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The article cites a study by Business Insider, but the link actually links to a completely different article (from the Atlantic) that, ironically enough actually makes the exact op…

Stocks give you dividends from the underlying company. You reap a realized return (for most stocks) even if you never sell.

Why would someone use this over palette ( https://github.com/Ogeon/palette )?

Their actual rates on most cryptos are much lower than 9%. https://blockfi.com/rates/ BTC is 0.1% above 0.35 BTC. ETH is 0.25% above 5 ETH. I think we can agree these are not high …

I've seen this error a lot when working with two different versions of the same library. Specifically, you can directly include version A, but a different library depends on a vers…

That's mine main contention. PFOF price improvement might be hundredths of a cent (per-share) off of a 3-cent lit spread. But, if PFOF were banned and all that volume were lit inst…

PFOF does not tighten "lit" spreads. PFOF does offer price improvement, which can effectively decrease the spread *for a particular marketable order". However, PFOF drives volume a…

I think it's a function of employee growth, moreso than turnover. They grew from 35.6k employees in 2018 to 58.6k employees in 2020, so almost 40% of their current workforce was no…

What you describe is probably mathematically impossible, but it definitely does not reflect reality. Facebook's median tenure is 2.3 years, so at least 50% of all people at Faceboo…

Except any reasonable proposal for a wealth tax typically leaves the first 5-10 million untouched and marginally taxes amounts larger than that. If you have $10 million in the bank…

Robinson argues that two particular pieces of work are poorly structured logically and insufficiently backed by evidence. He posits a particular source for how these arguments were…

Would you mind being specific? Are you making a claim about the author in general, or this particular essay? What is an example of a claim in the essay that you think is vapid?

That's not anywhere close to the author's core argument. I'll let the author speak for themselves: 'They also are both good examples of a kind of fake social science, whereby you s…

The initial discussion of the article on YC almost touched on what the article hits, noting that Paul Graham is actually quite vague in specifically what behaviors he finds troubli…

To be clear, it's possibly a political statement but it's hardly an ad , at least in any sense that people (Americans?) traditionally use the term. I also don't think that the exis…

How would that be more complicated? Setting up a DAF is quite simple. You'd only have to transfer to one address, rather than collect addresses and transfer to one per charity (man…

"For US customers, your USD balance is covered by FDIC insurance, up to a maximum of $250,000." You literally didn't even bother to click on the one link in that comment.

> In other words, the bet didn't really prove anything other than that the hedge fund industry overall is less attractive than the broader market. The context of the original chall…

I just made an issue on github, but the uniform distribution looks wonky at the right endpoint.

As a designated market maker, there are probably regulatory requirements that force them to be in the market. Granted, if they'd known the full extent of the damage, they almost ce…

Or, ...add sleep(rand(..)) to each lookup, regardless of result.