategies and the likelihood of a government bailout. Most companies have some sort of proprietary secrets, after all. 2. They are no more secretive than the average priva
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by thingylab 12y ago
I don't see how this proves the market is rigged. What I do see is: 1) One market participant is being less than clever by trying to buy, in one order, 80% of the offered quantity, and 2) Another market participant realizes this, and r
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by thingylab 12y ago
You charge for deposits made in the banks' accounts at the ECB.
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by thingylab 12y ago
A pretty solid evidence is the consistently high number of people coming / trying to come to the US each year... Seriously, you wouldn't put up with all that immigration crap if it was not attractive. > People are dying, litera
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by thingylab 12y ago
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Many H1-Bs work in high-value industries and make a decent amount of money (I should know, I'm an H1-B holder). I don't think many of them consider themselves slaves. The green card process fo
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by thingylab 14y ago
What exactly is the point ? How long it would take for the guy who washes the dishes in my favourite restaurant to buy the shoes I'm wearing? How long would it take a techie in a hedge fund to buy a yacht? How long would it take the sales g
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by thingylab 14y ago
Please re-read my comment. I'm not saying you need options to get rid of a large block of shares. What I'm saying is that trying to get rid of a lot of shares through $30MM worth of a reconv is very ineficient, if not downright stupid.
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by thingylab 14y ago
The only people I see "guaranteeing any return on whatever investment they sell" typically turn out to be ponzi schemes.
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by thingylab 14y ago
No. If you have a block of shares, there are much better ways to get rid of them. These deals typically take a long time to structure, market and initiate. Besides, you really don't need a lot of shares to hedge this type of product. You ne
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by thingylab 14y ago
How exactly is this a scam ? These are very generic products, and many investment banks issued dollops of them (especially tied to Apple) in the past few years. Basically, they look like bonds that pay a higher-than-average coupon, the catc
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by thingylab 14y ago
You just did the equivalent of a user calling tech support saying "my computer doesn't work".
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by thingylab 14y ago
Quick correction here: AAPL has weekly, monthly and quarterly options. Weeklies expire every friday (except on fridays when it is also a monthly expiry - the third friday of every month). Quarterlies expire the last business day of march, j
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by thingylab 14y ago
Care to share one of these "well told stories of amateur investors making literally billions of dollars finding holes in option contracts that the hedge funds and IBanks missed" ?
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by thingylab 14y ago
I got seriously pissed because a bunch of idiots got excited about the number 500 and Apple, so this will probably be my last comment on this thread. Anyway, let me tell you this: I work for a (fairly) big 'global macro' hedge fund. Histori
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by thingylab 14y ago
What ?!? I can't believe the amount a bullshit about options I see here. If, at expiry, the spot is 'x', puts with strikes > x are worthless and calls with strike < x are worthless too. This is true for any x, indepently of HN's bel
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by thingylab 14y ago
Wow wow wow. This whole "prices are pinned around a strike" story does not make any sense. First, a quick search on bloomberg reveals that stocks belonging to the S&P 500 (with liquid options) do not tend to close at exactly the most l
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by thingylab 14y ago
Do you have any use cases in mind ? It seems to me that you would mostly act as a proxy between a user and a service, which really doesn't sound too useful unless one actually needs to access dozens of APIs (which doesn't seem to be somethi
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by thingylab 14y ago
Don't you fuel asset bubbles by targetting 0% interest at all times ? If your incentive is to just get rid of your money because of the inherent penalty, aren't you tempted to, say, buy overpriced houses, to use a recent example ?

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