skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to invoke all of that to commit atrocities, just appeals to convenience work well enough to convince someone to forsake the rights of another person. Settlement of this country should have never happened, this is all stolen indigenous land whose conquest was legally justified by the handwaving of a patriarch of a religion hundreds of years ago. White settlers at the time saw native peoples as a pest much like a coyote is a pest to livestock, and much like coyotes they were allowed to kill off these people pretty matter of factly without recourse. There was no fear or emergency justifying that action, only that the white person would like to make profit grazing their cattle in the buffalo country on land that was offered to them by their government for next to nothing.
What does the expression "smoke the whole pack" mean?

I Googled but there are no real results. Thanks!
How many months you can live without income? Homelessness is also stressful.
Some of them, probably. Urban California is not the US in general.
I've alluded to this in other comments, but these fundraising numbers have to be incomplete. Rivian raised 10.7B, lost 11.1B, and yet they have close to 14B in cash on hand? They've overlooked a lot of fundraising. I'm guessing others have similar mistakes.
Looks like a rented billboard
I feel like all the news stories are ignoring some very blatant questions like this. Maybe they are just waiting for more details to come out?
https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2022/11/covid-nov-11-2022...
OP here. A LinkedIn profile is essential, not only to have in general but also because most applications ask for it. However the really irreplaceable thing is having visible connections to people at past or current jobs. I feel like this shows you're an actual person who has worked at the places you say you've worked at and aren't just making things up on your resume. Maybe that's just me, though, because no one else seems to hype up that part of it.
Cue montage of equations flying around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESEcsjDcmM&t=263s
I'm against social distancing because there is no scientific basis or justification for it. Scientists just went on TV and talked about an idea they pulled out from their behinds. I guess that makes me on the right for not believing everything that was presented to me on television, unlike my family, who are on the left.
> Excess mortality is higher now than during Covid

Interesting analysis of the UK's excess mortality published in the BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj.o2524

> Surprisingly, mortality rates in 2022 for most of the 10 leading “underlying” causes of death such as heart disease, stroke, and lung and colorectal cancer have been similar to previous years, or lower than expected. An exception is the rate for “symptoms, signs, and ill defined conditions” (mostly deaths resulting from old age and frailty) which has consistently been higher than expected and also caused the most excess deaths, but not enough to explain the overall excess.4

> However, the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities’ (OHID) analysis of deaths by “any mention” on the death certificate—rather than just the “underlying cause” of death—shows a substantial excess, in particular, of deaths from cardiovascular diseases and diabetes since April,6 prompting an investigation by the Department of Health and Social Care. Growing evidence suggests that covid-19 increases the risk of cardiovascular problems even months after infection,7 which could in part be driving excess deaths. Covid-19 itself remains the sixth leading cause of death, causing 200-400 deaths weekly—a reminder that this virus remains a threat for the foreseeable future.

> Another possibility is that people may not be receiving the care they need from an NHS that was already overstretched pre-pandemic and is now coping with unprecedented backlogs of care and pressures on emergency services. This “crisis” situation has an adverse impact on all patients, but a lack of timely care can be especially life threatening for people with acute cardiovascular problems.

> ONS analysis shows about 3300 excess deaths occurred during the heatwaves experienced in England and Wales between June and August, mostly in older people.8

> ONS also notes that excess deaths can occur following periods when deaths were lower than average, ie, “mortality displacement.”5 Could some of the excess deaths since April reflect the lower ASMRs in early 2022?

I'm also curious about why there's such a difference in relative excess death rates between the US and UK. Currently in the US the weekly death rates are far below what they were in 2020-2021: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Per capita median income is what you get when you include retirees, teenagers, those who do not work at all (they will still have some income from welfare/disability/gifts), and other part time workers. It's not a good measure of average employment earnings in an economy in which labor force participation is only 61%.

What you should look at is median earnings of full time workers, which is about $1000 per week, or $52K per year. This does not include benefits - in the U.S. things like healthcare are primarily funded by the employer and retirement is roughly half funded via social security matching contributions, so total compensation would be about 70K/year.

https://www.bls.gov/charts/usual-weekly-earnings/usual-weekl...
Well you can't conflate the banality of rolling dice with evolution. Based on what I've read, randomness has been a necessity for it's fruition, but of course this isn't my field.
Yes. Hiring processes slow greatly this time of year. It's always been that way.
His book "Race and Culture: A World View" was an eye opener. After being very politically naïve for many years, my reading of this book changed how I view economic, regulatory, and political consequences.
They used their high stock price to buy Livongo, and then did massive write downs on it when it ended up not being that great (~$9 billion in total). They had two quarters in a row where they did good will impairments of 30-40% of their market cap.

