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I would sell that 99% number for a six figure sum if you'd like to define terms, an arbiter, and setup escrow.

The other answers here are fairly uninformed. AI has been reliably beating humans in NHLE since 2019 with just deep learning [1], modern solvers can play within a small epsilon of …

Exactly what wealth are cities draining from rural America? Is it possible there's a simpler explanation? That the economy of the twenty-first century is dominated by information a…

Comparing living near jobs and quality schools to living by a mansion on the beach is quite unfair - people don't solely desire the luxury of cities, they desire the opportunity fo…

Cities have jobs. Cities have opportunity. Cities have diversity. Why should we expect, encourage, or even desire that young people sacrifice economic and social opportunity and mo…

Yes.

Yea, the bonus point is interesting, especially in finance where bonuses can be > 100% of base. You can't insist on firms paying last years bonus, or else people would just quit an…

> If companies actually paid employees not to compete they would be able to keep them Why is this true? If someone is making $200k and leaving to make $350k, an employer may well b…

When were trades reversed when a market maker had a bad algo? If you are doing market manipulation, sure, your trades might get reversed, but if someone wants to puke money across …

They go bankrupt, because their liabilities exceed their assets. There are three main sets of creditors - the US government who are receiving this $142.7 billion, equity shareholde…

I’m seeing this on mobile only

literally no big tech employer is going to allow you to add clauses to your employment contract

Why are you quoting the disclaimer as if its secret, or some kind of gotcha? Yes this is a short selling firm. While they have some incentives to exaggerate, they are trying to fin…

@danaris - if you are a bank and people want to withdraw money, you need cash to pay them. By "the market" we mean the banks depositors who withdrew their case (partially due to th…

> You don't get to live in San Francisco You get to live in New York City which is unparalleled in the US in terms of urban amenities. The weather can be brutal though. Or you live…

Do you have any evidence for this, empirically? I mean yes, HFTs aren't going to let their orders sit stale when FOMC announces a giant rate hike, they aren't going to lose a bunch…

Yea, I've always wondered if finance companies intentionally structure their comp this way to make garden leave more damaging

As long as "full salary" is defined as your total compensation. Financial firms set base salaries low relative to total compensation (bonus can be 200-500%+ base) so that your TC d…

> But really, is the amount of space, bandwidth and clock cycles we carelessly waste really justified by the gain in productivity and achievable complexity? Yes. Space, bandwidth, …

Isn't (32 bit) INT_MAX 2^31-1 and INT_MIN -2^31, so this is an acceptable solution (since the decimal average is -0.5)?

Not really - it's just saying that the definitive link is almost entirely caused by hyperinsulinemia and inflammation, and if you control for them, there's no other causality. Hype…

Another nutritional epidemiology study with an absurdly large effect size that is almost certainly due to confounding factors. Yes, the researchers did an admirable job trying to c…

> some third factor like "propensity to consume highly-processed food products" is responsible Even with the significant controls in the study, I still completely believe this is t…

Not even just consumption, the healthy user bias also effects lifestyle factors. People who try to avoid artificial sweeteners because they think they are unhealthy likely make man…

I can never really take the results of nutritional epidemiology studies too seriously. How can you possibly control for all the confounding variables? People who are avoid artifici…