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I guess because the article is talking about insider trading through the use of options and your point on Taleb is how he traded options like any option trader would. I should be c…

Doesn't that mean he was long volatility? Taleb's point seems more to be that he saw a mispricing and traded on it one day, rather than anything profound regarding option pricing, …

Isn't it literally all included in this umbrella section? > Friends, business associates, family members, and other "tippees" of such officers, directors, and employees, who traded…

I agree with you that it's possibly unanswerable, which is more or less the point. The broader idea is that there are lots of obscure interactions like that one I made up. You can …

A relevant aside: surely insider trading is happening all the time? There are so many daily market-shifting events involving so many privy parties that it seems inevitable to happe…

Even as a math graduate, I still think calculus is a bit weird. The idea of successive approximations for a slope culminating in a dy/dx term -- where we say dx (really the denomin…

How do you find them? Are dead projects even advertised?

Isn't this also related to how the vaccines-cause-autism conversation started? The study involved only had a handful of subjects (a few of which were very unqualified), and then a …

Haha OK I was almost sure this was sarcasm

Eh, I think one could say HSAs are also a symptom of these disproportionate effects. What populations are getting the jobs that provide an HSA? What population has money left over …

The rate of maternal deaths in the US far outpaces that for other industrial countries. [0] Likely related to a racial divide in healthcare infrastructure? [0] https://tcf.org/cont…

Sorry! I was trying to save the user scanning time by calling attention to a particular fact about the article, but I can also just use the text box to do so. Thanks!

A simply-stated conjecture in graph theory involving the reconstruction of a graph with N vertices from a collection of the N subgraphs that result when a vertex is deleted.