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by dnadler 7y ago
Very helpful. Thanks :) Wish this was a bit more discoverable on MacOS - I think that's what windows' file explorer is particularly good at. Though, I'm almost certainly biased.
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by dnadler 7y ago
As far as the filesystem goes, navigating in Windows with the keyboard is WAY easier. I can't seem to figure out how to effectively navigate the file system on MacOS without resorting to the terminal. I routinely have trouble locating
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by dnadler 7y ago
Debt is a very useful tool for raising capital. It is a way to raise money without selling ownership, and is often the wiser choice. It all depends on the situation. Blanket statements disparaging (or encouraging) debt without regards to th
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by dnadler 7y ago
You don't; there's a checkbox to toggle them, and it defaults to 'off'.
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by dnadler 7y ago
It's been a while, but I did take an astrophysics class that got into the solar system's electromagnetic dynamics. As I recall, the sun is constantly shedding ionized material known as solar wind. This plasma carries the magnetic
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by dnadler 7y ago
> Note you can also lose money. All of your money, very quickly, if you don't know what you're doing.
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by dnadler 7y ago
These don't look like instructions, unless I'm misunderstanding something.
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by dnadler 7y ago
That would kill a lot of people as the market adjusts...
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by dnadler 7y ago
I'm certainly biased here, but I use this almost daily and don't know of a competing tool that solves the visual data exploration problem as well as this does. Jupyter certainly has some similar functionality, but it's not as
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by dnadler 7y ago
Maybe creditors are having trouble finding attractive returns, so they are lending to riskier individuals. Similar to the 'reach for yield' phenomenon in the bond market.
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by dnadler 7y ago
That's not really the whole picture. Nuclear power doesn't produce CO2, but does produce radioactive waste which must be stored somewhere.
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by dnadler 7y ago
I don't understand what the point is here besides a vague loathing of the financial industry...
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by dnadler 7y ago
That's apple to oranges though. What does it cost to rent office space at 1WTC?
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by dnadler 7y ago
I agree with you that AGI is not around the corner. I think the people who do believe that are generally falling for a behavioral bias. They see the advances in previously difficult problems, and extrapolate that progress forward, when in r
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by dnadler 7y ago
From a NASA website[0]: Saturn’s rings are incredibly thin. The main rings are generally only about 30 feet (10 meters) thick, though parts of the main and other rings can be more than a mile, or several kilometers, thick. [0] https:/
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by dnadler 7y ago
That's precisely the point, right?
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by dnadler 7y ago
Slightly off topic, but one of my favorite solar system facts is that the with of Saturn's rings can be measured in feet . They are much thinner than I ever expected.
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by dnadler 7y ago
Using debt to buy a depreciating asset is fine in a lot of situations, and different people are in different situations. For example, I'd rather have $20k in cash and a 3 year 1% loan for a car than have $0 in cash and no loan. Making
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by dnadler 7y ago
The mortgage would actually be closer to $1600 unless I'm missing something.
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by dnadler 7y ago
By selling a bond before maturity, you're open to price fluctuations of the bond. It's not that the investor is exiting early, it's that by exiting early he is no long guaranteed the yield of the bond when he purchased it. Th
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by dnadler 7y ago
US Treasuries may be the closest thing to 'risk-free' that there is, but isn't 100% risk-free. If the investor does not hold the bond to maturity, then he/she is open to interest rate risk (the risk that rates have chang
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by dnadler 7y ago
Government rates are set by the market at auction. The government does not set the rate of their own bonds, they just offer to sell a certain amount, and the auction determines the rate. In the US, the Federal Reserve sets the Federal Funds
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by dnadler 7y ago
Last I checked, their margin rates were ridiculous. So that description isn't as far off as you might think.
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by dnadler 7y ago
I won't pick out all of your arguments, but there is an abundance of evidence for the long-term expansion of the universe as measured by redshifted cosmological objects at numerous distances. Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a N
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by dnadler 7y ago
Yeah, I guess I should have said "post-tax and post-insurance/wellfare parity". Though you're right, the US salary would have lower taxes and the difference would look larger. I suppose the GP was weighting tail events q
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by dnadler 7y ago
The point (not very well communicated) is that the comparison is pre-tax when it should be post-tax.
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by dnadler 7y ago
>those who perpetuate cultures Without any real knowledge of this situation, I'm pretty comfortable saying that anyone reporting this isn't perpetuating the culture. But, let's not jump to conclusions...
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by dnadler 7y ago
In your example the middle node could be green, and the nodes it shares edges with could alternate between red, blue and yellow as you iterate over them.
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by dnadler 7y ago
I've thought about building something similar to this for the US, but getting the data into the app is a difficult problem. What is the general opinion on using a device like Plaid? Alternatively, I could support manual import of state
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by dnadler 7y ago
The comparison to JWST isn't really fair, as they are looking at completely different parts of the EM spectrum.

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