slymon99

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by slymon99 3y ago
I would sell that 99% number for a six figure sum if you'd like to define terms, an arbiter, and setup escrow.
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by slymon99 3y ago
The other answers here are fairly uninformed. AI has been reliably beating humans in NHLE since 2019 with just deep learning [1], modern solvers can play within a small epsilon of a nash equilibrium (a perfect strategy) and are effectively
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by slymon99 3y ago
Exactly what wealth are cities draining from rural America? Is it possible there's a simpler explanation? That the economy of the twenty-first century is dominated by information and technology, and that these demands are better matche
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by slymon99 3y ago
Comparing living near jobs and quality schools to living by a mansion on the beach is quite unfair - people don't solely desire the luxury of cities, they desire the opportunity for themselves and their families. "Working your way
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by slymon99 3y ago
Cities have jobs. Cities have opportunity. Cities have diversity. Why should we expect, encourage, or even desire that young people sacrifice economic and social opportunity and mobility? Why is the response to high housing cost in cities l
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by slymon99 3y ago
Yes.
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by slymon99 3y ago
Yea, the bonus point is interesting, especially in finance where bonuses can be > 100% of base. You can't insist on firms paying last years bonus, or else people would just quit and get a non compete if they had an insane year. But
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by slymon99 3y ago
> If companies actually paid employees not to compete they would be able to keep them Why is this true? If someone is making $200k and leaving to make $350k, an employer may well be able to afford the $100k for 6 months to prevent them f
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by slymon99 3y ago
When were trades reversed when a market maker had a bad algo? If you are doing market manipulation, sure, your trades might get reversed, but if someone wants to puke money across the tape it's absolutely legal to take it.
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by slymon99 3y ago
They go bankrupt, because their liabilities exceed their assets. There are three main sets of creditors - the US government who are receiving this $142.7 billion, equity shareholders who own $MMM, and bondholders. In a bankruptcy, you arran
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by slymon99 3y ago
I’m seeing this on mobile only
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by slymon99 3y ago
literally no big tech employer is going to allow you to add clauses to your employment contract
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by slymon99 3y ago
Why are you quoting the disclaimer as if its secret, or some kind of gotcha? Yes this is a short selling firm. While they have some incentives to exaggerate, they are trying to find and expose genuine fraud because that is what will actuall
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by slymon99 4y ago
@danaris - if you are a bank and people want to withdraw money, you need cash to pay them. By "the market" we mean the banks depositors who withdrew their case (partially due to these very concerns, hence why bank runs are called
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by slymon99 4y ago
> You don't get to live in San Francisco You get to live in New York City which is unparalleled in the US in terms of urban amenities. The weather can be brutal though. Or you live in Chicago which is like, still a solid city, but t
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by slymon99 4y ago
Do you have any evidence for this, empirically? I mean yes, HFTs aren't going to let their orders sit stale when FOMC announces a giant rate hike, they aren't going to lose a bunch of money to keep the market healthy. But generall
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by slymon99 4y ago
Yea, I've always wondered if finance companies intentionally structure their comp this way to make garden leave more damaging
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by slymon99 4y ago
As long as "full salary" is defined as your total compensation. Financial firms set base salaries low relative to total compensation (bonus can be 200-500%+ base) so that your TC drops dramatically if you leave. Sometimes the next
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by slymon99 4y ago
> But really, is the amount of space, bandwidth and clock cycles we carelessly waste really justified by the gain in productivity and achievable complexity? Yes. Space, bandwidth, CPU cycles are cheap, especially for this sort of applica
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by slymon99 4y ago
Isn't (32 bit) INT_MAX 2^31-1 and INT_MIN -2^31, so this is an acceptable solution (since the decimal average is -0.5)?
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by slymon99 4y ago
Not really - it's just saying that the definitive link is almost entirely caused by hyperinsulinemia and inflammation, and if you control for them, there's no other causality. Hyperinsulinemia and inflammation are massive metabo
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by slymon99 4y ago
Another nutritional epidemiology study with an absurdly large effect size that is almost certainly due to confounding factors. Yes, the researchers did an admirable job trying to control for confounders. Doesn't matter. Confounding fac
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by slymon99 4y ago
> some third factor like "propensity to consume highly-processed food products" is responsible Even with the significant controls in the study, I still completely believe this is the case. People who avoid artificial sweeteners
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by slymon99 4y ago
Not even just consumption, the healthy user bias also effects lifestyle factors. People who try to avoid artificial sweeteners because they think they are unhealthy likely make many other decisions to promote their own health (increased exe
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by slymon99 4y ago
I can never really take the results of nutritional epidemiology studies too seriously. How can you possibly control for all the confounding variables? People who are avoid artificial sweeteners likely make many other decisions in their diet
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by slymon99 5y ago
Facebook used to mean two things - Facebook.com and the Facebook mobile app - The company Facebook which owned the two aforementioned products, instagram, messenger, whatsapp, oculus, portal... The second item here was rebranded to Meta, bu
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by slymon99 5y ago
"Moral qualities"? We aren't talking about Cuomo cheating on his wife, he used his position of authority to sexually harass eleven women.
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by slymon99 5y ago
> is it really more important to preserve it as a landmark than for the land to go to use The Amazon has 10% of the worlds biodiversity, I wouldn't exactly call it a landmark, this isn't historic preservation - and the land is
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by slymon99 5y ago
I assume this is a comparison to duolingo, not Nikola.
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by slymon99 5y ago
This is definitely a problem, especially because industries who frequently utilize the paid non-compete (e.g. finance) often have a significant percent of comp from non-salary (bonuses etc). But you could fix this with craftier legislation

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