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by JackFr 4y ago
T-Bills - 1w-1y T-Notes - 2y-10y T-Bonds - 20y-30y
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by JackFr 4y ago
Likely that Brex will loan you up to the max of your closing balance and 250K (the FDIC limit). Note that you need to link your account (so they can see your balance and transactions) to apply.
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by JackFr 4y ago
The obvious consequence of defaulting in your debt is that it becomes difficult to go to the capital markets in the future if you need to. Probably more politically disastrous is that if the debt is denominated in the domestic currency, it’
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by JackFr 4y ago
Agree. SVB was not small, but an order of magnitude smaller than the large money center banks (Citi, BofA, JPMChase). That being said, nearly every other bank of that size submitted Dodd Frank Stress Test results to the Fed in 2022. https:
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by JackFr 4y ago
> I think its really weird to get bent out of shape about this stuff. Hardly bent out of shape. Literally amused. Unintended irony of all sorts is generally amusing.
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by JackFr 4y ago
What is a straw figure? Any meaning you put to it is through the implicit association with straw man. And it is amusing because because it is irony is so plain. The author is telling us there is no coddling, and yet he changes a perfectly
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by JackFr 4y ago
> These “great untruths” denounce straw figures constructed from simplistic attacks that bear little resemblance to the actual concerns and tactics of activists. Amusing that 'straw figures' a meaningless term, replaces the gen
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by JackFr 4y ago
Honestly I've used Scala in production in 3 separate companies and ten years ago everyone realized that XML in the code was a terrible idea. No one serious does it. I'm working in Java now, but I thought Scala was fantastic. The
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by JackFr 4y ago
Indeed 'created in His image' would seem to be at odds with 'intrinsically bad'.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> The Catholic perspective on this kind of thing is more flexible and quite strange by comparison but tolerating hypocrisy around sexual behavior is definitely not new. The Catholic perspective is not tolerating hypocrisy, it is a knowle
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by JackFr 4y ago
I personally have seen (twice, both before 2000) people operating as their own IT consulting firm from their desks while working full time. One was fired immediately as soon as it was discovered. The other was told to quietly wind it down
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by JackFr 4y ago
A shame because Les Grossman is without question Tom Cruise’s greatest work.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> Who is buying smart electric grid technology? > They want their friends and peers to be impressed by their company You answered your own question.
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by JackFr 4y ago
But money's not free anymore
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by JackFr 4y ago
Fascinating fact: one of the 5 people who know the secret Chartreuse formula is a parish priest at the Church of Notre Dame in upper Manhattan, Fr. Michael K. Holleran. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/busin
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by JackFr 4y ago
Print debugging is one of the best ways to learn about buffering and the difference between stdout and stderr.
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by JackFr 4y ago
With respect to the sports, the association of sports with universities is a historical quirk of the United States and partially an extension of what we inherited from the British system. That being said —- two further points: The budgets o
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by JackFr 4y ago
> like the global market for cocaine. The global market for cocaine is highly regulated by very violent men with guns. It is for that reason that drug consumers favor legalization but drug suppliers oppose it.
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by JackFr 4y ago
The real reason the Dutch East India Company is integral to the history of capitalism has less to do with trade and more to do with the innovative legal structure which for the first time separated the owners from the managers, and unlike a
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by JackFr 4y ago
> The outrage is not over the ethics of what he did, which is a scant drop in the bucket compared to real-world concerns (e.g. Ughyrs) Because someone is not outraged by what you are is not evidence of disingenuousness.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Credit to those kids. School should be ashamed of themselves for that teacher’s inability to understand the nuance of the rule and more importantly work with and advocate for those kids. The teachers role never should be adversarial. That b
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by JackFr 4y ago
You're misquoting your own comment .00273% vs .0236% That extra zero makes a difference.
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by JackFr 4y ago
The age-old bane of software requirements: "It's exactly what we asked for but not what we want."
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by JackFr 4y ago
I used to be a big fan of giant ASCII art in log files, and I still like to include a big banner on server startup, but most of the cloud logging solutions like Splunk and the ELK stack don’t really handle big ASCII pictures in the middle o
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by JackFr 4y ago
Very impressive but it’s just south of 34th Street, so I can’t look in my own window.
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by JackFr 4y ago
The parent never claims that only a physical environment can be properly collaborative. Literally the next sentence after the one you quote is “what’s right for isn't right for you”.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Hmmm. With respect to feeding an ML system, are visual glitches and artifacts important? Wouldn't the most important thing to use a transformation which preserves as much information as possible and captures relevant structure? If t
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by JackFr 4y ago
I'm going to push back and say that test is not a valuable automatic test. The phrase "relies on an unreliable system" captures that lack of value.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I would suggest reading the actual opinion. Supreme Court Justices are typically pretty clear and concise writers. It’s very surprising how approachable the texts are. There is some value to reading “explainers” who might explain some c
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by JackFr 4y ago
I take your point, but I would argue that retinas and brains are categorically different than telescopes and photomultiplier tubes. But the point you make brings up an interesting analogy though. If we consider optical illusions — where the

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