Viewing profile — sks

Well I am from India and did not take any standardized exit exam when graduating. We do have standardized entrance exams.

Providing API for building applications that have transactions and help with idempotent producing is really exciting. This will help lower a lot of pains associated with building s…

You dont get taxed until you sell. The performance shown here is for a buy and hold strategy.

People expect this market to grow rapidly which is accounted for in the higher valuation.

It may be a non parametric estimate. My guess is that they used loess ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_regression ).

I got the link in an email. Not sure how to link to the email. Anyways the questions are specific to brokerage I dont think it is of any use to anyone other than them.

Mining bitcoins may be non profitable, but I recovered my investment in less than 3 months of alt coin mining.

I think even those who are not worried about their next meal are not going to protest this. India has seen so many terror attacks labeled as intelligence failure that any move to b…

I dont know if bitcoins will ever stabilize or go down to zero but I also believe that no one can be so sure about how a free market is going to behave to just write it off at this…

Bitcoins slipped into speculative realm a couple of weeks ago and probably after the crash the speculators will exit the market. A stable bitcoin can easily serve the three functio…

If we get down to the basics I think anything that is a medium of exchange is a currency. So in some circles cigarettes and Tide work as currency. Though these "currencies" are not…

Given the volatility you may doubt the longevity of bitcoin as a currency, but since you can exchange it for some goods and services it looks like Real Money to me (at least right …

I think the volume/unit time during the crash is generally higher than during the bubble phase. This can be seen in the steeper slope of price-time graph during declining phase com…

Worst way to stop a crash.

Maybe they got an exclusive license when yahoo wasn't event remotely interested in the tech. Just a guess.

I agree that Bitcoins were designed as an instrument to facilitate transfer of value and not as store of wealth. But the example of a transaction you just gave in your post is not …

I dont know a lot about Thatcher but when Indira Gandhi's election was overturned by the courts on ground of election fraud she proceeded to suspend elections and civil liberties. …

This is exactly the same algorithm as the standard one we use : Multiply all possible combinations of digits and appropriately combine the results. This is just the graphical versi…

I read an article today which pointed out how Feynman went around cracking safes during the Manhattan Project. Something fundamental has changed in the society ... Imagine the pres…

As a society we do agree to follow the law and punish those who break them. But remember that the law of the land is not some God given set of laws. Several people broke segregatio…

Someone who could have contributed very positively to the society just killed himself. We can't reverse that, the best we can do now is to learn from this incidence and try to mini…

This may make good business sense as you point out, but do you think pros and cons for google's business were evaluated before Larry decided to pay for these vaccines? I think in a…