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Looks like it. Except I don't see that the bonds necessarily weren't liquid. They just kept going down as the Fed cranked rates up. As some others have said in this thread: I'm jus…

It sounds like a much worse outcome for the pension fund, yeah.

According to the article, the pension fund's exposure is because it owns shares of stock in SVB. That's bad, but bank stocks can be tricky. They're not saying they lost money as a …

I'm not a historian. But "book" sometimes meant something much shorter in the past, at least in the West. Euclid's Elements is organized as "13 books" ... but it's one "book" today…

Exactly. The BBC must show us a Nalanda U hoodie, with a copyrighted logo, or else abandon these wild claims! Did this so-called 'university' even have a lacrosse team?? Irony noti…

Feels like a central issue. I find a lot to agree with here, and a lot to agree with in the comment you're responding to.

Thanks! Have you compared it to the "regular" 10y Laphroaig?

Can I ask kind of Scotch you like now? There's probably something out there that I'm just not finding. EDIT: I'm open to things that I hate on the first sip. In fact that might wor…

Yeah, the Last Word is great (if you like it). Maybe the author is losing me in several layers of sarcasm or something. I sure hope so.

Thanks for asking. For me a lot of single-malt scotch, up until around 2000 (maybe later) seemed never to have been completely domesticated as a normal consumer product. Depending …

Sure, local distilling has benefited. It's a great point. My tiny town had an excellent micro-distillery that made really nice bourbon and my favorite gin. But I really miss the wa…

It's not quite so simple. A race to supply authentic Chartreuse at extremely high volumes is likely to produce ditchwater. Authentic ditchwater with the correct label on the bottle…

They're not saying it's the best strategy. It's obviously not the best strategy. The bug can't see anything in there.

I think that's right. I don't think the article is imputing "strategic thinking" to the individual larvae. They carry out a strategy, but they probably didn't whiteboard it themsel…

Sorry to belabor something lots of readers already know: The long key may (or may not) be packed with entropy. But a pseudo-random number generator at best preserves the entropy in…

The answer here is not to micro-examine how badly Google needs telemetry or doesn't need telemetry. The answer is No. No telemetry to be used on people who don't want it.

Genuine question: How is that ironic? I'm simply not following, which happens to me a lot.

I'm confident that you're not jumping from "asking nicely is not a solution" to "using force or deception is fine." It's just that, if the argument in my last paragraph did become …

D&D is apparently very hard to write about. This writer somehow does it. I hate, with a burning hate, original AD&D's insanely complex, contradictory, obviously-never-playtested ru…

I don't think they'd necessarily have a base-20 system built into the language if they didn't work with numbers larger than 10.

You can deal a second hand of cards from the same deck. You can't* deal exactly the same hand you dealt the first time. *Limiting case given enough cards. We shuffle before each de…

The barrel may be part of the point. It may also be useful context for anyone who is wondering how much time to invest in learning about Diogenes.

Dude lived in a damn barrel though.

The Guards Counterattack, yay! I'd buy a decent computer version of the basic game whether I was ever going to play it or not. Digital ASL? I'm out. Too hardcore. It's an insanely …