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Sammy
@_sam_scm_
University of Houston CS/Math alum. Energy Trading.
Chicago, IL Katılım Ekim 2016
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@WatchPGHSports @RyanDeto Mad Mex is really quite obviously much, much worse. The guys that run the place and the chef are legit. It’s just my opinion, but I think it carries some weight given I’m from Texas and have tried countless Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurants 🙂 also, I eat home-cooked Mexican food.
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@_sam_scm_ @RyanDeto Tepache isn’t too far off from mad mex, and that’s not a good thing
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Cinco de Mayo is tomorrow and so I wrote about my favorite restaurants in Pittsburgh to find authentic Mexican food, which is not easy to find in a city with such a small Mexican-American population. Let me know what I missed! axios.com/local/pittsbur…
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It's truly shocking how many producers sell calendar month average yet have no idea how it's calculated
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@gatekeepchicago Chicago’s fiscal situation is dire, to say the least. I think y’all may need *more* working professionals paying taxes rather than *fewer*.
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This is happening in Chicago now. We’ve always been a transplant city only for Midwesterners until influencers started promoting our city to the coastal elite
Patience...🪬@Patiencexx4
I hate transplants now. NY transplants, DC transplants, Atlanta transplants, I hate them all Transplants used to ASSIMILATE. Now they COLONIZE. They move somewhere for the vibe, then try to dismantle the very thing that created it And then the city loses its soul. Smdh
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@PermianPirate How was NOLA? Haven’t been in years. Gonna make it back this year.
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Quite a stark contrast to get back from NOLA and come home to a farmers market with an Italian guitarist
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@PAstynome I’m just gonna tell my kid to get some motion and they’ll figure it out. Who cares if they’re at a CUNY, if they’ve got that dog in em they’ll win in the end.
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NYC has had this for decades for their ultra prestigious nurseries. You have stories of billionaire private equity CEOs in tears because they are terrified their children won’t get into 92nd Street Y.
Tacos and Airplanes@blob_watcher
They were making toddlers take IQ tests! Deranged striver culture. Spiritually third world.
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@alreadydawn This guy needs to chill. Who cares what school you went to if it didn’t amount to anything? So many happy, successful people I’ve met are public state school grads. Matter of fact, the most successful people I know went to “non-target” public schools 🤷🏽
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A famous Silicon Valley tech guy who made bank at Facebook and wrote a best-selling book on that experience shared how his kids must attend Ivies and how not attending one himself *literally* ruined his life.
Part of the rant included how he completely cut off all family relations once he realized the magnitude of the mistake of not having gone to one, how he talked to his mother only after she got cancer. I wish I was joking but this was literally all his own words, check the screenshot.
Mind you, this guy is still “filled with bottomless rage” over his parents’ unintentional mistake, even at 50 years old. I don’t think I’ve seen this level of victimhood and blame before, especially from someone with his level of career success.
Anyways, this gives you a peep into the spiritual sickness of the Bay Area. The striverism and the money/status chasing have made many very unwell.
damone.hl@defi_damone
@antoniogm You quickly deleted the last addendum to this thread… pretty nasty behavior and attitude given the context you provided. You disowned your family after retroactively acquiring personal insecurities about not attending an Ivy? You blame them for that? Insane.
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Taking Sarah to Chicago for her first visit, 4 nights, planning on;
1. Alinea
2. The Aviary / Tre Dita
3. Bavette’s
4. Boka
What did I miss, or should change?
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It's ALL dudes...
SIG was the same way. Idk why
Scrooge McDuck@ScroogeCap
Jane Street office. What do you notice?
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@angrypsulib So peaceful. Getting a little sleepy thinking about walking around shadyside and squirrel hill in the evenings during springtime weather
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Walking around Squirrel Hill at night is such of a vibe
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When I worked in quant finance @ SIG, we'd play this game called "Make a Market" for $1,000...
It's kinda interesting:
1) An unbiased person picks a random question (e.g. What's the population of Tanzania)
2) Person A makes a market (say 30million-100million)
3) Person B can "tighten" the market (e.g. 50M - 80M) or buy/sell (e.g. below 30M or above 100M)
4) Person A can then "tighten" the market (e.g. 60M - 65M) or buy/sell (below 60M or above 65M)
The game ends when somebody buys/sells...
