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> How many lives were destroyed (or at least harmed) by hustling junk bonds?

I think most people would struggle to name anyone. Milken is probably the most important person in modern finance, he was the JP Morgan of our era, no-one really comes close. And the impact for both companies and lenders was hugely positive, he organised financing for companies that would have gone bankrupt otherwise, he swept away the monopolistic finance that was emerging from the 70s (ofc, in the early 80s there was a very active attempt to stop Milken by the big banks, anti-semitism being a component of this). Private equity exists because of Milken, direct lending, offshoots of infra/real estate, he changed securities law, he increased management accountability (which was crippling economic growth), he increased the efficiency of corporate capital structures (also crippling growth), on and on. There are definitely innovations that were as important (securitization being one) but in terms of individual impact...no-one comes close (and he stopped working three decades ago...he is still that important, three decades later).

Milken certainly broke securities laws...improper disclosure of 13D/Gs, inaccurate commission disclosure, trades made for non-economic reasons, and (what he wasn't convicted for) improper separation between his personal deals and customer deals. A lot of the other stuff though was a combination of wrong and what almost everyone else was doing (and it took changes in regulation, a lot of these problems continued into the 90s because rules didn't change, Milken going to jail changed nothing).

Btw, all of the things he was actually charged for were supposedly harms against customers...but how many customers were unhappy with the business they did?

It is also worth saying that I don't think anyone who is actually familiar with Milken can think he did it for the money either. The guy basically didn't leave his desk, didn't take holidays, and lived in the same house that he lived in when he wasn't a billionaire.
The idea seems to be that top-grain has the grain surface sanded, sealed and finished.
Where I come from, CS masters degrees are usually conversion courses for non-CS majors.
Why wouldn't it scale approximately linearly with customers, which should be approximately proportional to sales?

Isn't that Apple's "genius bar" model in a nutshell? Stores/in-person support scaling linearly with customers?
> The danger with these arguments is that you only notice the cases that don't work. That's a 100% failure rate! Can't get more stupid than that!

I’m gonna go out on a limb and suggest maybe you’re too close to this. I notice the “clear win” cases frequently too. At best they’re very clearly and awkwardly editorialized. I click on them frequently just to reassure myself that I’m aware I’m not mistaking reality for fiction. I do the same with “why” and “\d” editorialized titles that get auto-edits. Maybe the clear win is identifying clickbait, but the editing is definitely not effective.
I'm happy to hear about your spouse. I actually published a case report that included observations about the importance of brand. One of the capsules tested didn't dissolve until the ph reached 9, clearly not physiologic. ANI, Lupin and Firvanq (liquid) seem to work.
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Symbols are always lossy, they cannot be relied on even in the best case. I think what matters are the games we play with them.
It depends very much on what type of software you are writing. Whether you are writing an exploratory software that will get tossed a few days after, or a piece of hardware that will be used and modified continuously in order of several years. Whether it is a GUI like mentioned in this article with changing requirements or architecture trends once in a while, or fundamental building blocks with very slow-changing requirements but with high stakes regarding correctness and performance like kernels or cryptotography/security. There is no single tool that can handle all the problems, but rust can be especially productive to use in those latter case, considering the time spent in entire software life-cycle like maintaining and debugging. After some time, it is even possible to be more productive just in writing code itself than Python (for me this is true for command-line client tools)! At the end of day, if you are a C++ programmer that gets constantly bitten by bug either written by youself or by someone else in your team. Bugs like using `foo.to_string().c_str()` after the line that defines it, bugs caused by trying to erase element of an iterator in a `for` loop. Starting to write code in Rust, it will soon be less painful than writing in C++. Especially you are into idiomatic ways to write good software in C++!
The conversation was regarding my personal experiences as a physician caring for people dying of COVID, so I was using "seen" literally, not as in "read" or "heard of."

Do you think that news report "moves the needle?"

Did you read this part in the article you posted? "it is unclear whether or not his death was removed from the overall count in the state."

Do you think that patients' right to privacy may make it difficult to know the details surrounding a death, leading to widespread, unfalsifiable, conspiratorial speculation?
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There is plenty of oil. Oil products are likely to increase in price due to lack of refinery investment.
My dad explained to me that in the 1960s and 1970s, USDA assessors would just drive down the road and look at a field and scribble a random number into their notebook. The data might not be very accurate. The reason he said they never cared to write an accurate number is that after they gave the numbers to the USDA, the USDA would just write the number they wanted to hear down instead. It had something to do with keeping the price they needed to keep exports flowing. For farmers of course, it hits them right in the pocket book because it prevents the prices reaching where they should be. On the other hand, subsidies help alleviate that a bit.