Bought Livongo October 2020 (stock price $200)for $18 billion- https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/finance/teladoc-finalizes-b...

Q1 2022 6.6 billion write down- https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/health-tech/teladoc-takes-6...

Q2 3 billion write down- https://www.insiderintelligence.com/content/teladoc-health-t...
100%. In school I did the usual on-campus interviews and blasting out resumes. However, the three jobs I've had since I didn't even apply for. I just sent emails to people I knew. (And, in one case, the job description was written for me.) Obviously your mileage will vary with this sort of thing, but it's my personal experience.
Disagree. I was looking for a 3-row EV SUV and the only two options were a Tesla Model X and a Rivian R1S. (Maybe that's changed?)
They really, really don't want you using old.reddit.com

Doesn't reproduce for me btw. I also have the setting disabled that adds a period when typing a space twice, if that matters.
They are a high frequency market maker. They are not a hedge fund.

They make money from the pennies in the spread, many many many times over. They are not making over-leveraged big bets.

I encourage you to talk to anyone who works in market-making finance.
Nah, Pfizer is a terrible company. Pharmaceutical companies can rot in hell.

But that doesn't change the fact that vaccines save lives.

It's not that I am bending over backwards to defend Pharma. It's that people are bending over backwards to find shitty things in the silver linings of these companies, instead of just complaining about the thunderclouds themselves like the rest of us.

Corporations are big. Companies can be capable of doing shitty things and good things at the same time. If you wanna complain about Opioids, I'm happy to have a conversation about how terrible pharma is.
> It’s always easier to get a job when you have one then when you don’t.

This should be emphasized. I have a friend who quit a terrible, stressful job without something new lined up, and it took him a year to find another one. After an excessive number of interviews at one company for one position, he got annoyed and asked them what the deal was. They said that they were impressed by him, but were honest and said they were trying to figure out "what was wrong with him," since he wasn't employed, and then gave him an offer.
In the 1980s when Reagan sent wheat to the USSR, a sign appeared in Kansas proclaiming "Kansas: Breadbasket of the Soviet Union".
The tide is going out: higher interest rates mean the economic decisions of the last 15 years will need to be recomputed. Cheap money is no more. Easier to earn a good return with a CD or bank account even.
I work in the trading industry. These people had short tenures at JS, especially Ellison. They weren't seasoned senior traders making big decisions. JS, unlike Alameda, has been in the business for 20+ years and have been very profitable for most of their existence.

It would be worrisome if most of Alameda was full of ex-JS traders, who had been there for 7+ years.
Spoiler alert: they had help. Robinhood is a wolf in sheep's clothing - they are controlled by, and beholden to, criminal enterprises such as Citadel. This "in-house" trade clearing system is actually Ken Griffin's personal honeypot. It is built for one, and only one purpose, and that is to fleece retail investors at all costs while simultaneously creating the appearance of being retail's champion.

It's a neat trick, and I'd almost respect their enginuity if they weren't robbing people blind. I wouldn't touch Robinhood's products or common stock with a 100 foot pole, and neither should you.

Edit: See my other comments below for an idea of how/why this works.
> I realize that transaction fees are probably a moving target but is there a ballpark figure you or someone else could say?

I'll give the answer for Bitcoin as of a couple of years ago, and others can chime in for things like Etherium and other cryptocurrencies.

With bitcoin it's not a fixed fee, it's more like a priority bid. So, there's a pool of "pending" transactions that any miner can grab from. Each pending transaction has a bid for its transaction fee. Each miner will then grab whatever set of transaction it wants to bundle into a block, and try and compute the hash for that block. Once a miner finds a hash for that block, all the transactions in that block are added to the chain and the transaction is "complete" (in practice, people will often wait until one or two blocks are added _after_ the transaction is included in the block chain to be _sure_ it's done).

So, to your question, ultimately the transaction fee is a bid for how quickly you want your transaction included. You can bid $0, and it's likely your transaction will _never_ be included. It doesn't really matter how _much_ you're transferring, but _how quickly_ you need it included in the chain.

