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by gbronner 7y ago
Bloomberg has its own content management systems, and has data resources and such that CL doesn't have. CL was already losing money -- no harm in right-sizing it.
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Large scale cuts of tech ppl at Morgan Stanley(thelayoff.com)
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Not really -- defamation is extremely hard to win the US, and has to be both demonstrably false and reckless. The fact that he hired a pro investigator (or at least one who professionally held himself out as one) kind of makes 'reckles
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by gbronner 7y ago
Musk apparently hired an 'investigator' who turned out to be a conman who came up with this tidbit. He had no actual knowledge that the guy wasn't a child rapist, and he did use reasonable care to verify his "facts"
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by gbronner 7y ago
Because it "pedo guy" is an insult, which is protected speech.
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It hinged on whether "pedo guy" was an actual attempt to brand someone as a pedophile, or whether it was an insult, which, at least in the US, is protected free speech. Looks like the jury decided the latter.
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I lived in two of these in Madison, WI. I'm not sure if was legal, but my landlord rented each bedroom in half a house individually. Four men, one bathroom, beer cans in the shower (Why?), but the bedrooms all locked individually and
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by gbronner 7y ago
They use hobbes mostly for high speed trade capture and limited querying. KDB is still used extensively for less structured /performant examples.
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Cost estimates are far too low, and fail to include substantial back-loaded pension benefits as well as training and such.
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Quote of the day from the reddit discussion: Just block margin so she can't call you.
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The subject of quantum computing is not changed by the professor's actions in visiting someone who has been accused, but not convicted, of crimes.
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Perhaps "The Circle" wasn't that far off...
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by gbronner 7y ago
Kind of depends if you believe that representation depends on people vs party. The party apparatus is controlled in a not-particularly democratic way, which strongly affects who gets on the ballot, and historically it was possible to win a
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by gbronner 7y ago
I'd assume that IC is running lots of different studies at any particular time, and that pay rates vary by location and by person.
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In NYC, this is a democrat protection scheme. In a few elections, one republican runs against a field of democrats. There's some concern that the Republican might win against a splintered field of Democrats -- can't recall it ever
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by gbronner 7y ago
I'm curious if parents still admonish their kids not to eat wild mushrooms. The first time I was with a family friend and watched him pick and eat wild mushrooms, it was as if I'd discovered a new strain of magic. Today, I'll
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by gbronner 7y ago
At the same time, they passed rent control, and the jurisdictions that have the worst housing crises have the strongest rent control. Once a few people rent out their ADUs and then find that they can't evict their tenants as their need
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by gbronner 7y ago
Actually... you are providing liquidity to the market. Until recently, there was no easy way to transfer wealth intertemporally -- livestock died, grain spoiled, precious metals got stolen, land got invaded, etc. The faith that people have
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by gbronner 7y ago
True story: Friend saw Jeff Bezos waiting in line for 20 minutes for a pizza. He could have paid for an uber copter to drop one on him, or offered 10k to each of the people in front of him. He didn't. He has principles, and the prin
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by gbronner 7y ago
Same with banks. Jeff worked in finance first. Personally, I'd rather have more money than more snacks.
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by gbronner 7y ago
Looks like there were several precedents and regulatory opinions here covering this exact issue, and the 9th Circuit disagreed with them. SC reversed the 9th circuit to maintain consistency. Want change? Get Congress to change the law, beca
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by gbronner 7y ago
Nahh... they'd just make the cheaper product obnoxiously time wasteful so most people upgrade. It doesn't have to stand on its own.
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by gbronner 7y ago
1) 3 9+5 25+7-8 also works if I understand the problem. 2) You can optimize using various number-theoretic principles -- checked division and subtraction 3) C++ is much much faster for this -- less than a second on my boxes. Not sure where
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by gbronner 7y ago
Irish banks had more leverage and more inflated assets.
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by gbronner 7y ago
Never heard of the p2p reputation at Yale. May be true, but have never seen it. My understanding is that it would only help if the kids weren't going to get in on their own merits, and by all accounts, this was not an issue. It is a
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by gbronner 7y ago
Office brokerage is super-inefficient. If you are looking for up to a few thousand square feet, the current search process is terrible and slow. WeWork commoditizes this aspect, and has a reputation for being an expensive, if fair landlor
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I think that they got rid of the rubber ruler, and many of the other asymmetrical bargaining issues that consumers of space faced against large landlords. They do have some scale, and there's always the idea that you can move to a diff
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Helped if the first graduate not only made an absolute fortune, translated a well-known work of classics, and became President...
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From what I've heard and seen of this man: He hires people who are fantastically smart -- literally best I've ever met in many cases. He pays them astronomically -- not just in finance, but also in his medical research thing, and
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I recall talking to the chair of special gifts at an elite institution, and him lamenting that the school had rejected the children of multiple billionaires, making his life much harder. Brown traditionally let a few parents buy their kids

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