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Why test Fable high effort vs Sol medium? Especially when Sol comes out 4-5x cheaper in their tests at those effort levels.

Tailscale on your PC and phone. Free (as in beer). I run vikunja.io in docker at home and simply web browse to it over the tailnet.

If you are using the dollar right now, what pain are you taking? None. What's actually happened? US added some tariffs and became a bit more isolationist and the Fed has lost some …

Even if the dollar was "dead" the time and effort required by the world economy to switch away from the dollar system would be enormous so not much is likely to happen quicker than…

This warrant's a little caution, there may well be some negative selection bias here. The banks most likely to go bust are the ones most desperate for cash so they offer the highes…

UK rules differ from the US there is a 3-point test for insider trading: 1. The information has to be specific - Yes - you should sell Boeing 2. Would a reasonable investor take th…

Not really going to help you make money...

Forecast! Time to reach for your linear regression, GBDT or NN.

Quant trader here... I'm a big seller of this list. Making money tends to be a relatively empirical endeavor. It's all about having information about the future and using that in j…

What's that little box for? A foot warmer?

Great video, thoughtful and persuasive. Highly recommended to broaden your perspective, it did for me.

As I understand it SVB is insolvent primarily due to incompetence, the actual actions they have taken: take deposits and buying US treasury bonds are every day activities for a ban…

Not so, Kherson was annexed and is now back in Ukrainian hands. You can conclude from this that RU accepts their annexations are BS.

True Story: I visited No. 11 Downing Street as a school boy in 1998 when Gordon Brown, our local MP, was chancellor. He took us next door to no. 12 where Nick Brown was chief whip,…

You are going to love this: How real are real numbers? https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418

To me, some of the benefits of having the occasional meeting is to create a shared understanding of what's going on and also to enable a vigorous group discussion. I'm not sure I w…

Patrick McKenzie makes the usual smart person mistake of trusting their intuition on finance because it has served them well in other domains. In this case the pertinent question t…

Yes, The ambulances are waiting outside the hospitals with the last patient so they can't go to get the next one. Source: Family members have recently waited some hours outside A&E…

Define recession?

A lot of negativity here but I guess the target market is locations where the air pollution is bad enough that the benefits of escaping it outweigh looking like an extra from a sci…

Oh... You think selling the flow info of consumer FX will pay for all that.

It's expensive for a reason... Technology, banking fees, compliance department, margin loans... I'd be interested to see your financial model!

I'm always a bit put off by the "experts can't tell the difference between these two things!", in this case red and white wine. On closer inspection one usually finds an element of…

Yes, but sometimes that's all you have to go on. Imagine you are a manger with high quit rates, what do you do? Say I've no idea what's causing this and won't until I see hard evid…

Unfortunately, errors don't require his approval...