How much you'd practically pay for a transaction (in USD) has been super variable over the lifetime of Bitcoin. It fluctuates with how many miners there are, how many transactions are happening, and the exchange rate of BTC to USD (since the feeds are paid in BTC). See the chart at the bottom of this page: https://privacypros.io/tools/bitcoin-fee-estimator/

It looks like it's generally between $0.75-$1.00 right now. So if you're making a transaction of $1M the fee is trivial, but if you're buying a cup of coffee for $5 it's...pretty high.
What are the alternatives / competitors to this ?
Uber isn't likely going under; they're going to squeeze and squeeze and squeeze their way to getting by. Lyft is quasi going away (they'll be acquired), which will further benefit Uber's survival chances.

Uber's sales hit $29b with a $2.2b operating loss, over the past four quarters. It won't take much to keep squeezing that loss further downward to the point where they can trivially float it indefinitely. They continue to become more dominant in their space, not less. If the US economy crashes hard (and nobody can predict that accurately at this point), that would be the only serious risk to change that.
It is the terminals that make the joke right? Airports comes in all sizes.
Why would L-glucose taste the same and have the same effects on mood, etc. if nothing in nature could interact with it? I am not an expert in chemistry or molecular biology, but that seems odd.
You think this is ignorance? I know very little about finance or the technology of finance but this is pretty clearly fraud and criminal behavior.

My only question is was he able to pay for his private jets or residences in FTT? He seemed pretty convincing to a lot of people so it would be interesting to see if everything was paid in his own made up currency.
same! a very well crafted course and best of all it is free.
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To which the Vulcan nerve pinch may still be the solution.
Uber has a market cap of 58 billion (cf. "$25.2 billion funds raised"). Teladoc Health has a market cap of 5 billion (cf. "$0.17 billion funds raised"). The Funds Raised column in the article does not seem to include stock issuance.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/UBER

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TDOC
I think you’re confused about what a liability is. If the liabilities were fake FTX would not be insolvent. Their problem is that their liabilities are real but their assets are fake.
Yes, it is pretty common for hiring to pick up in January. Usually there are approved number of hires approved and they run out toward the end of the year and then many teams stop trying to hire until new headcounts are approved for the next January.
I found "Real Zen for real life" by Bret W. Davis pretty approachable.

It's from The Great Courses, but also available as audiobook on Audible.

BTW he also recommends the same book (gateless gate + blue cliff records, same translation) as the parent poster.
Echoing this question.
I worked in smallcap investment banking for several years. My bank wouldn't speak to you if you didn't have 2-3 years of Audited financials (note: not 'Reviewed' or a 'Compilation'). Often we would request an additional audit if we didn't recognize the firm that did the prior auditing.

All for a valuation range of $200MM - $500MM.

Meanwhile a hastily compiled excel sheet seems to satisfy the largest VC's in the market? Billion dollar valuations based on totally unsubstantiated numbers?

Audit's are expensive (like $30-$80k). But surely better than losing $200MM on hot air.
https://theankler.com/p/hwood-ftx-frenzy-as-michael-lewis?sd...
> > real loans and bonds business

> You mean, like a Money Market fund like VMFXX?

No, I mean like when a bank buys government bonds, company bonds, or loans money to customers and businesses.

That's the kind of business that leads to bankruptcy if all your customers suddenly ask for their money back (which you have been lending behind their backs).

> What Coinbase / Binance is doing is "Crappy" because their reporting guidelines are so much worse than what "the real banks" are doing. There's no one checking or double-checking these reserves.

I'm not sure if that's the case, but if it is, then I agree with you.

Crypto exchanges should be the subject of periodic financial audits by reputable firms and as far as I know, some of the more reputable ones are already moving in that direction out of their own free will (to assure customers that are getting worried by their less reputable competitors that are now going bankrupt), even going so far as publishing cryptographic Merkle proofs of crypto reserves (but traditional financial audits are also necessary).

> Every single dollar (and even penny) is tracked in a money market fund. The _EXACT_ makeup of the loans is also tracked. The rules for how a "bank run" would be handled, are regulated and stated in advance. Everything has been planned out, discussed, debated, in Congress over-and-over again for the past 100 years as our laws have evolved.

It doesn't matter, bank runs can still happen when you're in the crappy loans and bonds business.

And when they do, nowadays not only banks get rewarded with government bailouts, but it's always the tax payer that ends up paying the bill, even though those tax payers are not responsible for the bank's risky and immoral (due to lack of customer consent) money managing policies. And the vast majority of those tax payers are not even customers of the bank!
And the peak age/sex related risk is almost certainly understated in the paper, because ‘younger men’ refers to the entire under 40 population.