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The MIT integration bee has some good problems. So do the Putnam tests.

Nitpick but it was Paul Buchheit who came up with “Don’t be evil”.

It gets proportionally easier to say such things with a straight face as the size of the exec's golden parachute increases.

From the article: "One theory is that such CEOs are overpaid because they have too much influence over the board that should be monitoring them on shareholders’ behalf and too much influence over the committee that sets their pay."

Quite a few future field medalists in that list. The collective math IQ of the group is off the charts!

Indeed. Hans Bethe did serious and solid scientific work way into his 90s.

Something very similar is the theme of the book "The Goal" by Eli Goldratt, which outlines the theory of constraints in a factory setting. The key is to identify bottlenecks and use them to increase/control throughput to match the downstream demand.

You added a generation there. Sonia was Rajiv's wife - not his daughter.

Also this: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/pull/160

Margin call is a documentary in more than one ways.

No but their quarterly statements do have relevant information, if someone wants to dig around. One would assume that if people spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on AWS (someone to manage their compute), they would spend some time doing due-diligence on the financial institution where they choose to park their money.

But in today's economy, any rumor or random event can cause a run on any bank. In fact, there are stories as we speak of the current run on SVB being caused by Peter Thiel and his buddies.

If the banking system is so fragile that it is prone to bank runs on slight rumors, which can be contagious and spread to other banks, what is the solution? To just continue bailing out banks as they fail?

Capitalism without bankruptcy is a bit like Christianity without hell.

None of the other regional banks had the investment risk profile or the depositor distribution (number of individual investors, SMBs, startups) of SVB.

Now that the bailout is done, I hope these guys stop tweeting for the sake of everyone’s sanity.

Or they can find a buyer for SVB's assets - preferably a bank - which do all this and in addition provide business banking services as well.

But why can their investors not cover the costs? Surely the same VCs who lent the startups money can lend them some more for the short period until SVB's assets valuation gets sorted out? Aren't they the ones to lose most if the startups go down under?

Facebook is one of the most end-user-hostile companies ever. No interface is what it seems to be.

Even downloading your own pictures is very difficult with the actual image hidden in some weird link in a maze of javascript. And the original one can never be downloaded - only a crummy scaled down version. It is a one-way trap.

“I can’t see it” == “I don't know whether it happened or not”

What I said in no way prevents us from guessing or inferring what could have happened using knowledge known to us. But they are all possibilities, some more likely than others - there is no way of knowing 100% which one of them actually happened without evidence or information in the form of light or radiation.

Yes but you cannot tell exactly what happened without the light reaching you. Sure you can guess. For example, if you know the state of a star a few billion years ago, with no other information after that, you can calculate at what point it would become a supernova. But without the light reaching you, there is no way to tell whether it actually became a supernova or something else happened (eg - it got swallowed by a black hole etc.)

But how do you know that it has taken place without the light reaching you?

Without the light (or radiation), all you can say is that "something may have taken place everywhere".

How does one balance the rights of the vulnerable, who sometimes do need to be anonymous for fear of retribution and the people who use anonymous accusations as a harassment strategy or for political purposes or for a witch hunt?

The only way seems to be to have a more-or-less independent panel who would look at the anonymous accusations and make an impartial decision on the same. The legal system, as it exists, seems to be such a body, definitely much more impartial and unbiased than a random administrator in Stanford.

Wouldn't it be simpler for them to just have moles in the police department? Or bribe some of the officials involved?

I wonder how long it will take for the people of Pakistan to realize that POK is a money sink and their money could be used much more effectively to develop their own country.

The terrorist organizations that are fostered by their military establishment are simply turning on Pakistan and attacking them.

Amit Shah using the Tax department or the Enforcement Directorate as tools is clumsy because it makes it obvious that it is a hatchet job.

BJP's social media attacks on Rahul Gandhi and the Congress are effective because they seem to be more organic.

The Streisand effect :)

I agree - there is nothing in the documentary about Modi and the BJP that has not been hashed out dozens of times before. Its all the more surprise that it is getting suppressed, which will lead to people watching it even more than if it was ignored.

The BJP is media savvy, but using the Indian bureaucracy and especially the Tax department to score points is clumsy.

Checking their leadership team, there is a "Chief People Officer", "Chief Diversity Officer", "Chief Social Impact Officer", "Chief Digital Officer" and a bunch of pompous and inflated C-level titles. In fact their C-suite has 12 people!

Maybe the shareholders should be asking if their C-suite is going to be downsized appropriately.

What does "allowed the Bharat Jodo Yatra" mean? Free speech and assembly is constitutionally protected - there is nothing for the government to allow or disallow.