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Minotaur Stock
@MinotaurStock
shape rotator; stonk market gourmand; emmental dealer; aspiring sky sailor; retro-futurism zealot
Labyrnith انضم Ocak 2019
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Just remembered the story about a computer scientist who had his bike stolen and tried to explain binary search to a cop
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@captive_dreamer the problem with privates is the ones small accounts have the opportunity to invest in our almost all terrible
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This is one of those "not sexy but very impactful" pieces of policy from the Trump admin. This allows the average American to have access to things like: direct investment in commodities, real estate, and private market investments of equity/debt not on public exchanges.
They keep saying that these things are "too risky" for a private individual to invest in but in the age of digital literacy, there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to directly invest in a commodity or even individual stock with your retirement portfolio should you so choose.
Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav
If you have ever looked at your list of investing choices in the typical 401k plan, it is really limited. Around 70 million people save through a 401k plans via their employer. But they don't have access to the types of investments that wealthy people use to get richer. Wall Street, K Street and Federal employees play by a different set of rules. The investment options have changed since the 1970s, the last time 401k rules were updated. Yet the 401k rules have never made those investments available. President Trump issued an executive order last August. He ordered the Dept of Labor to modernize the 401k rules. This will lead to lower costs and a more diverse retirement portfolio. The rules explicitly ban double fees and sales commissions.
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New reports from today indicate that this Indian tanker fell for a fake IRGC crypto scam. They paid USDT to the scammers, thinking they could now pass through freely, and got shot at by the real IRGC forces.
First time a crypto transaction led directly to maritime warfare? 💀
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Audio of the Indian oil tanker Sanmar Herald pleading with Iranian forces to stop shooting at it in the Strait of Hormuz this morning.
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@varrock @Anarseldain you don’t have to impeach judges that are bribed and corrupt, there’s a secret third thing (prison)
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@LudditeHacker @isa2001m I’ve found the overlap helps and I get confused either way
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When I’m done learning Portuguese I’m going to dedicate myself to learning proper French or should I do that now while also learning Portuguese
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@LionBlogosphere @testingham there are a lot of similar solved problems that people haven’t seen, arguably why Erdos was such a prolific publisher
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@testingham In other words, they can solve the already-solved, but will never invent anything new.
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My basic model of capabilities: LLMs are good at problems similar to those that appear in their training data.
Training data largely reflects the world, and so LLMs are relatively good at problems that are common, relatively bad at problems that are rare.
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@cremieuxrecueil @CCantonii you just need a different doc, say what you want a prescription for and what you want to target. Most will write whatever if no harm
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@CCantonii I make it a policy to not lie to my doctor, but I tried telling my doctor that I'm genetically predicted to be moderate to high risk (it's true). Alas, she still wanted to wait because my levels are so low.
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True!
Even starting pretty late in life—50, 60—, you're expected to gain a lot of life.
With the LIPID trial—a middle-of-the-pack result—, a 70-year-old can be expected to gain about 1.5 years of life!
🐊ZK For Tre🐊@ZKForTre
1. The 1% ARR stat at 10 years is wrong, at least for high risk population (and this is even if you assume the risk window just magically stops at 10 years). 2. A 1% reduction at 10 years would still represent one of the largest effect sizes for primary and/or secondary prevention of chronic disease and death in current medicine. The ldl-minimizes are professionals of simultaneously inaccurate and self-defeating arguments.
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@cremieuxrecueil I’m skeptical of a true placebo/nocebo effect. There is a reversion to the mean, and some things just improve. Conversely you tell people to notice side effects and they start noticing things they wouldn’t otherwise document. For statistics doesn’t really matter why
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A certain type of person seems to get extremely angry about the existence of nocebo effects, like they're being personally insulted because drugs don't do what they think they do.
Crémieux@cremieuxrecueil
It's wild knowing that so many drug side effects are basically just people being scared of medicine. Whether it's actually a statin or a placebo, people report almost the same side effects, at similar rates, and they recover from those side effects at similar rates, too.
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@RamboVanHalen J'aime quand les femmes anglaises ont un petit air français
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@DanTalks1 @LokiJulianus one would almost think a geopolitical rival in Australia’s hemisphere was using subversive agents to undermine military readiness and efficacy
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I cannot tell you how much of a disaster this is. This is literally a tier 1 disaster.
These units take many many years of building up of skill, expertise, comradery. A lot of stuff gets passed down soldier to soldier. These guys are basically world class athletes, only their sport is war.
Rebuilding this is painstakingly hard, the devastation to western special forces from these guys, which are our frontline soldiers against almost every small scale threat other than peer conflict. It cannot be overstated how much of a problem this is. I support almost anything in reversing this.
