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by phyalow 4y ago
They are up 6% so far this year and well ahead of their benchmarks. Paul Singer is crafty, but dont be too cyncial.
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by phyalow 4y ago
I mean you could also lump nearly almost every single major investment bank and commercial bank in the category “unreliable finance partner”…
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by phyalow 4y ago
smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [Darwin 21.4.0 arm64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Number: APPLE SSD
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by phyalow 4y ago
I watch nearly everything I can at somewhere between 1.8-2.5x speed, this means subs are largely required to maintain comprehension. I prefer watching this way as I can cover far greater amounts of content (or devote less time on the otherh
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by phyalow 4y ago
The Long Way Round (2004) - a British television series documenting the 19,000-mile (31,000 km) journey of Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from London to New York via Eurasia on motorcycles. It is a lot of fun and covers incredible terrai
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by phyalow 4y ago
What about the substantial growth in Child poverty, massive inflation, lack of housing stock growth (kiwibuild has delivered less than 5% of what was promised) etc. Labour may not be layabouts, but they are a group of busy idiots.
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by phyalow 4y ago
I solved this when I lived in Hong Kong by finding a quiet desk on a quiet floor at the main public library (alt. You can get visitors memberships to University libraries to do the same thing). Leave your devices at home and pop some ear pl
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by phyalow 4y ago
Starting a gun manufacturing company and expecting not to get charged with a crime is a bit absurd. Pretending that it's totally fine because it's "for hunting" not "murder" because guns are special... is likew
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by phyalow 4y ago
In my case, someone who needed extra screen real estate when travelling with my MacBook Pro M1 16”. I set the iPad up on a stand, open sidecar and voila! I have (almost) doubled my screen/work area.
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by phyalow 4y ago
Diem by Meta/FB tried this and was eviscerated.
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by phyalow 4y ago
Turkey? Good luck with the Lira.
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by phyalow 4y ago
The key insight is the order of reversal doesn't matter, and that any securities trade/position is eventually reversed (its the only action available). Hence having synthetic positions outstanding via rehypothecation doesnt actual
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by phyalow 4y ago
Did you stop and consider the possibility that the AI made the mistake intentionally to make you think a human wrote it (fallibility).
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by phyalow 4y ago
As a ex. IB Delta One Trader, this sort of thing shouldnt be possible. It is more a reflection of the fact Citi's systems dont have (any? or sufficient) fat finger checks (or liquidity impact checks) pre execution. Trade entry errors a
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by phyalow 4y ago
I remember running a calculator via a potato battery when I was much younger.
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by phyalow 4y ago
I absolutely agree. He will save himself $5-15 billion depending on the new offer price, a total no brainer. A big short selling hedge fund came out 4 days ago and laid this exact scenario out on the table https://hindenburgresea
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by phyalow 4y ago
Isnt this a general reinforcement learning agent with a transformer as the policy discriminator? Very cool, but not necessarily a giant leap forward, more like a novel combination of existing tools and architectures. Either way impressive.
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by phyalow 4y ago
>> "there are three ways to make a living in this business... Be first, be smarter, or cheat. Well I don’t cheat, and even though I like to think we have got some pretty smart people in this building of the two remaining options,
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by phyalow 4y ago
100% my flow too after a lot of experimentation. I have had several clunker lenovo machines and have run linux as a daily driver on and off for several years (I always wanted it to work, it was just infuriating with random glitches and the
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by phyalow 4y ago
How did Parag make it to CEO? He is far from impressive as a communicator (even when reading on script).
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by phyalow 4y ago
"but the west wouldn't have access either." That simply isnt true, TSMC are building manufacturing capacity in Arizona/Texas at an impressive clip, it has been pitched as capacity expansion, but there is obviously a stra
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by phyalow 5y ago
Because information is not censored to the same degree.
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by phyalow 5y ago
Because covid running rampant poses an unacceptable risk to social stability and therefore to the CCP’s grip on power. This is a function of propaganda they have been pumping out of the last 2 years wrt the effectiveness of the Chinese resp
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by phyalow 5y ago
Rep'd
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by phyalow 5y ago
M1 arm64 Macbooks exist and are incredible.
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by phyalow 5y ago
>>It's kind of wild to me that crypto has caused some people be to pro arbitrage. Arbitrage is the most inefficient form economic rent because it is a tax on producers of value (a group that largely gets ignored in the crypto-ver
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by phyalow 5y ago
I am quite happy with my Macbook Pro M1 Max, which remains virtually ice cold even running heavy compute (I am still yet to hear the fans spin up) and having a battery life that can accomodate easily 12+ hours of real work. Any Windows lapt
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by phyalow 5y ago
Chinese individuals have a $50,000 USD annual limit on buying foreign exchange/or placing foreign wires. You can read up all about it on the State Administration for Foreign Exchange (SAFE) a.k.a. the Chinese capital control regulator&
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by phyalow 5y ago
>Synthetic stocks have arbitrage discounts/premiums that shouldn’t exist. Why is this a bad thing? It only implies that there are information inefficiencies. A discount/premium represents a oppurtunity to capture it and make mo
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by phyalow 5y ago
I lost you when you jumped from talking about decentralized exchanges "minting" to centralized exchanges and pretended they were the same thing. For your info an example of a decentralized exchange is "Uniswap" which ope

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