Let's say Person A "buys" 65M. The popular of Tanzania is 72M so they'd win the $1,000.
If they "sold" 60M, they'd lose. If the population was between 60-65M, then they'd also lose...
The game teaches you a lot about trading/risk tolerance/confidence in your assumptions
Deedy@deedydas
Jane Street made ~$40B in 2025 with 3,500 employees, a ~2x from the year before. At ~65-70% profit margin, that's $8M profit / employee, the highest for a 1000+ ppl company. High-frequency trading continues to be the most efficient money making engine. I want to share an old story about my Jane Street interview in 2014. Jane Street was known for hiring a lot of math, physics and CS olympiad winners from top universities and putting them through many rounds - including, for trading roles, a gauntlet of mental math. It was my 6th interview and my final round and I recall being asked "What is the next day after today in DD/MM/YYYY where all the digits are unique?" They'd toy with you and say "You can use a pencil and paper, if you want" but you knew that was an instant no. Painstakingly and as quickly as I could, I came to an answer. "How confident are you that this is correct on a 0-1 probability scale?" the interviewer said. "0.95", I blurted out, not fully knowing how to answer that. "Are you sure?" After thinking harder for a few more seconds, I realized I could've flipped the digits around to get a closer date. I gave the interviewer my answer. It was correct. "0.95 huh?" he chuckled. That's when I knew I failed. Note: fwiw, other companies that come close in efficiency are - Tether ($90M+ profit/emp) - Hyperliquid ($80M+ profit/emp) and on revenue: - Valve ($50M/emp) - OnlyFans ($37M/emp) - Craigslist ($14M/emp) - Anthropic ($12M/emp, run rate) - OpenAI ($8M/emp, run rate) For comparison, Nvidia is very efficient at scale and is $4.4M/emp.
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@CRUDEOIL231 @PauloMacro Maybe not on the crude and products side, but plenty of those in the power & gas industry know John Arnold and Centaurus.
Lots of ex-Enron folk at the upper echelons of natty and power trading in North America.
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@PauloMacro You’re wrong bro, ppl these days don’t even know what Centaurus is in the first place.
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In case you are wondering on oil, from a legend 👇
John Arnold@johnarnold
@robin_j_brooks Each day that ticks by without a solution increases the expected value of the total production loss.
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nephew told me ufos are unc slop. hard pill to swallow but he's right.
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@annanay It would take many, many years (easily 7+) of grinding and some great luck to land a physical trading seat where you have a shot at an 8-figure bonus on a good year.
$10m comp trading paper is extremely high.
Source: I work on one of the largest oil trading floors in the US.
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@annanay $10m a year in P&L or $10m comp? Because the latter is approaching Vitol partner compensation, he wouldn’t have anything to be jealous of. Also, the lifestyle of a guy trading TTF paper versus a physical trader is hugely different. Physical is a huge headache operationally.
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@AdiSurreyEnergy I suppose if they truly believe in this “market disconnect”, they should be appropriately long futures 🤷🏽
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There is a whole industry out there catering to the belief that somehow there is a market 'disconnect.'
There is none.
You cannot compare landed prices of oil having sat a vessel in PG for a month (demurrage) to oil futures.
Erich von Däniken would have loved it.
Energy Aspects@EnergyAspects
Brent futures in the mid-$90s. Physical cargoes landing in Asia at $170/bbl. Dated Brent above $140. The gap between paper and physical crude prices has widened to levels that are distorting refining economics, hedging strategies and procurement decisions globally. In our latest blog, we break down what is driving the disconnect: reduced risk budgets, raised margin requirements, hedging dislocations and procurement cycle mismatches. We also explain why the convergence, when it comes, will start with products, not crude. See what’s driving the disconnect: ow.ly/MYFe50YOpXy #EnergyAspects #Crude #OOTT #Brent
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How about a 1913 Chicago firehouse was not on her 2026 bingo card
$1,899,000
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