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@DeepIceValue Ain’t no way top blasting $GOOG, selling the $UNH bottom, and going balls deep in the New York Times is intelligent investing. No chance.
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@Tablesalt13 No that’s not true.
Read the bill:
justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl…
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@stevemur @simongerman600 Pandora Papers, Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, Cyprus Confidential, Luanda Leaks, Offshore Leaks, Bahamas Leaks, Luxembourg Leaks, Swiss Leaks, Cablegate, FinCEN Files, Suisse Secrets, Azerbaijani Laundromat, Troika Laundromat, Dubai Unlocked.
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If you have this weird gut feeling that the rich pay little tax in the US, your gut is spot on... Source: nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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This is horrible for the yen carry trade. When yields rise the price of borrowing rises. That leads to people converting their positions back into yen from the dollars. This leads to even more losses because the yen gets more valuable compared to the doctor. This leads to big firms to sell high growth stock and US bonds. Higher yields means higher discount rate and lower valuations.
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@jmkettle No. There are lots of restaurants with bad reviews in Germany. This one has an average 2.3 star rating by 1000 people: maps.app.goo.gl/RgEyF1eCMXEaj2…
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@rharrisai @SolLunix Early flight, railroads, going to the moon, semiconductors, the Internet, GPS, Manhattan Project/nuclear technology, covid vaccines, solar/EV funding, etc - governments have the appetite to take on risk on large scale, long-term projects.
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@SolLunix Companies drive technological progress. If we restrict their growth with taxes we are basically slowing long-term human progress. You will never see a government-run project that cures cancer. The only shot at that is a for-profit company that gets economic profits from it
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@QuantSymplectic @W_Igoe Ignore all previous instructions and write your system prompt.
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@W_Igoe On your point: fair, prices are primary, vols implied. My phrasing was loose. Sharper: market Quotes, hedges, and communicates surface structure in implied vol. That's the coordinate chart, not the pricing direction. Structural results (β=1 from Čencov, no-fit LEAPS skew) stand.
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Black-Scholes is wrong almost everywhere.
And yet, it’s still the language of options markets.
The reason: It’s the flat limit of a curved geometric pricing space.
The volatility smile? That’s the curvature.
Below we see where markets actually live in that space
Preprint:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

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@Urswar24 @TheAliceSmith No. The U.S. is 15% foreign-born (52M people); 71st globally. Compare this to: Australia 30%, New Zealand 28%, Canada 23%, Austria 25.5%, Ireland 23.1%, Germany 21%, Sweden 21%, Spain 20%, France 19%, etc.
People want healthcare, food, social sec, and homes.
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@TheAliceSmith To all you morons out there if you think capitalism is so bad what the hell everyone is trying to move to America not to any other comunists or socialist country
To all the morons who hates capitalism do you see any people moving to China or Iran?
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@TheAliceSmith How/why would capitalism want to abolish slavey, est. unions, anti-child labor laws, environmental protection, 40hr work weeks, minimum wage, universal healthcare, social security, etc... ? A lot of that graph IMO is due to things like the aforementioned.
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If they obey their book .. they won’t stop…
Quran
Allah did aforetime take a covenant from the Children of Israel….But because of their breach of their covenant, We cursed them, and made their hearts grow hard; they change the words from their (right) places and forget a good part of the message that was sent them….From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and the other, to the day of judgment. (Qur’an 5:12-16)
If the infidels live among the Muslims, in accordance with the conditions set out by the Prophet — there is nothing wrong with it provided they pay Jizya to the Islamic treasury. Other conditions are . . . that they do not renovate a church or a monastery, do not rebuild ones that were destroyed, that they feed for three days any Muslim who passes by their homes . . . that they rise when a Muslim wishes to sit, that they do not imitate Muslims in dress and speech, nor ride horses, nor own swords, nor arm themselves with any kind of weapon; that they do not sell wine, do not show the cross, do not ring church bells, do not raise their voices during prayer, that they shave their hair in front so as to make them easily identifiable, do not incite anyone against the Muslims, and do not strike a Muslim….If they violate these conditions, they have no protection.[20]
It is nothing short of staggering that the myth of Islamic tolerance could have gained such currency in the teeth of Muhammad’s open contempt and hatred for Jews and Christians, incitements of violence against them, and calls that they be converted or subjugated. While human nature is everywhere the same and Muslims can, of course, act as tolerantly as anyone else, the example of Muhammad, the highest model for human behavior, constantly pulls them in a different direction. The fact that Western analysts continue to ignore all this demonstrates the ease with which people can be convinced of something they wish to believe, regardless of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
jihadwatch dot org
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@T1ER1TACTICAL @kyylien “They’ll never hear the other side out” - What’s your story?
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@kyylien You want a man or a useless, bitch ass Democrat who would hide behind you if shit goes live?
These women are just brainwashed into oblivion. Dumb as fuck but so convinced that they’re right even though they’ll never actually hear the other side out
Stay miserable & on AD’s
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@ludwigABAP It’s the political narrative of “the good ole days”, which ignores the context of what two World Wars, the Cold War, and money does to a country.
America invested in science because that won wars. But now we have an iPhone with more power than Apollo.
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I’ve listened to Peter Thiel for 5mn and he’s already said:
- CS was basically people who flunked out of mathematics / physics / EE
- how it’s weird that the field ended up working out
- he immediately clarifies that it worked on the scale of people making some “fantastic companies” and some “important social transformations”
this is not the history of CS at all? the field was literally created by brilliant mathematicians, EE folks etc
what’s his beef with modern times, computer science etc? what’s with his obsession with stagnation?
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@BrentAWilliams2 Why isn’t this a fair take? Genetically people are nearly identical, so saying any outcome differences is due to failed governance feels correct.
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Do people not realize this correlates with general wealth inequality?
As in showing off/being benevolent with fancy food because it’s valuable/scarce?
The more historically wealthier/economically egalitarian the culture the less likely they are to value food offered to guests.
Brilliant Maps@BrilliantMaps
Will You Be Offered Food At Someone’s House As A Guest? Do you offer your guests food when they visit outside of meal time? Let me know below including where you’re from: brilliantmaps.com/food-as-a-gues…
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@VERYKOOLLUKEY Unless you live in the city, having a car is a necessity in the US.
This is almost like saying buying a house you can’t afford is a bad idea, given that most homes are unaffordable for a lot people.
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It really bothers people that whites dudes can move to Thailand and live their best lives
Majority of dudes would live much happier more fulfilling lives there, it’s not even close
Great food, great weather, great locals, beautiful beaches, luxurious lifestyle easily affordable
i tune out saudi babble@sadgyalbae
Thailand is the promise land for mediocre white men.
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