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Link to SEC report: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-212

I understand basic options. They listed only long puts in 13F, the max they could lose is the premium they paid. So there must be some other securities that they didn't disclose (m…

Thank you. But those short calls are not in 13F, so they can selectively disclose?

How could they lose $7B? Melvin Capital Recent 13F : https://sec.report/Document/0000905718-20-001111/ It shows they had about $757mm worth puts. Assuming all of that puts are wort…

Try Spacemacs, default vi bindings

List by a Math professor: http://people.math.gatech.edu/%7Ecain/textbooks/onlinebooks....

Don't know about 18th century, but some what similar strategy is already mentioned by Taleb in the interview: Kelly Criterion.

I agree, but why is U.S. subsidizing the whole world without getting as much benefit? Its not just this, U.S. is subsidizing the whole world's healthcare costs too.

One more reason I do sometimes this because I remember the website but don't quite remember the domain (was it .com or .net or .org)

PAXOS is very complicated, Raft is direct response to it by simplifying the consensus algorithm. From the article: "It's equivalent to Paxos in fault-tolerance and performance. The…

I think it is not just about "need for influence". To learn somthing, is to 1. Read, 2. Do and 3. Teach. So blogging can be "teach" part.

>>web-scale word-of-mouth(social networks, product review sites, recommendations from field- or topic-specific authoritative websites) All of which are ad-supported and if they wer…