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by JackFr 4y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, studying abstract algebra at the undergraduate level we never got more than a broad sketch of a proof of the general insoluability of the quintic. It more seemed an opportunity for the professor to tell t
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by JackFr 4y ago
> if Apple wanted to encourage server-side Swift this would be a way to do it. Apple wants money. Encouraging/discouraging server-side Swift (by itself) is orthogonal/irrelevant to making money.
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by JackFr 4y ago
But it’s all fictive boundaries. Don’t stop at countries and companies -nothing exists until it’s named.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> I like to interrupt people when I know that I have information to share that will invalidate the next 10min of what they have to say. It’s unlikely that they are delivering a 10 minute monologue without ever offering a pause to let you
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by JackFr 4y ago
In the repo market (overnight inter-bank lending) Fedwire daylight overdraft interest accrues every 15 minutes.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Am I missing something? I don’t seem to understand how this is a swindle.
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by JackFr 4y ago
Did I miss something in the article about how this was a grift? While these guys feel like they were screwed, and sure, they might have been screwed, making an order and then cancelling it isn’t a grift. No one stole from them, and I’m not
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by JackFr 4y ago
OJ Simpson is a murderer. Is that a fact or an opinion? Should anyone who assets that have to defend it in court?
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by JackFr 4y ago
I worry about it too. What I have found is that it's important to keep your skills very, very current. It's OK to be reasonably skeptical about the latest hotness, but it's imperative to know about it and why it's the
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by JackFr 4y ago
I was laid off in April 2020 as well, and while some of my experience matches the author's some of it was very different. Being laid off was not a relief -- it was terrifying. All indications were that a severe recession was coming.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I realize that there is no accounting for taste, but my goodness, A Confederacy of Dunces is laugh-out-loud funny.
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by JackFr 4y ago
The explanation is terrible —- and I’m not sure if I could do a better job —- but once you get it, fun, addictive game.
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by JackFr 4y ago
But people have an extremely poor mental model of calories out. In particular there is a great misunderstanding with respect to the role of exercise. It’s not the calories you burn during the period of exercise, rather it’s the changes to y
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by JackFr 4y ago
You elide the impact of a stable two parent home. No doubt education, hard work and grit are also at work here, but the facility of two incomes, two people to split housework and childcare duties are an enormous boon. Statistically, two
825.
by JackFr 4y ago
The law firm were notified prior (2x) that employees would not be allowed entry to MSG. Having been so warned, she bought a ticket and tried to go. After having been warned and then being prevented from going in, her response is to sue them
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by JackFr 4y ago
Dislike has nothing to do with it. You’re suing my restaurant because you claim a patron of mine was over served by a bartender and subsequently killed someone while driving drunk. I do not want your lawyers or their investigators or staff
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by JackFr 4y ago
Seems like it’s an unpopular opinion, but it seems fairly reasonable to me to restrict someone who is currently, actively suing you from using your place of business. It’s neither punitive nor petty. It’s simply practical from a legal persp
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by JackFr 4y ago
To the contrary, switching to a new technology is a favorite reductive excuse of poor management. They choose one early technical decision and try to hang all the failure on that. As a sibling comment states a screw up of this magnitude is
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by JackFr 4y ago
> A "big bang" migration makes more sense, if everything is properly prepared and tested, which it wasn't. That sounds like ‘A “big bang” migration makes more sense, if it works.’ Your rollback plan should never be an afte
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by JackFr 4y ago
I’d be curious to see some of those aggregate statistics broken out. The idea that the average income of mass transit users is higher than that of drivers (pre-pandemic) is counter intuitive. It’s most likely an artifact of the fact that sa
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by JackFr 4y ago
Well actually, you would throw a major wrench in the works of most ransomware operations. So there’s that.
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by JackFr 4y ago
In the lead up to the financial crisis, sub-prime MBS deals always had series names like MLST-2006 11 or some such, based on the issuer (typically the initials of the special purpose vehicle), but I always believed the ones with pronounceab
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by JackFr 4y ago
Finance is really about allocating capital to productive uses. Crypto sits on the border of greater-fool investing and Ponzi schemes.
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The FTX Crypto Victim Card Can Be Hard to Play(bloomberg.com)
8 points by JackFr 4y ago|1 comments
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by JackFr 4y ago
> In the case of commodity futures, it allows commodities to be traded on an exchange where bags of onion seeds would otherwise be difficult to trade. That is not essential to what futures do. The essence of a future, is that it is a tr
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by JackFr 4y ago
I have never organically seen an Elon Musk or a Donald Trump tweet. Or frankly any neo-Nazi tweets. Like I said maybe I’m doing it differently than everyone else.
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by JackFr 4y ago
I had a 4 month hiring process - but in fairness they were very transparent. Early on in the process I was warned it would take a long time, and at each step along the way it was made clear what was happening. There was never a feeling of
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by JackFr 4y ago
I don't know if I am doing something differently than everyone else, but I notice virtually no difference between my Twitter feed currently vs. three months ago.
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by JackFr 4y ago
None of the big fish are getting money back. No one is going get money back. It's gone. At the same time, I have trouble finding sympathy for anyone involved. SBF is a sociopath, thief and liar. Those big-name investors should have
840.
by JackFr 4y ago
Pretty sure all that means was that the land grant of the territorial legislature would still be in effect after the ratification of the Constitution (1851 vs 1857.) Interestingly enough, Section 4 immediately following invests the state wi

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