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by throwaway789256 5y ago
Glad to see that AGM is back. I'm still surprised that he was hired by Apple (one of the world's most secretive companies), after disclosing so many secrets of a former employer. And he was only fired because by Apple after being
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
And Twitter turned me into an a*hole. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
Freddie DeBoer has written about this repeatedly, including in his latest post: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/education-week-review-o... Briefly: many educational institutions were not designed to increase equal
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
I agree with this. The SEC cracks down on amateur inside-traders, because the professionals no how to cover their tracks: they have the resources to fight it in court; and the smart ones hire the SEC staff via the revolving door. This case
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
For those who have not read the piece yet, the starting paragraphs of Part 3 are especially good: > In certain young people today like these two from my writing workshop, I notice what I find increasingly troubling: a cold-blooded graspi
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
But there are results for "tank man" tienanmen: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=%2b%22tank+man%22+tiena...
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
I have experience with party rounds. There are tradeoffs between them and rounds with a traditional lead. The problem is that the advantage of the party round is early, while the advantage of the traditional round comes later. (That dynamic
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
> The company turned itself on its head by shutting down all discussion on the topic. Maybe. Or maybe the company was already turned on its head due to the internal conversation. Such a radical reaction from the founders suggests to me t
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
> there exists diffuse but consistent behavior I think that is possible and that one could prove it statistically. I do not think that, just because such behavior can be shown to exist on average, that is necessarily exists in specific s
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
> Ones entire interpretation of these issues relies on whether or not one believes racism exists as a structural problem or not. I think you are right that that belief shapes how we interpret these issues. By racism as a structural probl
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
> With that framing, the perception of whether the list was racist does matter as it explains their motivation. I don't think we know their true motivation. Anyone can claim to perceive something as racist. We cannot control their s
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
I think my assertions stack up pretty well with the facts. The names list hasn't been clearly established as racist. If you have 10 times the European names as you have Asian names, is it racist against Asians, or were there "funn
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
What do you want businesses to do? Should they all commit meaningful resources and capital to social justice? What about climate change? Should they also commit meaningful capital and resources to that? How should they balance those with ot
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
This dynamic is playing out in thousands of companies and startups across the US. Many people in the US, the woke, have redefined "white supremacy" and "racism" to mean most inequalities and behavior that they don't
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by throwaway789256 5y ago
People who love Bret Victor's work and thought should know that he is also part of this effort.
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by throwaway789256 6y ago
The journalist didn't need a deal. His prestige increased because he was publishing scoops.
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by throwaway789256 6y ago
This has been discussed below. The reporter was giving Peltz non-public information about the stories he was going to publish, which allowed Peltz to better time his trades. The information flow was two-way.
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by throwaway789256 6y ago
Tying insider trading to a Bloomberg reporter is very rare, although it has happened before, and I linked to one instance above. Because it is rare, it is newsworthy, particularly for the Columbia Journalism Review. Even if you don't c
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by throwaway789256 6y ago
I don't think they are prosecuting Peltz for getting the information from the reporter. They are prosecuting him for this: "Peltz obtained material nonpublic information about the private equity firm’s interest in Ferro from a mem
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by throwaway789256 6y ago
Thanks, I should have included that up top, but can't edit now. I think the key words there are "just prior to." Other material information is that the story would be published at all.
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by throwaway789256 6y ago
I don't think I do. To me it looks like some last-minute greed. He would have been smarter to keep his transactions further from the scoop. But as I said, the nearness in time only implies coordination. I can't prove it. A trial m
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by throwaway789256 6y ago
That is logically plausible. An insider purchase that occurs minutes ahead of a market-moving event is merely circumstantial evidence, but it is very strong circumstantial evidence. One thing to note is that Peltz bought options as well as
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by throwaway789256 6y ago
From the story: > Peltz bought Ferro stock via others’ accounts, culminating with his last purchase at 9:37 am on March 15, 2016, according to the indictment. > Around six or seven minutes after that final purchase, Bloomberg posted a
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by throwaway789256 6y ago
An inside trader in the UK was also shown to be exchanging information with Bloomberg News's reporters: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/the-mystery-millionaire-who-haun... What's not being said here is that for the tr