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First I think Vanity Fair pretty clearly doesn't understand the concept of open source software. If you add a proprietary piece to open source software, you are in no-way obligated to "return" those proprietary pieces to open source after you do so. Especially if you build something for internal...

Actually if zandy lost money on solar by investing early in the Obama administration it was because it was too successful. The cost of solar fell far faster than anticipated, so all the companies that were sinking money into R&D for things like thin-film ended up going out of business as the...

Great post. I would add not to forget the borrow cost for shorting that inverse ETF as well.

If it was all open source why take it from work when you know they're going to go ape***t when they figure it out?

If you're in a grad program you need to be leveraging that network to the hilt. Get ahold of your alumni directory and start cold-calling, send out emails with the 5 line description you gave us saying you'd like to do a 10 minute call with them to get their advice on how you should go about a...

A broker's world is made of paperwork. I hear this "there's too much paperwork to deal with Americans" thing all the time and it's just baffling to me. Have you ever tried to set up a business in France? Any business? Talk about paperwork and legal requirements, it's insane compared to doing so...

That's actually a bug in google image search that I've observed when you use it to search for LinkedIn profile pictures. If you actually click through on each of those people you'll see they are real people (or at least have unique profile pictures), I posted one below. I think google image...

Pretty much any start-up in any era is going to have a hard go of it in a bear market and deep recession. That's kind of the definition of those words.

The Amish will be all set!

Actually solar displaces mostly coal and is bullish for natural gas since nat gas peakers are needed to provide for intermittency. Only 1% of the electricity in the U.S. is generated using petroleum (https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3).

I agree, in fact I'm really surprised that you can still do this post-trade allocation thing. Not only is it susceptible to this type of manipulation, it's a great way to launder or transfer money i.e. the alleged Clinton hog belly futures incident. I thought they got rid of this long ago, but...

Sounds like a secret club in middle school, when do I get my decoder ring? Are we going to meet in the treehouse in your back yard? No girls allowed, right, because they'll give you cooties. This post is yet again a demonstration of the inverse relationship between IQ and EQ.

Like that damn Google thing, all about users and advertisers. And before that the whole television thing. And before that those newspapers. All about ads and more ads. Turns out it's a pretty viable business model and has been for a couple hundred years at least, you just have to be careful...

Damn kids these days. I remember when you could get a candy bar for a nickle, and we used to have to walk to school in the snow barefoot...uphill both ways!

Read the link to the original circular, it's very specific about who in the firm needs to register. In fact, just to save you the effort of actually clicking that link, I've pasted a relevant section below. In case you're worried about the janitor, "except that any person associated with a...

A member firm is defined as "Member Firm – A member firm is a brokerage firm that has been admitted to membership in FINRA, whether or not the membership has been terminated or cancelled. A brokerage firm may be a partnership, corporation or other legal entity."...

Completely agree, their valuation is absurd.

I still am baffled by this idea that flooding the market with more oil is going to help oil companies who are currently hurting because of the low price of oil due to the current oil oversupply? Can someone explain that to me again?

Why wouldn't you take advantage of the free opportunity using the opposite funds to the extent you could. They clearly do that to rebalance daily return inverse and leveraged funds.

Are you an associated person of a member firm? If not this doesn't apply to you. If you're a retail trader it clearly doesn't apply if you read the linked document.