tom-thistime

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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Looks like it. Except I don't see that the bonds necessarily weren't liquid. They just kept going down as the Fed cranked rates up. As some others have said in this thread: I'm just trying to talk about what happened, within
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
It sounds like a much worse outcome for the pension fund, yeah.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
According to the article, the pension fund's exposure is because it owns shares of stock in SVB. That's bad, but bank stocks can be tricky. They're not saying they lost money as a depositor.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
I'm not a historian. But "book" sometimes meant something much shorter in the past, at least in the West. Euclid's Elements is organized as "13 books" ... but it's one "book" today even with mass
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Exactly. The BBC must show us a Nalanda U hoodie, with a copyrighted logo, or else abandon these wild claims! Did this so-called 'university' even have a lacrosse team?? Irony notice: this comment contains irony.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Feels like a central issue. I find a lot to agree with here, and a lot to agree with in the comment you're responding to.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Thanks! Have you compared it to the "regular" 10y Laphroaig?
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Can I ask kind of Scotch you like now? There's probably something out there that I'm just not finding. EDIT: I'm open to things that I hate on the first sip. In fact that might work best for me.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Yeah, the Last Word is great (if you like it). Maybe the author is losing me in several layers of sarcasm or something. I sure hope so.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Thanks for asking. For me a lot of single-malt scotch, up until around 2000 (maybe later) seemed never to have been completely domesticated as a normal consumer product. Depending on what kind you liked, it could be almost kind of gross. M
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Sure, local distilling has benefited. It's a great point. My tiny town had an excellent micro-distillery that made really nice bourbon and my favorite gin. But I really miss the way Talisker tasted up until the 1990s. And I'm gues
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
It's not quite so simple. A race to supply authentic Chartreuse at extremely high volumes is likely to produce ditchwater. Authentic ditchwater with the correct label on the bottle, but useless for drinking.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
They're not saying it's the best strategy. It's obviously not the best strategy. The bug can't see anything in there.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
I think that's right. I don't think the article is imputing "strategic thinking" to the individual larvae. They carry out a strategy, but they probably didn't whiteboard it themselves. I think it's mainly the a
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Sorry to belabor something lots of readers already know: The long key may (or may not) be packed with entropy. But a pseudo-random number generator at best preserves the entropy in the key.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
The answer here is not to micro-examine how badly Google needs telemetry or doesn't need telemetry. The answer is No. No telemetry to be used on people who don't want it.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Genuine question: How is that ironic? I'm simply not following, which happens to me a lot.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
I'm confident that you're not jumping from "asking nicely is not a solution" to "using force or deception is fine." It's just that, if the argument in my last paragraph did become widely accepted, it would
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
D&D is apparently very hard to write about. This writer somehow does it. I hate, with a burning hate, original AD&D's insanely complex, contradictory, obviously-never-playtested rules that even the authors often couldn't e
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
I don't think they'd necessarily have a base-20 system built into the language if they didn't work with numbers larger than 10.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
You can deal a second hand of cards from the same deck. You can't* deal exactly the same hand you dealt the first time. *Limiting case given enough cards. We shuffle before each deal.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
The barrel may be part of the point. It may also be useful context for anyone who is wondering how much time to invest in learning about Diogenes.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Dude lived in a damn barrel though.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
The Guards Counterattack, yay! I'd buy a decent computer version of the basic game whether I was ever going to play it or not. Digital ASL? I'm out. Too hardcore. It's an insanely complicated game. Has anyone ever really play
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
A lot of good points here. Another possible lesson from these integrals: if someone has deliberately prepared the problem you're studying, and made it misleading on purpose, then solving the problem may be a different game from studyin
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
I reread it, and I still see 100% denial that there was any wormhole. Can you quote something else?
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Taleb has a couple of important points to make.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
Are we disagreeing?
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
He enchanted us and then let us down. No way are we going to admit that he's enchanting now.
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by tom-thistime 4y ago
I agree in general, but disagree on the details. In an oral exam, a student answers questions orally. That's how language has evolved so far. I can't imagine a situation where a committee of professors would need to examine a gran

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