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by zzleeper 4y ago
Off-topic but it really BAFFLES me why people don't pay more attention to FHLBs. It's like we don't learned anything from the last 10 crises...
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Nope! I got a 2.0% mortgage in 2021 (no points or anything) and the bank then turned around and sold it to Freddie who paid them 1.7% (so the bank made a nice 0.3% just for originating the loan). Then Freddie packed my loan and sold it to
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by zzleeper 4y ago
And yet he is wrong! They were stuck with assets earning <2% for 10+ years, meanwhile depositors were demanding higher returns (else they would put their money in other banks, in 6m tbills, 10yr treasuries, etc.. all of which paid a lot
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by zzleeper 4y ago
I don't think this had much to do with the govt. This was a conf hosted by a random bank association and one of the speakers was a Fed governor. Fed had nothing to do with the setup, infra, etc.
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by zzleeper 4y ago
This is amazing. I wonder if it's possible to integrate it with a static site generator (Hugo Jekyll pelican etc) so I can get the best of both worlds?
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Yep. A consequence of decades of low inflation is that most people still think in nominal terms. Otherwise they would be calling out journalists for these silly hesdlines
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by zzleeper 4y ago
I'm quite late to the thread, but has anyone found out a way to use QGIS programmatically? For research you often want to write routines that you can re-run in the future (replicability, reproductibility, etc.) and it's very easy
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by zzleeper 4y ago
And is the same guy who has been going into crazy conspiracy theories over the last ten years or so
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by zzleeper 4y ago
I've switched away from Amazon. Used it since maybe 2006, and loved it back then, but as you say, garbage. In contrast, most other online stores (the ones I use, selling their own good quality products, not wish/ali) are now a ple
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by zzleeper 4y ago
I'm not sure Bellevue or Moscow are that walkable. A walkable city is not just one where you can walk from A to B but where doing so is easy. For instance, think about downtown Barcelona. You can go to a bakery one block away on foot,
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by zzleeper 4y ago
"EPIC THREAD" is 269 characters short of the limit... so yeah, 280 might not be enough to make nuanced arguments, but he was not even trying (and he is not known for making nuanced arguments, just for being a tantrum-prone narciss
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by zzleeper 4y ago
> It appeared to many observers that Musk was mocking the Russian propaganda, he then made the mockery explicit later. Saying "EPIC THREAD" is just his style of praising something, not mocking it. He had to add extra tweets to
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by zzleeper 4y ago
I kinda hate that I'm "forced" to buy stupid TSLA stock just because, as a responsible adult, I put most of my investments in the SP500, and any alternative I could find that excludes firms I hate (FB, TSLA) has infinitely hi
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Sorry but what's his mastodon account? I can only see this stupid blocked message: > Promotion of alternative social platforms policy
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Would a so-called cbdc work? Get a bank account at the Fed that only gives you overnight rates (i.e. low but still higher than banks!), and only risk is sovereign risk. Akin to the narrow banks proposals of a few years ago
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Interesting. My weekend memory is not too notch, but I kinda recall that if something/someone owns more than 10% of a bank then it becomes it's high holder (top holder?) for ffiec/Frb purposes and then starts popping up in a
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Lol is that the guy who say he feels like a gay Arab that was bullied in school because he was a red head?
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Yes it does. Russia's goals was to force Europe's hand (Germany mostly) to certify NS2. First, in Aug. Russia cuts NS1 to 20% citing supposed repairs: "Gazprom in July cut gas deliveries via NS1 to 20% of maximum capacity, ci
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by zzleeper 4y ago
You know, they could easily go after both groups no? We often feel we are in a XOR situation, but it's often easier for the govt to try to consistently enforce rules independently of the faces attached to the accused.
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by zzleeper 4y ago
> Pyenv does not officially support Windows and does not work in Windows outside the Windows Subsystem for Linux. I don't only use Win but I do use windows, so having to use different tooling makes pyenv a hard to swallow pill
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by zzleeper 4y ago
From Wikipedia: After a series of leaks at Tesla Motors in 2008, CEO Elon Musk reportedly sent slightly different versions of an e-mail to each employee in an attempt to reveal potential leakers. The e-mail was disguised as a request to emp
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Wait what? Don't creditors get control of the company? Specially if the firm went down b/c of the actions of the current mgmt?
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by zzleeper 4y ago
And still, Tether's market cap is many times higher than it was in 2017 or 2018... are investors just too stupid?
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Same here; never heard of them and aren't even in the list in coingecko: https://www.coingecko.com/en/exchanges
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Note that treasury bills (and more so treasury bonds) have taken a beating with the increase in interest rates... so I wouldn't be surprised if they lost quite a bit there.
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Imagine firms having their own stocks in their books (not for options grants but for themselves). That's complete insanity, but in crypto is just a random Thursday...
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Only now? Ever since the pedo scandal he has looked as either extremely narcissist or just unhinged...
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by zzleeper 4y ago
Can't it actually be the opposite? Like, sure I could pay $8/no (a coffee plus croissant) but it signals that I care so much about being heard on twitter that I'm willing to PAY for it... Only losers do so, so blue checkmarks
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by zzleeper 4y ago
> but upon reviewing my photos I've come to the realization that the vast majority of them are useless. Many of them are videos for my 1SE vlog, screenshots or pictures of things I wanted to share to a friend, or pictures of food. I
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by zzleeper 4y ago
I find it insane how the US govt constantly subsidizes certain activities without many people realizing. NFIP, the implicit guarantees on FHLBs, and a bunch of others just lead to misaligned incentives all over the place :/

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