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Can you elaborate on this?

The difference here is they splash "Unlimited" on their website in 32 point font in the 1 sentence summary, and put "at our discretion" buried in their 2500 word terms of service. If they want to operate the service under those terms, fine, but they should have to advertise "as little as 0 bytes of storage", not "unlimited".

I was initially confused as well. Would be interested in an authoritative answer from the author, but this is what I came up with upon reflection: the behavioral and performance standards he's talking about are the ones that are primarily social and relatively objective. So, for instance, if one of your team members is prone to shouting at colleagues, it's the manager's job to explain that he expects everyone to act civilly. If the team has decided to adopt code style rules or test coverage requirements, and someone frequently flouts those rules, it's the manager's job to tell them they have to follow the team rules or find another team. Stuff like that.

The ideal comparison would be to run the exact same experiment on the exact same hardware on .net and see how it compares (ie, run Xamarin Studio on .net, open and build Xamarin Studio). But I would be interested in any quantitative comparison of Mono and .NET GC performance.

Basically it's not obvious to me if this GC improvement widens Mono's lead over .net GC performance, brings Mono close to matching .net's lead, or brings Mono from terrible to merely bad in comparison to .net.

Anybody have any idea how this profile compares to MS .NET?

Ah, I didn't realize you were talking non-profit. That's actually a relatively established model: http://cdvca.org/

This is an interesting concept. I think the implementation would be very tricky though. The most important implementation detail is whether the investments are chosen by the investors, or by a manager or management committee of some kind.

I think you would have problems doing this with investors doing the decision making; I would imagine you'd need to spend at least 10 hours per company invested to make a remotely informed decision; people aren't going to want to spend hours making a decision about a $50 investment. If you get the time commitment much lower, it will probably be a huge magnet for fraud.

With a manager-based decision making process, I don't think the JOBS act affects the legality much. You'd probably need to house the decision-making in a registered investment company, which will probably cost you at least $50k/year in compliance costs. Getting even 1 remotely qualified manager would probably cost you $200k/year. I don't know that people are going to be as excited about the idea when they hear the expense ratio is 25%/year.

To make it work, it seems to me you would need a national-level parent organization to amortize compliance and legal costs, and (qualified) volunteer decision makers.

This was legal even before the JOBS act. A registered investment company is an accredited investor, and is allowed to sell shares to individual investors. Several companies have tried the business model, none (to my knowledge) with great success. See https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/29/gsv-capital-placing-...

TRIR = (Number of OSHA recordable incidents)*200,000 / (total number of hours worked)

It's already normalized for workforce size.

Source: https://www.csmgroup.com/trir-a-key-safety-performance-indic...

If I got ransomwared I would definitely reformat the drive and reinstall the OS. There's no telling what kind of malware garbage they leave behind. Seems like it would make a lot of sense for the criminal to add you to their botnet, even after decrypting your files.

If they live elsewhere they definitely have freedom of movement.

As with basically all software design questions, the answer is "it depends".

Writing a LOB app with 4 expected users all located in the same location, and expected storage requirements of a gigabyte a year? Go with a traditional DB, add replication if you need high availability, make and test your backups, done.

Writing the new Facebook weknoweverything app that captures smartphone audio and video continuously for all users at all times, automatically transcribes all conversations and produces AI-driven summaries of all video, all of which are saved forever and highly searchable? You're going to need a highly customized data storage architecture to have a prayer of keeping up with that data.

Somewhere in between? Some of those are good candidates for Spanner. Some aren't.

Their previous process was load container on truck, drive to major port, unload container from truck, load container onto a ship. The plant apparently is a small port, so the new process is load container on ship, sail ship to major port, unload container from ship, load container onto another ship. I don't see why loading and unloading a ship would be more onerous than loading and unloading a bunch of trucks. So if the ship uses less fuel than a bunch of trucks, it's a win. Why not do it?

Procuring an estimate produced by an automated valuation model is not quite the same thing as procuring an automated valuation model.

