Viewing profile — superprime

The underlying idea is that a dollar today is worth more to you than a dollar tomorrow (all else equal). The NPV is how much a thing is worth/costs now after taking that into accou…

At large enough size, commission/trading costs are not necessarily a significant factor--individuals are just not great at stock picking and timing the market.

Let's say I sell you an option to buy (from me) a share of TWTR at $100 at any time through the end of January. I have just sold you a call option. If I already own a share of TWTR…

They work, but they are "mailto:" links.

It is not denominated in USD. It's a currency, and like any other currency you can exchange it for others, including USD, which is why you often see exchange spot prices in USD.

It's obviously a coin made out of a bit of metal.

I've used it the correct way only to have people try to correct it with the (traditionally) wrong pronunciation.

One of my favorite tweets is by Ed Felten: "If n > 2, then a^n + b^n does not equal c^n. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof of this, which this tweet is too small to contai…

It's not about the cost of college, at least here. Places like Stanford and Princeton have generous enough financial aid programs that if you can't pay for it, they will (presuming…

Arbitrageurs, not speculators.

Sacrifice by definition must be voluntary, otherwise it's just servitude, so saying he volunteered is not a good argument against calling his service sacrifice. Likewise breaking t…

These seem like things one should basically be doing anyway.

I actually started wearing a watch regularly a couple of years ago after thinking a cellphone was enough for a long time. There are a couple of advantages: it looks good (maybe the…

The article links to the book's (free) download page: http://10print.org

It's not really his idea, but it's probably a good one. I remembered it as being called a Tobin tax, but that really only applies to currency exchange. Instead, it's just a securit…

You can use mod_ssl: http://onlamp.com/onlamp/2008/03/04/step-by-step-configuring... . Other good resources are an easy search away. There are basically two steps, both of which ca…

this may have a wider impact, what with "a butterfly flapping its wings in Japan"

just wondering--is there a reason the field name "Craft" is capitalized, but "name" is not?

many, if not most, ibanks have twitter blocked.

Yes, they basically don't say what they're going to spend the money on. But it may have been (they hint at this) that they didn't need or want the funding so much as to have AH inv…

Here is an explanation from Matt Levine: http://dealbreaker.com/2012/05/the-tale-of-a-whale-of-a-fail... . And one from Lisa Pollack: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2012/05/11/996…

It's also definitely a misuse of 'zeitgeist.'

it sounds like you've also been persistent.