Adam
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@PhillyPMC They are 36-6 in the last three years without him.
There's a real chance Jaylen Brown could just be Rudy Gay who just so happened to play on a team that had great coaching structure and enough pieces around him for him to be successful & Brad Stevens was ahead of the curve...........OR the advanced metrics simply aren't measuring him properly & the league as a whole is wrong about him. I can't call it right now but I can't wait to see how it plays out. My gut feel is that PG13 was a more portable player & I'm not sure how Maxey, VJ, Brown and Embiid will fit together and they're probably a 2nd round exit, again.
@SpikeEskin Finals MVP is a prime example of small sample size. People fight numbers and analytics mostly out of fear of unknown, & for how cold it seems to just be by the numbers. Joke's on them. It's always been by the numbers. And no one likes it, if it doesn't come down in their favor.
I'm quoted in this Vox piece about DSA's winning streak. The left basically has a permanent campaign, while we libs have none. That may have been tenable for us in cities when demographics and the national mood were in our favor, but it isn't anymore. vox.com/politics/49318…
Chris Rabb literally won a primary in the most leftist seat in America This is such a joke. Try winning a swing district, cuck
"they didn't sell high enough"
One thing I did not realize until having kids in NYC public schools is how much variable auxiliary fundraising occurs at each specific location. So even if you divide the tax pie in a perfectly egalitarian manner, schools with wealthier parents will still end up with more.
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.
