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by gbronner 4y ago
I have a 20 year old Lodge and I also use some of my grandmother's old Lodge/Griswold pans which were polished. My pan is well seasoned and pretty smooth after constant use. I've never noticed any practical difference except
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by gbronner 4y ago
People used to resharpen safety razor blades. Not worth their time. DE razors are fine as long as the blade is sharp, but you have to change it 50-100 times per year, and there's a decent chance of cutting yourself. At least on the fi
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by gbronner 4y ago
I don't think that studying mostly theory is going to convince anyone that you are a good manager. Different if you want to upskill as a programmer
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by gbronner 4y ago
The big arb is living with your parents. Bank high salaries and pay little or nothing in rent. Great way for coastal elites to effectively pass money to their kids
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by gbronner 4y ago
No actually. In my first year working, I felt like I was getting addicted to coffee, and I noticed a 22 year old who had a long commute who seemed to subsist on coffee in the morning, cigarettes in the afternoon, and beer at night. He seem
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by gbronner 4y ago
For the last twenty or so years, I've given it up for a month each year. I don't see much difference
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by gbronner 4y ago
A wise investor once told me that if you own one house, you are essentially flat on the housing market. If you own two or more, you are an investor, and if you own zero, you are short the housing market. Most homeowners will not benefit fro
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by gbronner 4y ago
Costco employees are unionized. They are also insanely fast and very good. You cannot hire someone with those skills off the street, and the Costco wage scale reflects that -- a 5th year employee can easily earn double what an entry level
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by gbronner 5y ago
I kept stats for a couple of years on large numbers of quant financial interviews. Typically up to 15 roughly 30 minute interviews per hired candidate. The probability of getting hired seemed to go to up significantly by interview number u
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by gbronner 5y ago
There was a Reddit thread a few months ago that gave a recipe for extracting 7k out of New York sports books with relatively low risk or bankroll. Whitney Tilson highlighted it. If you have a decent grasp of probability and the discipline t
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by gbronner 5y ago
Nobody seems to have mentioned that you can probably learn as much in 4 years at MIT as in 5-6 years at Z. The courses at MIT are going to be more rigorous and likely cover more stuff, and the ancillary learning / problem set sessions
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by gbronner 5y ago
There was a lot of good literature that came out of the international brigades of the Spanish civil war
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by gbronner 5y ago
My experience with union guys is that the contractors know who is good and who isn't, and the bad or slow workers get a lot less work or get returned to the hiring hall in favor of a different worker.
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by gbronner 5y ago
I've blown up a number of them. Kind of reminds me of exploding a hard boiled egg- if you get unlucky, the inside turns to powder which is now all over your oven/ house
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by gbronner 5y ago
I got my current job through an internal company recruiter. He's the best I've ever seen in this business -- the introduction was extremely well targeted, the process was very low-pressure, and he's measured on the long-term
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by gbronner 5y ago
The problem is that the politicians do not regulate the speed at which people can lose money. Gambling is exciting, but the level of excitement is relatively independent of the amount wagered. I think Montana limits stakes to small amount
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by gbronner 5y ago
Pointsbet has a bet that pays a linear dollar amount * (winner -loser)^2 - some specified number. And yes, this can be negative and severely so. E.g. $10* (winning margin squared - 225). This is not a bet that needs to exist. Nobody is l
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by gbronner 5y ago
Probably worth reading about Asymmetric numeral systems first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric_numeral_systems
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by gbronner 5y ago
I think that the implication is that if each individual hunts individually, they mostly get nothing, and every so often get an entire animal which is too large for one person/family to eat, so the expected value of this strategy is low
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by gbronner 5y ago
The objective function is weighted average number of guesses, with some penalty factor for >6 (aka losing), and optionally different weights for getting it in 1,2,3,4,5,6 And you can solve it in a tree- at least for the lower levels when
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by gbronner 5y ago
I'm curious how this will affect the price of nfts
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by gbronner 5y ago
Practice sound risk management! I still have a coffee cup and a a garment bag that I bought for 10$
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by gbronner 5y ago
I worked with a guy who collected stock certificates of dead startups that he'd worked at, and displayed then in frames on his wall. I think he called them good misspent youth. The Lehman Brothers risk management/principles cube
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by gbronner 5y ago
Life insurance is mostly a passthrough from the living to the families of the dead Most people never use the product.
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by gbronner 5y ago
Jamaica Ginger and the Jake Walk. A lot of people were crippled by bad booze adulterated with other bad things
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by gbronner 5y ago
I saw a video that suggested that the sriracha guys have an area roughly 1/3rd the size of manhattan under cultivation. Nobody cares what those peppers look like, and the tilling, planting, and harvesting, washing, and crushing are all
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by gbronner 5y ago
I work with a 75 year olds who is on the road 100+ days each year. He's happy, company is happy, and the job isn't very physically demanding. This will become more common
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by gbronner 5y ago
I did something like this with jupyter and the census records. I added filters for min and max popularity, gender ratio, scrabble score, number of syllables, length, etc.
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by gbronner 5y ago
I wrote a Python api for q 15 years ago. Look at c.h; there are only a few types that you need to translate
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by gbronner 5y ago
As a legislator, he'll have a very good reason to get a concealed carry permit...

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