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by dougSF70 4y ago
This is at the core of Superman III. Richard Priors' character notices his paycheck gets rounded down, he writes an app to harvest up the rounded down tenths of pennies...
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by dougSF70 4y ago
This is interesting, much like firms that try and extract alpha signal from r/wallstreetbets. There must be a set of second-order metrics that contain alpha, that groups like this are plugged into without realizing it (perhaps)
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by dougSF70 4y ago
An unfortunate typo, either that or it must be hard to sit at a desk.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Series K,L,M rounds,or venture debt or trading to $0
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by dougSF70 4y ago
They definitely missed the opportunity of a lifetime, the numbers must have looked unusually poor to have not made the decision to IPO in 2021.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Ok, I just got an email from the new CEO. The king is dead, long live the king. Silicon Valley Bank, N.A. rising from the ashes of SVB...can gusto update now please.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Yes, every time I do a double take. My brain is thinking should I press the button that looks disabled or should I press this shiny looking button here...
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by dougSF70 4y ago
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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by dougSF70 4y ago
You are adding a layer of complexity on what is the safest bank in America for the foreseeable future.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
I am going to run payroll from my personal checking account because gusto wants a different bank to SVB. I will then wire funds from SVB to my personal account. Then I will find a new business banking provider.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
That's the rumor and I imagine they got to pull the same tricks as SVB as regards to buying risky MBS without alerting the FED. But is there any evidence to support this?
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by dougSF70 4y ago
If you want foreign currency accounts, there are two options Silicon Valley Bank or HSBC. HSBC requires deposits of $2mn to open foreign currency accounts, svb does not.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
In this regard, the AI is acting just like the human brain - adding details that may or not be present in what the viewer is seeing. Details that the viewer expects to see, so the brain delivers against this expectation.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
I am not implying she is to blame at all.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
The issue lies in the fact the role was vacant for 8 months. By the time she arrived, it was too late.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
This might explain part of the current situation.
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Silicon Valley Bank's Chief Risk Officer Joined 2 Months Ago(svb.com)
32 points by dougSF70 4y ago|10 comments
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by dougSF70 4y ago
As a counter point to this, by all accounts Millikan had worked out the charge on an electron but had not validated it by experiemnt. Knowing what thw result should be, he then designed an experiment to arri ve at this result. Not very scie
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by dougSF70 4y ago
MIT brought the SAT back in because its they found it to be the least inequitable way to distinguish suitable candidates
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Exactly!
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Yes, don't forget to be lucky. And don't forget to rewrite history once your idea is a success. If its a failure, its someone else's fault.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
All of those studies were funded by Big Pencil companies...a lot of bias.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Mine is: engineering -> pHD dropout -> advertising -> market research -> analytics -> software dev + ML. Different industries all united by data.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Could you argue that excess hiring is also not a path to guaranteed profitability because it leads to layoffs.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
There is an advertising recession underway. Ad budgets are down and sectors that were heavy spenders have disappeared (crypto for example)...this is having a knock on effect with Media companies (meta, google, amazon)...the downturn was qui
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Ask HN: Low cost GPU cloud compute for budget conscious developers
1 points by dougSF70 4y ago|0 comments
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Fortunately I have not, it sounds like a bad experience. Unfortunately in SF post 1981 (??) apartments are not covered by rent control. I think the optimum landlord is one who owns 2-4 unit buildings that were built before 1980. My new land
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by dougSF70 4y ago
I kinda agree, low interest rates get countries into trouble that only a panademic can reset.
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Turns people in to rent seekers,
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by dougSF70 4y ago
Airbnb is what you get after 10+ years of low interest rates. You also get a template of behaviors seen amongst SF rental landlords: the professional landlords run a tightship and are reasonable to deal with, the landlords that inherited a

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