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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>In fact, I'm also very grateful that I got to try a wide range of shitty manual labor job as a student. So many people would kill for a cushy office job. Working a couple warehouse jobs when in college provided me with some valuabl
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Sound like marketing to me.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>Noticed hn in general seems to consider VP pretty senior It's not that the position referred to is simply interpreted or "considered" as being senior, but that VP is the title for the highest seniority, or highest behind
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>MW2 the whole culture of launch hype with midnight releases and camping out and so on was just about dead thanks to digital distribution and such Not quite. MW2 was the largest video game launch on record by pre-orders, revenue and unit
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>A PE of 5 is not a growth stock PE is not the same as PS (price to sales or revenue). Startups and growth companies are often valued by PS since they have revenue growth, but are often not yet turning a profit (making their PE < 0).
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>It’s worrying that people really don’t understand the appeal of pseudo philosophers like Tate and Jordan Peterson Rather than gatekeeping the quality of being a philosopher, it may be better to criticize the issues with their philosophi
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>But generally nobody pays quants to lose money. They expect value over the other opportunities they have to use that same money. Is this really controversial? As with your other comment, this has nothing to do with what the original par
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>The alternative to highly technical, agile quantitative trading is fat middle men, wide spreads No, this would be the alternative to securities and derivatives markets being electronic. >If it didn’t provide value, nobody would pay f
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>I used to walk home from school. Got robbed at gun point several times. Jumped for my skin color numerous times. Had a neighborhood buddy who got stabbed three times on his way home and survived. Where was this? Most places in the US a
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
That's a fair point. Do you have any thoughts on how long it'll take for a decline to qualify as long term?
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Regardless of what happened during covid, the chart shows the listings have decreased since five years ago, prior to covid.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Thanks for catching that. Amusingly, it looks like we did make the same mistake. Completely unintentional on my part, but I've fixed it now. That first mentioned of "win" was meant to be "lose".
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
I think they probably meant the opposite. There's an statistics-illiterate subreddit for FiveThirtyEight, which largely refused to believe any poll that said that Kamala was going to lose, and heavily pushed any poll that reinforced t
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>unlike what's suggested (if not quite stated) in the film Lawrence of Arabia The scene from the movie is based on this passage from chapter 20 of Seven Pillars, which suggests that while he was familiar with Arab clothing before th
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
"For example, if you indiscriminately catch Exception (instead of CreditCardExpiredException, SuspiciousActivityException, CardTypeNotSupportedException and so on) in order to recover from a credit card transaction failure, you may ina
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Banks are also taxed on the interest from the loans. Loans backed by assets are not just free untaxed money as you seem to think they are. If an entity is unable make the payment on a bank loan, then they would be subject to having their
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Deemed disposal subject ETFs can be taxed under an eight year exit tax scheme, but this can be avoided by simply investing in US domiciled ETFs or individual stocks.
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The property or goods purchased with a loan are subject to tax.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>except that capital flight usually takes place in the form of exchanging one asset for another (stocks for crypto or money, for example) What led you to this bizarre idea that capital flight entails a person selling or exchanging all of
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>If you store files properly they won't corrupt. Chemical degradation of CDs can occur over time even in a relatively stable environment. Flash memory is also known to be volatile and most people aren't storing data on flash m
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>It is next to impossible to hide the fact that someone owns something like real estate Real estate can already be taxed via property taxes. Unrealized gains in securities can't be taxed the same way as their value is much more vola
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>but why a vinyl instead of a cd? or a mp3 on an iphone/sdcard/hard drive There's no bit corruption with vinyl like with digital storage formats or disk rot like with cds.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
They were making the point that using a word processor as a tool isn't the same as having an LLM write something, then retain the LLM generated changes such that it is immediately obvious the bulk of the code was generated by an LLM, n
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
This is my favorite of the films I've seen him in also. It is surprising how rarely the film gets brought up, considering its quality and it having been written and directed by Coppola.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
This is like being confused if The Atlantic had an article about the west coast, only to believe the question of topicality for the publication's article was resolved when the article mentioned the east coast.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>Then how come the UK has left the European Union? Are you suggesting that if the European Union were post-Westphalian that the UK wouldn't be able to leave? Not sure how that follows. That the EU is a post-Westphalian system is no
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Any pretense of the Westphalian system in most of Europe ended with the European Union.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Your counterclaim is based on the unsupported assumption that a substance having relatively high neurotoxic potential means that it cannot induce neuroplasticity. The two are not mutually exclusive, and in the case of the substance in ques
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All things are not necessarily equal in this regard. NMDA antagonists, of which ketamine is one, are well-known for their neurotoxic potential.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
In financial news, "cash" is used as a stand-in for treasuries. When an entity is referred to as having a large cash position, it is typically referring to a position in relatively low risk US debt. Warren Buffett reportedly said

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