_marlowe_

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by _marlowe_ 3y ago
Can someone explain to me in minimally technical terms how scientists can determine the molecular composition of an exoplanet's atmosphere? It boggles my simple mind.
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by _marlowe_ 4y ago
Fantastic stuff!
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by _marlowe_ 4y ago
2-10 spread went through the pre-GFC record of -28 bps a day or two ago.
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Dollars Ex Machina(doomberg.substack.com)
1 points by _marlowe_ 5y ago|0 comments
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by _marlowe_ 5y ago
You can thank the Fed. Pensions and their consultants publish an assumed rate of return, which is increasingly difficult to obtain in a sustained low interest rate environment. They have been increasing exposure to private markets to compen
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by _marlowe_ 5y ago
Lived in TW2002 on Atlantis BBS for the better part of 2 years. Good times.
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by _marlowe_ 5y ago
It would be more interesting to see this indexed against each country's respective population
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by _marlowe_ 5y ago
I'm sorry you're having a hard time with this. My life is your counter factual, maybe it will provide a different perspective. I was identified as highly gifted around that age as well, but my parents prevented me from participati
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by _marlowe_ 6y ago
I worked at GS but not in investment banking. I had a really positive experience and rarely went over 60-70 hours. It all depends on your role. IBD is definitely the most demanding, but they all made a choice, with basically perfect informa
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by _marlowe_ 6y ago
An orderly secondary market could increase 409a valuations and result in a higher exercise price for stock options. Seems like senior execs don't have much incentive to accommodate that...
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by _marlowe_ 6y ago
Jonathan Tepper wrote a great book about this, the Myth of Capitalism
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2020 Coronavirus Pandemic in Greenland(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by _marlowe_ 6y ago|0 comments
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by _marlowe_ 7y ago
Then raise the voting age to 25 or something. It's just an illustration.
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by _marlowe_ 7y ago
Age related cognitive decline is a real thing.
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by _marlowe_ 7y ago
If you are 18-25, there is a HORRIBLE principal-agent problem here. Total misalignment of interests. Owing to the fact that, on average, young people will have more years of exposure to a set of policies, they should have voting power to sh
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by _marlowe_ 7y ago
I'm not sure why I was downvoted. https://www.marketplace.org/2020/02/18/coronavirus-warnings-...
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by _marlowe_ 7y ago
This is a supply shock. Cutting interest rates won't make widgets appear if the widget factory is idle...
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by _marlowe_ 7y ago
"When you acquire some customers and they start yielding revenue that behavior sounds an awful lot like buying a fixed income instrument..." This is so intellectually dishonest. He even goes on to equate recurring revenue with cas
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Bay Area BBS Reunion (2012)(bbsreunion.tripod.com)
1 points by _marlowe_ 7y ago|0 comments
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by _marlowe_ 7y ago
I think I spent all of 1993 - 1995 playing this on Atlantis BBS.
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TradeWars 2002(tradewars.com)
14 points by _marlowe_ 7y ago|5 comments
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by _marlowe_ 7y ago
> feed us garbage like how they create value through “liquidity.” Nobody values liquidity until they absolutely need it. Transfer of liquidity risk IS value creation, and absolutely necessary for a well functioning economy.
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by _marlowe_ 7y ago
This is a little speculative but doesn't seem like a reach https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/concur-acquires-hipmun... I suspect the common didn't get out alive.
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by _marlowe_ 7y ago
Quack it