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"First I was a hippie, then I was a stock broker, now I am a hippie again.

But because Zillow and Trulia are not brokerages, they cannot access the MLS feeds. So they have to get the data on their own.

Netting comes about when you're dealing with lots of order flow at a bank/brokerage with multiple lines of business.

Not to have rule in place to block funds from recent transactions is like people who designed it never traded real stock with real brokers.

Surprisingly, they'll actually pay the brokerage for the privilege of doing so.

CL is free and arms-length for rentals, while AirBnB is an active broker and financial participant in their rentals.

" Let me explain...Google is a service provider that I frequent, just like my coffee roaster or my stock broker or whatever.

Similarly, you don't tell your broker that you prefer Ethiopian coffee.

There is nothing stopping them from opening a brokerage in their most popular markets and simply copying Redfin's model.

For me, I'm happy to let my broker engage in these activities if it gets me a better price than I could get for myself otherwise, after fees.

"The broker would help them find the owners of domain names, negotiate the price, and handle the transaction in exchange for a 10-15% commission of the price of the domain.

So in that respect, Airbnb major idea is simply to replace the traditional broker that used to handle the short term rentals with a direct owner to renter model.

In order for a brokerage [1] to operate in a region, it needs to employ agents specifically licensed in that region, and have a real office there.

In the past I've never spent much time contemplating or trying to understand the intricacies of the stock market, and neither has my mind, and I have never had much interest, and so I'm not a particularly skilled stock broker.

Then, when consuming, rather than keeping metrics for each individual message being received, consumers simply have a log position -- they periodically commit, which tells the broker that all of the messages until that point have been consumed.

If I am a broker who depends for his livelihood in serving a customer base that it took years to develop, I would be rightly upset if someone came in and simply handed all my customer information over to my competitors.

An unregulated leveraged options platform with essentially no assets and what will undoubtedly be super senior debt deals with their prime broker writing naked contracts on something that moves 30% based on one website lagging out for a hour or two?what could go wrong

This leads to pathological garbage collection scenarios, the old "holding onto an object just long enough to make it really expensive to GC".Kafka, on the other hand, when you write a message to the broker the broker writes it immediately to disk queue rather than holding it in memory.