CapriciousCptl

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by CapriciousCptl 5y ago
You can fiddle with the autovacuum daemon[1,2] but we've never really had to. These days we just run AWS RDS when it counts or a dedicated VPS when it doesn't and things go fine-- [1,2] https://www.postgresql.org&#x2F
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Bitcoin is 'a giant pyramid scheme,' says Pinboard founder [video](youtube.com)
88 points by CapriciousCptl 5y ago|78 comments
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by CapriciousCptl 5y ago
Isn't it crazy how you remember getting kicked/banned 20 years later? Around the same time (early 200x) I was temp-banned from #cpp or #c++ or whatever after being accused of asking a homework question. I had been active in the ch
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by CapriciousCptl 5y ago
her comics-- https://wizardzines.com/comics/
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by CapriciousCptl 5y ago
But in 15 years you could use that money to buy 0.5 pizzas!
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by CapriciousCptl 5y ago
Well, I'm not sure what you think you see or where you see it in that 45-page pdf. The S&P 1500 criteria are, for instance, on page 8 and refute what you're saying. On a quick glance I couldn't find the S&P 500 criter
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by CapriciousCptl 5y ago
Nothing worth being upset about here; stocks aren't eligible for inclusion to the S&P500 until they have a trailing 4 quarters of profit.
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by CapriciousCptl 5y ago
In the US, it's legal to advertise drugs directly to patients. There's not a lot of places in the world where it happens, I'm assuming Scandinavia is one of them.
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by CapriciousCptl 5y ago
You can go to the meeting with BRK.B. Buffett prefers long-term holders, and the feeling was a higher share price makes things a little less liquid. With fractional share ownership it's kind of a wash now. Even BRK.B would be 50x more
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by CapriciousCptl 5y ago
This is terrible, not to mention the UK was already the setting of the archetypical example of "prosecutor's fallacy" and flawed statistics-- Meadow's Law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadow%27s_la
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by CapriciousCptl 5y ago
Since these chips presumably don’t need 5nm does this mean Intel can use its old lithography machines? That might otherwise be collecting dust or something?
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by CapriciousCptl 5y ago
Well this completely deprecates my personal react/tailwindui library starting on tax day. I guess that’s good!
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
Archegos was at 15% equity / gross positions and had stakes as large as 25% in their investees. Their positions were enormous, concentrated and not reported on a 13F because Archegos was a set up as a family office. All according to WS
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
> From what I could gather he was pretty please with the outcome. Yes! This is, quite literally, survivorship bias. If the dice rolled on "debilitating postoperative stroke," he would have been less pleased. Based on the NYT ar
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
Charlie Munger summarized capitalism in China at the Daily Journal annual meeting last month-- "A lot of people assume that since England led the industrial revolution and it always had free speech that free speech is required to have
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
I think most people would equate "not meeting collateral requirements" to being undercapitalized.
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
My bet is the latter. GME exposed how undercapitalized they were given their customers’ leverage and existing investors probably aren’t interested in/can’t agree on terms for injecting more cash themselves. Probably, you wouldn’t inte
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
These sorts of bonds used to be more common and in the US. The closest more common semi-equivalent thing today is perpetual preferred stock. Most of it is callable, meaning the issuer can pay it off after a designated period. As for what is
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
Looking at the spreadsheet subsidies make up fully half of the revenues. I suspect those are adjusted as needed to zero out the metro budget, which explains why, after subsidies, the bottom line is “barely profitable.”
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
I'd love to sit on that board--- Chairman: WHAT THE #$%$ happened to our gross margins? CEO: Let me tell you how we saved $600 on our new accounting platform...
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StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers(starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov)
2 points by CapriciousCptl 6y ago|0 comments
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Google Career Certificates: Get professional-level training from Google(grow.google)
5 points by CapriciousCptl 6y ago|0 comments
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
And 104*C without overclocking! Sounds like they’re pushing the envelope.
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
Very cool. I'm curious-- 1. How do you vet the lenders? Anything keeping them on a leash so they don't go too hard on past-due accounts? 2. Is the financing generally recourse to the owners? 3. Who's your biggest competitor?
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
I’ll add one: you don’t need much data to make important insights. I’m taking N < 100. Focus on starting with a good sample and building up a priori domain knowledge instead. Get the data when it’s time to build out complex models/M
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
> An issue I ran into with the amd64 version was that I did not realize that the terminal was also an amd64 process... Wow! That’s a huge gotcha that for some reason I didn’t even consider when I was having package issues with numpy amon
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
Here’s cupy’s postmortem— https://github.com/cupy/cupy/issues/4787 Salient points being that cupy releases a new named package for each cuda version, so future package names are of course predictable. Since
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
It’s like the big brother who says, “nobody can tease my sister except me.” There’s less teasing— he’s the only one doing it. But I’m with you, on balance wmds are terrible things. One use of them could outweigh all the violence they preven
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
At the very end they speculate it was a social engineering attack at their registrar that started last year and affected multiple domains. Oddly, the author says they weren’t ”the injured party” and therefore didn’t ask the registrar to ver
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by CapriciousCptl 6y ago
In 2008 an app charging $1,000 that told people you were rich was censored. In 2021 we celebrate non-fungible tokens, 6-figure digital basketball cards and million dollar memes.

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