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Epoch had an auction equivalent process (which we didn't get to implement because we didn't get to the point of being lead underwriter).

Treasuries.

The term "pop" is sometimes used to describe the immediate post-IPO jump. A small amount of "Pop" (no more than 10 percent) isn't a bad thing. It is a result of oversubscription, w…

Google is of a size that requires distributed teams. It's hard to hire that many top engineers in one place, particularly given their laser focus on the top of the talent distribut…

I think this is a great move on their part. My company uses oDesk. We have a large pool of contractors through them for human judgements, but also outsource some non-critical devel…

post hoc ergo propter hoc

How is this different from a combination of one time pads and steganography?

> And I wanted to add, that with C you run into (solvable but hard) `scalability' problems in terms of effort needed to cope with algorithmic complexity, much sooner. I have certai…

> But C is so hard to get right, that you will probably be able to use only the simplest algorithms in your C code This is a gross exaggeration. It's not that hard to get C code ri…

There are many sources of stock for stock loan. 25 years ago, the primary source was stock in the margin accounts of investors. Today, nearly every large holder of stock loans it o…

Actually, the biggest lenders are index funds.

Actually, the biggest lenders are index funds.

You both have too much faith in time and causality.

I didn't say that CAPM precisely modeled the market. I said that individual investors can't beat CAPM, meaning they can't beat the reward/risk relationship predicted by the model. …

I worked on Wall Street starting in the mid 80s and with and on trading desks since the mid 90s. I've built the technology for equity trading desks and program trading desks. I was…

I've been involved in very successful and not-so successful efforts to outsource offshore. It takes a kind of discipline that's rare in startups. It's also not particularly compati…

I aspire to this, but succeed less than I would like. If you manage people, this is relevant to you.

Yes, but I'm thinking of the Facebook Like beacon.

I'd really like cookie sequestration to be a standard browser feature. By sequestered, I mean that cookies be bound to the domain in the address bar as well as the URL they are ser…

Please tell me that you're not talking about sexual predators viewing pictures of children.

I don't think you can evaluate this by looking at the patents. If your sole business is patent suits, you're going to sue every time. If your business has paying customers, there's…

I believe this will hinge on the details of how Facebook represented the value of the securities to ConnectU. Representations of the value of a security are legally perilous. If Fa…

It's not a patent troll when a competitor goes after you with patents they acquired doing R&D for real products. The patents sound like they shouldn't have been issued, but that's …