I'm not sure if this is true still today. But, I doubt they're counting every successful crop correctly. And, there's a lot that can happen before they are actually harvested; floods, insects, blight, drought, etc. For example, there'd be a huge drought and the USDA would announce a bumper crop and he'd laugh. And, that was recent.

Either way, past data is probably pretty suspect. And, today's data might have the same problem. Which means if you're basing prediction models on this you might expect to be disappointed when things don't pan out. This is especially dangerous if we enter an era where food becomes more scarce. It is an accounting issue if you think about it.
I've seen a lot of people complaining that their 100M+ connections are "slow" for that reason, and they upgrade to 1G and they complain again. It's not like they're doing much on that 1G line either, just say a Steam game download at full speed followed with a stuttering Zoom call. You'll be surprised how far you can push a 10M DSL connection with good QOS (assuming you don't have multiple users streaming video and such).
I wouldn't give Rust or Elm the credit for that, though. Although it was not first, React is really what put the declarative method for UI programming on the map. Today, there's a solid argument that by usage numbers React is the most used UI framework today, and it's children like Vue are high up there too.

Swift also has a similar problem and unlike Rust has a powerful backer, so SwiftUI is in many ways already a vision of what a Rust native UI framework would look like.
You can even use mdadm to add a ramdisk as a single disk RAID array with write-through to a physical disk.

Every time you reboot, it will repair the array.
If a specific use-case can benefit from it, fine.

I love me some jq, not moving much data as JSON, and so this amounts to an interesting exercise.
The path they chose is one that does not lead to prosperity. There's nothing inherently wrong with Congo or the Congo people.

What I find most sad is how few people want to emulate the United States, and how many want to emulate disasters like the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, etc.
EDIT: Never mind, sorry, I missed part of the article, it does indeed say what you say.

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That's the opposite of what your source says:

> In writing, however, use to in place of used to is an error.

Used to X was the standard past tense of to use in the sense of being in the habit of:

I used to fish: I was previously in the habit of fishing, correct both in the past and today.

I use to fish: I am presently in the habit of fishing, correct in the past but no longer understood today.

The second, however, is according to MW occasionally misused to mean "I was previously in the habit of fishing".
Garner’s Modern English Usage (4th edition) acknowledges didn’t used to as “fully accepted” (Stage 5) and notes that it was almost twice as common in journalistic usage.

There’s long been open debate among linguists about what might be formally more correct, but with sound arguments on both sides. It mostly comes down to grammatical rule vs idiomatic phrase with a strong validating history.

That said, he suggests never used to as a way to escape the grammar debate while still keeping used.
Before dang took over being banned was much more common, and not always for an obvious reason.
Russia is itself the 2nd supplier of weapons on the international market and buying from the 1st (the US) is pretty pointless as whatever the US is selling is incompatible with the Russian systems. Who you envision Russia would need to buy weapons from?
a lot. probably in the millions via compounding. Long 3x etfs TECL and TQQQ and also long Tesla. I think there will be a 2x tesla soon.

So if these increase 50%/year, which based on historic data is doable, i should increase my investment by 8x.

Inflation is not much of a concern.
I also enjoyed it for what it was. I was easily able to make it through the entire season and also would have liked a second season.

The anime is one of the best of all time though, so I understand why people had high expectations.
I think the most significant scientific result in which machine learning is playing a major role is computational protein folding, and that at least doesn't seem to have these reproducibility problems:

https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/

It's a very well-defined problem and the datasets it uses are very well-characterized (the protein crystallography database, maybe some NMR structures as well), so perhaps that helps.
I remember stumbling across Cowboy Bebop on Adult Swim in the late 90’s. No idea about the show previously but was immediately hooked. Glad they picked it up.

[Edit] Looks like the AS promos are still on Youtube: https://youtu.be/Qh8JkogEaFs
Elementary OS (https://elementary.io/) probably has the most thorough usage of it, most of their DE and all of their built in apps are written in Vala (as well as most of the 3rd party apps published through their store).
Hololens 2 uses hand tracking for interaction (which works really well!), so it's surprising to see a controller device being used with the Magic Leap 2. Apparently ML's hand tracking tech isn't ready yet? If you're a company planning to deploy AR for the enterprise (for example, for aerospace manufacturing), is there a compelling reason to choose Magic Leap 2 over Hololens 2? I heard that with Magic Leap 2, they switched from their own custom Lumin OS to Android, so I could possibly see some companies preferring Android development over Universal Windows Platform. However, it seems like Magic Leap has a massive hurdle to overcome to take market share from Microsoft in the enterprise AR space.
Rob Pike famously explained that C needed its space-insensitive braces and semicolons in case code was transmitted through a channel that mangled whitespace.

