MatteoFrigo

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by MatteoFrigo 4y ago
Thanks for this. I have funds with Vanguard and didn't realize they went woke while I was not looking. I thought I was passive. Can you recommend some other investment company?
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by MatteoFrigo 4y ago
Save this link for the day when AWS enforces the non-compete against you: http://www.byrneskeller.com/attorneys/keith-d-petrak/ As far as I can tell, this gentleman's entire business is to handle AWS refugee
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by MatteoFrigo 4y ago
Unless you have a different agreement with your investors, you should stay in cash (say, government bills of less than 3 months maturity) or at most very short term government bonds matched to your liabilities (e.g. a 1 year bill if you are
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by MatteoFrigo 4y ago
The truth remains that if you use "they" as singular you sound like a moron. "Someone" has indefinite number and is not singular. Implicitly plural antecedents ("anyone", "everyone", "each ...&q
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by MatteoFrigo 4y ago
Replying to myself and GP, I found the answers to our questions in the Nature paper linked from the article. The TPV is distinct from a solar cell because the TPV is meant to reflect energy back to the source. A solar cell also reflects so
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by MatteoFrigo 4y ago
The article is confusing, but I read it the same way as you: these guys have figured out a way to capture a larger part of the blackbody spectrum than a normal photovoltaic cell. I don't think they are saying that the cell needs to be
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by MatteoFrigo 4y ago
In fact, the sun at sunset which appears to be above the horizon is already well below the horizon, precisely because the atmosphere is less dense at higher altitudes. See https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_26.html
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by MatteoFrigo 4y ago
They can just call everybody "comrade". Problem solved. "Comrade" is gender-neutral.
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by MatteoFrigo 4y ago
See https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_40.html specifically Sections 40-5 and 40-6, for a discussion of why classical physics fails to explain the specific heat of gases. As a sibling poster commented, the blackbody
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stern%E2%80%93Gerlach_experime...
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
I can't tell whether or not you are kidding, but "comrade" is indeed gender-neutral and the Pravda recently recommended using it: https://english.pravda.ru/society/149390-ladies_and_gentleme... If the bo
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
I think the author is reading too much into the terminology of "action" and "quantum of action" which may have made sense in Planck's time but has since been superseded. Here is what I think is a more modern underst
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
Assume for simplicity that only two countries exist, Germany and Russia, and that all Euros are numbers in a computer. Crucially, the computer storing Euros is in Germany. Up to a month ago, Russia could have shipped gas to Germany in exch
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
Good question. Those who understand this stuff (not me) are busy making money and don't write about it. Nevertheless, I think that these papers [1,2] by Pozsar offer a fabulous overview of the contemporary money market. [1] https:&#
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
I am not the person you are replying to, but perhaps the cleanest indication of what "the bond market" "thinks" is to look at the Eurodollar futures quotes at https://www.cmegroup.com/markets/interes
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
I won't argue this topic since this thread is about AWS, but the article that you quote says "Experts calculate the excess death rate by comparing figures for a given period with the average for that same period over several previ
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
Just to make sure we are speaking the same language: If I have $1 in a checking account in a US bank, do I have one dollar, or do I have a dollar-denominated asset of $1 face value, backed by a dollar-denominated liability of the bank?
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
> I often wonder how money is stored. The Bank of England published a summary of how modern banks work. See https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/quarterly-bulletin/2014/q1/m... > It can't be just a num
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
Lower bounds on the product of the variances of a function and of its Fourier transform are pretty standard in physics texts. See e.g. the discussion leading to Eq. 16.34 in Feynman's lectures of physics https://www.feynman
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
The production side is also unsustainable. Some large producers are committing not to increase production and instead pocket the higher prices. https://energynow.com/2022/02/pioneer-pledges-to-hold-u-s-sh...
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
To be fair, a libertarian would agree with you. To a first approximation, a libertarian would ignore all government statistics and instead look at markets. He sees the massive 10bp inversion in the eurodollar spot curve two years out, conc
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
Two reasons. First, TFA states as much: "repo program that provided nearly $20 TRILLION in cumulative loans to Wall Street". Second, the Sep 2019 repo crisis is well-known, it lasted multiple weeks, and it was big enough that th
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
TFA has no idea what they are talking about. They are just adding the amount of rolled-over repos. For example, assume that I lend you $1000 for one day. The following day you pay me back $1000 plus interest, and I lend you $1000 for anoth
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
I hear you man. I've had two shots already, and I'll have a booster as soon as I can catch the bartender's attention.
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that my comment should apply literally to all cases. I am just pointing out to parent that particles can be indistinguishable in principle, and not just as a technological limitation of our measurements.
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
Well, I am not a physicist, but I can fake it well enough for HN :-) Before I say anything, if you have never heard of amplitudes before, you should read the Feynman lectures on physics vol. III, which you can find here: https://
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
I think that GP is trying to say the following. In quantum mechanics, probabilities are given by the square of the absolute value of more fundamental quantities called amplitudes. When something happens in two ways that can be distinguishe
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
They explain their position on the American side of the problem in the interview itself. I have no idea whether they are right or wrong, but they are not morons.
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
> Or do you have examples of academic DEI offices trying to convince the world that "all white are racist". Not that explicitly, of course, but let's go to https://diversity.berkeley.edu/rwle-books and cli
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by MatteoFrigo 5y ago
For a chuckle, here is a tow-truck operator commenting on this exact situation: https://rumble.com/vtwtvi-tow-truck-operator-refuses-to-assi...

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