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by WoahNoun 4y ago
There is about to be a re-allocation of capital. But there is still far more demand to hire software engineers than the available talent even including the layoffs.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Ah I missed the complex part. Clearly a complex matrix doesn't act on R^N by scaling the coordinates.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
There's a geometric solution as well! Since M is invertible and symmetric. It acts on R^N by independently scaling the coordinates of an orthogonal basis. Eg, M = O^T*A*O where O is orthogonal and A is a diagonal matrix. Let sqrt(A) be
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Mathoverflow is run by StackExchange. https://mathoverflow.net/
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
The 80s was a period of stagflation though and not just inflation. I don't see even the most bearish analysts predicting stagflation. Inflation combined with low unemployment and wage growth is a whole new territory.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
I would be very surprised if it's a mimic of the early 1980's. It's a different employment and consumer spending environment. BoA CEO is fairly optimistic. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/24/bank-o
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Skimming through there are some interesting problems (the fibonacci sequence generated by determinants of nxn matrices with -1/1 on the lower subdiagonal/upper subdiagonal is pretty cool). But a lot of these problems just look lik
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Or go to the opposite extreme and use fuzzing.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
EMTALA was passed under the Reagan administration. This forced hospitals to treat the uninsured, but it provided no funding to pay for those treatments. So the uninsured who don't pay are subsidized by high costs to the insured who do
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
The piece highlights how the history of crippling debt impacts Haiti right now. In fact, most of the piece is about the present-day impact. Not for the history books.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Looking at the front page of the NYT right now and I don't see anything like what you are claiming. In fact their top article today is a long-form investigative piece into Haiti's debt to France. >THE RANSOM - For generations,
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
They won a Pulitzer in 2020 for their series on predatory lending. https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/brian-m-rosenthal-new-york-... >For an exposé of New York City’s taxi industry that showed how lenders profited fro
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
>Because what happened with Robinhood is they turned off the buy button, but still people could sell (which means there were buyers from other brokers or outside retail) No, RH matched the sell order with an internal buy order and netted
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
It is a theoretical harm. Securities law focuses on "obviously lost money" such as not being able to sell at the highs when you own the stock. This is very different from the theoretical price ceiling caused by retail FOMO. Otherw
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
> inform people of the risks of purchasing stocks that they are running out of collateral People weren't allowed to purchase those stocks so I'm not sure what risks you are talking about. There was no (additional) risk from pur
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
RH defaults accounts to margin accounts to support their "instant deposit" feature.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
The formula for reserve requirements includes volatility as a variable. Before the meme stock frenzy, GME only required <5% of cash collateral before settlement. When volatility surged, this went to close to 100% cash collateral. RH didn
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
They've been pretty open actually. They did not have enough cash on hand to support the buy volume. They have said this repeatedly. They have also said if incoming bank transfers from retail investors had settled faster they would have
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Disabling sells and not letting someone exit a position is infinitely worse then not letting someone buy to enter a position. The latter is only theoretically harmed and has no case to sue; the former is provably harmed and can sue.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Not doing it would have resulted in Robinhood being declared insolvent and entered into receivership at the close of trading day. All investment accounts would have been frozen for at least a year as the insolvency is unwound. Financial fir
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Many states of laws regulating the "corporate practice of medicine." But it seems like that leads to a hospital just being bunch of loosely held together independent businesses/contractors.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
Verified users. Not all users.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
The 7% inflation number is measured as an increase in prices in consumer goods. Used car prices are up >30% and are a significant piece of consumer spending.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
I know it's a different industry, but there is an existing start-up named Convoy. Has 500+ employees and $675M in funding.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
50% of their crypto transactions were fraudulent. >"The things that were being done were super sketchy," Newell told Eurogamer. "And there was some illegal shit that was going on behind the scenes, and you're just lik
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
Depends on how you define "linear algebra." Representation theory, lie groups, and grassmannians can all be considered "linear algebra" and are active areas of math research, but it probably isn't what you are looki
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
Also nukes
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
The ego of one man will result in massive bloodshed and an international crisis. This is absolutely insane.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
The general marketplace fees are the same whether you use FBA or not. Your original comment was complaining about FBA fees which are separate from the marketplace fees.
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by WoahNoun 5y ago
>The costs they charge relate more to their monopoly on where people shop than their actual costs involved. [Citation needed] Offering <2-day shipping across every address in the US is very expensive. Amazon sellers can sell on Amazon

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