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HFguy

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    Comment #49199156

    Which is fine if you are building tools for financial professionals. It is the aesthetic of choice. And is generally very functional for this purpose.

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    Comment #49075706

    Forth uses RPN so the "verb" is last. That is, you provide the data first (I and Forth) and the command (heart) last.

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    Comment #49058496

    Accounting goes back thousands of years. It was not made as a tool to show off. Lesson is more that tools can be abused for other purposes than intended.

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    Comment #49042758

    Yes, something seems off. Wonder if "Parking" got lumped into "Garage"? Type of Building. List of values: 1000 = Parking 1001 = Gas Station Canopy 1002 = Storage Tank 1003 = Placeh…

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    Comment #48709113

    I think you are 100% misunderstanding what they are saying. They are saying almost no one in Texas can walk to a grocery store. Hence, it is a flex if you can. And Europeans don't …

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    Comment #48703432

    I suspect it is higher than it was 20 years ago and significantly lower than it was 100 years ago.

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    Comment #48268822

    "short term greed" There is a certain amount of capacity to produce memory. They are building new facilities but it takes a long time. They have been burned going down this route m…

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    Comment #48258170

    That isn't "sabotage". Those are export restrictions. China also runs adverse competitive industrial policies (e.g., industrial spying, flooding markets). Not making value judgment…

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    Comment #48224324

    FWIW, what you will see at times in the HF world is a firm will want to get into a strategy and build competing teams. It lights a fire under both. It diversifies the risk. You can…

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    Comment #47833690

    After you wrote this, I went and read the article I also didn't see much there either. And wonder why you are getting down voted. And TBC, also not a tesla fan (the truck is dumb).…

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    Comment #47780916

    Most of first class is not paying their own money for those flights.

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    Comment #47280603

    Perhaps if an ETF holds similar underlying instruments. It is unlikely this impacts Blackrock more broadly or other unrelated ETFs. Stepping back, the idea with private credit was …

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    Comment #47112808

    I'm a long way from embedded development. But I was under the impression a lot of microcontrollers these days have some ID capability built in, even some relatively low-end ones. T…

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    Comment #46313221

    “When my brother is fourteen, I’m going to get him a job here. Then, my mother says, we’ll take the baby out of the ‘Sylum for the Half Orphans.” That is quite a quote. Hard to bel…

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    Comment #46277452

    Your numbers make sense from what I've seen in private sector. And meet the common sense threshold as well. Whether the numbers are either wrong or if that is truly what support co…

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    Comment #45872321

    Weird you are getting down voted. And you provided sources for your assertions.

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    Comment #45830385

    Prices aren’t the problem. China turning off your transportation is.

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    Comment #45762364

    What point are you trying to make? I'm honestly not sure. Is it that China is polluting a lot? Or a little? That they are making environmental progress? Or none?

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    Comment #45739719

    It allows the refrigerator to run two different zones in terms of humidity. Evidently, it really does keep fruits and vegetables lasting longer.

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    Comment #44404623

    There are two equals buttons?

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    Comment #43847178

    I think you do a good job of high-lighting the underlying problem. Which is not being discussed enough. And that the current situation can go on a long time but not forever.

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    Comment #43707023

    "And as for your second paragraph, it has that thing I don't understand that so many people seem to have in their brains that if you explain why a thing is true, it is no longer tr…

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    Comment #43541953

    How exactly do you think JPM would benefit from fake customers???

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    Comment #43504371

    Growth isn’t necessary for high returns on equity. And it isn’t necessary for the investment to provide a return. Equity returns ultimately come from risk premiums. (Which are smal…

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    Comment #43339203

    Think this was posted in the wrong thread?