The actual Illinois law covers real estate appraisal, not other kinds (ie, cars). However, it defines an appraisal as the act of forming an opinion about the value of a piece of real estate. It then forbids doing it without a license. Not doing it for money, not communicating your opinion, but forming it. There are explicit exceptions for realtors, banks involved in real estate lending, and for private use (ie, appaising your own house).

So I would say Zestimates are clearly illegal according to the plain text of the law. However, I suspect this is one of those laws where a judge would find a convoluted reading to support his or her gut opinion that finding Zestimates illegal is ridiculous. I think you could also make a pretty reasonable claim that the freedom to form an opinion about the value of something is an unenumerated, but nonetheless inalienable right, and therefore the law is unconstitutional.

Not a lawyer.

Many (most?) coding bootcamps are conducted in person.

It's certainly not justified by the difference in component costs. My feeling is it's an attempt at price discrimination. For users running an office suite, web browser, and not much else, even the lowest spec machine is plenty. They want to compete on price for those customers. Users doing media processing, scientific computing, or development are probably more willing and able to spend more on a laptop, so Microsoft is charging more.

> Which is foolish; they have the resources to devote to both, but they don't know how to do more than 1 thing at a time.

Lack of focus has a real cost, even to large companies. It's the difference between polished slick software, and a design-by-committee mess.

Nothing makes teenagers want to do something so badly as being told they can't. Attempting to bypass school computer security was one of my earliest forays into understanding computers.

> Uh, IB is not a professionally-focused brokerage. It's the most professional retail brokerage though.

It's sort of in the middle. They have plenty of retail customers for sure, but they also have hedge fund and proprietary trader accounts. I doubt you would find a single hedge fund among Etrade customers.

> On what basis are you calling it most expensive though? It's much cheaper than any other brokerage I know when you look at fees holistically.

It's much cheaper than most retail brokerages. It's more expensive than firms that cater to professionals; for the most part those firms don't put their pricing on their website because they're individually negotiated with each customer. Some example firms: all the big banks, Apex Clearing, eRoom Securities, TJM Institutional Services. For the banks you're probably looking at a minimum $20 million account size just for them to accept you as a customer. The smaller players require $1-$5 million for decent rates, but might accept smaller account sizes.

Because, for the most part, retail investors are not well-informed investors and are willing to cross the bid-ask spread. To simplify dramatically, suppose Citadel thinks the fair value of a stock is 25.185, the market is 25.18-25.19, and a Robin Hood customer wants to pay 25.19 to buy 1 share of the stock. If they buy from Citadel, Citadel makes $0.0050 on average. Given those basic economics, it makes sense for Citadel to pay, say $0.0018, to make sure that the Robin Hood customer buys from them instead of from Knight.

There aren't actually any transactions fees to absorb. Wholesale brokers (think Citadel) pay retail brokers (think Robin Hood) for the privilege of executing their orders.

You'll actually get better fills from HFTs operating on purchased order flow than you would if you went directly to market. Also, there's nowhere you can go that won't sell your order flow on undirected orders. But if you don't like it, you can always send it directly to a particular exchange, regardless of who your broker is.

Typical margin rates for professional traders are far below 5%. See https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=1595. And IB is basically the most expensive professionally focused brokerage. If you've got a million bucks you can probably get Fed Funds + 50 basis points.

In the US, most retail investors are limited to 2x leverage for new positions, and 4x leverage for existing positions. This is the "Reg T" margin system. If you qualify for the "Portfolio Margin" system (usually offered to customers with account values greater than 100k or 250k), you can do up to 6.66x leverage in a stock-only position.

I believe you have picked an actual nit. He reported to Zecco (his actual broker) and Penson (Zecco's clearing firm). Both were SEC-registered broker-dealers at the time, neither were banks.

No damages, assuming no unauthorized trades were executed in his account as a result of the unpatched vulnerability.

I'd love to hear what people are using the f1 instances for. I would have guessed that most systems with the scale to make FPGA development economical would also make operating a datacenter economical and thus not be running on AWS. (But I don't know very much about FPGAs, and Amazon biz devs are no dummies, so I'm sure there are plenty of use cases.)

I get a /60 from Comcast in Chicago.