Those days predate most people reading this, yet many new language syntaxes opt for "familiarity". I wish that all language design went through a filter where every character mattered like the designer was in an episode of Squid Game.

Bill Joy famously explained that syntax matters, a dense syntax puts more on screen. This is true even now. I struggle with this; my favorite syntax is a preprocessor that eliminates the need for most Lisp parentheses. The result is code poetry. Nevertheless, Haskell is more expressive.

(Here's an easy test: Anyone who proposes a way to minimize Lisp parentheses, who hasn't introduced a symbol for missing outline levels, is just pulling out chunks and hasn't used their system to write thousands of lines of code.)

I've written most of my lifetime of code in C, established my career in C, and C syntax is ground glass in my eyes.
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100% spot on. It's like Jim Cramer and Mad Money. His stock picks are terrible compared to the index/average, yet he somehow has a following (and a show)

https://www.ifa.com/articles/cramer_chasing_mad_money/
...well, thatvjust seems like a really odd comment, to me.
Savings accounts are for short-term liquid ... savings. You only keep in those what you need in the forseeable.

None of these is "investing in dollars" though. You're not just holding dollars and hoping the value will go up, because literally nobody does that. By design. If you want money to grow you invest it in productive assets. Unless you're into cryptocurrency when you gamble it on group psychology and dickbutt jpegs like 3AC did.

> Bitcoin doesn't have this problem

You haven't described a problem.
Why is it wise to have a negative view of opportunities that present themselves?

> that needs a hell of a lot of perfecting

It still works better than any other system. It wasn't that many years ago where what to write on bathroom doors bubbled up to get the attention of the US President. Or the fake crisis that there are many very rich people in the US. Or the drama over who is bending the knee and who isn't. The fact is that many of our headline problems are trivial when put in historical context.
Why do you think companies exist? For customers…
No, it's a shitty rag not even fit to wipe your posterior with.
Maybe that's where the 3dfx voodoo name originates?
Mostly money. It’s not a popular answer but doing what I do I make nearly 500% more than doing what I miss doing. I’ve got family and future to save for, and I can get to my goals faster doing this stuff. The upside is that I might be able to “retire” in a few years, which to my mind is doing what you want to do regardless of the compensation. So we will see :-) I may just join you soon.
ARM64 (AArch64) ripped out a lot of the original design ideas.

No conditional execution, and the program counter is no longer directly addressable.

This does increase performance, at the cost of code density (no thumb instructions either).

Fujitsu's ARM supercomputer was the first that I'd heard of removing all 32-bit support, but mainline designs are about to do the same with phones.
> if it goes offline within the year

This would be a >95% reduction in lifespan. I'm really curious what source suggests anything close to such a colossal failure in the predicted meteoroid environment.
Yep. Everything shouted "see, we did that thing from the anime, everyone! WINK-U FACE-U!" and on top of that, it was a jumbled mess because instead of just adapting the story, they had the audacity to "re-imagine" it. Fans love the series because it's such masterpiece of storytelling and it had amazing production quality.

It's like taking pasta, tomatoes, cheese, olive oil, raw chicken breast, etc and throwing them in a blender, tossing the paste into a pan and baking it, and being amazed that you somehow didn't reproduce a mouth-watering delicious chicken Parmesan.
Yeah, no. Daily Mail is about one step, maaaybe generously two steps above the National Enquirer.
Oh boy, courts are gonna have to get out their big wrist-slapper for this one! /s
> Rob Pike famously explained that C needed its space-insensitive braces and semicolons in case code was transmitted through a channel that mangled whitespace.

Interesting.

And later when he (along with his collaborators) created Go, he moved with the times and avoided the need for semicolons.

Alongside they also shipped a tool that handles formatting so people can stop talking about that.
I don’t. But I used to run a Yoga platform and used Stripe. None of my customers (Yoga instructors) knew about Stripe. They always requested PayPal or Square to the point, I realized using Stripe only made my life easier, but my customers didn’t care. It was a huge hassle to convince them a) to use my platform and b) to use Stripe. So it became 2x more difficult to onboard them. Same thing for their customers. Since I was a new platform, they ask their instructors why it wasn’t PayPal or Square. They trusted those brands to hand over their card.
I do a similar thing with my own typewriter, the in-phone OCR with the iPhone is remarkably good now, only a few minor mistakes when I use it to scan in typewritten pages. It’s nice to have a different way of working when I want to. Usually I write longhand then type it up later.
Not at all. You are applying an assumption for which you cannot actually determine is true or false. That assumption is that we could measure the differences because we would see a "linear" flow (using the word linear is the sense that it is anything that is not radially determined). What it boils down to is that it is not a measurable quantity (the one way speed of light).
Unbelievable that ARM1 was only 25k transistors, when an 8086 was nearly 30k. The efficient use of resources was phenomenal.
Reward ≠ comfort. GP is saying that they reduced their calorie intake while actually eating more, and not incurring extra hunger. Which is absolutely plausible.
> my favorite syntax is a preprocessor that eliminates the need for most Lisp parentheses.

