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by daydream 4y ago
> When Microsoft executes well, they’re a scary force. They were exceptional under Gates and it looks like they are again. I agree with this. And what I think is so fascinating is how much they left on the table during this very same tim
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“Flexible, commute-free work arrangements may have disproportionately given college grads the time and space to grow their families.” Buried the lede a bit there.
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Money in Fidelity money market funds is protected by the SIPC, up to $500k. Specifically, for their cash management accounts: “Cash balances in the Fidelity® Cash Management Account are swept into an FDIC-Insured interest bearing account at
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This URL has the actual much longer story: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-03-21/how-buyin... Much better direct link.
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“UBS Group AG Chairman Colm Kelleher said he will rein in Credit Suisse Group AG’s investment bank, a unit that has racked up losses in recent years. “Let me be very specific on this: UBS intends to downsize Credit Suisse’s investment banki
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The basic technique is much older than that, dating to the Cold War era and likely even before.
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Apple Silicon wasn’t even announced until mid-2020. And that bump starts pre-COVID.
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After combing through the announcements again I mostly agree with you. Google and Microsoft are putting AI in very similar places. I still believe MS is going further. Business Chat will be a very big deal if it works well. Google didn&#x27
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by daydream 4y ago
Comparing Google's announcement a couple days ago with this. Microsoft's announcements are massively more ambitious. Google announced a handful of LLM-based features. This is Microsoft adding LLM-based features to all of their cor
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> And, legally, if you mark bonds as HTM, you are not allowed to hedge against their interest rate risk. Basically, the regulations say that if you're hedging against interest rate risk, you don't really intend to hold to matur
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by daydream 4y ago
Yes, if the bonds must be sold to cover withdrawals then the losses become realized (real) at that point. But not before.
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Lots of companies do this even some big ones. Mitigating vendor lock-in is a big reason. Using what’s effectively simple VMs makes it much easier to pick up and go elsewhere. Not all businesses decide that’s a risk worth mitigating, but som
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> The losses banks have taken on their assets are real. They already happened. They are survivable if banks remain liquid. But… they aren’t real yet? They haven’t been realized. If held to maturity they will be paid back in full. Which I
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I missed that, thanks
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Seems limited to only one prompt per day. I just tried it.
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The product teams don’t care. And the ethical AI team doesn’t want to sit back and wait for people to come to them. They want a seat at the table for all important AI products. More in my comment on the other submission about this news htt
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by daydream 4y ago
Ben Thompson has a great take on this: https://stratechery.com/2023/the-death-of-silicon-valley-ban... He makes the case that one factor of many in the success of SV was people played iterated games with the same peopl
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by daydream 4y ago
I’ve seen similar dynamics at other companies. When teams like this MS ethical AI group are separate organizationally from product and research and engineering teams, it’s harder to have an impact. Management and the product teams want to
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by daydream 4y ago
This is really interesting. Nothing like it exists in the US as far as I know. I am ignorant of current and previous Danish mortgage interest rates. Assuming a 2% mortgage from a few years back, and current interest rates at say 6%, I would
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by daydream 4y ago
I understood your question and the issue perfectly well. It's widely known that Circle backs USDC 1:1 with cash and cash equivalents. That's the value prop compared to Tether. It doesn't have to be a huge mystery as to whethe
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by daydream 4y ago
Fidelity FZDXX money market fund 7-day SEC yield is 4.46%. Minimum $100k initial investment.
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USDC is back to $0.98 as of Saturday evening.
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Upthread you wrote: >Should the government always guarantee everything with no limits, because "they should have seen it coming and should have done something a long time before it collapsed"? I never said anything about guaran
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My guess: SVB collapse took everyone including the FDIC by surprise. It has unfolded very quickly. Bill Ackman makes the point that the FDIC/government should have realized their exposure and been monitoring them much more closely. Thi
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Notion has pretty extensive export options and the relatively new API is another way to get your data out. Do you have any concerns with either of these options? Genuine question - one reason I chose Notion was the ability to get my data ou
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by daydream 4y ago
On a recent podcast Sam said they asked the government if they wanted to fund OpenAI. They said no.
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by daydream 4y ago
> "Streaming has evolved in a way that undervalues the critical contributions of many artists as well as the engagement of many fans," Grainge said Make no mistake, these huge labels only care about lining their own coffers. He
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Why did the site close?
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by daydream 4y ago
When I have a problem with a service my ultimate goal is to get it solved - as fast as possible. If I can solve my problem though an automated support channel that’s actually better! Because I don’t need to wait for a human to do something.
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…yes? It’s a chair. You get a good deal. What’s wrong?

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