mrjaeger

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I Turned Off My Phone for a Month and Used a Landline(nymag.com)
3 points by mrjaeger 4mo ago|0 comments
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Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case(nytimes.com)
501 points by mrjaeger 6mo ago|523 comments
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Becoming a Centenarian(newyorker.com)
60 points by mrjaeger 9mo ago|5 comments
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The Crypto Maniacs and the Torture Townhouse(nymag.com)
5 points by mrjaeger 1y ago|0 comments
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I Tried to Replace Myself with ChatGPT in My English Classroom(lithub.com)
3 points by mrjaeger 1y ago|0 comments
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NYC Apartment Rent Guesser Game(nyc-price-guesser.web.app)
2 points by mrjaeger 1y ago|0 comments
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by mrjaeger 2y ago
What this article is parodying, in case folk aren't familiar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_...
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Daniel Kahneman has died(washingtonpost.com)
1002 points by mrjaeger 2y ago|309 comments
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A South Korean woman who adopted her best friend(aljazeera.com)
29 points by mrjaeger 3y ago|4 comments
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by mrjaeger 3y ago
I think $10M is right. The options cost $0.04 each yesterday (per the tweet), so spending $22,000 would get you 550000 options. Those options are now worth $18.30 (per the tweet) for a total value of ~$10M.
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by mrjaeger 3y ago
Broke Rule #2 of Matt Levine's "Laws of Insider Trading": "Don’t do it by buying short-dated out-of-the-money call options on merger targets."
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by mrjaeger 3y ago
That's actually the inciting incident for the cli-fi book "The Ministry for the Future". Overall I really enjoyed the book, was a good mix of interesting economic/policy ideas interwoven through a compelling character ba
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Walking Off Grief on the Appalachian Trail(catapult.co)
1 points by mrjaeger 4y ago|0 comments
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by mrjaeger 4y ago
As is often the case, Matt Levine (writer of Money Stuff) had some fun hypothesising about how this might be actually part of his "plan". 'Tesla Inc. is the main source of Musk’s wealth, and his main goal in life is selling l
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by mrjaeger 4y ago
Reminds me of Connor Roy's funeral speech from Succession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdOB9OIh70
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by mrjaeger 4y ago
Reminds me of a quote from Bojack Horseman I think about quite often (in the show it's in reference to running): "It gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day. That's the hard part".
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by mrjaeger 4y ago
From the Complaint ( https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2022/comp-pr2022-5... ): "Kamujula met with Sure on April 8, 2020 and later that night began purchasing out-of-the-money Twilio call options.&
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by mrjaeger 5y ago
Do you know how to clear the cache inside of a running Postgres instance? All of the articles online say to just restart the db, but that isn’t feasible in some cases I’ve come across, such as when trying to do testing against a remote db s
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by mrjaeger 6y ago
Yes but! (1 + 1) * (7 * 3) = 42 =O
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by mrjaeger 6y ago
Can read all of them in their published protocol at https://www.modernatx.com/sites/default/files/mRNA-1273-P301... under section 5.2.
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by mrjaeger 6y ago
I've taken Bolt buses now and again, usually to go from NYC -> Philly, which is kind of a pain by train. Didn't even realize they were a Greyhound brand! I'm not a very finnicky public transit user and while not fancy, th
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by mrjaeger 6y ago
Would you mind elaborating more on what changed from the first to second time? Did the situation change? Did your perspective/goals/motivation change? I'm currently in my first stint in management and really disliking it, an
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by mrjaeger 6y ago
Source?
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by mrjaeger 6y ago
Looks like its a deterrent to someone using a Taser in a "bad" way: > So in 1993 the AFID system was created. Now, when many Taser guns are fired, they disperse dozens of colourful anti-felon identification (AFID) tags, which r
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by mrjaeger 6y ago
Is there a limit to the amount of money you can withdraw at once?
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by mrjaeger 7y ago
Just wanted to shout out the Fountain plugin for VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=piersdes... . Nice syntax highlighting and generates a live preview as you type which you can then export as a PDF
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How a controversial gig economy bill became a test for 2020 candidates(vox.com)
5 points by mrjaeger 7y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft might crush Slack like Facebook crushed Snapchat(vox.com)
3 points by mrjaeger 7y ago|0 comments
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by mrjaeger 7y ago
Not being cynical but genuinely curious: Is that rate of price decrease (15%) expected to keep up in the near/medium term? Is there any sort of Moore's law for battery cost?
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by mrjaeger 8y ago
As Matt Levine likes to say, everything is securities fraud!

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