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by ralph84 4y ago
3 is SBF's equivalent of Madoff's split-strike conversion. A strategy that can make a little bit of money that a fraudster uses to claim to be making a lot of money. And just like Madoff nobody questioned it until it all came cras
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by ralph84 4y ago
Somehow Coinbase's email didn't include what they include in their SEC filings: “the crypto assets we hold in custody on behalf of our customers could be subject to bankruptcy proceedings and such customers could be treated as our
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by ralph84 4y ago
Ownership of publicly-traded stocks basically never changes. Cede and Company owns all of the stock.
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There are also scenarios with airlines where the only way for a flight to turn a profit is to price discriminate. It's possible to have a demand curve such that if you choose any point on the demand curve as the price for everyone, tot
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by ralph84 4y ago
Yes, but business schools wouldn't get as many donations from their alumni if they started publishing research saying that most of what executive management does is at best pointless.
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by ralph84 4y ago
The telco of the user who places the call pays the telco of the user who answers the call. Every scam call that’s actually answered is money in the pocket of the telco that serves the scam victim.
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by ralph84 4y ago
Unions are the obvious example where ICs have input into the pay system design.
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by ralph84 4y ago
Not surprising that a pay system designed by managers pays managers more.
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If the newer versions are better why do they end up being so short-lived?
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by ralph84 4y ago
I put the name of the company when I worked there, then the current name in parentheses. For example: EMC (now Dell)
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by ralph84 4y ago
For the ones doing it legally, L visas. For the ones doing it illegally, B or F visas.
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Almost by definition the Europeans coming to the US weren't happy with their living arrangements in Europe, so it's not surprising they came up with different arrangements. And establishing a homestead on what was wildland didn&#x
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by ralph84 4y ago
SF "doesn't have the resources" to deal with your smashed car window, but park for 2.5 hours in a 2-hour zone and you can rest assured they have the resources to ticket you for that.
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by ralph84 4y ago
Exactly. And the most plausible explanation for the large variation in number of VAERS reports by lot number is that poor quality control meant some lots were "hot" and led to excessive spike protein production.
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by ralph84 4y ago
> What if your employees all have short term personal interests in mind, want 6 months a year of PTO, and overthrow the CEO to get it? How does being a non-employee make an outside board member less self-interested? What if an outside bo
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by ralph84 4y ago
Ok. So instead of whining about it on Twitter sue GitHub. No matter what you think of Copilot, establishing some case law on AI-generated code will be beneficial to everyone.
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by ralph84 4y ago
Only a minority of the people living in the US are registered to vote. An even smaller minority actually vote. A vanishingly smaller minority decides who is on the ballot via campaign contributions. Not sure voting results are a proxy of an
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by ralph84 4y ago
If mRNA vaccines are so extremely well understood, why was so much misinformation spread by public health officials about them? We were told: - The mRNA and spike protein break down within a few days. Now studies are finding them still in t
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by ralph84 4y ago
Traditionally the surplus males were sent to die in wars. Now that war doesn’t require so many bodies who knows what to do with them.
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by ralph84 4y ago
There are multiple different plug types used within the EU.
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by ralph84 4y ago
> The electrical panel must have 40 amps of spare ampacity according to the load calculation for the new breaker This is where the incentive program breaks down and the 4- or 5-figure electrician quotes start for a lot of houses that wer
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by ralph84 4y ago
Assuming they meant access to a L2 charger at home, every country? Sure L2 chargers can be installed, but in a lot of cases it requires upgrading the electrical service and replacing the electrical panel which isn't a home improvement
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by ralph84 4y ago
I remember my dad installing Citrix on our home PC with 28.8 kbps modem in the mid-90s so he could occasionally "telecommute", as working remotely was called back then. It really did seem like magic that he could run all of the Wi
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by ralph84 4y ago
Meh, the stock was traded over the counter. It’s always been the Wild West for OTC stocks. They’re OTC for a reason. More interesting is all of the Chinese scam stocks that managed to get NYSE or NASDAQ listed.
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by ralph84 4y ago
Well of course security consultants believe every company should hire security consultants to review every dependency in the stack all the way down. But for the people who sign the checks, do you have ROI numbers to support this approach? H
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by ralph84 4y ago
Humanities is reading and writing. There’s no need to pay $100k/year to read and write.
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The ones who are making real money you don't hear about because they're not gonna brag about their breach and cut off their access.
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by ralph84 4y ago
> It came out Twitter doesn't have a dev/staging environment. And? Dev/staging is fine for enterprises that don't have to operate at Internet scale, think having a build script means they have CI/CD, and are doin
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by ralph84 4y ago
I said number of immigrants not percentage of population. There are at least 50 million immigrants living in the US.
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by ralph84 4y ago
The US has by far the highest number of immigrants, so apparently it’s not just Americans who’ve been “brainwashed.”

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