ivalm

86 ms·

931.
by ivalm 6y ago
I run Ubuntu 20.04 on 3700x/Gigabyte Aorus Ultra/2080ti/32gb ram/970 evo plus and so far everything is OK, although I can't seem to pair my headphones via bluetooth. Had some lock ups with vscode but that seems to h
932.
by ivalm 7y ago
But .org has a semantic monopoly on “gTLD for NGOs”. If I want to start a new non profit I want a .org, not a .com. One is not an alternative for the other.
933.
by ivalm 7y ago
> Fortunately it's also what allows you to move somewhere else where it works much better. You mean like moving from .org domain to something else? The whole point is that certain resources (like gTLD) are global in nature.
934.
by ivalm 7y ago
But the young adult has agency over outcome while the bank doesn’t. Normally the bank would take collateral to align interests.
935.
by ivalm 7y ago
Asset values can just increase. Alice who has $10 and 0 units buys 10 units from Bob who has 10 units and $0 dollars. Alice then sell back to Bob 5 units for $10 dollars. Alice now has 5 units (worth $10) and $10, Bob now has 5 units (worth
936.
by ivalm 7y ago
State worker pensions are generally product of union negotiation.
937.
by ivalm 7y ago
Yeah, that was my intent, when (while) it is suffocating competition things are ok to good, not so much after.
938.
by ivalm 7y ago
When the monopoly suffocates competitors it is usually by offering goods and services at below market price (which benefits the consumers). Edit: maybe “while” would make my intent clearer? I understand it leads to worse pricing/progre
939.
by ivalm 7y ago
OP was sarcastic.
940.
by ivalm 7y ago
Bailouts are there to create incentives for the future. In the future companies know they can save money by going to tax haven but potentially not get a bailout.
941.
by ivalm 7y ago
I work for a large healthcare org. We just had a hiring freeze and have to work hard to justify extending existing contracts with our contractors. At the same time, I am unsure how this will long term impact the org. Utilization of most ser
942.
by ivalm 7y ago
Hedge funds can benefit from PPP as well, after all, in terms of employee count they are a "small business" and they are negatively affected by COVID: https://www.pkfod.com/insights/are-hedge-fund-managers-eli
943.
by ivalm 7y ago
but they WERE going to stay open anyways. This is literally free money. They burn 2.4M/year and recently raised 10M. They could stay open even without this free money. This money is a bonus, it doesn't fully pay for the burn but i
944.
by ivalm 7y ago
TLDR: Lepton mixing was proposed as a possible source of CP violation in the 60s but experimental evidence obtained only now. They only got 3-sigma statistics which is not quite the standard 5-sigma, but more experiments are upcoming. Poten
945.
by ivalm 7y ago
But how do you fight against profiteering we saw in the beginning with Amazon resellers of PPE. They would scour stores, creating scarcity, then resell at large profit to the same people who would normally buy from the very same stores that
946.
by ivalm 7y ago
There is nothing concrete in what he said. US cities don’t even make the list of top50 most dense cities. Chinese and Japanese cities where coronavirus was contained are on the list: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news&
947.
by ivalm 7y ago
They own minority of voting shares and control minority of the board. Since Adam’s shares are still his he has the control.
948.
by ivalm 7y ago
But then that’s a physical move. Plenty of companies have their executives/leadership in a location that is different from the taxable entity. If all the headquarters and executives physically resided in Caiman islands or Ireland or ev
949.
by ivalm 7y ago
Owner and servicer are different companies. Servicer does not own the loan, they simply paid an upfront cost to have the right to collect payments from homeowners (from which they take a cut). So the owner can sell their MBS to Fed to reduc
950.
by ivalm 7y ago
More complicated is that the shorts on MBS which mortgage servicers use to hedge their exposure to non performing loans are also losing money. As Fed buys more and more MBS the loan services can no longer recoup money via their hedge, can’t
951.
by ivalm 7y ago
Can't have livelihood if you aren't alive!
952.
by ivalm 7y ago
And just as i posted this we went into hiring freeze, sorry folks!
953.
by ivalm 7y ago
Kaiser Permanente Medical Informatics | Machine Learning Engineers and Scientists (Data Science Team), Backend Engineers (Applications Team) | San Diego, CA | ONSITE after the virus subsides Medical Informatics team develops clinical decisi
954.
by ivalm 7y ago
My story does not imply that at all. Prevailing interest rates are low so investors seeking returns are willing to take increased risks, especially if the bond is still prime (so as to match their mandate). Thus the rise of BBB. At the same
955.
by ivalm 7y ago
There is a twitter thread that looked into public court documents: https://mobile.twitter.com/chick_in_kiev/status/124049711317...
956.
by ivalm 7y ago
This interesting and really shows the power of social distancing. I believe this is also why China/Korea/Taiwan/Singapore were able to overcome the disease. The virus doesn’t spread well without close contact.
957.
by ivalm 7y ago
I still don’t get your point? All I am saying companies shouldn’t debt finance buy backs. It doesn’t matter the source or target.
958.
by ivalm 7y ago
Capital market participants? Lots of people buy bonds... I am not sure where you are going
959.
by ivalm 7y ago
Mitochondria do produce a lot of free radicals. Probably energy expensive to maintain cells like that.
960.
by ivalm 7y ago
I already answered this in a sister comment. There are at least 3 candidates (Chloroquine , Remdesivir, Favipiravir ) and they are all unlikely to work.

More ›