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I always assume not everyone is an English speaker and let it go.

One armored car can carry a ton of gold. If they left and drove to the closest US Navy port, where the French ship would dock. it wouldn't raise eyebrows.

Carriers aren’t going away because there’s nothing else that does what they do.

Many nations can blow stuff up but to actually project power, you need a mobile air base.

I've been working in Wall St. banks for the past 30 years, and I've never used an Oracle database. The investment banks were all Sybase shops in the 90's, and a bunch of them still are. In my experience those that do move are most likely to go to SQL Server, since its Sybase roots make the transition a little easier.

When something has been there for 20+ years switching costs are big.

Reagan, not Bush.

But they swear an oath to serve Richard Stallman unto death.

It was also probably never true. The author handwaves away 'disagreement about his methods', but SLA Marshall was also simply a liar. He claimed interviews he never did and lied about his own combat experience and the circumstances of his own commission.

What is the average pope? Fabian? Felix IV? Linus? Eusebius? Pius IV?

Triple tap seems to indicate definitely a mistake in targeting.

Despite the war aims being nebulous, illegal, and ever changing, none of them would be advanced by bombing a girls school.

I was going to comment pedantically that soccer balls were dodecahedrons not icosahedrons, but in reading the article, I came to realize that truncated icosahedrons are the same as truncated dodecahedrons.

This was such a delightful realization I felt the need to comment anyway.

When all of humanity was hunting and gathering and living at subsistence levels, the was no poverty. It only shows up with wealth.

Pretty simple.

Barnes and Noble put local bookstores out of business by doing a better job at being a bookstore.

They said “short duration” not “short term”. The real risk is from spread duration rather than simple interest rate duration, and assuming they don’t lever up, that should be minimal.

The beauty of MBS floaters is that you’re relatively insensitive to prepayments because to a first approximation they’re always priced at par.

From an investor standpoint, as they say, you’re making maybe SOFR + 1.5%. That’s not a very sext return. But let’s say your banks repo desk is willing to finance the purchase at 5% down. Then you can lever up your investment 20x and now you’re a big shot making SOFR+30%, which is very sexy. But what’s that, when your lever like that, a tiny decline in price wipes out your entire stake (Welcome to 2008).

I like "huge buffer in the sky".

That's where I imagine all my deleted data goes.

Dilithium is a real thing. Who knew?

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

Loved Ilium, and Olympos a little less so. Inspired me to read the Iliad.

This article doesn't do it justice, but the Womelette at the short-lived Royal Canadian Pancake House in NYC lived in the dark abyss.

https://www.eater.com/2015/1/26/7860903/amanda-cohen-royal-c...

It wasn't just an omelette on top of a waffle (and both of them the size of a medium pizza). As you strayed from the edges toward the center it became difficult to see where the waffle ended and the omelette began.

Such a shame they went out of business.

Phoenix metro has 5mm people and does 37mm bus rides. NYC has 8.5mm people and does 400+mm bus rides. London has 9mm and does 1.8 billion bus rides.

But those 37mm in Phoenix are probably going faster than 8mph.

Both NYC and London have express buses that skip stops.

"Opaque MWE"? Does no one know the word "idiom"?

A firm can be capitalized by debt or equity. They can have a public offering to and sell share to retire debt. They can issue bonds and use the money to buy back shares. There shouldn't be a moral component to this.

That being said, it seems criminal to take an enormous management fee while sending a company into bankruptcy.

When every car has LIDAR will they all begin to blind each other?

(Insert old man rant “Why are everyone’s headlights so gosh darn bright these days?!”)

This is dreadfully flawed. Comparing salaries at the top tech firms to a generic employee elsewhere is silly. That would mean that the whole industry is underpaid.

Don’t forget the Dutch who were the first to have colonies in North and South America, Africa and Asia.

It's a terrible look for CBS. At the same time, I find it unbelievable that they don't fire Colbert. This is obvious gross insubordination, and he is an employee.

His final show is coming in May, and I'm sure that they can expect Colbert to continue to embarrass them (as the spineless sycophants they are) every week until then. It's a tremendous self own.

> The Kennedys for example manufactured their status by socializing.

And generational wealth and serious political power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Fitzgerald

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy_Sr.

But if you’ve never looked at the log before all these WARNINGs might be normal operation. It’s not turning off logging, it’s saying log at ERROR level.

I had a nurse chart “patient ‘feels like a million bucks’” while I was getting an immunotherapy infusion.

She said “It’s just not often I hear that here.”

It’s much cooler when Richard Feynman explains it.

Can you accept that two parties can make an exchange that leaves them both better off? If you can’t accept that, there’s no real point in any further discussion.