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You also have 60 days from when your coverage ends to elect to enroll in COBRA, and for many plans coverage is retroactive to when your original coverage ended (although you have t…

> When these fail, it will become everyone's problem. Debt is senior to equity. For private credit to start taking haircuts, the equity has to have already gone to zero. At that po…

To bolster the argument, even if you do not plan to write the SIMD yourself or will "just get AI to do it", it is important to know what can be fast in SIMD (and on what hardware).…

I used the same "separate stream" design (one of them coded backwards from the end, to eliminate the need to send a separate offset) when working on video compression, to separate …

> ...doesn’t that depend on infinite growth based ultimately on mostly finite natural resources, manpower, and land? There is no practical limit to the price of the index. Shares m…

I drove an '89 Prelude (with a carburetor!) that had been used hard before I acquired it, until it left me stranded by the side of the road one too many times. I am happy to report…

At one point in I think 2012 three of us who normally all live in different countries were riding in the same car in Australia. We advised the driver to be extra careful (she was d…

A steady amount of inflation allows interest rates to be near zero or even negative in real terms without actually being negative in nominal terms. Negative (real) interest rates a…

> ...you should be forced to identify yourself for posting... The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the right to anonymous speech is inherent in the first amendment [1] [2]. S…

This is a good optimization when you can use it, but it is somewhat uncommon to decode a large number of consecutive symbols using the same Huffman code. Actual compression formats…

> ...it prevented massive unconstrained expansion of credit and that seems sensible. At the height of the Great Depression (1936), some economists proposed The Chicago Plan to sepa…

> ... the government can buy the steel for $50 instead of $100. And also lose $50 of tax revenue. I do not see how the government is any better off here.

> ...the fact they are losing money to climate change is pretty irrefutable evidence. Insurance prices risk. If risk goes up, so do prices. They will not lose (much) money (or not …

> To this day, I am still kind of confused with that move. I do not think that this was that confusing. People [1] looked around at the beginning of the 2010's and saw 1) Mobile us…

Any multimedia project trying to support a large number of formats, whose usage in the wild differs by orders of magnitude, is going to have code of varying quality (although quali…

> I found S&P 500 Equal Weight to be pretty attractive. The rebalancing required to maintain equal weights means constantly selling your winners and buying more of your losers. Tha…

> If AI tokens were so magical in creating new value in developing software applications generally, they wouldn't be selling tokens directly. If hardware were so magical in creatin…

It is not just the passive money. Many active managers are benchmarked against those indices, and you do not want to try to explain to your clients that you lagged in performance b…

As of January, TSLA was somewhere around 2.3% of the S&P [1]. Because SpaceX will have so little float available, it would be somewhere around 0.7% if included. [1] https://en.wiki…

> So if you wanna fix or ban PE, solve pensions. We solved pensions. People have defined-contribution plans now. I would expect insurance float to dwarf pensions as a source of PE …

> Why are more and more utility providers charge based on ‘infrastructure cost’ or ‘fixed platform fee’ instead of usage fee? Because unlike many commodities, electricity, once gen…

> But I wouldn't want all the negative externalities that come when money is introduced... Even before you get to the broader ecosystem, I wouldn't want daily standups, weekly 1:1s…

> ...any actual product RD and support is a real annoying cost that just cuts into the profits... Worse, it might not generate a return. If you have enough profits, you just buy an…

These two goals: > ... please stop working on projects distracting from the complex and necessary work of browser and web standards stewardship. > Ditching any direct financial tie…

The TSA is responsible for more than just airports. As someone with family who works (worked) on port security in the maritime division, I would argue that Chesterton's Fence [0] a…