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by cperciva 4y ago
Let me rephrase that. An Oxford first is equivalent to summa cum laude from an Ivy League. Yes, the standard for graduate admission around the world (and also other things, like undergraduate research awards in Canada) is upper second.
782.
by cperciva 4y ago
"First" means "first class honours" aka. the highest designation of degree. The US equivalent is summa cum laude, yes.
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by cperciva 4y ago
My Kona Electric has brake and accelerator pedals. IIRC if you press both at the same time, the accelerator pedal is ignored.
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by cperciva 4y ago
Thanks! This was a promotion I never wanted, but I'm doing my best to muddle through the release process.
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by cperciva 4y ago
Oh, I'm not saying that they shouldn't have released this. Of course they should. It's just creepy how often OpenSSH and OpenSSL security fixes happen just before we do a release.
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by cperciva 4y ago
Sorry guys, this is my fault. I was going to start builds for the final release candidate for FreeBSD 13.2 in a few hours.
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by cperciva 4y ago
In the late 60s, my mother typed my father's thesis -- because she knew how to touch type and he didn't.
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by cperciva 4y ago
Sort of. The value of companies is (meme stock speculation notwithstanding) the net present value of their future cash flows; for startups that tends to be far into the future cash flows. It's only natural that the price drops when
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by cperciva 4y ago
Integer division is sufficiently famously slow that people (and compilers) go to great lengths to avoid it... which makes it rare enough that there's very little point implementing it. If you really need integer division, you can typic
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by cperciva 4y ago
It might be a matter of executive preference. Lots of people don't want to deal with the regulatory attention and mandatory reporting which comes from a company being publicly traded.
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by cperciva 4y ago
To be fair, 30 year treasuries have fallen almost as much. Did Stripe's valuation drop, or did the long-term value of today's cash increase?
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by cperciva 4y ago
Ok, I'm thinking of the "cleared its orbital neighborhood" definition. So not the initial accretion process but after it reached a more modern-looking system of planets separated by mostly empty space.
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by cperciva 4y ago
This is not terribly surprising because it turns out that nearly every dynamical system with more than three bodies is only marginally stable on a timescale of order its own lifetime. Does this mean that it's highly likely that our s
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by cperciva 4y ago
I get those calls from my local (Canadian) branch, and I've noticed a correlation with having an unusually large balance. (In fact, I'm expecting such a call in the next few days since I have a new car worth of cash in my account
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by cperciva 4y ago
It's a real loss, just not a realized loss. If your house burns down, you've lost the value of the building even if you haven't sold the land yet.
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by cperciva 4y ago
Hacker News Daily ( https://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ ) is about 100 lines of shell script, including generating all the HTML.
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by cperciva 4y ago
If they had held 3-month treasuries instead of 10-year bonds, the bank run would have been a non-issue since they could have liquidated the treasuries at the same price as they were listed on SVB's books. They didn't become insolv
798.
by cperciva 4y ago
A ten year 1% bond is worth about 70 cents on the dollar. Ten years from now it will be worth 100 cents on the dollar, but you can buy or sell it at 70 cents on the dollar, so that's what it's worth.
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by cperciva 4y ago
The problem is that the assets weren’t all marked to market Right. The problem is that SVB's books reported that the assets were worth more than they were actually worth.
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by cperciva 4y ago
Fair enough. Technically there's no guarantee that the treasury bill market won't lock up on Monday morning either, but I agree that's a more remote possibility.
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by cperciva 4y ago
The balance of reserves are held in T-Bills, which are liquid and typically can only be traded during market hours. Ok I'll buy that if you or I wanted to sell treasury bills, but... if a company needs to liquidate $10B of treasury b
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by cperciva 4y ago
The bonds themselves were liquid. The bank didn't want to liquidate them , but that doesn't mean that they weren't liquid. This was a liquidity crisis (bank run) which sparked a solvency issue, not a solvency issue. No.
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by cperciva 4y ago
The long-duration bonds in question were plenty liquid . The problem is that SVB couldn't sell them without realizing losses -- and because they were listed as "held to maturity" on SVB's balance sheet, SVB had been hi
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by cperciva 4y ago
You could try another experiment: Pack a fake bomb in your luggage the next time you fly. Upon arrest, point out that it was a fake and you were running an experiment.
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by cperciva 4y ago
are we pretending wage earing individuals are included in the top 1%? You seem to be confusing the top 1% with the top 0.01%. The vast majority of top 1% income earners -- in Canada, the number was recently reported as 95% by Statistics
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by cperciva 4y ago
Would a wealth tax also apply to the NPV of pensions?
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by cperciva 4y ago
I would go with TAI personally.
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by cperciva 4y ago
Count how many bytes of TCP traffic you see. Measure the size of each web page on the (public static) website.
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by cperciva 4y ago
Most public web sites leak information about page accesses to anyone who can count bytes.
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by cperciva 4y ago
You must be aware that I'm not the author of BSD sys/queue.h.

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