jjeaff

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by jjeaff 4y ago
There is just no chance that an n95 being worn even somewhat properly wouldn't significantly reduce your chance of catching COVID or any airborne, respiratory virus. My anecdotal experience, and I think it matches with lots of other pe
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by jjeaff 4y ago
Should go well with your work experience at SVB and Lehman.
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Don't know why everyone doesn't do that!
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The government requesting that the tos of a private company be upheld seems rather mild to me. Did we get the reasons for the requests in the released files? Were they trying to reduce foreign propaganda or public health misinformation or s
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by jjeaff 4y ago
If you were doing it in good faith, you wouldn't need to publish the actual code. Most likely you should publish an article and a flowchart explaining how the algorithm works. Publishing a partial chunk of code just creates a story tha
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by jjeaff 4y ago
No idea about whether bad actors would think twice, but if you are asking about whether having YC attached to your business opens doors, absolutely. I did a startup with a much less well-known incubator VC and that alone got us in so many d
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by jjeaff 4y ago
Feynman doesn't disappoint. Although, I would have liked for him to make clear how quickly we (including physicists like him) get to "we have no idea". Sort of the overall arc of his answer made it seem that, well we know why
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by jjeaff 4y ago
No, get out of crypto. Another big player going down is just yet another bullet hole in crypto's reputation.
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by jjeaff 4y ago
Is there a large, legitimate business anywhere that doesn't have any headquarters at all?
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by jjeaff 4y ago
There was a reason Bernie Madoff was one of the most respected men in finance. He always delivered high returns and always met withdrawal requests promptly. Until one day he didn't.
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by jjeaff 4y ago
I think the Airbnb story is made up. Or at least, I doubt many people told them it would never work. That's just something founders add to their story to make it more appealing. It was basically a web 2.0 clone of VRBO which was alread
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by jjeaff 4y ago
40% of student loan holders did not finish their 4 year degree. Imagine if this were any other product, I think the sellers would be under heavy investigation for perpetuating a big fraud. At the very best, many universities are guilty of f
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by jjeaff 4y ago
Ya, kind of like the genius idea of getting a custom license plate with alternating L's and ones: l1l111l1 Might be hard to read or remember but it sure does stand out.
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by jjeaff 4y ago
Most likely all of it. It is usually laundered through startups and other types with little to lose or who put little effort into reading or complying with legal agreements. These companies then sell it to more legitimate companies who don&
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by jjeaff 4y ago
It's not quite public. You usually would need to setup a company and pay for access to it. Presumably from one of the credit companies.
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by jjeaff 4y ago
I had one recently that asked what mortgage company my brother had used in the past.
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by jjeaff 4y ago
I'm sure they are using the same type of database that the credit reporting companies provide. Not only does it often contain incorrect information, it sometimes asks me detailed financial questions about my adult siblings. How in the
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by jjeaff 4y ago
Thanks for the posted paper. But if SVB was able to borrow against the mark to market value of their collateral, I don't understand why they couldn't remain solvent. Because they had plenty of assets, even at mtm value to cover a
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by jjeaff 4y ago
I think the more niche your product is, the more you need to be plugged in to the market, i.e. know people and understand their needs. You have to find a balance between niche and general.
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by jjeaff 4y ago
It should be noted that an account being flagged by OFAC is one of the many reasons a company might flag an account. And it is probably at the bottom of the list of most common reasons an account gets frozen. So let's not give these co
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by jjeaff 4y ago
Seems unlikely that the target of any suspicion is directed at unaccredited futures traders since by definition, they will have to be dealing in small amounts. Large amounts would make one an accredited investor by definition since high net
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by jjeaff 4y ago
That is an example where it could be blurry, I agree. But if you are suspicious enough to have internal communications about said suspicions and don't make any effort to communicate the same to law enforcement, then the line becomes le
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by jjeaff 4y ago
I think there are a lot of examples of people the state wants to get but can't. And in many cases, common law is what saves said targets. Newer legislation that overrides common law like the Patriot Act or DMCA is what ends up being us
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by jjeaff 4y ago
Sure, but I don't have to sell on Amazon. I can sell through my own website and just pay transaction fees if I want. And many companies do just that now. But good luck trying to sell your new iphone app through your own website. At lea
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by jjeaff 4y ago
No, I understand the liquidity risk involved in having too much tied up in long term treasuries. But I am yet to see evidence that any bank could have withstood a run of that magnitude. Nor have I seen much evidence that most other banks ha
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by jjeaff 4y ago
I haven't seen a lot of evidence yet that SVB was necessarily pursuing a risky strategy. Certainly, proceeding at all without a risk manager is risky in and of itself. However, the "risky" investments that I have heard descri
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by jjeaff 4y ago
I doubt anyone thinks reading those comments are good. They just made the carve out to avoid including news sites in the ban.
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by jjeaff 4y ago
It makes sense that it wouldn't be very good at Go or Rust since both are rather rare languages in the open source world that copilot is trained on. When I did my first go project a few years ago, I had the hardest time finding even ba
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by jjeaff 4y ago
I'm confident enough in most languages I write in to recognize correct code. But I am not usually so familiar that I can conjure the exact syntax for many specialized things I need. Copilot is just a much quicker way to get what I need
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by jjeaff 4y ago
I wonder if that is simply due to orders of magnitude less training data for rust code. Python and JavaScript are ubiquitous. While rust is 7 years old and makes up less than 2% of the code on GitHub.

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