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HFguy··on A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal
Some markets, for example, corporate bonds, are mostly on BB chat. They are dealer markets. And dealers will provide “runs” of prices on chat. List of 200 bonds and their prices.

So if you want to trade bonds, need BB as that is where it is happening. Keep in mind some of these bonds trade infrequently (sometimes few times a month).

Having said that, there are more and more bonds trading electronically all the time.

HFguy··on Micron announces $10B research hub in Boise
NYS typically ranks 1-10 in states for education. NYC is a big portion of that ranking. Would not be so quick to call NYC education poor. There are pockets of badness but the overall picture isn't bad. I know plenty of people making 7 figures that send their kids to public school in NYC.
HFguy··on Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library
Which is fine if you are building tools for financial professionals. It is the aesthetic of choice. And is generally very functional for this purpose.
HFguy··on Forth
Forth uses RPN so the "verb" is last.

That is, you provide the data first (I and Forth) and the command (heart) last.

HFguy··on Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake
Accounting goes back thousands of years. It was not made as a tool to show off. Lesson is more that tools can be abused for other purposes than intended.
HFguy··on The footprints of every building in NYC
Yes, something seems off. Wonder if "Parking" got lumped into "Garage"?

Type of Building. List of values: 1000 = Parking 1001 = Gas Station Canopy 1002 = Storage Tank 1003 = Placeholder (triangle for permitted bldg) 1004 = Auxiliary Structure (non-addressable, not garage) 1005 = Temporary Structure (e.g. construction trailer) 1006 = Cantilevered Building 2100 = Building 2110 = Skybridge 5100 = Building Under Construction 5110 = Garage

HFguy··on How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)
I think you are 100% misunderstanding what they are saying.

They are saying almost no one in Texas can walk to a grocery store. Hence, it is a flex if you can. And Europeans don't understand that it is that unusual.

HFguy··on America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers
I suspect it is higher than it was 20 years ago and significantly lower than it was 100 years ago.
HFguy··on Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs
"short term greed"

There is a certain amount of capacity to produce memory. They are building new facilities but it takes a long time. They have been burned going down this route many times in the past (e.g., losing money, firms that are no longer in business).

What would you have them do instead?

HFguy··on The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics
That isn't "sabotage". Those are export restrictions.

China also runs adverse competitive industrial policies (e.g., industrial spying, flooding markets). Not making value judgment here.

You have quite the post history BTW.

HFguy··on Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026
FWIW, what you will see at times in the HF world is a firm will want to get into a strategy and build competing teams. It lights a fire under both. It diversifies the risk. You can select winner and move some people over from loser. And if they both work, they both work.

It isn't a crazy idea if the opportunity is large enough to make the larger investment required worth it.

The problem I see in applying this to products is it can be very confusing for clients.

HFguy··on Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving
After you wrote this, I went and read the article I also didn't see much there either. And wonder why you are getting down voted. And TBC, also not a tesla fan (the truck is dumb).
HFguy··on Sam Vimes 'Boots' Theory of Socio-Economic Unfairness
Most of first class is not paying their own money for those flights.
HFguy··on BlackRock limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit fund
Perhaps if an ETF holds similar underlying instruments. It is unlikely this impacts Blackrock more broadly or other unrelated ETFs.

Stepping back, the idea with private credit was to move a lot of lending and credit risk taking away from the banks. Because if the bank fails, then it causes risk to the financial system. If a private credit fund does badly, you have sad investors. But the broader financial system is not imperiled.

And there will always be periods where credit does badly. It is the nature of these markets and lending.

TBC, I think the private credit guys got over their skis over the last 5 years and we'll see some sad investors in the next few years.

HFguy··on Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums
I'm a long way from embedded development. But I was under the impression a lot of microcontrollers these days have some ID capability built in, even some relatively low-end ones. This strikes me more as laziness than anything.
HFguy··on How getting richer made teenagers less free
“When my brother is fourteen, I’m going to get him a job here. Then, my mother says, we’ll take the baby out of the ‘Sylum for the Half Orphans.”

That is quite a quote. Hard to believe that wasn't long ago.

HFguy··on Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
Your numbers make sense from what I've seen in private sector. And meet the common sense threshold as well.

Whether the numbers are either wrong or if that is truly what support costs look like at a university would be interesting to know.

HFguy··on Bull markets make you feel smarter than you are
Weird you are getting down voted. And you provided sources for your assertions.
HFguy··on Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses
Prices aren’t the problem.

China turning off your transportation is.

HFguy··on US declines to join more than 70 countries in signing UN cybercrime treaty
What point are you trying to make? I'm honestly not sure. Is it that China is polluting a lot? Or a little? That they are making environmental progress? Or none?
HFguy··on Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
It allows the refrigerator to run two different zones in terms of humidity. Evidently, it really does keep fruits and vegetables lasting longer.
HFguy··on The Original Macintosh: Calculator Construction Set
There are two equals buttons?
HFguy··on Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week
I think you do a good job of high-lighting the underlying problem.

Which is not being discussed enough.

And that the current situation can go on a long time but not forever.

HFguy··on Nintendo Bled Atari Games to Death
"And as for your second paragraph, it has that thing I don't understand that so many people seem to have in their brains that if you explain why a thing is true, it is no longer true. I do not understand it."

This is an interesting observation. I've seen the same thing.

I think the clue is in the "it is a choice"...perhaps they are perceiving seeing some sort of judgement being made of Atari implicit in your argument???

In other words, it can be true at the same time that (1) The are not moving on and (2) It is a choice.

And #2 does not invalidate #1.

HFguy··on Charlie Javice convicted of defrauding JPMorgan in $175M startup sale
How exactly do you think JPM would benefit from fake customers???
HFguy··on Apple needs a Snow Sequoia
Growth isn’t necessary for high returns on equity. And it isn’t necessary for the investment to provide a return.

Equity returns ultimately come from risk premiums. (Which are small now in US equities BTW).

I’m invested in a microcap private equity fund that has returned >20-25% for years. They have high returns because they buy firms at 3-4x cashflow. You will get the high returns even with no growth. And with no increase in valuation. The returns are a function of an illiquidity premium.

With Apple explicitly, growth is expected given the valuation level. If it doesn’t grow, the share price will decline. So yes, in their case, firm is certainly under pressure to grow.

I also don’t agree with your “best interest for wages to be high and everyone else’s lower”. That is one aspect. It is more complicated. Consider Baumol Effect for starters.

HFguy··on America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1
Think this was posted in the wrong thread?
HFguy··on America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1
The account was created 3 months ago. Might be actual person. But also might be troll or bot.

I do know real people that hold views like this, but they also apply similar lens to other large countries with global footprint. So at least a consistent approach.

HFguy··on Why Startup Wealth Never Trickles Down to Employees
I worked for a "start-up" in 1994. I was employee number 600. And it had just gone public. The firm eventually had something in the range of 30,000 employees.

Anyway, at that point in 1994, the first 30-50 employees all made $$$. That included the secretaries and receptionists. They were all millionaires.

Something has changed and that is the terms that VCs and Executives have negotiated for themselves. I have not heard of any secretaries getting $$$ in a long time. There is a lot less sharing in the spoils than there used to be.

HFguy··on Are Ghost Engineers Real?
My experience at HFs is you will get fired immediately if you are a low performer. Immediately.
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