Tom Cotterill@TomCotterillX
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 SAS soldiers are resigning in significant numbers over fears they will be subjected to “witch hunts” by human-rights lawyers. Multiple sources have claimed that personnel from across 22 SAS, the Army’s most elite fighting force, have applied for premature voluntary release. The Telegraph is withholding the exact figure for security reasons. However, several SAS sources have described the recent losses as “significant” and a “threat to national security”. At least two squadrons, D and G, are believed to have been affected, with insiders saying outrage over recent war crime probes into Afghanistan and Syria, which have been branded “witch hunts”, are believed to be the main driving forces. Among those understood to have resigned include several senior warrant officers, who are the backbone of the special forces and among the most experienced troops in the regiment. A number are understood to have applied for release “on principle” just before Christmas. “Morale is s--t at the moment,” one insider with knowledge of the recent losses told me, while another said there was “considerable disquiet” in the regiment as a result. The SAS resignations are a major blow to the famed special forces unit, which is the tip of the spear in any military operation and is deployed globally. Full story: telegraph.co.uk/gift/ee5ad8ccb…
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@LokiJulianus it’s hard to believe those people weren’t compromised foreign agents, at best ‘unwitting’
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When Russia invaded Ukraine, “Biden” didn't move fast to offset disruptions to the energy market. In fact, I think at the same time all that was happening, his people were freezing construction of LNG export terminals for environmental reasons (or something insane like that).
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i don't want to sound overly bearish or alarmist, but with all the news we're getting - especially the tanker being attacked - i think monday we may see the market down as much as 30 bps
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I'm going to become a truther specifically about this buoy installation, they are faking it, they're using pre-recorded data or something
Bilim Dünyası@dunyasalbilim
Almanya’daki Sprengel Müzesi’nde sergilenen sıra dışı bir kinetik enstalasyon: Havada sallanan bir şamandıra, Atlantik Okyanusu’ndaki gerçek ikiziyle eşzamanlı hareket ediyor ve dalgalar üzerindeki salınımını birebir taklit ediyor.
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@Mankosmash @escapefrommelos he’s falsely imprisoning them no? Proportional violence is allowed
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@escapefrommelos It varies by the state in the US & I seriously doubt it falls under self defense.
In California him blocking is a crime, PC 647c.
As a practical matter, pushing your way past might technically be a battery, but it would never be charged since no jury would convict.
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they don’t want you to know this, but you can just violently assault people when they do this
it’s legally defensible (at least in the US) to force someone out of the way, including through the use of violence, if they block your path “as a joke” and create a dangerous situation
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@Lawrenc09874431 this is what mormons believe, and they aren’t wrong about that
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@grok @edgefills what federal authority changes within 100 miles of the border?
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San Diego gets that rep because it has near-perfect weather, beaches, and a diversified economy (military, biotech, tourism) without the Bay Area's sky-high costs/tech volatility or LA's wildfires, traffic, and visible urban decay. Post-2020, it drew migrants seeking milder politics, lower crime stats, and family-oriented suburbs while keeping CA's Prop 13 benefits. It's "sane" relative to the rest of the state—practical, not paradise.
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If you want a house west of the 5 in San Diego, you have to make your generational wealth elsewhere (13% top tax rate, capital gains taxed as ordinary income in CA, good luck compounding) and pray that a boomer doesn’t have/refuses to pass their property down to their kids.
Prop 13 persists when property is handed down to kids through trusts, and the capital gains basis “steps up” when the property is inherited. (Eg, if your parents bought a house at 600k, it’s worth 3 mill now, and you inherit it, your cap gains will only be taxed at the price you sell it less 3 mill.)
Everything in CA is set up for the people to never leave — I mean, why would you? — which is why it’s so grating that they demand open borders for everyone else. Would it be so much to stop treating people who live in less picturesque, perfectly temperate places as lesser life forms for wanting to preserve what they’ve come to love about their own area?
By 2030, almost all of these properties in north county will only be transferred by inheritance, which is why the prices keep going through the roof. These are all “forever homes”. Part of the reason these CA power brokers keep trying to direct class conflict in the rest of the US is bc everyone knows this territory is not defensible forever.
San Diego Josh ☀️🌴🚲@JoshInEncinitas
It’s all trusts and corps. Here’s a random area in La Jolla.
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@edgefills @grok why would the area of so cal within 100miles of the Mexican border be ‘the only sane place in CA’
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This unrelenting bid has been made exponentially worse by the fact that everyone realized post-2020 that SD is the only sane place in CA. First the Bay Area moved down, then LA burned everyone’s house down so the actors that still have a net worth moved south too.
I yearn for the glory days, it was better back in the day
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