JackFr

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by JackFr 4y ago
To be fair, Christianity and Jesus are a package deal...
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by JackFr 4y ago
I can type about 15-20 wpm on a computer keyboard. I don’t think I’m doing anything wrong either, and yet I can help but suspect you have learned and practiced something I have not. Maybe something similar has happened with your writing.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Capitalism as characterized by permanent firms with private tradeable claims of ownership and separation of ownership from management is around 400 years old.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> Consenting adults should be free to do what they want as long as it doesn’t harm anyone else. So long minimum wage and workplace safety laws, welcome back indentured servitude.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Imagine that life is universal and fairly common, but the notion of 'sacred' is rare.
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by JackFr 4y ago
How about the surface? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_Egg
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by JackFr 4y ago
Not to split hairs, but John Henry competed against a steam drill. I'm not sure what an iron track layer is...
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by JackFr 4y ago
Mustard sandwiches.
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by JackFr 4y ago
That’s the clever bit about the so-called Turing Test. It’s a sophisticated way of saying “I don’t have to define it, I know it when I see it.”
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by JackFr 4y ago
Hmmmmm. Shouldn’t that be on Propphotos?
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by JackFr 4y ago
That doesn’t make sense. Buyers don’t get driven out of the market.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Do depositors have some sort of moral superiority to investors , or simply a legal priority? Citibank equity holders (one of the the more egregious bailouts from the GFC) 15 years later are still down 90%. So it’s not like in the bad old
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by JackFr 4y ago
“My dog has a tiny olfactory bulb.” “How does he smell?” “Awful.”
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by JackFr 4y ago
Also I recommend “Genius” by James Gleick which is a fantastic biography of him.
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Say’s Law. Supply will create demand. You don’t need a hot market. You just need a market.
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by JackFr 4y ago
In general that’s not a great heuristic to go by. In college, when I came across a bully who was much, much smarter than me it was terrifying. The lesson was avoid at all costs.
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Why is that ironic?
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The LME is terrible at doing the things a clearinghouse is supposed to do.
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by JackFr 4y ago
This article is weirdly written. Unlike most news article they refer to the plaintiff throughout as 'James', his given name rather than 'King' his surname. The author also capitalizes 'High Court' when referri
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If you would just be cleaner, showers wouldn’t even be necessary. I mean honestly it’s like debugging - for God’s sake just stop writing the bugs in the first place.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> Just have to write a 35 page business plan, get it reviewed by capable people, have a good idea, and execute. Last word in that sentence doing a lot.
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by JackFr 4y ago
This is terrible. The idea of ChatGPT being able to fill in gaps of not knowing what you don’t know is appealing, but you need to actually know something about the topic to evaluate ChatGPTs ability. This is just spewing pure nonsense, and
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by JackFr 4y ago
The real problem with blue whales is that most people have almost no intuition for how big they really are. At the Museum of Natural History in NYC there is life size replica of a blue whale hanging from the ceiling in the Hall of Ocean Lif
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by JackFr 4y ago
FDIC receivership is not my money, it’s all self funded. Any bailout beyond that is taxpayer money. As a voter (and a guy who pays taxes) it is my money. I have a lot of opinions about how that money should be spent. A bailout beyond FDIC r
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by JackFr 4y ago
I assumed the parent was referring to a government sponsored plan to make SVB depositors whole beyond ordinary FDIC receivership.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I say as a person who’s been laid off twice and worked for a company that went bankrupt — why is that my problem? Why should you get my money? (In the case of the company I worked for which went bankrupt — we were a fintech startup with a t
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by JackFr 4y ago
> But kill a bunch of startups because of their choice of financial institution? I just don't get where that comes from. Because you want to take my money, and your justification for wanting my money is simply “My company made a mi
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by JackFr 4y ago
To be clear to bail out the bank means to bail out the creditors. The creditors in this case are the depositors, which disproportionately are VC backed startups. This would be a bailout, not of employees and founders but of the wealthy inve
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by JackFr 4y ago
TLDR: Sad face. I want your money.
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You literally borrow someone else’s stock and sell it. You now owe them the stock which effectively leaves you with a negative position. Eventually you have give them the stock back which will require you to buy it. If the price has gone

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