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Is it even valid to do regression on the concentration of a substance in the body to some point that isn't measured? I mean if you did a study of iron deficient people you would find that with higher and higher doses of iron their health improved. Do a regression to higher doses beyond what was...

Basically anyone who has long term contracts for their inputs but short term or spot markets for their products benefits from inflation. If you just signed a 5 year contract with your union with 3% per year pay raises and your workforce accounts for most of your cost, but you sell the product...

The word "apocryphal" that I used to describe the quote means something that is commonly attributed incorrectly. So yes, I know that she didn't say that, I explicitly said that she didn't say that. Seriously, you're embarrassing yourself with your ignorance here dude. I'm sorry, but I was...

So first off, "same socialist bla bla" is a three year old level argument, surely you can do better than that? But let's talk about those places. First off, they together represent what, 3% of the world's GDP? And seriously, Singapore, the place where it's illegal to sell chewing gum, that kind...

Someone else famously, but sadly it turns out apocryphally said the same thing in a slightly different manner; "let them eat cake" anyone? Or another way to put it, when the lowest classes aren't content to stay lower class where they belong and democratically elected leaders have the gall to...

The south is very nice. Lisbon has become very expensive because so many have bought property there to meet the golden visa requirements. I know it's the case in many cities in Europe, but I found the graffiti in Lisbon to be completely out of control even in the Avenida da Liberdade area, which...

Novel theory. In fact each country that is developed now was developing in era[sic] of slavery. By your logic, we should go back to that along with "low taxes, low regulations, and no social[sic]", or you just pick and choose what crappy aspects of life 200 years ago you think we should revert...

What makes you think poverty is limited to urban environments? Ever visit Appalachia? The only difference from being poor in a city and being poor in a trailer park in the middle of nowhere is that it's much harder to provide social services to people spread out over vast differences. And maybe...

And yet the real word suffering none. Perhaps not such idiocy after all. Perhaps penny OTC stocks provide no benefit to the real world and everyone but the pump and dumpers and the rubes who get exploited by them are better off without them. Actually maybe the rubes are better off too, they just...

Definitely much better to do business in countries free from the tyranny of government and the infrastructure and educated workforce and good access to health care and security all the other 'tard features that happen when we socialize a public good. I hear Somalia is almost entirely free of...

That's a very nice boat but Whalers are uber expensive now for what they are. You could probably buy a 30' twin engine cabin cruiser that same age for less.

They kind of should be if anyone else is, it's a bigger disadvantage in life than almost anything else you're born with.

If you're making a living with $2M aum then you're doing pretty damn well, it seems that expanding into something you don't have a background in it the opposite of what you've done to find success so far? If your strategies have the capacity, it would seem increasing your aum would be your first...

For years the conservative tenet has been that minimum wage causes unemployment among the poo. Then we had the last 20 years of generally low unemployment among the poor regardless of how high a state's minimum wage was and very little or even negative correlation between states with high...

You have to ask yourself what type of trading you would be doing where FIX isn't fast enough but something short of FPAGs is fast enough? That's a pretty tiny window of trading, I doubt someone asking if java is a good choice for HFT is operating in that window.

I highly recommend FIX over a broker's proprietary API. I was stuck with Interactive Brokers for far longer than I otherwise would have been because I didn't want to have to rewrite all my code. Would have been much easier decision if I had used FIX originally. As long as you're not using it to...

First off, as mentioned it looks like the unrealized gain tax is dead. But this second tax makes even less sense if it's supposed to raise revenue. It would only accelerate the taxation of options held across Dec 31st, and since the vast majority of options are relatively short term and thus...

Now they've apparently switched to a tax hitting those earning over $10M, $25M, and receiving income from an S corp. A bit crazy that they switched from caring about billionaires who are sheltering their billions with this combination of step-up basis and loaning themselves money to caring about...

I've been randomly thinking about this off and on for the past several years but have been too lazy to do the backtesting to actually test it out. I'm not sure that there is the same amount of realized volatility in the hours between market close on one weekday and market open the next and the...

There's a significant portion of the population we can't trust not to put metal objects in their microwave just to see what happens. Do we really want to give them access to that:D