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by em500 4y ago
Which European operating system is that? Android is built on AOSP and the Linux kernel, neither is particularly European.
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by em500 4y ago
Because it reduces food spoiling. Without some deeper research, it's not clear cut whether the benefits of plastic packaging reduction outweigh the costs of extra spoilage. IIRC analysis from Wageningen University suggested that they d
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by em500 4y ago
For those who missed the Matrix tech demo from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU0gvPcc3jQ
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by em500 4y ago
Many moons ago when I worked in the finance sector, I noticed that a huge amount of work in the industry appear to comprise many groups of humans writing a elaborate stories around a few tables of numbers, while a bunch of other groups were
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by em500 4y ago
German (and most other non-US) companies offer much lower compensations for devs than US companies. This is an aspect that I find most often overlooked in the complaints about tough US dev interviews. The compensation for US devs is extreme
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by em500 4y ago
> Printing money causing inflation has got to be one of the simplest things in economics to understand. Increase supply of thing, thing becomes worth less. One more easy things in economics to understand is that your second sentence is o
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by em500 4y ago
I realize this is in jest, but Minecraft is owned by Microsoft, and the prime directive of FB/Meta in the last 10-15 years is to own their own platform instead of building on top of platforms owned by other tech giants.
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by em500 4y ago
You're in good company if you find that outrageous. But the (speculative) reasoning is not so much to keep them competitive , but to keep borrowing cheap . In the real world, lots of people want to borrow money for 3, 5 or 10 years
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by em500 4y ago
Cochrane's speculates a bit about the Fed's motives near the end. He doesn't think they're outright evil, in cahoots with the incumbent commercial banks, etc. He thinks it's a misguided attempt to cross-subsidize th
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by em500 4y ago
Try to count the number of helmets you can spot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqQSwQLDIK8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynwMN3Z9Og8 In Amsterdam if we see adult cyclists with a helmet we'd guess i
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by em500 4y ago
This depends very much on local circumstances. In our local daycare in Amsterdam, probably 3/4 of dropping and picking up was done by bike. Even at that level, using a car is often slower due to tightness of parking space.
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by em500 4y ago
Most Dutch parents don't bother with harnesses in cargo bikes. Or with helmets on normal bikes.
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by em500 4y ago
I think you misread GP: he's saying that in inner London it's difficult to have a car, not to avoid having one, mostly because parking space is very limited. What exactly are you interested in, about life such cities? I live in Am
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by em500 4y ago
Banks are slow moving institutions. I think most have not yet come to grips with the idea of a bunch of 20-somethings getting handed millions of $ for a nice plan but with $0 revenue. OTOH, SVB was supposed to be specialized in such cases.
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by em500 4y ago
Emeritus a University of Chicago finance professor John Cochrane has been screaming for years that the whole design of more and more regulations combined with all sorts of implicit ex-post creditor insurance is structurally unstable and all
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by em500 4y ago
No comment on the size, but in what world is it unusual for South Koreans to invest and build in South Korea?
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by em500 4y ago
The main draw of the auctions for me is that there is no initial setup fee, which makes experimenting a lot cheaper.
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by em500 4y ago
You can browser the countless HN or even Reddit threads and it's always filled immediately with one of the few standard explanations (which are all in the Monty Hall Wikipedia article). None of the "endless discussions" actua
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by em500 4y ago
The puzzle is is commonly stated is not how any TV show ever worked. In a real (repeated) TV show the host behavior will be non-deterministic, and will sometimes be benign, sometimes adverse, to increase the suspense and ratings. If the hos
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by em500 4y ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem#Other_host_...
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by em500 4y ago
Yup. Wikipedia contains a discussion on host behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem#Other_host_... In fact, the Wikipedia Monty Hall article discusses pretty much any aspect of the problem that anyo
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by em500 4y ago
Yes, in many formulations the unstated assumptions that the host (a) will always open a door after your initial pick, and (b) that it's always one without a car behind it. Making the assumptions explicitly makes the solution and intuit
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by em500 4y ago
Ok, but since they now only have a small fraction instead of everything stored at SVB, they wouldn't have to withdraw all their deposits from all their different accounts when word gets out that SVB is unsafe. An being explicitly fully
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by em500 4y ago
Splitting deposits to stay under the 250k limit would have reduced funding for this specific, narrow focused bank with an exceptionally high duration risk. It's less likely that the customers would try to pull 250k from 4 bank accounts
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by em500 4y ago
It's not a technological problem. The Fed doesn't want narrow banks that only only keeps deposits safe and are deliberately blocking their formation. John Cochrane speculated that the Fed is forcing deposits into risk taking lende
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by em500 4y ago
Banks will extend all the credit you need if you have billions of t-bills as collateral. No need to actually have millions (let alone billions) in actual deposits.
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by em500 4y ago
Very intensive environmentally unsustainable industrial farming https://dutchreview.com/culture/dutch-nitrogen-crisis-explai...
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by em500 4y ago
Of course they have a choice: money market funds and T-Bills. If you're handling millions in cash, you're supposed to know about these.
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by em500 4y ago
But the reason why they'd take a massive haircut if sold today is that when they get the principal back in 10 years it will probably be worth a lot less. Their assets are completely liquid, they're just worth a lot less right now
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by em500 4y ago
I still don't get what you're trying to say. If a startup fails, equity holders lose everything, same as in bank failures. But startups don't have depositors. Bank depositors always get 100% up to the FDIC limit, but deposito

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