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AMD passes Intel in market cap(cnbc.com)
8 points by jbp 4y ago|0 comments
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CppCon 2019: Andrei Alexandrescu “Speed Is Found in the Minds of People“(youtube.com)
2 points by jbp 5y ago|0 comments
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Big Hires, Big Money and a D.C. Blitz: A Bold Plan to Dominate Crypto(nytimes.com)
1 points by jbp 5y ago|0 comments
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by jbp 5y ago
Link to SEC report: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-212
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SEC: Brokers enticed by PFOF are making trading into a game to lure investors(cnbc.com)
5 points by jbp 5y ago|2 comments
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Tether Discussion featuring Bennett Tomlin and George Noble(grant-williams.com)
119 points by jbp 5y ago|118 comments
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We believe the impact of Bitcoin mining is a net positive for the environment(twitter.com)
2 points by jbp 6y ago|0 comments
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by jbp 6y ago
I understand basic options. They listed only long puts in 13F, the max they could lose is the premium they paid. So there must be some other securities that they didn't disclose (mostly short calls as @tchanglington mentioned) which re
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by jbp 6y ago
Thank you. But those short calls are not in 13F, so they can selectively disclose?
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by jbp 6y ago
How could they lose $7B? Melvin Capital Recent 13F : https://sec.report/Document/0000905718-20-001111/ It shows they had about $757mm worth puts. Assuming all of that puts are worth zero, their max loss will be $7
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Why the US doesn't have “basic bank accounts”(twitter.com)
22 points by jbp 6y ago|0 comments
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by jbp 6y ago
Try Spacemacs, default vi bindings
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Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might(cnn.com)
2 points by jbp 8y ago|0 comments
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by jbp 8y ago
List by a Math professor: http://people.math.gatech.edu/%7Ecain/textbooks/onlinebooks....
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USAA sues Wells Fargo over remote-deposit patents(americanbanker.com)
4 points by jbp 8y ago|0 comments
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When 26.2 miles just isn't enough – the phenomenal rise of the ultramarathon(theguardian.com)
3 points by jbp 8y ago|0 comments
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by jbp 9y ago
Don't know about 18th century, but some what similar strategy is already mentioned by Taleb in the interview: Kelly Criterion.
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by jbp 11y ago
I agree, but why is U.S. subsidizing the whole world without getting as much benefit? Its not just this, U.S. is subsidizing the whole world's healthcare costs too.
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Drug companies are exploiting rare mutations(bloomberg.com)
48 points by jbp 11y ago|5 comments
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by jbp 12y ago
One more reason I do sometimes this because I remember the website but don't quite remember the domain (was it .com or .net or .org)
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by jbp 12y ago
PAXOS is very complicated, Raft is direct response to it by simplifying the consensus algorithm. From the article: "It's equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance. The difference is that it's decomposed into
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Danny Macaskill: The Ridge(youtube.com)
1 points by jbp 12y ago|0 comments
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by jbp 12y ago
I think it is not just about "need for influence". To learn somthing, is to 1. Read, 2. Do and 3. Teach. So blogging can be "teach" part.
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by jbp 12y ago
>>web-scale word-of-mouth(social networks, product review sites, recommendations from field- or topic-specific authoritative websites) All of which are ad-supported and if they were fee-based they wouldn't be that massive, which
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by jbp 12y ago
I also had to implement simple microprocessor on an FPGA about 10 years ago. I think one of the main reason is programming the FPGA is not easy, the tools needed for FPGA development are all proprietary. Every FPGA has different way to prog
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Gtk to Qt – A Strange Journey(mirror.linux.org.au)
1 points by jbp 13y ago|0 comments
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by jbp 13y ago
I use pushd/popd/dirs for multiples. I have aliases like p1 for "pushd +1" and so on.
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by jbp 13y ago
Bike lanes by Casey Neistat : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzE-IMaegzQ
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by jbp 13y ago
More information on what cperciva is saying (from Daniel Abadi) http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2012/10/ieee-computer-issue-... Quoting from the post: "my past criticism of CAP not actually being about
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by jbp 13y ago
Not at all, atleast about Samsung. I would go ahead say that Samsung is the most unethical[1] company. Wikipedia list is only tip of the iceberg, that company's history is littered with unethical[2] behavior. 1. http://en.w

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