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I think that I might not have been clear enough. Of course Rosh mesivta and exilarch differ in the source, but I don't think a human translator would choose to translate one title …

I'm not a book editor or translator, just a guy with a reasonable familiarity with rabbinic literature in its original language. I spent some time reading the translation of Tzemac…

Well the idea that the price of a stock represents the actual value of the company can be complicated but the realization that it's super hard to figure out what the actual value o…

Is buying insurance gambling? Is giving your second cousin 100k some money so he can open up is restaurant gambling if you expect a percent of the profits but won't actively be inv…

I don't understand how this happened. Surely you picked up enough of the lecturer's views during the lectures and you knew what you had to say to get a good grade. So why didn't yo…

It's funny when quintessential American business models bump up against foreign regulations and they have to find workarounds to keep in line with the law while trying to stay true…

Wow. I spent decades of my life living in the US but apparently the wrong parts. Now I'm living in a different continent but I hope one day I'll have the opportunity to experience …

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The article mentions tang repeatedly as if it's a positive thing. Maybe I don't know what tang is, but shouldn't pancakes be sweet and not tangy?

Claude is a tool in the hands of the person using it. If you built a cabinet using power tools would you say the drill and saw built the cabinet? Or that you did? I find it irritat…

Robinhood (and retail in general) order flow is valuable precisely because there's already no information in it. It's assumed to be more or less random. Institutional order flow ca…

Yes. And indeed, when aggregated and averaged across all betters, nobody makes any money. The question isn't what percentage of bets resolve to no, but whether there is a consisten…

Yes, Silicon Valley has some bits that don't quite match real life. But every now and then there's some true insight in it. Like the bit where the crazy VC tells them that the last…

> If it were true, then decline wouldn't have begun in the 19th or 20th century but around the time that property and currencies emerged. Why? Can you elaborate on that? Did the em…

The Arab parties are potential "kingmakers" in the coalition arithmetic. In particular, it was Mansour Abbas that made the "change government" (Lapid-Bennett) and if there's any ch…

But it's still described as a $2M toll, not a 13.81M CNY toll. So I guess we're not there yet.

When a stock drops in value, the dollars don't flow anywhere, they just disappear. Think about this: For every buyer ("putting money in a stock") there is a seller ("taking money o…

I live here, I don't need Polymarket to know that there will be missiles tomorrow. In fact, that's why I'm on HN now even though it's just past midnight here. Because it's a well k…

It means holding the actual stocks in the underlying index, as opposed to synthetic replication, which aims to achieve returns matching the index via derivatives or other technique…

Or he's just a manchild who likes doing things that he thinks will make him look strong.

It really wasn't rocket science. Even I packed my go bag and loaded up the car on Friday night, and I have no information they don't share on the news. (I live in Israel, and when …

I found the key insight -- when a human tries to sound like an LLM, that's perceived by other humans as humor.

I'm in Israel. If you turn on the TV lately, you will inevitably hear a bunch of talking heads endlessly analyzing every word Trump said, and the movement of various US military ap…

> When the printing press came out, I bet there were scribes who thought, "holy shit, there goes my job!" But I bet there were other scribes who thought, "holy shit, I don't have t…