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I just want to point out that it's humorously appropriate for a user named "Spivak" to mention pullbacks.

Definitely more than just Andras -- some other demons from the Goetia are present.

I've worked in sales before (in the investment bank), and was chewed out for the 3 months I tried to grow out a beard.

"I saw not one of them was calling for impeachment for what would absolutely be a crime if it is true."

That isn't accurate. Trump committing this wouldn't be a crime, but Hillary doing it would be. Presidents have the ability to un-classify classified info on the fly. That's why no one called for his impeachment on that event, and just questioned his competency.

On the other hand, note that when it came to his possible obstruction of justice (i.e. the Comey memo), the discussion of impeachment did come up.

Believe it or not, buying a very expensive home with poor understanding of the market and finance mostly through debt can be seen as analogous to un-collateralized leveraged investing....

Bridgewater. It's um... interesting.

It's kinda a soft ban though, and hard for any MD to enforce when they're the most guilty of it.

We don't usually think about absolute return as much as we do return conditioned on an acceptable level of risk.

You can almost think of risk as currency, i.e. each addition unit of risk opens you to strategies with higher expected return. But you can also access strategies for which you're able to "pay" the risk (basically fits into your tolerances).

Yup, quite a few of us still use a HP-12c. I have one at my work desk and personal desk; what an absolute beauty of a device.

So not true. Try going east <-> west.

On a tangential note, there's another quality that struck me as (paradoxically) expected and surprising.

In my prior role, I worked as an analyst on a sales desk at a large investment bank -- a group in which "talking with confidence" really was 90% of the job.

The head of the desk had been one of the best salesman in the industry, and had (fairly) received compensation to reward that. However, that didn't quite translate into leadership skills (in my opinion), and I felt our team suffered heavily for that.

It's a split take on "one ends up at the job one is least qualified for", but a result I presume must happen when the culture at an organization such as a large bank promotes a top individual producer to management solely on the basis of his/her individual production.

Finding the setup to be more than a small bump. Running this on Mac Sierra, and running into resolver issues everywhere. Latest was using stack setup with a specific resolver, and having the version it installed be the wrong one (at least, according to the stack documents).

Just a bit frustrating.

I happen to. You may want to use use a less universal quantifier.

Goulet pens, a favorite in the fountain pen community, includes a tootsie pop with orders. It's super nice of a touch, even for a person who doesn't dig them.

Sure they can. AAPL issued bonds in 2015.