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by lokar 7mo ago
This reads pretty bad, and I believe it was. I worked on (and was at least partly responsible for) systems that do the same thing he described. It took constant force of will, fighting, escalation, etc to hold the line and maintain some b
872.
by lokar 7mo ago
He is, I think, Swiss, perhaps a cultural difference?
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by lokar 7mo ago
And? How is that novel? I read the site as saying the have a new, and better solution to how to do internet scale routing (in an overlay network, but that did not seem like a critical aspect)
874.
by lokar 7mo ago
I think it's mostly not needed, but there are a lot of edge cases or narrow situations where it's important. They could be fixed, but no one is doing that. IMO, a better option is to switch to 3 days/week delivery, and where
875.
by lokar 7mo ago
That is a remarkably content-free website. I tried (I think) all of the obvious pages, but still don't know in any detail, how do they handle routing differently from the normal internet. Can anyone explain? They complain that routin
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by lokar 7mo ago
A lot of the USPS budget is from delivering bulk mail. They already fail to break even (albeit with absurd retirement funding rules imposed on them). Without the fees from bulk mail they would need to raise prices, and it's not entir
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by lokar 7mo ago
The underwriters take almost no risk, and have a much higher upside compared to the risk they do take. You should never view the participation of a bank in underwriting an IPO as any kind of endorsement of the long (or even mid) term prosp
878.
by lokar 7mo ago
This is exactly what they are hoping for, and why wall street is playing along, they all see the chance to soak a bunch of suckers.
879.
by lokar 7mo ago
I sent a note to my rep at Vanguard warning that they better not change the VTI rules to buy into this scam.
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by lokar 7mo ago
But even for something like starlink we have not been given enough details to understand if it would ever be a good business, and I doubt we will.
881.
by lokar 7mo ago
For most retail investors, Musk connected securities are a lifestyle product, not an investment.
882.
by lokar 7mo ago
Index funds track an index, thus the name
883.
by lokar 7mo ago
I don't know about the funds, but it's really about the index. Both for the index funds that use the index, and the active mutual funds and index funds benchmark to that index.
884.
by lokar 7mo ago
And even with that, they give themselves some room for tracking error, I think.
885.
by lokar 7mo ago
Matt Levine wrote (uh, yesterday?) that the Nasdaq 100 was adding it (not a full linear weighting....) right now to accommodate this scam.
886.
by lokar 7mo ago
Oh, it's just in the hash input. So if you don't use the right ID when you check the hash, it fails.
887.
by lokar 7mo ago
Biggest by capital depreciation, no?
888.
by lokar 7mo ago
And despite popular opinion, he is not an AI :)
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by lokar 7mo ago
They are only selling a small % of the shares in the IPO and subsequent weeks. With a tiny float the price will almost certainly go up as a limited number of enthusiastic investors buy in. The plan is to then line up the lockup expirations
890.
by lokar 7mo ago
The SpaceX profit is EBITDA, not real. And presumably includes massive starlink depreciation and stock based comp.
891.
by lokar 7mo ago
if they weighted (fully) by float (perhaps the average float from the trailing 90 days to the re-balance) it would not be as easy to game. The Nasdaq is accounting for float, but not completely.
892.
by lokar 7mo ago
Also, would individual funds that track the S&P have left themselves some wiggle room to delay this if they wanted?
893.
by lokar 7mo ago
And Boyle, IMO, is a great presenter, in part because he is so deadpan
894.
by lokar 7mo ago
What if (and this is perhaps to big an if), you only ever serialize and de-serialize with code generated from the IDL, which always checks the magic numbers (returning a typed object(?
895.
by lokar 7mo ago
No, I'm pretty sure they are saying you need to transmit it
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by lokar 7mo ago
AIUI, a current common tactic for the Russians is sending many small groups of untrained "solders" out probe the front lines and try to penetrate undefended spots. They take a ton of casualties, but some make it through, and they
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by lokar 7mo ago
I'm not sure I understand. Why would a standard library, a collection of what would otherwise be a bunch of independent libraries, bundled together, be more confusing than the same (or probably more) independent libraries published on
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by lokar 7mo ago
And I think the Go people seem to do a fairly good job of picking out the best and most universal ideas from these outside efforts and folding them in.
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by lokar 7mo ago
For me, the v2 re-writes, as well as the "x" semi-official repo are a major strength. They tell me there is a trustworthy team working on this stuff, but obviously not everything will always be as great as you might want, but the
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by lokar 7mo ago
Golang seems to do a good job of keeping the standard library up to date and clean

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