vshastry

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The Fundraising Tactic AI Startups Are Using to Juice Valuations(wsj.com)
3 points by vshastry 7mo ago|0 comments
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by vshastry 7y ago
You’re also neglecting TTM as a consideration. As an example, I’m stuck having to wait 6 weeks to get new hardware provisioned into an available slot in one of my data centers to spin up a new Hadoop cluster, something my team could probabl
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by vshastry 9y ago
He means the band Tool. And yes, it is a shame their music isn’t on Apple Music.
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by vshastry 13y ago
Most Android devices with NFC will probably support the API assuming they are running or are upgraded to KitKat. Edit: including link to source: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/kitkat.html#44-h... &quo
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by vshastry 13y ago
> b) allows you to debit a bank account w/o any verification or micro-deposits That's an extraordinarily bad idea. If you gave a fraudster access to something like that, they could just pull money out of accounts where they had
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by vshastry 13y ago
no, because if persons with BTC hoard them as a value store rather than spending them as a currency, the merchant won't see (significant) spending from BTC holders.
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by vshastry 13y ago
This type of incident is a key reason the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network ("FinCEN") issued sensible guidance requiring those who offer wallet (bitcoin transfers between persons and/or merchants) and currency conversion s
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by vshastry 13y ago
Commissions are the same as your E*TRADE account; list price is $9.99 for equities although if you are doing higher volumes you can negotiate discounts ($7.99 if you do 150 trades / quarter, and call them up if you are doing a lot of trades
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by vshastry 13y ago
For those with an account, E*TRADE offers a REST based API @ https://developer.etrade.com . Onboarding is manual but once you get your key you can execute trades for your account via the API. Equities / ETFs only right now, they were work
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by vshastry 14y ago
This feels a lot like a land grab in an increasingly crowded market. There's a thread on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Square-Inc-1/Why-did-Square-turn-down-i... that talks about how Square's traction might be slowing down and how they migh
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by vshastry 15y ago
San Francisco Bay Area (Menlo Park) - ETRADE Developer evangelist We're creating a new platform to help developers and institutions build creative solutions to address the massive unsolved problems in the financial services industry. The gr