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by acchow 4y ago
Many managers get promotions for how much the people under them accomplish. There is some adjustment to headcount, but the more you can get hired under you, the higher you can get promoted. This is the outcome of that.
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by acchow 4y ago
The short answer is that GPT doesn't "reason".
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by acchow 4y ago
And what of this BTFP facility? The fed is willing to lend out full par value against high quality assets. Because AAA high quality assets never default and always return full par value, right? How is this not kicking the can down the road?
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by acchow 4y ago
> "No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer" Technically, this is of course correct. If there are $100 of deposits backed by $100 of bonds which will mature in 5 years, the t
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by acchow 4y ago
A $1M deposit adds to both assets and liabilities. In double entry accounting, you mark any changes with both a debit and a credit. This allows you to see not only why one account changes (a single entry), but also the cause of that change
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by acchow 4y ago
Core tradeoff. The feature you get from this is easier and cheaper long term loans
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by acchow 4y ago
Given there are at least 3 banks in most years (with a handful of years with none), I would say this is actually expected and not bizarre https://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/bank/
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by acchow 4y ago
Minor part of consumer banking. For the financial sector at large, treasuries and bonds make up the vast majority of the market
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by acchow 4y ago
This is how bond issues work.
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by acchow 4y ago
I've flagged this. Please read the HN rules "Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the communit
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by acchow 4y ago
On a related note, has anyone noticed the growing use of "pretty" as a hedge against ever being wrong? Also, "not", as in "not the fastest" or "not the hottest". It could be 46C/115F outside and
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by acchow 4y ago
> I also hope that they'll let us build more "european" cities that aren't so horribly car centric and are more diverse. Yeah, I wanted to start Skylines but found that it all begins with a highway...
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by acchow 4y ago
Tons of home developers lost their shirts. Tradespeople also left the industry. Housing prices have risen quite a bit since 2012 which has attracted some home building, but it has still been too easy to just hold index funds instead.
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by acchow 4y ago
> The United States has added 100 million people since 1995 Where did you calculate this? Or are you excluded deaths? 1995 population was 266.6M. Today is 331.9M. That is growth of 65.3M
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by acchow 4y ago
"In my mind, I view emulators as a sort of converter in and of themselves, ones that primarily take orders designed for old processors and translate them into ones that the new target processor can understand and execute. In that sense
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by acchow 4y ago
Have you tried any 3Blue1Brown videos? Highly recommend
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by acchow 4y ago
Car-centricity is a result of neighborhood design, which necessitates owning a car. There's almost nothing within walking distance of most houses. As you add cars, you need to add car infrastructure (especially wider streets for car pa
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by acchow 4y ago
When you get there and find yourself with other companies clambering to hire you, with better perks and pay, you may think differently.
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by acchow 4y ago
Except on hundreds of millions of iPhones around the world. Apple has shown that the distinction is more nuanced. There are cases where biometric use is legitimate. Signing into an account on a remote server? Probably not. To access the sec
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by acchow 4y ago
It's not really an age thing. If you don't know anything about Dota or the MOBA genre, these concepts will be meaningless. Let's translate to the more commonly understood First Person Shooters. In a FPS, you don't know i
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by acchow 4y ago
iPhone is 10x the price of Android? Are you comparing the top of the line apple with the cheapest possible android? That’s not a fair comparison. Android has flagship phones too
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by acchow 4y ago
I am seeing a renaissance in Apple varieties. Coffea is not a monoculture. Will other fruits and vegetables follow?
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by acchow 4y ago
> but quality of life is worse Care to elaborate on this a bit? I imagine things like bad traffic are due to poor urban planning and lack of transit-oriented or walkable/bikeable design. I imagine a lot of misdirected blame towards
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by acchow 4y ago
And you don't know what the chores will be when you pay for the reservation...
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by acchow 4y ago
Airbnb is suffering from a tragedy of the commons. The higher quality units are subsidizing the reputation of the lower quality units, since they are all bundled together on a single platform (Airbnb). Hotel chains solve this problem by pun
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by acchow 4y ago
This is 100%. It's a required software update on all the FSD vehicles.
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by acchow 4y ago
It's also hilarious how you don't know what the checkout instructions will be when you pay for the reservation. Sometimes you don't find out until you're physically inside the Airbnb.
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by acchow 4y ago
I think in an "idea" space, which then I transcribe into words.
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by acchow 4y ago
The network effects evolve over time because people move. As a city increases bike friendliness, it will attract people to move there who want a livable/bikable life. As NotJustBikes has taught me, you don't have to start from scr
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by acchow 4y ago
> San Francisco was "a reasonable CoL but still nice to live in" even though it was all the way over there in California. Can you provide some citations on this? I've been told San Francisco has always been expensive.

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