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by jnwatson 4y ago
Perhaps I’m morbid, or just interested in medicine, but I really appreciate when some detail about the cause of death is provided in an obituary. Not only is it a useful memento mori, but it also reflects the conscientious planning by the
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I maintain a small open source Python module written in C. I can't use the limited API (I use stuff outside it), so I have to maintain a build matrix. If you want to see what a decent-sized Python build matrix looks like, take a gand
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Exactly. I'm staff at Google.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The desperate stay.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Lots of staff devs do nothing but coordinate and plan technology.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I got the impression that a majority of folks left took the severance offer. This means he’s looking to cut even more. Who is going to be left?
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Is this for real? I hope a historian is following Musk around and taking notes, because this will make a delicious movie about hubris and its limits.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Uncut pork belly isn’t bacon. Both are delicious, but definitely not the same thing.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
But... Costco already sells apparel. I buy a lot of clothing there.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The current evidence is this wasn't a Ponzi by SBF. It was incompetence at the absolute grandest level.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Right, if you live in West Virginia, it is entirely possible to never have a break even point, as in, it will never save CO2 to buy an EV.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
As a Ukrainian, you lose special status in going to the UK if you start living somewhere else.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
That’s demonstrably false. Each EV is an immediate ~13k kg hit on CO2. Average ICE passenger car is .4 kg CO2 per mile. Even if you have a source of zero carbon energy to power the EV, that’s 32500 miles of driving an ICE before you brea
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I just tried to arrange a visit to London for this Christmas just for tourism. After my girlfriend spent 3 hours trying to get a tourist visa (she's from Ukraine), she finally gave up. It seems the only way to go is pay $800 to the co
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Does anyone have the electrical details of an electric semi? How long does it take to charge? I just did the math. A full 200 gallon tank of diesel is 7.6 Mwh.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Good to know. My 440i has warned a few times, but never triggered. Looks like BMW has calibrated it pretty well.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The biggest vulnerability in a corporation is that the interests of management and ownership (the shareholders) aren’t aligned. A common situation repeated over and over is that a manager has the opportunity to take huge risks for a big bon
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You can’t make this stuff up. This would make an amazingly funny movie.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
One new item I learned: "The largest asset on FTX’s balance sheet was $2.2 billion in Serum (SRM) tokens — another project where SBF is a cofounder. The free float on SRM is currently $120 million..." The hubris is stunning.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Why is it greedy to ask for money in exchange for content? They are being transparent.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
He was penalized for sure: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/7508-17#:~:text... It does help to be a former US Senator and governor.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
They are not double checked for the same reason why the FTX CEO got leverage numbers wrong due to poorly labelled accounting ledgers: these folks are making it up as they go, and don't want to pay adults to look over things.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
I have direct knowledge of several bank hacks. Most of the time they don’t publish it.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
It wasn’t a Ponzi scheme, at least based on what’s publicly known. This is just investing with client funds, which the US learned the hard way must be carefully restricted. The US has the Glass-Steagall Act, and deposit insurance to try to
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by jnwatson 4y ago
You act as if the NSA is one monolithic hive mind. They have offensive cats and defensive cats, and they don’t talk to each other as much as you’d think they do.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
Odds and expected value are different. There are plenty of 90% plays in options trading. There aren't in the casino. Expected value though...
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by jnwatson 4y ago
The great thing about options, like sports gambling, is you can find an option play that will give you whatever odds you want. You can bet the underlying goes up, that it doesn't go up, that it moves in either direction, that it does
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by jnwatson 4y ago
That's like saying you can rent out a burning house. It is technically true, but folks usually like to preserve their initial capital while making income. There Ain't No Free Lunch in options. Covered calls give up potential ups
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by jnwatson 4y ago
That's 80% due to the "what color is your function" problem. There are bridges from async to sync and vice versa, but they must be used very sparingly, as they aren't nestable.
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by jnwatson 4y ago
As soon as someone isn’t improving a property, it isn’t a flipper. Sitting on property exposes them to market risk and makes them a regular corporate landlord.

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