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I mean, that's what the yield is . The spread between what the bond pays and the Risk-Free Rate (Treasury) tells you what the market thinks the risk of default is. For a spread of …

(For those who don't get it, "My kingdom for ___" is from Richard III: "my horse, my horse, my kingdom for a horse")

15B in revenue is less than what AirPods sell in 6 months. It's less revenue than Spotify. It's nowhere near what should be necessary for a company to be "one one the most valuable…

Yes, they have. The BLS actually tracks a number of different "unemployment" numbers, whose definition you see here [0]. The "official" unemployment number, the one now reported as…

For people that don't watch the video (I don't even know if this is in the video): road wear is a function of axle weight to the fourth power . [0] That means a 6,000lb escalade cr…

SpaceX makes 16B in revenue per year, with 7B in ebitda (which doesn't account for the cost of rockets)... so assume what, 3B in free cash flow per year? And that's being generous.…

And yet if you place a detector at the slits to know which slit the single photon goes through, you get no interference pattern at the end.

> I wonder why SpaceX investors aren’t revolting. Because if SpaceX were valued like a normal company, they would lose their money. SpaceX, as technologically awesome as it is, sim…

Radiator size scales linearly with power but, crucially, coolant power, pumps, etc do not. Imagine the capillary/friction losses, the force required, and the energy use(!) required…

That's revenue. Earnings (profit) is what's relevant, because as you can imagine putting stuff in space is pretty expensive!

There is in fact one person who has won both the Nobel Peace prize and a hard-science one: Linus Pauling. Chemistry 1954, peace 1962.

Amazon stock is flat over the past year. The rest of the "magnificent seven": - Google: +70% - Nvidia: +49% - Apple: +7% - Meta: Flat - SHOP (closest comp): +19.41% - Mercado Libre…

Inconsistent jingoistic nationalism. On one hand, he claims that he "fixed problems that had been sitting untouched because no one else could untangle them." And on the other hand …

Lesson it took me far too long to learn about what "the best" is. Bona fides: I'm no titan of industry but I've worked with many, across many industries. I've seen "the best." I've…

Could not have illustrated the point better if I tried.

I hate being negative but it sounds like par for the course for fly. Incredible (truly, incredible, world-class) engineers that somehow lack that final 10% of polish/naming/documen…

I was thinking something like Dekmantel in NL, Horst in Belgium, or Bahidorá in Mexico.

When it comes to electronic music, there are basically two types of clubs. One type is the mega club. These are see-and-be-seen places. Ibiza. Vegas. Miami. The DJs are very famous…

We have a name: Large Language Models, or "Generative" AI. It doesn't think, it doesn't reason, and it doesn't listen to instructions, but it does generate pretty good text!

The IPO "pop" is not captured by banks: it's captured by the banks customers that pre-buy at the IPO price. Basically, before an IPO, the underwriters take the company on a "roadsh…

I was like you--tried to be the last guy on the plane--until I started to fly very frequently (every other week). I started getting upgraded to first, which means really boarding b…

This is trivially proven false, at least as a generalization. Looking at recent-ish IPOs: Spotify: up 380% since IPO Service Now: 4,000% Shopify: 685% Meta: 1,600%

Not OP but Andor is definitely "up there" for me. My two favorite shows ever are Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (w/ Alec Guinness), The Wire, The Simpsons seasons 1-8.

What is the best resource for "safer" MDMA consumption? (Like, which SSRI to take and at what dosage). Also, isn't mixing SSRIs and MDMA a huge no-no, given the potential for a ser…