andrewjl

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by andrewjl 3y ago
I don't disagree with the thrust of your comment but how does one identify the presence or absence of hubris from fossilized remains?
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by andrewjl 3y ago
> I'm sure if we took all the top math, quant, economy and finance grads in the world and book them for a few months in that fancy Swiss Alps resort at Davos where world leaders meet up every year to discuss how to screw us, they co
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by andrewjl 3y ago
Sports teams don't typically pay players in equity.
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by andrewjl 3y ago
This post raises a question I'm curious about: is executive pay higher or lower in private firms compared to ones that are public? Adjusting for confounding factors like size and sector.
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by andrewjl 3y ago
Came here to post this!
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by andrewjl 3y ago
The US hasn't ever had a vigilant financial services regulator.
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by andrewjl 3y ago
I've dealt with indoor flooding in the past and was recommended Decon 30[1] by an experienced remediator. Its main active ingredient is thymol (from thyme) and it's EPA approved for fungicidal, bactericidal, and viricidal use. Pre
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by andrewjl 3y ago
Berberine can also be found in bayberries. Would be interesting to know if those had a similar effect.
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by andrewjl 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation!
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by andrewjl 3y ago
The math doesn't work out by design due to favorably shaped policies. A sizable amount of wealth is hidden away extra-jurisdictionally or consists of intentionally undervalued assets or isn't captured in statistics.
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by andrewjl 3y ago
> spiritual ecosystem what does this mean?
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by andrewjl 3y ago
> Let me add one more: don't liver in a mortgaged house, rent unless you have good liquidity and a growing savings account that can handle a mortgage! A good chunk of the income tax system is designed to lower the cost of owning rea
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by andrewjl 3y ago
> They didn't use the Deutsche Mark, they came up with a new currency for their union What you're saying is factually true but overlooks what happened with Greece, Spain, and others during the 2010s.
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by andrewjl 3y ago
Why is that distinction important? Especially in light of the first sentence of the paragraph that sentence is embedded in. > THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
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by andrewjl 3y ago
> At best, that only covers bug fixes. And, as I said, bug fixes are usually implied to be available in future releases Can you explain how you got to that interpretation from that phrasing? > SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU A
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by andrewjl 3y ago
The article is from 2020 but there is a headline out today in the WSJ about the owner of Big Fish Games: "Aristocrat Leisure Raises Dividend After FY Profit Jumps 53%"[1] [1]: https://www.wsj.com/business/earn
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by andrewjl 3y ago
The article mentions that Big Fish Games was at one point owned by Churchill Downs and now belongs to Aristocrat Leisure. The former operates racetracks and an online oddsmaker while the latter literally manufactures gambling machines. &gt
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by andrewjl 3y ago
I always felt that every insurance company should report anonymized aggregate percentages for denied claims in some fashion. Not sure how much that would help but it could shine more light on the issue.
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by andrewjl 3y ago
Institutional investors would need to justify to their LPs why whatever they will end up earning beats buying and holding Treasuries instead. The higher rates Treasuries have the tougher it is to make that justification.
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by andrewjl 3y ago
> but I find it difficult to believe that the most optimized, useful, and productive way to teach children about reality is the method we've settled on in the modern US. You're spot on, it isn't. That's by design. The
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by andrewjl 3y ago
Here are some links to related discussions from the Swift forums https://forums.swift.org/t/backtraces-in-swift/61736 https://forums.swift.org/t/pitch-swift-backtracing-api/62741 I found
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by andrewjl 3y ago
None of those categories really fall under the second order category mentioned in the video. Using their analogy they all sound more like a mapping provider versus something like Uber.
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by andrewjl 3y ago
I don't doubt that will happen but how does that translate to sustainable, as opposed to short-term, earnings?
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by andrewjl 3y ago
I'm sure it's been mentioned elsewhere but Lina Khan's Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox[1] ranks among my favorite pieces of legal writing. I think it's all but required reading for anyone who cares about antitrust issues, irr
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by andrewjl 3y ago
Why aren't investment dollars going towards more important problems?
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by andrewjl 3y ago
How much of this will end being a ZIRP phenomenon? The article does cover the implications of rising interest rates towards the end. > Meanwhile, interest rates have reached a 20-year high, posing a direct threat to private equity’s debt
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by andrewjl 3y ago
How are those at all related?
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by andrewjl 3y ago
> I hope the settlement hits trillions. Burn the fuckers down. Hoping on the sidelines gets you nowhere. Laws need to be changed to end the presumption in many jurisdictions that a lack of safety data equates to a benign substance.
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by andrewjl 3y ago
How does a valid range of list prices get determined?
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by andrewjl 3y ago
> Newly arriving immigrants frequently lack the education to be easily absorbed into a highly skilled workforce. Not typical for Canada as an example. The bigger point is that immigration and it's effects are deeply shaped by policy

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