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They had very large put positions on stock that they had very small long stock positions in, I think they were net short in almost everything they held puts on (except the smh etf …

I don't have anything to say about their concentration beyond that if you read their early 13Fs (ex https://13f.info/13f/000204572425000006-situational-awarenes... ) they were in f…

I was answering his point that 400% returns are impossible without leverage, and my argument was that they were in the right stocks at the right time to achieve those kinds of retu…

>Returns like that are not asymmetrical and can only be produced with leverage, at least when you're trading paper. Definitely not true, looking at their last 13f (filed in may 202…

The other side could be someone with natural exposure to the question that wants to hedge, for example people traveling to/from the middle east were exposed to the Iran war questio…

>What was slow? Everything, huge input delay in every interaction, clicking on anything, opening menus, typing, tabbing between windows, everything had 1-2s of delay. >disable vari…

I got a new computer a couple weeks ago, with a 5070, and installed ubuntu on it and it was incredibly slow. I looked online and found some claim that 24.04 has some incompatabilit…

I asked this (in a less accusatory tone) of an NSO employee once and he said something about how the big tech companies also spy on people and do unethical things.

There are already cheap, domestic robots for cleaning dishes, cleaning the floor, cleaning clothes, making coffee, heating and cooling food, turning screws, drilling holes and so o…

>All photographs or videos you have seen have been placed there for you to see them The source of most of the videos from both sides is random social media users. Even the videos a…

The network Assaf got from founding and selling a big cybersecurity company and then being a VP-equivalent at Microsoft for 5 years (immediately before found Wiz) is more relevant …

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For public companies you don't need a heuristic, as the balance sheet is included in quarterly earnings reports.

The price of the share stays the same but there are fewer shares, so the market cap would go down.

I saw a comment (not in the linked thread) that notes that the system prompt probably includes something along the lines of "You are a helpful AI assistant...", which does feel lik…

The secret challenge exists and it is the phone number / email address / VC account of CFO. If CFO wants to order EMPLOYEE to send money, then EMPLOYEE should only do the action af…

This is a weird objection because if the expensive insulin did not exist (effective price = $inf) it would not apply.

This law was passed specifically to allow Aryeh Dery to ignore the terms of his plea agreement and serve as a minister. It's not related to the Jewish-Arab demographic balance (whi…

1. There seems to be some suggestion that X 2. ??? 3. In no world can I imagine ¬X

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Double quotes hasn't worked in a long time. It used to be the case that if you search "foo" "bar" it would only return documents that had the words "foo" and "bar". I will frequent…

If you ask ChatGPT to compose a layoff email with a quote from MLK that is the quote it uses (ref https://twitter.com/mattstratton/status/1618018859763798016 )

I don't understand the article: Posted October 07, 2022 Subtitle: An IT outage hit the airline's check-in and boarding systems \*last month\* First sentence: Aer Lingus is seeking …