madballster

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by madballster 2y ago
2015 observational study suggests these results are not unique to Covid: ""Our research shows a correlation between hospitalisation due to infection and impaired cognition corresponding to an IQ score of 1.76 lower than the averag
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by madballster 3y ago
The linked article did not say climate research is fraud. It says the climate implications of permafrost thawing are complex and very difficult to model.
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by madballster 3y ago
I found Firefox to be much more response when operating lots of tabs and opening and closing tabs quickly with keyboard shortcuts on Windows. My direct comparison is Microsoft Edge (Chromium based) which is noticeably sluggish on CTRL-W and
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by madballster 3y ago
Have you found a better alternative for someone who trades a lot? I'd like to drill down into trade results per symbol and get ROI statistics and visualize past buy/sell points.
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by madballster 3y ago
Spitznagel runs a fund that specializes on so-called "tail-risk events", i.e. he profits from extremely unlikely economic scenarios such as hyperinflation or violent economic crashes. He profits more the more assets he has under m
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by madballster 3y ago
This is an old European disease. Corporate profits are often seen as an adverse result; of consumers being taken advantage of unfairly. Taxing excess profits beyond what are already high tax rates is popular amongst voters (e.g. see poll re
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by madballster 3y ago
That is a very narrow and frankly sweepingly incorrect description of "CEOs" or "companies". They're not all the same. I for one (alongside many other investors) carefully study incentive programs and compensation o
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by madballster 3y ago
I looked through the new features list, but couldn't find the "conversational" threads feature which was on the roadmap for Q1 2023. Is this will coming or am I just missing it?
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by madballster 3y ago
Ballou's criticism of PE fund managers being skilled in finance but not in operations or engineering is missing the point. A good PE fund manager understands the ins and outs of capital allocation and its long-term effects on corporate
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by madballster 3y ago
That however is unfortunately true for quotes from many of history's dark figures, be it Hitler, Stalin or Nero.
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by madballster 3y ago
While that sounds concerning, I have to question the underlying thesis: Does private ownership always short-change customers, like the subtitle insinuates? "hospice agencies are now for-profit, putting profit maximization over patient
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by madballster 3y ago
Should normalize this to working days & hours. Germany has up to 6 weeks of paid vacation per year vs. ~10 days in the US.
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by madballster 3y ago
In parts of popular media, there seems to be an assumption of a very high certainty for an impending "economic productivity revolution thanks to LLM AI". Case studies like this one show the future isn't so clear.
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by madballster 3y ago
The result of this optimism in big cap tech companies is that many smaller cap shares in industries such as financial services, insurance or industrial distribution are trading for historically cheap valuations. It appears there is very lit
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by madballster 3y ago
I absolutely love the immersive background audio and sound FX in the game. It's fantastic listening on headphones.
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by madballster 3y ago
A slap on the wrist. And the EU will be parading this around as a major win against "the evil tech conglomerates".
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by madballster 3y ago
It is mind-boggling how this business with $600 million in annual revenues is still barely breaking even on a free cash flow basis.
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by madballster 3y ago
You have to carefully analyze if you absolutely need to live in Munich - the most expensive city in Germany - in order to run and build your startup once you graduate. Is the extra cost and low quality of life worth it over the long term? T
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by madballster 3y ago
If there is residual value here (as some claim), why can't the owner sell the business? No buyer willing to assume lawsuit risk?
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by madballster 4y ago
Why - unless you're being sarcastic? Looks to me like the system is working Early warning system pushed the bank to unwind positions before hurting depositors. Regulation appears to be working well, for once.
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by madballster 4y ago
I vividly recall seeing a feature on TV in the mid 80s where they were discussing future technologies for the year 2000. One of them was the cashier-less store: We'd all put in our grocery items in the carts and then the payment would
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by madballster 4y ago
Stephen Wolfram has a way of explaining and teaching that is unique. What a wonderful read.
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by madballster 4y ago
I have always wondered if the 'big productive urban center' (like London, or Paris, or Warsaw) is a boon or a curse for the 300 miles around it. Does it soak up young talent and capital from the surrounding areas, leaving the latt
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by madballster 4y ago
I'd like to counter the notion the EU today is first and foremost an economic union. The EU can not simply be replaced by "a bunch of free trade agreements". Helmut Kohl has always maintained the EU was also founded to finali
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by madballster 4y ago
What I find interesting is nobody complained about Musk's social media antics when he proclaimed himself to be Technoking of Tesla or when he hyped dogecoins with diamond hands. Both evidence of bizarre behavior for a CEO of a multi-bi
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by madballster 4y ago
Germany has a floating LNG terminal coming online in December. The author of the article intentionally ignores these.
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by madballster 4y ago
Could go a long way to explain the “Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations” figure of speech.
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by madballster 5y ago
Exactly this. We already have digital currencies. They are called US Dollar and Euro. They exist as numbers in bank accounts, transfers are safe and very efficient.
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by madballster 5y ago
Many of the "Covid-19 increases risk of XYZ" popular media articles lack baseline comparisons to other virus infections. (Disclaimer: Yes, we know Covid-19 isn't the flu, and it's more deadly.) My point is: how much does
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by madballster 5y ago
It's only once you compare the performance of Twitter to other tech shares and realize the last 12 years were the biggest tech bull market in history. And Twitter shows zero return.

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