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Can someone explain to me in minimally technical terms how scientists can determine the molecular composition of an exoplanet's atmosphere? It boggles my simple mind.

Fantastic stuff!

2-10 spread went through the pre-GFC record of -28 bps a day or two ago.

You can thank the Fed. Pensions and their consultants publish an assumed rate of return, which is increasingly difficult to obtain in a sustained low interest rate environment. The…

Lived in TW2002 on Atlantis BBS for the better part of 2 years. Good times.

It would be more interesting to see this indexed against each country's respective population

I'm sorry you're having a hard time with this. My life is your counter factual, maybe it will provide a different perspective. I was identified as highly gifted around that age as …

I worked at GS but not in investment banking. I had a really positive experience and rarely went over 60-70 hours. It all depends on your role. IBD is definitely the most demanding…

An orderly secondary market could increase 409a valuations and result in a higher exercise price for stock options. Seems like senior execs don't have much incentive to accommodate…

Jonathan Tepper wrote a great book about this, the Myth of Capitalism

Then raise the voting age to 25 or something. It's just an illustration.

Age related cognitive decline is a real thing.

If you are 18-25, there is a HORRIBLE principal-agent problem here. Total misalignment of interests. Owing to the fact that, on average, young people will have more years of exposu…

I'm not sure why I was downvoted. https://www.marketplace.org/2020/02/18/coronavirus-warnings-...

This is a supply shock. Cutting interest rates won't make widgets appear if the widget factory is idle...

"When you acquire some customers and they start yielding revenue that behavior sounds an awful lot like buying a fixed income instrument..." This is so intellectually dishonest. He…

I think I spent all of 1993 - 1995 playing this on Atlantis BBS.

> feed us garbage like how they create value through “liquidity.” Nobody values liquidity until they absolutely need it. Transfer of liquidity risk IS value creation, and absolutel…

This is a little speculative but doesn't seem like a reach https://www.inc.com/christine-lagorio/concur-acquires-hipmun... I suspect the common didn't get out alive.