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by jmalicki 6y ago
Not a typo, a totally appropriate word. The conversations buoyed the shares, they did not buy them. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/buoyi...
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by jmalicki 6y ago
If you buy a share of GME from Citadel Securities, that may typically result in an immediate unhedged short position at Citadel, if they weren't already holding it. Normally, a market maker might then close it by buying a share from so
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by jmalicki 6y ago
> They're not selling items for profit. https://shop.amnestyusa.org/ Not-for-profit firms make profits all of the time, and while I'm not familiar with UK tax codes, at least in the US the only fuzzy line is th
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Couldn't you say the same for, say washing machines? You: I just bought a washing machine on Amazon Amazon: "Here are some ads for more washing machines, in case you're an enthusiastic collector!"
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seconding InitialLastName, this is one of the few cases where decimated is used appropriately with its initial meaning
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For a long time timber (as in, owning a forest and letting people log it occasionally) has been one of the favorites of large endowments and hedge funds. https://investmentsandwealth.org/getattachment/cc0f7589-7411...
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by jmalicki 6y ago
The primary point is easy access to nature from a metro area. Other than easy access to nature, all of those points are true for major metro areas. But other than say, Salt Lake City, does any other metro area offer such close access to na
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Here is one reference, others I've seen are similar: https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD-HealthProfessiona... There is not complete consensus, but a lot of the large deltas are due to Vitamin D being fat so
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by jmalicki 6y ago
I won't claim the system isn't corrupt at all... but if you were taking a job where the expectations were ridiculously high and there was a pretty chance you'd get fired possibly for things outside of your control, and in a w
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CTEs (common table expressions) and views definitely do help with this, though they are new-ish where they exist and often have optimization issues. But being able to use them extensively in a newer database where they work well helps this
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I have heard that a lot for trademarks , do you have reference for copyrights ?
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Also note that even for established patents, a ton of standards standardized patented technology, and implementing the standard requires a patent license! This is a huge part of how Qualcomm makes its patent revenue from 3G/4G impleme
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The IBM implementation of SQL far predates the ISO standard. Does something being standardized somehow relinquish the copyright? The idea of APIs being copyrightable is new, has IBM somehow relinquished its copyright claims for SQL to ISO
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I would love to see IBM try to sue Oracle for the entirety of its history of database revenues over its use of their SQL API...
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You also misunderstand hash tables.. they are not merely expected constant time, they are amortized constant time.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/murky-truth-...
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Not the above poster, but I concur, and recommend Jaynes' "Probability: the logic of science" for the philosophy and history, and "Breakthroughs in statistics" volumes 1 and 2 for the history as told through origina
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by jmalicki 6y ago
This sentence was quite the meta-contradiction: "Prominent leaders include co-founders Lucien Febvre (1878–1956), Henri Hauser (1866-1946) and Marc Bloch (1886–1944). The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel (1902–1985) and in
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by jmalicki 6y ago
ATAPI and SATA are also SCSI at their core. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_Packet_Interface
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Truly obese people can benefit a lot from just walking, as they're not trained enough to need high intensity exercise to keep it up. Gyms are pretty horrible places for spreading COVID and other respiratory infections, as they involve
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by jmalicki 6y ago
An apartment complex I lived in was fined tens of thousands of dollars for improper waste sorting. This incented the complex staff to at least invest heavily in education and installed new cameras next to the dumpsters...
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by jmalicki 6y ago
GDP is much more like revenue than earnings... but 1.7x price/sales ratio is still on the low end.
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While it may not be an explicit penalty at time of prepayment, the risk of losing revenue due to prepayment/refinancing if interest rates drop is definitely modeled priced into the terms of the loan, just as the risk of you going bankr
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Is said a/b test supported or funded by the Department of Health and Human Services? If not, that website clearly indicates that the regulations do not apply.
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Why do you think that law is necessarily deontological? There are many areas of the law in the US that tilt towards consequentialism, such as antitrust law (does it harm the consumer?)
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by jmalicki 6y ago
Correction, NZ is a 2 (it is a CDC level 1 advisory, which makes it a State Dept. level 2). Still, only Taiwan and Macau have level 1 (the safest level) advisories, so the State Dept. is calling NZ one of the safest 11 countries in the wor
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by jmalicki 6y ago
For some of the "clever tricks" at higher levels, Hacker's Delight is a great treasure trove - it's not x86-64 specific, as a lot of the tricks are applicable to many CPUs, but it helps understand some of the seemingly b
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by jmalicki 6y ago
For context, the Starbucks app on Android is 92MB. My bank's app is 180MB. They might have assets, but modern app size has become ridiculous.
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Is this a wealth gap reduction scheme? After all, the ultimate investors (outside of sovereign wealth funds at least) are usually pension funds, which tend to be pretty middle class. The beneficiaries of VC here are usually the upper midd
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Bankruptcy fraud? https://money.howstuffworks.com/personal-finance/debt-manage... Edit: specifically fraudulent conveyance, such as discussed here: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law&#

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