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by mason55 3y ago
> Heck, you can buy VIX for CDS... let’s think about that for a second... that’s a mortgage, packed into a portfolio Are you thinking MBS maybe? CDS is credit default swap, has nothing to do with mortgages
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by mason55 3y ago
I think that Copilot is much better/more promising for this kind of thing because it's looking at the code you've already written without you having to constantly prompt it. I had a lot of the same hangups as you when I had p
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by mason55 4y ago
In addition to what other posters have said, I think some of it is just historical. Before we had the ability to manufacture & detect new isotopes & new elements, we really did discover them. We could go poke around, explore new co
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by mason55 4y ago
> Pynchon's writing style is rather interesting in that reading it, for me at least, requires dedicated concentration for multiple pages until the point when I get 'sucked into' the book and then it flows Yeah, my proble
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by mason55 4y ago
> I am yet to meet competent developers who have ever given two hoots about “super fastest browser #1!!” blog posts over feature completed-ness / spec-compliance. I'd like to think I'm a competent dev. I use Safari as my
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by mason55 4y ago
> It's things like deciphering what the customer needs, it's picking a good architecture for a new module or selecting an appropriate algorithm depending on various trade-offs, and figuring out how to integrate new features in
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by mason55 4y ago
I live in the mountains in Colorado and DarkSky was by far the best UX for viewing upcoming weather. The way they presented projected hourly snowfall was especially good, as was the projected snowfall by day. With Apple Weather, you get a
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by mason55 4y ago
In the case of &&, the left hand side of the expression (Tuner t) isn't a boolean expression. In the case of "if", you're right, the grammar doesn't work, both because the syntax of Java already says that th
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by mason55 4y ago
I'm not a quant or banker but I don't think that's true. When a credit event is triggered, there's an auction for recovery of the defaulted bonds/loans, and then recovery is what's left from par. In addition,
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by mason55 4y ago
Yeah, if there’s too much cash sloshing around then this idea helps because the banks don’t need to find places to put all their deposits. What happens normally though is that everyone banks at the Fed and the banks don’t have any deposits
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by mason55 4y ago
> Did nobody learn the lessons on this? I'm not sure you learned the lessons. Other than MBS being coincidentally involved, this has literally nothing to do with 2008.
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by mason55 4y ago
> Daily reminder that bank runs wouldn't be a thing if we did duration matching, forbidding banks from borrowing short and lending long. Yes but this is a valuable service for the economy and so society has decided that it's
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by mason55 4y ago
> My own observation is that it's more important for managers to be well-organized, remember details, and keep track of things It's interesting, I feel like this applies to a line manager. Once you get beyond that you can ju
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by mason55 4y ago
> Or are you proposing only the smartass octupuses survive? Yes, that's how evolution works. Some octopus is a little bit smarter than the others and is able to escape a predator by hiding in a hole. She doesn't get eaten t
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by mason55 4y ago
I replaced drinking with weed for awhile but I noticed I wasn't feeling all that much better. Then I started tracking my sleep with an Apple Watch and found that with both alcohol and pot, the amount of deep sleep I get is super impac
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by mason55 4y ago
If you can't learn from your parents then the more you can figure out on your own, the better your chances of survival. And intelligence allows each individual to figure out things on their own and adapt to new situations even better
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by mason55 4y ago
> living in a far lower cost area than SF or Seattle If you're talking about DMV, it's not that different. This random calculator has SF[1] as 15% more expensive and Seattle[2] as slightly less expensive [1] https:/&#x2
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by mason55 4y ago
IMO the two important parts of meeting notes are 1. Decisions and supporting details 2. Action items with dates and assignees Those should be sent out to all attendees of the meeting (or written in a place that's accessible to everyone
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by mason55 4y ago
> I wonder if it will even save them much money this year They also get to account for it differently. The severance payments can be written off as a one-time charge, so from that perspective they get to take the GAAP benefits this ye
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by mason55 4y ago
> but this is an absolute fail on the job application, unless the goal is to filter out intelligent people who have naturally curious minds. Not sure why you think this is a crazy goal for a retail job. If you can't figure out th
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by mason55 4y ago
I’d love to switch to fake meat, even if it is more expensive. But it’s also usually less healthy (more sodium, more calories per serving). If someone makes a fake lean chicken breast or 93%ground turkey then I’d happily switch over.
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by mason55 4y ago
Ken Liu, who translated the first and third books, is a respected English sci fi writer in his own right, as well as being a native Chinese speaker. I felt the same as you about the prose but, given Liu’s background and having read his othe
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by mason55 4y ago
Yes, I agree 100%. But until you get to the point where it's fully automated and running through CI/CD then you're constantly fighting new manual steps and ways to do things. > And when they use it, they're likely t
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by mason55 4y ago
I remember when that article first made the rounds. I had been doing something like that for a few years already and the article did a good job making all the same points I would have made. In hindsight, the biggest challenge that I'v
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by mason55 4y ago
I just stuck a door sensor on the nursery and have the space heater turn on if the door is closed for two minutes (and back off when it’s open for two minutes). Perfect mix for us. Not (much) to break in the automation.
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by mason55 4y ago
That’s interesting. Where I grew up in central Ohio, we had a whole year of “Ohio history” in, I think, 4th grade. We spent a ton of time on the Ohio mound builders and even took a class trip to see the mounds. https://en.m.wik
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by mason55 4y ago
One perspective on tipping that made me feel a little different is that it can act as a form of progressive pricing or a sliding scale or “pay what your can afford” It allows places to keep base prices as cheap as possible, which means lots
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by mason55 4y ago
Of course, no argument there. Ideally when you make that kind of decision you take reputational risk into account, as well as, like, is this an existential risk? The airline industry feels like one where each year it's a different car
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by mason55 4y ago
Or "we decided that the cost to plan for this is so high that it's not even worth testing. If it happens then we're fucked anyway and we'll just eat it."
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by mason55 4y ago
> It would not surprise me that their back-office operations are likewise economized and some things are just not done because "they can never happen." Meh, it doesn't even have to be "never". It just has to b

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