JauntTrooper

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by JauntTrooper 2y ago
I think Threads is disrupting Twitter fairly well... it's at 200 million+ monthly active users and growing. I switched from Twitter to Threads and have been happy with it (Bluesky was invite only at the time so I didn't bother). T
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by JauntTrooper 2y ago
This happens every once in a while in investment banking, and we were warned about it regularly in HR training. Here's Matt Levine on one of the incidents: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-04&#
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by JauntTrooper 2y ago
Hatchet, by Gary Paulsen. I must have read that book over a dozen times in middle school.
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by JauntTrooper 2y ago
Here's his resignation letter: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/829224/0000829224240...
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by JauntTrooper 2y ago
Cigar and Pipe smoking increases the risk of oral, throat, and esophageal cancers at a similar rate to cigarettes. Here's one study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3755640/
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
This feels like a PR stunt. It generates controversy so more people will listen to the interview on the X platform, and Lemon gets credit for appearing like a serious, uncompromising journalist that asks tough questions.
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
My wife and I haven't found that to be the case. We've been mindful to continue to keep our own interests, hobbies, and friends. My wife started a business when she was pregnant with our third child. I started taking bass lessons
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
Being a father has been the most meaningful thing I've ever done. It gives me a deep sense of satisfaction and joy to raise them, protect them, provide for them, guide them, and get to know them as they grow up. Like you, I also work r
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
Yes. Multiple studies have found nicotine promotes and accelerates tumor growth -- basically helping carcinogens develop into cancers faster. Nicotine itself likely causes a whole slew of negative health impacts on your cardiovascular, resp
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
Or something protective that's declining. I wonder what the rates of dietary fiber consumption look like over the last few decades.
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
Sold by: UBNYUKIBAL
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
Can someone explain the appeal of =small= nuclear reactors to me? Are the manufacturing cost savings the article cites really that much of a game changer? I'd love to see us use more nuclear power. I would think =large= power plants w
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
That's interesting... I don't get any captchas.
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
Many countries in Europe have been in an economic malaise for some time now. https://archive.ph/dqbDH > The eurozone economy grew about 6% over the past 15 years, measured in dollars, compared with 82% for the U.S., acco
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
Right? Humanity comes up with some wild industries. From the wiki it sounds like it is often also full of toxic metals: > the fruiting bodies harvested in nature usually contain high amounts of arsenic and other heavy metals, so they ar
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
Mine were: - The New Yorker (subscription offer) - Bon Appetit Magazine (subscription offer) - Charles Tyrwhitt dress shirts - An Online Masters in Data Science from Berkeley - Travel to Switzerland - Travel to Norway
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Physicists Move One Step Closer to a Theoretical Showdown(nytimes.com)
4 points by JauntTrooper 3y ago|1 comments
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
That's about $3,000 a month, which is a little cheaper than an average apartment in Mountain View.
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
Does it actually use a blockchain? Interesting. I would have thought a centralized database would be more efficient. What benefit does a blockchain provide here?
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
To be clear, this isn't a cryptocurrency, right? It would be issued and backed by the Bank of England. What is different about this and the current system? I assume the vast majority of pounds are held virtually in bank accounts alre
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
No, but it's my day job.
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
Market value and fair value aren't necessarily the same thing. The 38% is just the one day premium. The offer was at a discount to the stock price less than six months earlier. It was possible that the stock price had overreacted to a
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
His offer was $54.20 in April 2022. That was a 38% premium to the market price immediately prior to his investment, which is attractive but not necessarily "always well above fair value" Twitter had traded above that price as rec
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
This has been driving me crazy, I thought I had accidentally broken something on my end. Why would they do this?
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
I've heard that theory but it still doesn't quite make sense to me. Investors know that book values are usually stale. They're rarely used as a primary justification for valuation except in industries where mark-to-market is
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
Is there no way to browse without signing in?
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by JauntTrooper 3y ago
Fannie Mae (FNMA) and Freddie Mac (FHLMC) are companies that the US federal government set up and sponsors in order to support the mortgage industry and provide liquidity to banks and other financial institutions that provide mortgages to A
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by JauntTrooper 4y ago
It's 62 million households, not people. 41% of households. And that's their conservative estimate.
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by JauntTrooper 4y ago
> One statistic in particular stood out: one in 25 American five-year-olds today will not make it to their 40th birthday. No parent should ever have to bury their child, but in the US one set of parents from every kindergarten class most
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by JauntTrooper 4y ago
I have an Enron-branded calculator. It's one of those cheap ones companies used to give away at convention booths. I've always toyed with the idea of re-programming it so that the math comes out all wrong. 2+2=7.

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