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You may be right, but this article is entirely about the author's kids and has nothing to do with any administration. Unless part of the poly-crisis is one twin changing the page o…

it's really hard not to have at least one single point of failure. there's a case to be made that a single cloud account actually reduces the ways things can go wrong to just one p…

Micron leadership probably just heard about Roko's basilisk.

Almost perfect. Inspirational. It just needed to create a little box you can drag around when you click on nothing, like OS desktops have. So here's the snippet to do that, toss th…

$40k for dentures? She got fleeced. $3M for retirement right now is plenty, but you have to live like an actually middle class person.

"The market is like a large movie theater with a small door. And the best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door."…

Colorado's where the river's headwaters are: this is probably an even bigger deal for those in Utah, Arizona, Las Vegas, and Southeastern California.

The collateral limit getting triggered isn’t a particularly big deal: it just means that MSTR needs to quickly furnish more BTC as collateral or they’ll be in breach of loan covena…

They have debt too. It’s clickbait style writing.

This is my favorite article about inflation https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/11/24/the-truth-abo... Inflation is not simply a matter of the government adding more money to …

Start sleeping more, eating healthier, exercising more, and working less. Cut down on weed and alcohol if you partake. This should hopefully help you feel well enough to get a diff…

I'll absolutely advocate for spending some time on the frontend to see if you like it. In addition to other roles in the past, I built a SaaS company as the founding engineer where…

Well they make 5 billion revenue a year, are close to profitable, and their online revenue is up 34% in 2020 to more than a billion. And now they can print money with share dilutio…

The collateral on cash secured puts is always just the amount of money need to buy the shares specified by the contract. (Hence: "cash secured")

Thanks for your input. A couple follow-up questions though. Why would the price on the low valued puts go way up though? Is it now, after the squeeze, MORE likely that GME goes ban…

TLDR the value of puts with a strike price of less than $5/share has gone way up, despite the stock price moving in the opposite direction. Is this a case of a mispricing due to a …

25% of California's population is from LA county. Just to put that in context.

If you really think through the implications of every individual in America owning a pony, it gets a lot more interesting than that! It means that everyone in every city would own …

The thing is, everyone _could_ get a pony, if we decided that doing so was a priority. Ponies cost about $1000. If it mattered enough, the US government could ABSOLUTELY afford $33…

Rich Hickey has some fantastic talks: https://changelog.com/posts/rich-hickeys-greatest-hits My favorite is https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hi...

Of the books I've read this year, there are a small handful that I think are beyond good. Antifragile: This book has informed many decisions I have made recently. It is insightful,…

From my notes file about "decisions": "You've got to keep making decisions, even if they're wrong decisions. If you don't make decisions you're stuffed" - Joe Simpson, (Touching th…

Although I think you're trying to use these examples to highlight that regulation can indeed be valuable (and to insinuate that such an idea should be obvious to anyone), I think t…