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2015 observational study suggests these results are not unique to Covid: ""Our research shows a correlation between hospitalisation due to infection and impaired cognition correspo…

The linked article did not say climate research is fraud. It says the climate implications of permafrost thawing are complex and very difficult to model.

I found Firefox to be much more response when operating lots of tabs and opening and closing tabs quickly with keyboard shortcuts on Windows. My direct comparison is Microsoft Edge…

Have you found a better alternative for someone who trades a lot? I'd like to drill down into trade results per symbol and get ROI statistics and visualize past buy/sell points.

Spitznagel runs a fund that specializes on so-called "tail-risk events", i.e. he profits from extremely unlikely economic scenarios such as hyperinflation or violent economic crash…

This is an old European disease. Corporate profits are often seen as an adverse result; of consumers being taken advantage of unfairly. Taxing excess profits beyond what are alread…

That is a very narrow and frankly sweepingly incorrect description of "CEOs" or "companies". They're not all the same. I for one (alongside many other investors) carefully study in…

I looked through the new features list, but couldn't find the "conversational" threads feature which was on the roadmap for Q1 2023. Is this will coming or am I just missing it?

Ballou's criticism of PE fund managers being skilled in finance but not in operations or engineering is missing the point. A good PE fund manager understands the ins and outs of ca…

That however is unfortunately true for quotes from many of history's dark figures, be it Hitler, Stalin or Nero.

While that sounds concerning, I have to question the underlying thesis: Does private ownership always short-change customers, like the subtitle insinuates? "hospice agencies are no…

Should normalize this to working days & hours. Germany has up to 6 weeks of paid vacation per year vs. ~10 days in the US.

In parts of popular media, there seems to be an assumption of a very high certainty for an impending "economic productivity revolution thanks to LLM AI". Case studies like this one…

The result of this optimism in big cap tech companies is that many smaller cap shares in industries such as financial services, insurance or industrial distribution are trading for…

I absolutely love the immersive background audio and sound FX in the game. It's fantastic listening on headphones.

A slap on the wrist. And the EU will be parading this around as a major win against "the evil tech conglomerates".

It is mind-boggling how this business with $600 million in annual revenues is still barely breaking even on a free cash flow basis.

You have to carefully analyze if you absolutely need to live in Munich - the most expensive city in Germany - in order to run and build your startup once you graduate. Is the extra…

If there is residual value here (as some claim), why can't the owner sell the business? No buyer willing to assume lawsuit risk?

Why - unless you're being sarcastic? Looks to me like the system is working Early warning system pushed the bank to unwind positions before hurting depositors. Regulation appears t…

I vividly recall seeing a feature on TV in the mid 80s where they were discussing future technologies for the year 2000. One of them was the cashier-less store: We'd all put in our…

Stephen Wolfram has a way of explaining and teaching that is unique. What a wonderful read.

I have always wondered if the 'big productive urban center' (like London, or Paris, or Warsaw) is a boon or a curse for the 300 miles around it. Does it soak up young talent and ca…

I'd like to counter the notion the EU today is first and foremost an economic union. The EU can not simply be replaced by "a bunch of free trade agreements". Helmut Kohl has always…

What I find interesting is nobody complained about Musk's social media antics when he proclaimed himself to be Technoking of Tesla or when he hyped dogecoins with diamond hands. Bo…