why kimchi is translated to pickle, not korean pickle,

Read my entire comment. The video below your article literally talks about how to make "Korean pickles". They translate it as Korean pickles not pickles. Not sure why I have to keep repeating the same thing.

泡菜 in Mandarin does not refer to kimchi end of story. Don't know why you keep trying to perpetuate this myth. Kimchi has its own specific name.

You seem to be picking fights with Mandarin speakers about the Mandarin term used for kimchi when you don't speak Chinese. I'm not sure from where you get the confidence that Mandarin speakers are wrong when you don't even know the language yourself.

Did you read your own article? Or do you even know how to read Chinese? The article specifically is about the general term of pickled vegetables and specifically mentions different countries have different pickled vegetables. There is a literal video underneath the article stating how to make "Korean style pickled vegetables".

You think it's referring to kimchi because Google translate is translating the term 泡菜 as "kimchi" but that is google translate mistranslating.

In short, 泡菜 refers to pickled vegetables in general and in China, specifically Chinese pickled vegetables. Kimchi has different names in Chinese other than just plain 泡菜 and from a Chinese perspective, people would never order 泡菜 at a Chinese restaurant and expect Korean Kimchi.

Was going to say this. Anything that involves derivatives but esp equity derivatives abounds with Frenchies. My banks head of structuring, sales, and trading are all French (I do derivatives)

Same!

This thread is not about HFs or anything like that, it's specifically about sell side banks. I'm not sure what your experience with the sell side is but I work at a derivs desk on the sell side. Our role is mainly as market makers, we cannot do any prop trades at all so if your point is that optimizers determine what trades are strategic, that's not really what we do.

Our role is to facilitate our clients trades (i.e. where best execution comes in) which we can do manually or over bbg as well as bring in new business by proposing certain trades. These new positions we take as a result need to be hedged against and that's what our role on the trading desk is to do. The irony is that the more automized the execution portion becomes, the more reliant our business becomes on the human portion of initiating trades with counterparts.

If we're speaking from the perspective of banks as market makers, then yes we would need people at the bank contacting their counterparts even if it's just on BBG.

What I think you're terming as the optimizer is software that allows sell side traders to determine the fair price of a stock/options. They still need a counterpart (prob a broker of some kind) and more importantly need a bigger picture of why they are choosing to buy or sell that thing. Are they trying to delta hedge, do they have a directional view, are they trying to cut Vega, etc etc. That's the important contributions human bring and other non American nationalities (esp the French) are quite good at it

Scott Bessent, the nominee for Treasury, is famous for his Yen trade w Soros. He gives some detail of it here (unfortunately on X)

https://x.com/TheStalwart/status/1860112764490121393

Bing has a strong alumni network in finance. I work in S&T and Bing has an annual finance trek where top Bing students come to diff banks and network. It was because of this trek that I ended up mentoring a couple Bing students who got placed in my bank and other BB banks

Do you do spot FX at a sell side bank? Curious bc I rotated on institutional FX sales so maybe we know mutuals

Rates also uses ticks which becomes even more confusing

I work on the sell side on a derivs desk, a couple points:

The way a trading desk works is spot on.

You're not going to have a trader who does treasuries, equities, FX all on his risk book. Unrealistic that Rishi would be doing all those trades for her

Harper wouldn’t have even started at the bank without proving she graduated

Agreed, even our interns have to go through background checks

Rob in season 3 would not be involved with the IPO at all. It’s called “the Chinese wall” where investment banking, sales and trading, wealth management, etc. can’t share information. It’s also not the job of S&T to generate interest for an IPO. Also Rob would be way too low level to testify in front of the government. He’s at the senior associate level tops. It would have been at least an MD, likely a partner or the CEO.

Our equity sales team works w ECM and acts as kind of a syndicate that straddles the Chinese wall. They will join ECM on roadshows sometimes but mainly manages the IPO's trading. Unrealistic in that Rob's desk would be doing that plus FX trading plus everything else they did before.

Lol I'm pretty sure they count the number of SK passports coming to determine that amount so Chinese wouldn't be counted. HK passports are different from SK passports lmao

Agreed. I think the relevance of those scenes lies in how they explain more of the character's behavior/motivations on the trading floor. Rishi's risky bet on cable carries greater significance when you know his gambling habits/debts, Yasmin and Harper's relationship and interactions are richer in meaning when the audience knows what they went through on the boat.

Incredibly ill-informed if you think even a significant minority of those that vote Blue or Light Blue would support the CCP invasion

Bit late to respond but I used to work in Sales and Trading on a cross asset derivs desk. My boss was the North America head of our product (not even asset class) and pulled at least 1mm total comp. Our asset head was making more and in Eric's seat as a Global Head of not just an asset class but entire function (I think he was Global head of sales or something), he would prob be pulling in at least 2/3mm, depending on how the bank overall was doing.

At the time of Taiwan's semiconductor business starting, ROC was on Taiwan, not on the mainland.

Lmao, if I steal your land, kill your people, forcibly assimilate you, that's doesn't show intention to destroy? If you want to live in that naive world sure but learn more about Taiwanese history before you fully adopt a position on this.

I don't think you're using a proper definition of genocide and I think it's useful to learn more about Taiwan's history before commentating on whether genocide had occured or not.

It literally does though when conquering groups leads to their extinction/elimination from lands they previously held.

I'm not sure you actually understand the definitions of any of the words you use.

Forced assimilation is genocide, like in Xinjiang or Eastern Ukraine

There are still about 600 thousands here, so not really.

I mean they're only 2-3% of the population. Han Taiwanese, myself included, need to recognize the settler colonialist role Han Taiwanese have played in stealing and killing aboriginal Taiwanese tribes lands and culture (respectively). Literally tribes have been eliminated because of the Han Taiwanese stealing of land and forced integration.

Examining our history to understand the horrors of the White Terror and martial law period is good but equally as important is examining our history to understand the inequities that Taiwanese aboriginals today face because of the historical genociding of aboriginal language/culture and actual groups

Han people didn't genocide the indigenous Taiwanese, more like marginized and attempted to erase their culture. They didn't murder them en masse.

??? Where did all of Taiwan's land come from? Why are aboriginal Taiwanese no longer a majority force in Kaohsiung (whose original name came from the Siraya tribe)? Do you really think aboriginal Taiwanese just gave their land up willy billy to Han Taiwanese and then integrated into Han Taiwanese culture once Han Taiwanese moved in? Of course Han Taiwanese murdered a huge number of aboriginal Taiwanese.

That's a very white washed and inaccurate version of history. Like any other settler colonialists, Taiwanese Han attacked, stole indigenous land, and forcibly integrated indigenous Taiwanese into Han Chinese culture.

If you assume what's happening in Xinjiang is a genocide, then very clearly what's happened in Taiwan is a genocide, even more so because Han Taiwanese have eliminated the native Taiwanese population to 2-3% of the island.