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porb121on Microsoft SEC 8-K: IRS is seeking an additional tax payment of $29B

yeah chief I'm gonna need you to google "stock borrow rate" and get back to me when you've made it through the investopedia page

porb121on TSMC tells vendors to delay chip equipment deliveries

yes, that is how journalism works.

porb121on UN chief says fossil fuels 'incompatible with human survival,'

go ahead and google "co2 half-life in atmosphere" and "cumulative co2 emissions over time"

porb121on Algorithmic Trading: A Practitioner’s Guide

if someone bids 10000000 shares for mid, and I hit their bid, who provided the liquidity?

porb121on Old man yells at cloud

Modern cars are much safer than cars of even 10 years ago

porb121on NYC officials say they can't find EV garbage trucks powerful enough to plow snow

You're talking about a city of 10+ million people.

porb121on “Why We Sleep” is riddled with scientific and factual errors (2019)

if walker is mistaken about numerous small factual details, what makes you confident he's correct about anything meaningful?

porb121on Why is every layoff 10-15%?

> Maybe twitter is a unique case because of other factors - Elon?

really, you think that a rapid change of leadership preceded by an extended legal battle is MAYBE a unique situation? Elon is very clearly one of the most erratic ceos of a 10b+ public company right now

customers and employees are uncertain about the future because the ceo and controlling shareholder seems to change his mind every day about twitter's product, company culture, and general philosophy every single day. if he laid off nobody it would still be mayhem.

porb121on We will not pursue the potential acquisition of FTX

> You can absolutely find a buyer instantly! At about the same price it traded for five minutes ago! Just not at the price you need it to be.

this is extremely stupid. you can't just sell arbitrary amounts of coin without moving the market a ton and paying a fortune in slippage. they do need liquidity.

porb121on A simple math equation can transform your productivity

one of the worst posts I've ever read cheers mate

porb121on The Arctic Is Warming Four Times Faster Than the Rest of the World

why do you think ocean acidification happens

porb121on Will real estate ever be normal again?

so your worldview is that possible futures split into one scenario of blood in the streets and another of "cyberfeudalism"

i wish i were so imaginative!

porb121on Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a barn burner

how do you explain benchmarks showing no difference between used and new gpu performance? if a card posts its age is not a concern

https://youtu.be/44JqNJq-PC0

https://youtu.be/hKqVvXTanzI

porb121on Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a barn burner

who are these mythical consumers that are so price sensitive for a $100 cooler but not when it comes to an $800+ cpu

porb121on Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a barn burner

you should feel bad for posting such an obviously obtuse comment in bad faith

porb121on Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a barn burner

> It's insanity, literally have no idea who will buy this

uh, people who want more performance? 250w is not some absurd tdp that can't be cooled.

porb121on Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a barn burner

feels like m1 broke a lot of people's brains about performance-per-watt. like, maybe that metric matters if you're running a laptop that has a battery and physically heats up your lap. but nobody with a desktop pc cares about a 100w tdp difference so long as the chips can be cooled

porb121on Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a barn burner

heat barely degrades consumer pc components, and certainly not on timescales dominated by Moores law.

porb121on Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity

it's strange i ctrl-f'd "psychosis" and "killing deer with teeth" in those papers and got 0 results

porb121on Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity

oh, interesting. can you link an rct or meta analysis describing literally any of these effects coming from artificial sweeteners.

porb121on Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity

so how come nobody gets fatter drinking nns's vs placebo or water or no intervention

porb121on Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity

everyone points to a "hunger response" or something similar with non nutritive sweeteners and then these effects don't materialize in actual outcomes: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/obr.13020

"Grouping by nature of comparator revealed that NNS vs placebo/no intervention and NNS vs water produced no effect."

so like, there's a food craving, and then ???? you don't gain weight. who cares! maybe you eat more in the next meal, and then it's not clear this persists into a real caloric surplus.

porb121on Insider trading by executives is pervasive – research

hey, go trade, then! you can just long these equities yourself and make a lot of money if you're right. and there's a lot of very smart and very sophisticated firms that would love to be your counterparty, so you'll get great execution!

porb121on Always Multiply Your Estimates by π (2013)

....that's not an order of magnitude each time

porb121on How to make housing more affordable

How many vacant homes is the right number? If there are very few vacant homes, then every time someone needs to move homes, they have to be shuffling homes with someone else. That's not efficient or tenable.

porb121on Ways to think about water (2015)

literature on water system remunicipilization suggests little difference between private and municipal ownership of water systems, at least as recently as when I looked a year ago

porb121on The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used

Sometimes people describe their problems with some technology and it makes me realize that we live completely different lives. I can't imagine buying the same device year after year, whether that's a phone, laptop, or whatever.

porb121on The effects of a warmer world are visible in animals’ bodies

this comments are like bingo for climate science misunderstanding

evolution doesn't happen on time scales of 100 years

+1.1 avg temperature implies much larger localized changes

porb121on MadeWithML – A practical approach to learning production machine learning

that comment listed a lot of things that maybe blockchain could theoretically accomplish and no tangible accomplishments at all