Aberath

Guy with Opinions

[Aberath @Aberath]

No one is forced to buy Apple products

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Corporate greed is Tim Cook, the billionaire Apple CEO, claiming that hiking prices on Apple products by over $200 is "unavoidable" after it made $112 billion in profits last year & spent $310 billion on stock buybacks.

These price hikes aren't unavoidable. They're unacceptable.

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@sarah_micheleg It's a big state

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@TrueSlazac @ThaDJMKULTRA Buddy got his Eurotwinks confused

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@reallyswagdudey @nikicaga I think soccer is way more boring, but I get what you mean

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@reallyswagdudey @nikicaga I would like to see some actual defence in the NBA, but players are lazy, and most fans don't care

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@sarah_micheleg Make a stop in Maine! My girlfriend and I would be happy to host

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@sarah_micheleg Had two cups with a shot of bourbon in them on my flight

Happy Friday

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@oh1om1ke Larry Ellison's daughter produced his most recent movie

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@bigseb31213 Boomers are still an unbeatable voting block

"Youth vote" has been an oxymoron forever, and until Boomers aren't the most reliable voting group nothing will happen

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@DolphinMossad @LinkofSunshine I counteract that knowledge by interacting with enough median voters to understand how brain-dead they are

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@Lemommeringue My old boss would have thrown me through a window if I cut turf like this

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The compassionate thing is to let the UK have a nice steak for dinner and then take it to the vet to put it down

[Peckham Vision @PeckhamVision]

SUCCESS! – local people won the Aylesham case. Inspector dismissed the Berkeley appeal against refusal of planning permission. He cited English Heritage objection that it would be ‘an enormous wall of development, thus resulting in harm’. See more here: https://t.co/t2cGThc290

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@bendreyfuss What's going on with the Bug Zoo?

[Arram @arram]

Asked Claude:

'There's a meme called the "fix everything easily switch". What policies do you think are the best candidates for being a real fix everything switch in the US? Give me your top ten, your confidence, your reasoning, and why a given policy has not been implemented.'

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@AmanitaFugax @seth_kafila Republicans stopped being conservative a while ago. Hell, I'm more conservative than the Republican Party.

Now they're just insane reactionary populists.

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@showmeopie @kylekatarn95 He ran a suicide campaign in 24 against King and just doesn't have any sauce

Seems like an alright dude, but doesn't have nearly enough human or literal capital to have a shot

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@linkbutalt Is your dad going to Turkey?

[Steven Liss @This_Liss]

Had a Jane Street phone interview in 2016. "Price a 6-month forward on carrots."
There's no carrot futures market, so I build one from scratch: seasonal harvest cycles, USDA demand elasticity, cold storage decay rates.
One trader stops me. "Your storage cost function– you're modeling the carrot as dead inventory. Like grain in a silo." He asks me the metabolic respiration rate of a post-harvest carrot at 2°C. I estimate.
"Your forward is overpriced by exactly that shrinkage. The underlying is consuming its own sugars. It's alive." Good correction. I adjust the model. I think I've recovered.
Rejection email comes the next morning. Subject: "Ethical Review." My framework, they write, "relied on the severance of the root organism from its growth medium." The question about respiration was a test. The carrot was still alive and I'd built an entire derivatives structure on top of its death without questioning whether harvest was an acceptable act.
I pull up the recruiter's original email. It doesn't say Jane Street. It says Jain Street– a non-violent quantitative commodities fund.
The carrot was never supposed to be priced. It was supposed to be refused. I later learn the only candidate who passed that round was a former monk from Gujarat who sat in silence for eleven minutes and said, "I cannot put a price on life." He's now a partner.

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@sneedliberalism This might be true but I'm far too Europhobic to consider admitting it

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Lot of people on here are going to be very normal about Maine today