JackFr

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by JackFr 3y ago
Mostly the same, except I don’t feel like an idiot for not getting it. I thought it was self-indulgent and too clever by half. But I admit that’s just taste and not a measure of its objective worth. I have a theory about _why’s popularity
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by JackFr 3y ago
I had the binding break on a brand new Springer math textbook about 25 years ago which was very disappointing cause that book was expensive .
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by JackFr 3y ago
“Honest question bro!”
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by JackFr 3y ago
The daily White House press briefing is an excellent venue.
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by JackFr 3y ago
For instance, if you're the FAA, you should express opinions about airline operations, air safety, etc. That is your role. If you are the FDA, you should express opinions about food and drug safety. And in both those cases note that
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by JackFr 3y ago
What the devil does unofficial mean? Is there a world's hottest day governing body? Or is it like boxing and there are multiple governing bodies and Tuesday captured the WBO hottest day, but the IBF and WBC still recognize August 1, 2
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by JackFr 3y ago
Robert Moses famously got shit done. The problem is, everyone is a special interest to someone. Moses’ favoring automobiles and limited access highways over public transit within NYC limits in retrospect was idiotic.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Milgram experiment debunked too https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/01/rethinkin... https://www.psypost.org/2019/11/unpublished-data-from-stanle... https:/&#x
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by JackFr 3y ago
Well, that really speaks to your worldview and your ideas on the meaning and purpose of life. Why is that a problem? Is the purpose of life hedonic consumption, where there seems to be no other point than racking up a high score? Is there
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by JackFr 3y ago
It seems like there was a huge gap in the reporting in this article. Fraud? Hubris? Too much leverage? Pandemic? Pathological mismanagement? No idea what actually caused the failure.
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by JackFr 3y ago
I have a soft spot in my heart for foil packs after I spent a summer working in a factory that produced foil packets of vitamin A&D ointment and sterile surgical lubricant. For eight hours a day I would stamp empty boxes with expiration
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by JackFr 3y ago
As officers of the court it is appropriate to hold lawyers to a high standard. Beyond that, as the attorney-client relationship has a special place in the law the abuse of that relationship is especially egregious. Finally, as trained lawy
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by JackFr 3y ago
> Up until about 1971 (possibly later, but that's the date of Loving vs Virginia) Minor nitpick, Loving was 1967.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Bond prices are quoted in 32nds (or 256ths) of a dollar. How am I storing that?
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by JackFr 3y ago
I have worked at banks and fintechs for the past 30 years and honestly have never used anything but a doubles for money with no issues (and a simpler code base.) I understand the sentiment and the potential issues, but it's really kind
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by JackFr 3y ago
It's possible that consciously or unconsciously they reasoned that a failure which compromised the vessels integrity would have been instantaneous and catastrophic, and thus the crack most likely was not compromising the vessels integr
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by JackFr 3y ago
> That said, this is pretty cool. It's made me think how for humans and many other animals, moving 10, 100, even thousands of kilometers horizontally is not a very big deal. But move vertically, and you effectively find yourself in
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by JackFr 3y ago
Cylinders and cones (and thus yurts) do have advantages. Spheres don’t. They are much more difficult to construct, and are unstable on a flat surface. If we a giving credit for whimsy, full marks for the sphere houses. But scoring as a pla
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by JackFr 3y ago
Different is not always stupid, but sometimes it is. To my reading the article offered not a single advantage these homes had compared to alternatives.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Wouldn’t that work in both directions though?
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by JackFr 3y ago
> The trade-offs between different projections are rarely discussed, considered or even mentioned outside very small cohorts Not true. They're honestly discussed all the time to the point of becoming tiresome.
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by JackFr 3y ago
The problem most newspapers face is that they have to compete with the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal and none of them can. (And USA TODAY has always been garbage, long before the internet.) The only categories in
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by JackFr 3y ago
It's a lot of words to complain about iTunes.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Not sure if you meant “money market” as it’s understood to be the market lending/borrowing for terms of less than a year, or if you were referring to fixed income markets in general. Either way it’s hardly a waste of time or money, and
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by JackFr 3y ago
When you ‘own’ music, what is it you think you own? Intellectual property with respect to recorded media is weird.
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by JackFr 3y ago
Seems like a weird way to look at books. I pay for the novel, and then I get to read it. The benefit is in the reading not simply the completing. Do I pay for Netflix, and then I pay again by spending time watching movies?
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by JackFr 3y ago
It's most likely that every single one of her "targets" understood that they were being targeted and everyone understood the smalltalk for what it was, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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by JackFr 3y ago
The discount rate is the rate at which banks pay when they go to the discount window to borrow money. This is simply set and posted by the Fed. Borrowing at the discount window is a backstop for banks and not a typical part of their operati
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by JackFr 3y ago
This post could be much clearer if the author was more clear about what the actual mechanics of what the Fed does. When they raise or lower rates, it’s not like they publish a number and that’s the new rate. Rather the Fed Open Market Commi
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by JackFr 3y ago
Stephen had a great quote - which I cannot find tonight - that Cormac McCarthy was like some pop music. It was ok to like it even if you couldn’t make out every lyric.

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