nostromo95

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by nostromo95 9y ago
How did you do pricing, if I might ask? Did you calculate the expected benefit of the data to funds, look at prices of similar data offerings, or etc.?
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by nostromo95 9y ago
>The company's balance sheet looks good because they don't have to pay any pensions yet. Companies under GAAP accounting actually do have to carry their pension liabilities/assets on their balance sheet and have to report
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by nostromo95 9y ago
You’re mixing up equilibrium payoff and Nash Equilibrium (which is a strategy profile). Yes, the payoffs of player A randomizing and player B playing scissors is the same as both players randomizing, but observe that this profile of
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by nostromo95 9y ago
Hopefully “don’t take pictures/videos of your peers/friends without their (implied) permission” becomes a more widely distributed social more for the next generation. Can’t believe it isn’t already.
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by nostromo95 9y ago
I imagine it’s literally as arbitrary/inane as you’d guess — they want to keep their official private valuation propped up.
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by nostromo95 9y ago
>Hiroshima Don’t know if you’ve ever read this, but here you go: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
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by nostromo95 9y ago
Yeah, I agree in part. But many do call all puns bad (bad). The emergence of bad (good) probably followed this. I also think that the bad-awful spectrum is missing a category: the sublime/artful pun. See Shakespeare: >Now is the
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by nostromo95 9y ago
First off, Fowler's lines aren't an aphorism. If they are, then all quotes are aphorisms. Was it an appeal to authority? Sure. Fowler was a genius. I'll more readily accept his authority than some pseudonymous user's
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by nostromo95 9y ago
>The most common being when the main purpose of the wit is not to entertain but to showcase the punner's cleverness. Not to get bogged down by minutiae, but I'd argue that wit and ostentation are two separate things, and th
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by nostromo95 9y ago
Ha, who said that? Stating your opinion as aphorism doesn't make it true. The application of wit seems to me to only be a positive. Humor brings joy. Adding wit to a conversation makes it strictly better.
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by nostromo95 9y ago
To quote a better man than me: >The assumption that puns are per se contemptible, betrayed by the habit of describing every pun not as a pun , but as a bad pun or a feeble pun , is a sign at once of sheepish docility and desire to
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by nostromo95 9y ago
Read it several years ago -- it's my favorite book. The way the story progresses from the initial setup is masterful. I'm honestly still shocked that Nostromo isn't the first book that people associate with Conrad, given th
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by nostromo95 9y ago
No, you can replicate the option exactly if you keep re-weighting the debt and stock ownership. Granted, this is only really feasible for large institutional investors, but you can do it.
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by nostromo95 9y ago
Sure, if the option is striking at $9.11 and the underlying asset has an actual value of $5.62, then it's out of the money. That doesn't mean that the option is worthless or even close to worthless though. VC-backed companies ar
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by nostromo95 9y ago
Simple derivatives like calls and puts are unbannable . Observe that I can replicate the payoff of a call option by borrowing money to buy the stock [1] or replicate a put by shorting a stock and lending money. [1] http://people
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by nostromo95 9y ago
Yes! Those books are a delight.
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by nostromo95 9y ago
Those are running spikes. Runners use them in track/XC for races/intense workouts. No one wears them for all or even close to the majority of their running. They're also very stiff in the exact same way that feet aren&#x27
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by nostromo95 9y ago
Au contraire! My tips aren't describing good form, as much as describing the conditions that lead to good form. A subtle but important difference.
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by nostromo95 9y ago
>I only run in Vibrams, it's plainly much better Let me know the next time you see Asbel Kiprop, Eliud Kipchoge or Evan Jager wearing a pair of those.
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by nostromo95 9y ago
>swing them moderately (not too little, not too much) Just had to point out this delicious tautology. Anyway, I don't think you can sum up correct running form in words, or if you can then it's not useful. My advice would be:
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by nostromo95 10y ago
Ha, I'd still say it's possible for people to believe (say, >75% probability) that self-driving cars will come in the next five years AND have a good reason not to take you up on the bet. Namely, in the event they lose the bet
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by nostromo95 10y ago
I mean there's a rational financial reason why someone optimistic about self-driving cars would be hesitant to take your bet -- they're magnifying their risk wrt self-driving cars, so if the technology doesn't come to fruitio
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by nostromo95 11y ago
Yes, but there's only a difference of an eighth of a mile -- less than a minute of running -- and you're going against convention. The very fact that someone was confused in the first place should tell you something is wrong sa
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by nostromo95 11y ago
Why not just say 'I run 3 miles every day' if you're American? Saying 5k (also 10k, 1600m, generally any metric units) implies a race or hard workout.