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Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by cambalache »

johnwyles wrote: post #79
cambalache wrote: post #73

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He just wanted to push his service. HN comment section has been unbearable recently with the substantial increase of people doing this. It has always been present but now it is almost reaching the point of making the comment section worthless.

I'm OK with it so long as it's something on GitHub, useful, and you can drop in replace it.

I am OK if it is something directly relevant to the topic and it is presented in a direct manner, but no, 99% of the time it is some disingenuous thing like this: "Hey guys you are talking about nuclear engineering, that made me wonder how fishes in my zone would be affected by a nearby nuclear plant . I use allmyfishes.com which seems to be a great site detailing all the fishes in the US, there is a free tier and good paid plans. _disclaimer_ I founded allmyfishes.com"

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by ananthrk »

valuearb wrote: post #58
sexy_year wrote: post #2

If you like stocks and are careful with the way you spend your money, you know how much time goes into buying shares of a stock. It’s tedious and I don’t have 24k for a Bloomberg terminal. Which led me to the idea during xmas break to spend the time creating my own terminal. I introduce you to “Gamestonk Terminal” (probably should’ve sent 1 tweet everyday to Elon Musk for copyrights permission eheh). In summary, the…

if it doesn't come with an ISDA, I'm not interested. "JP Morgan Employee : But, uh... you guys are under the capital requirements for an ISDA. Charlie Geller : By how much? JP Morgan Employee : [thinking] Uh... how much? One billion, four hundred seventy million. So... a lot. Charlie Geller : This makes us look bad, doesn't it? That we didn't know what the capital requirements were? JP Morgan Employee : Uh... it's no…

Can you provide some more context on this?

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by sezna »

ananthrk wrote: post #82
valuearb wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if it doesn't come with an ISDA, I'm not interested. "JP Morgan Employee : But, uh... you guys are under the capital requirements for an ISDA. Charlie Geller : By how much? JP Morgan Employee : [thinking] Uh... how much? One billion, four hundred seventy million. So... a lot. Charlie Geller : This makes us look bad, doesn't it? That we didn't know what the capital requirements were? JP Morgan Employee : Uh... it's no…

Can you provide some more context on this?

Quote from the movie Margin Call.

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by [deleted] »

ananthrk wrote: post #82
valuearb wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if it doesn't come with an ISDA, I'm not interested. "JP Morgan Employee : But, uh... you guys are under the capital requirements for an ISDA. Charlie Geller : By how much? JP Morgan Employee : [thinking] Uh... how much? One billion, four hundred seventy million. So... a lot. Charlie Geller : This makes us look bad, doesn't it? That we didn't know what the capital requirements were? JP Morgan Employee : Uh... it's no…

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Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by n0on3 »

ananthrk wrote: post #82
valuearb wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if it doesn't come with an ISDA, I'm not interested. "JP Morgan Employee : But, uh... you guys are under the capital requirements for an ISDA. Charlie Geller : By how much? JP Morgan Employee : [thinking] Uh... how much? One billion, four hundred seventy million. So... a lot. Charlie Geller : This makes us look bad, doesn't it? That we didn't know what the capital requirements were? JP Morgan Employee : Uh... it's no…

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363/

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by Flockster »

ananthrk wrote: post #82
valuearb wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if it doesn't come with an ISDA, I'm not interested. "JP Morgan Employee : But, uh... you guys are under the capital requirements for an ISDA. Charlie Geller : By how much? JP Morgan Employee : [thinking] Uh... how much? One billion, four hundred seventy million. So... a lot. Charlie Geller : This makes us look bad, doesn't it? That we didn't know what the capital requirements were? JP Morgan Employee : Uh... it's no…

Can you provide some more context on this?

It's a quote from "The Big Short".

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by orky56 »

josephjrobison wrote: post #66
sexy_year wrote: post #2

If you like stocks and are careful with the way you spend your money, you know how much time goes into buying shares of a stock. It’s tedious and I don’t have 24k for a Bloomberg terminal. Which led me to the idea during xmas break to spend the time creating my own terminal. I introduce you to “Gamestonk Terminal” (probably should’ve sent 1 tweet everyday to Elon Musk for copyrights permission eheh). In summary, the…

Wrap it in a SaaS and dummies like me will buy it! Make a mill!

This right here except a mil is an understatement

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Post by slissenburg »

ananthrk wrote: post #82
valuearb wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

if it doesn't come with an ISDA, I'm not interested. "JP Morgan Employee : But, uh... you guys are under the capital requirements for an ISDA. Charlie Geller : By how much? JP Morgan Employee : [thinking] Uh... how much? One billion, four hundred seventy million. So... a lot. Charlie Geller : This makes us look bad, doesn't it? That we didn't know what the capital requirements were? JP Morgan Employee : Uh... it's no…

Can you provide some more context on this?

Watch the movie "the big short". It's really good. This is from one of the scenes where too guys try to get a license. Although the manage a few million dollars, in order to get the license they should have even more. Or as it turns out the right connections.
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