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by verteu 7mo ago
STRC is much riskier (I'm having trouble imagining any scenario where it does NOT default.)
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by verteu 7mo ago
This "debunks" nothing, it's merely a demand for more evidence.
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by verteu 7mo ago
What part is debunked? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike
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by verteu 8mo ago
States can't impose tariffs: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S10-C2-1...
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by verteu 8mo ago
> So what would you do if you ACTUALLY cared about the people and environment? Put high tariffs on dangerous process products No, California can't do that. States cannot impose tariffs per the Constitution: https://consti
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by verteu 8mo ago
> I've not seen any evidence of them editing archived pages There is evidence of this in the article you're commenting on.
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by verteu 8mo ago
Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.17.594640v1....
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by verteu 9mo ago
No, at FAANG I was coached to strictly evaluate based on individual merit, defined by some fixed rubric. We certainly would not penalize an applicant for attending a school with "too many" qualified graduates.
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by verteu 9mo ago
Good point. Would it be roughly accurate to say: "consider someone who's more depressed than 75% of the *study treated* population becoming completely average *among the study treated population*"?
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by verteu 9mo ago
It's a standardized mean difference, which I believe can roughly be interpreted as: "treated groups had 0.67 stddev lower depression score than control groups." That's a pretty substantial improvement - consider someone
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by verteu 9mo ago
Indeed - some relevant charts: https://nitter.net/BasilHalperin/status/1908550146889257180#... https://x.com/BasilHalperin/status/1908550146889257180
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by verteu 9mo ago
> The last thing any big oil companies need is more crude supply into the market lowering the benchmark price even lower, especially particularly expensive (to extract) Venezuelan crude Check Chevron's stock on Monday to see if you&
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by verteu 9mo ago
If they're more responsible than Waymo, why are they crashing more?
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by verteu 9mo ago
Interesting that his performance was essentially identical to the S&P over the past 30 years (Sortino 0.72 vs 0.69): https://testfol.io/?s=jJ4P0GrZxLi I wonder how much is due to the market becoming more efficient, vs B
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by verteu 9mo ago
CA Prop 209 is a good natural experiment: https://reappropriate.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Total-UC...
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by verteu 10mo ago
No, they're generally referring to the set of countries depicted in these maps [1], for the reasons described in the article [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world#/media/File:West... [2]
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by verteu 10mo ago
FWIW, one source is https://www.eia.gov/electricity/sales_revenue_price/pdf/tabl...
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by verteu 10mo ago
Thanks for the context, I didn't realize the supervisor sits in the passenger seat in Austin. They do have a kill switch / emergency brake, though: > For months, Tesla’s robotaxis in Austin and San Francisco have included safet
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by verteu 10mo ago
It's pretty bad given there's a Tesla employee behind the wheel supervising.
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by verteu 10mo ago
Fun post. I'd be interested to know: How many consecutive Truth Booths (or: how many consecutive Match Ups) are needed to narrow down the 10! possibilities to a single one? Discussing "events" (ie, Truth Booth or Match Up) to
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by verteu 10mo ago
It's unlikely that would cause a 10x increase, especially since the directions are presumably aligned to roads of non-vanishing length.
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by verteu 10mo ago
Sounds similar to USA's existing immigrant investor visas (eg: EB 5): https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...
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by verteu 10mo ago
Yes, humanitarian law explicitly applies to enemies who do not, themselves, follow it. It's called [non]-reciprocity: "The obligation to respect and ensure respect for international humanitarian law does not depend on reciprocity&
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by verteu 10mo ago
No, private equity appears to be a minority of home builders: https://www.builderonline.com/builder-100/builder-100-list/2...
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by verteu 11mo ago
Sorry to hear it. I believe it's best practice to try different types of drugs (SNRI, atypical/Bupropion, etc).
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by verteu 11mo ago
> Absolute economic mobility matters much more The US does poorly on this metric too: https://i.imgur.com/eYHUysQ.png [1] https://i.imgur.com/vLz5iUz.png [2] (Note that the x-axis is "birth year.&qu
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by verteu 1y ago
Thanks, I found some evidence for poor fill quality here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4951825
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by verteu 1y ago
Look at the total returns of VXX and you'll see why it's tempting to take the opposite position. There are plenty of reasonable arguments to short vol, eg: https://www.nomura.com/events/9th-annual-global-quant
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by verteu 1y ago
If they are long options (most likely for retail), their position is convex and benefits from volatility. It's precisely the opposite of holding $XIV.
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by verteu 1y ago
Does anyone know why options broker fees are so high? A typical cost is ~$0.25/contract for a $1.00 SPY 0DTE, eg: https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/pricing/commissions-op... Does this reflect brokers&#x27

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