dia80

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by dia80 2mo ago
Why test Fable high effort vs Sol medium? Especially when Sol comes out 4-5x cheaper in their tests at those effort levels.
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by dia80 5mo ago
Tailscale on your PC and phone. Free (as in beer). I run vikunja.io in docker at home and simply web browse to it over the tailnet.
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by dia80 1y ago
If you are using the dollar right now, what pain are you taking? None. What's actually happened? US added some tariffs and became a bit more isolationist and the Fed has lost some independence. Might not bode well for the future but ha
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by dia80 1y ago
Even if the dollar was "dead" the time and effort required by the world economy to switch away from the dollar system would be enormous so not much is likely to happen quicker than a few decades.
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by dia80 3y ago
This warrant's a little caution, there may well be some negative selection bias here. The banks most likely to go bust are the ones most desperate for cash so they offer the highest interest rates... If it's FDIC insured you are g
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by dia80 3y ago
UK rules differ from the US there is a 3-point test for insider trading: 1. The information has to be specific - Yes - you should sell Boeing 2. Would a reasonable investor take this information into account when making a decision to trade
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by dia80 3y ago
Not really going to help you make money...
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by dia80 3y ago
Forecast! Time to reach for your linear regression, GBDT or NN.
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by dia80 3y ago
Quant trader here... I'm a big seller of this list. Making money tends to be a relatively empirical endeavor. It's all about having information about the future and using that in judiciously way and less so about any particular th
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by dia80 3y ago
What's that little box for? A foot warmer?
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by dia80 3y ago
Great video, thoughtful and persuasive. Highly recommended to broaden your perspective, it did for me.
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by dia80 4y ago
As I understand it SVB is insolvent primarily due to incompetence, the actual actions they have taken: take deposits and buying US treasury bonds are every day activities for a bank. There are no exotic derivatives or off balance sheet spec
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by dia80 4y ago
Not so, Kherson was annexed and is now back in Ukrainian hands. You can conclude from this that RU accepts their annexations are BS.
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by dia80 4y ago
True Story: I visited No. 11 Downing Street as a school boy in 1998 when Gordon Brown, our local MP, was chancellor. He took us next door to no. 12 where Nick Brown was chief whip, he started pointing out things in his office and as he was
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by dia80 4y ago
You are going to love this: How real are real numbers? https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418
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by dia80 4y ago
To me, some of the benefits of having the occasional meeting is to create a shared understanding of what's going on and also to enable a vigorous group discussion. I'm not sure I would know how to replicate that with writing alone
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by dia80 4y ago
Patrick McKenzie makes the usual smart person mistake of trusting their intuition on finance because it has served them well in other domains. In this case the pertinent question to ask oneself a priori is: "if, as I believe, tether br
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by dia80 4y ago
Yes, The ambulances are waiting outside the hospitals with the last patient so they can't go to get the next one. Source: Family members have recently waited some hours outside A&E in an ambulance.
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by dia80 4y ago
Define recession?
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by dia80 4y ago
A lot of negativity here but I guess the target market is locations where the air pollution is bad enough that the benefits of escaping it outweigh looking like an extra from a sci-fi B-movie. I remember hearing on the radio in London how a
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by dia80 5y ago
Oh... You think selling the flow info of consumer FX will pay for all that.
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by dia80 5y ago
It's expensive for a reason... Technology, banking fees, compliance department, margin loans... I'd be interested to see your financial model!
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by dia80 5y ago
I'm always a bit put off by the "experts can't tell the difference between these two things!", in this case red and white wine. On closer inspection one usually finds an element of deception, here the white wine is colou
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by dia80 5y ago
Yes, but sometimes that's all you have to go on. Imagine you are a manger with high quit rates, what do you do? Say I've no idea what's causing this and won't until I see hard evidence, or, think about the article and wo
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by dia80 5y ago
Unfortunately, errors don't require his approval...
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by dia80 5y ago
I have a thoracic spinal cord injury, I can still move my hands and arms fully but not much else. When I was in hospital people were there for all kinds of reasons. There was only one theme. Motorcyclists. What's more they tended to ha
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by dia80 5y ago
It's kind of tiny. Instead of the expected ~8 out of 79 hospitalised it was 1. They quote p=0.006 . Feels like in the real world that could easily be luck.
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by dia80 5y ago
ICU load is now much lower for a given level of cases and barring new variants it will likely decrease further with boaster shots and more people recovered from infection and possible new therapeutics. Moderately increasing ICU capacity wo
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by dia80 5y ago
Vaccines cut severity of disease and thus the societal burden of infection. While I agree these measures are potentially draconian it's wrong to say they convey no benefit.
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by dia80 5y ago
(replying to sibbling) By political corruption I mean activities that are obviously detrimental at societal level. That sucks if you are Charles's Tennant and you want to by the freehold but I'm think more of funnelling contracts

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