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by JackFr 7mo ago
Barnes and Noble put local bookstores out of business by doing a better job at being a bookstore.
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by JackFr 7mo ago
They said “short duration” not “short term”. The real risk is from spread duration rather than simple interest rate duration, and assuming they don’t lever up, that should be minimal. The beauty of MBS floaters is that you’re relatively in
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by JackFr 7mo ago
I like "huge buffer in the sky". That's where I imagine all my deleted data goes.
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by JackFr 7mo ago
Dilithium is a real thing. Who knew? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilithium
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by JackFr 7mo ago
Loved Ilium, and Olympos a little less so. Inspired me to read the Iliad.
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by JackFr 7mo ago
This article doesn't do it justice, but the Womelette at the short-lived Royal Canadian Pancake House in NYC lived in the dark abyss. https://www.eater.com/2015/1/26/7860903/amanda-cohen-royal-c...
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by JackFr 8mo ago
Phoenix metro has 5mm people and does 37mm bus rides. NYC has 8.5mm people and does 400+mm bus rides. London has 9mm and does 1.8 billion bus rides. But those 37mm in Phoenix are probably going faster than 8mph.
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by JackFr 8mo ago
Both NYC and London have express buses that skip stops.
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by JackFr 8mo ago
"Opaque MWE"? Does no one know the word "idiom"?
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by JackFr 8mo ago
A firm can be capitalized by debt or equity. They can have a public offering to and sell share to retire debt. They can issue bonds and use the money to buy back shares. There shouldn't be a moral component to this. That being said,
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by JackFr 8mo ago
When every car has LIDAR will they all begin to blind each other? (Insert old man rant “Why are everyone’s headlights so gosh darn bright these days?!”)
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by JackFr 8mo ago
This is dreadfully flawed. Comparing salaries at the top tech firms to a generic employee elsewhere is silly. That would mean that the whole industry is underpaid.
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by JackFr 8mo ago
Don’t forget the Dutch who were the first to have colonies in North and South America, Africa and Asia.
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by JackFr 8mo ago
It's a terrible look for CBS. At the same time, I find it unbelievable that they don't fire Colbert. This is obvious gross insubordination, and he is an employee. His final show is coming in May, and I'm sure that they can
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by JackFr 8mo ago
> The Kennedys for example manufactured their status by socializing. And generational wealth and serious political power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Fitzgerald https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by JackFr 8mo ago
But if you’ve never looked at the log before all these WARNINGs might be normal operation. It’s not turning off logging, it’s saying log at ERROR level.
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by JackFr 8mo ago
I had a nurse chart “patient ‘feels like a million bucks’” while I was getting an immunotherapy infusion. She said “It’s just not often I hear that here.”
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by JackFr 8mo ago
It’s much cooler when Richard Feynman explains it.
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by JackFr 8mo ago
Can you accept that two parties can make an exchange that leaves them both better off? If you can’t accept that, there’s no real point in any further discussion.
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by JackFr 8mo ago
Losing your job sucks. Typically, there is no silver lining. I’ve been laid off 2x and those were both among the worst experiences of my life. > rawness is an excellent time to reflect on what went right and what I could've done bet
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by JackFr 8mo ago
Maybe a dumb question here, but how would they discover a dark matter particle, if dark matter is basically invisible to us except for its gravitational effects?
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by JackFr 8mo ago
Railroad cars don't have differentials and travel on parallel tracks. How? https://www.reddit.com/r/Skookum/comments/47sbri/richard_fey...
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by JackFr 8mo ago
"What clown wrote this ... [ runs git blame ] ...erm...never mind."
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by JackFr 8mo ago
My grandfather taught me, I have long since forgotten. But I do recall that the killer use case was cube roots, which as opposed to multiplication or even square roots is difficult to do with pen and paper and much harder to mentally estim
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Continental Drip(en.wikipedia.org)
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by JackFr 8mo ago
The first time I saw baseball from box seats after 30 years of upper deck, it was two different games. While you couldn’t hear, seeing the players speak to one another was a blast.
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by JackFr 8mo ago
They talked about it because they knew the median voter disagreed with the Democrats.
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by JackFr 8mo ago
Much of the difference in the BYD cost is accounted for by a 27% tariff on the cars, transport and increased costs for warranty and compliance certification costs, as well as likely subsidies in the domestic market. Of those, you’ll see tha
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by JackFr 8mo ago
Googled and I found it. It seems I inflated my own importance in the remembering. My post is part of an article on undefined behavior on the comp.lang.c FAQ's maintainer. https://www.eskimo.com/~scs/readings&#x2F
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by JackFr 8mo ago
I remember being called out by name in an Archimedes Plutonium rant around 1993. I also had a post referenced in the comp.lang.c FAQ for a few years. That's the closest I've come to celebrity. The internet before the web brings

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