What's the preprocessor you're talking about?
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Because none of these companies care about customer service or are any good at it. I was a corporate google customer once - we forked over a mid six figure amount for various tools such as analytics, big query, etc. It was just as difficult to get any support whatsoever as it is for the average gmail customer who pays nothing. Among most enterprise IT folks, mentioning google and support in the same sentence is some sort of running joke. I’ve had crummy support experience with the others, too, though it appears google is exceptionally bad.
Strongly recommend checking out Retro68 and cross compiling from a newer machine: https://github.com/autc04/Retro68

There are some really good Retro68 code examples out there as well. I started compiling a list here, including a couple of my own: https://henlin.net/2021/12/21/Cool-Retro68-projects/

As a few other folks have said, the inside Macintosh books are extremely valuable references for Mac-specific code. I keep pdfs of them open the whole time I’m working on my Macintosh projects.
I wonder how much of their success is due to vala. I assume they're all gifted but vala seemed to be the right vessel to channel their ideas and reach high goals faster.
We have more ideas for telescopes than money to build them. So to get funded, a new telescope needs to be a substantial improvement over what already exists: 10x or more, typically.

There’s typically only a chance to build a flagship every ten years or so.
Yep I agree that is the right approach. Elm is amother example of this architecture in action.
> sanctions are only against civilians

This is a very silly assertion.
Try convincing a majority of the population to give up meat and milk, I guarantee you people won't want to.
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> the steam engine in particular mostly excels at stuff which slaves couldn't do (high speed transport) or enabled production processes particularly well suited to slave labour (textile mills vs craft-textile production).

I think there’s a bit more to it: “high speed” is something which took a long time to be true. A lot of these things were simpler applications which seem to have big situational components: if you have literal tons of coal and ore to haul, plus relatively amenable terrain, but not competition from boats, iron to make rails and boilers, and a good source of fuel (coal or wood) steam engines are a great investment. Similarly, if you have fixed industrial demand and abundant fuel but not water power, stationary engines make sense.

If you have different answers for enough of those points, it’s hard to justify the development - it took the Europeans a couple of centuries in starting in the 1600s, after their population already exceeded Rome’s, and as you mentioned they already had or started a lot of related technologies, too. An agrarian society, a hilly one, land without lots of easily available fuel, etc. might not have had it ever make sense or only after someone else has made multiple generations of technology development.
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The vulnerable narcissist vs. the grandiose narcissist. That is, the Hollywood-archetypal "nerd vs. jock", though I have also met some grandiose nerds in my time in addition to the vulnerable stock.

On a different node, I also see that accusing someone of "narcissism" can itself be an expression of envy. If you succeed, you can debilitate someone else with doubt and guilt to prevent them from pursuing what they want.
Actually it is a thing in the us.
> focusing exclusively on say, the successful lottery winner or the successful weight loser not only obscures quite how hard success really is to achieve, but all too easily oversimplifies or misrepresents the real reasons behind success.

So, is the issue success stories as such, or inferior analysis?

These stories, and self-help books in general, are so much comfort food for the alfa-male mind.
Do you think the price would be the same if two of them were eliminated? I guarantee you the price would go up.

Also, there are MVNOs. You can get cell service much cheaper if you don't go with the big 3, and the quality is basically the same.
As one respondent here wrote, the "why" is that due to the long time it took to develop the JWST, much tooling has been scrapped and the teams who did it have dissolved. You lose a lot of the cost savings if you don't build #2 right away.

You're right that the 757 was meant to be built in bulk, and hence one has to pay attention to tolerances so the parts are interchangeable.
I would say the greatest strength of Elementary is being very consistent and opinionated, which I imagine the heavy usage of Vala helped with. It really does feel to me like an even more opinionated version of GNOME (heavy usage of Vala and GTK, mandating all apps published to their store also be GTK and open source, having a very specific desktop experience without many customization options).
Mathematics is a simplification methodology and doesn't necessarily match what actually exists. So to say that the original comment is "false" means that you have to "prove" that it is false in the sense of the logical and mathematical axioms you use.

If those axioms are changed, you get a different logical and mathematical outcome.