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All three feature an investment bank, a commercial bank and an asset manager. There are a number of smaller operations which have all three but none at the scale of those three. Wells is much smaller, and HSBC isn’t a US bank. Goldman and Morgan Stanley don’t really have a commercial banks and neither do the mega sized asset managers like Blackrock.

So the thing is Citi isn’t really a bad commercial bank and is really useful for corporate treasury services if you’re a large multinational company. Their international footprint is huge and fit a lot of use cases it’s either them or HSBC.

The problem is the IB and AM are ‘meh’ and hugely inefficient. It’s not like they do such a terrible job from a customer perspective. From an investor perspective it just costs so much to do it.

I get that they're probably not true, but I do enjoy reading novel thinking and viewpoints by smart people with a cool hook.

Also why ships use "port" to mean the left side. It was formerly "larboard" which sounds an awful lot like "starboard",

Why is there any more or less moral weight to the wasps lifecycle than any other predator along the food chain?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_(Augustine)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Storey_Mountain

They’re free to speak and tweet about it all they want. They’re just no longer an employee.

Token sucking - described by police as the most disgusting non-violent crime committed on the NYC subway.

I suppose the deeper point I was trying to make was that “this time is different/special” is shallow thinking, as is believing that the real issue is with our “current greedy short term thinking”.

The real issue is the human condition, which remains largely as it has throughout our history. We need to choose a way to live knowing we will die, and then live that way.

But beyond that, we should not have such easy to access cutting technology. It’s just too much power for our current greedy, short-term thinking.

Culturally we’re taught that there is a moral component to copyright and patent law - that stealing is stealing. But the idea that words or thoughts or images can be owned (and that the might if the state can be brought to bear to enforce it) would seem utterly ludicrous to someone from an earlier era. Copyright and patent laws exist for practical, pragmatic reasons - and seemingly they have served us well, but it’s not unreasonable to re-examine them from first principals.

Who pays?

TFA is simply a laundry list of early 21st century faddish conceits to describe the eternal brokenness of man. I liked it better when it was called it original sin. “Micro plastics”, “forever chemicals”, etc. aren’t evidence or argument, they’re an incantation repeated as part of a cultural rite.

If you don’t have a business without an app, the app is the business.

The hiring firm pays for, but cannot use, the hired person.

I found such an environment to be simply terrible.

In general, I think stored procs certainly have their place, but if ALL access is through stored procs, you better have a schema that’s basically set in stone otherwise dev will turn into a nightmare.

The 5x speed up on delete performance is a useless optimization.

I don’t need Google scale, I don’t need all the bells and whistles, but what I get is abstracting server infra, and pushing it onto a dedicated corporate wide team.

Indeed! :-)

> “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting different results.” - Albert Einstein

Does anyone writing that really think Einstein said that? Apart from it being completely apocryphal, it’s a terribly shallow appeal to authority.

This. I was looking for this in the original article. Thanks for following up.

I really prefer learning these aspects of philosophy rather than more ethics oriented topics but it’s really such a rich subject.

Which brings up the point I was going to make about TFA. If 'toxic' comments are an effective way to reduce the impact of bad editors, then it's not clear that 'toxic' comments have a negative effect on the quality of Wikipedia. They might be improving it.

A dozen catering trays of salad get tossed into compost.

All the fried chicken is gone in less than 5 minutes.

It demonstrably reduces happiness and life satisfaction. It’s just bad.

And it’s easy to quit. Really.

Direct pay, benefits, promotion velocity, source of commission were all extensively tracked and modeled. The problem at that point was that you can claim you want a 600 ship navy, but if you don’t have enough surface warfare officers with the right number of years (or dentists or chaplains or JAG lawyers) it’s not going to work.

On the other hand despite our multimillion dollar contract to work on this software, I have no idea if BUPERS actually used it.