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tech democracy enthusiast

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@LeboldJacob @Teunemansvb Thanks!

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@headinthebox What's that?

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@imthewalruz @MattZeitlin public housing in my backyard

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@luv2gossip19 @WifexOfxAgony Touch grass

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@idkijustthibk @OHhoseok_ what

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@PippengerHarlo where does that profit margin number come from?

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@LionelArtomG @DPearsonPHL @vanillaopinions @ThatchEffendi I do not think that is true

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@SirSnipeyy I really liked The Expanse for this reason. It does a great job of making its characters feel fragile.

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@Lurk1053620 @lilbabygandhi Do those farmers hire people for wages? Then it's capitalism.

[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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@bryanculbertson @mnolangray I would actually like to see a response to this

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@EsotericCofe They can. Recent versions of LLDB expose an MCP for interactive debugging. Several other debuggers have an equivalent.

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@DeepNotShallow He doesn't really engage with the DSA and he gave money to the SF supervisor running against a DSA candidate.

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@SagiGirl1962 @BuffyWicks These bills are mostly deregulation.

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@PippengerHarlo The vacancy rate is lower than every apartment being vacant for one month out of every year. How should landlords minimize vacancy rates? Should they list apartments before the current tenants leave? Should tenants be required to report that they’re leaving months in advance?

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@JeremiahDJohns are you down to say which episode this was?

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@Jaxindahouse13 @TKL_Adam The image is of 12 month inflation expectations, not the current rate.

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@BconnectedJ @smalls2672 No it’s not

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@GregSuburban @coldhealing You’re describing a sushi restaurant.