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William Ions @williamions.bsky.social
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William Ions @williamions.bsky.social
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
Burma Katılım Ocak 2020
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@asanwal Naive statement buy a guy whose place of employment is predicated on only accepting resumemaxxers.
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Wharton Professor warns the high school strivers with a sudden "interest" in research
Excellent sheep doing what excellent sheep do
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@GGMU_2023 @StockSavvyShay Regressive my guy.
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@StockSavvyShay Get rid of income tax and replace it with one simple consumption tax. Same flat rate for everyone on goods and services. Ppl who spend more will naturally pay more, including wealthy individuals, tourists, and foreigners. Simple, transparent, and probably the fairest tax system.
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Jeff Bezos said the bottom half of Americans should pay zero federal income tax.
He cited a nurse in Queens making ~$75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “we shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.”
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If you use custom tailors, Loro Piana has a very nice navy tonal seersucker in their Mare fabric book. It's a whisper light 6/7oz cloth and made from wool-silk instead of cotton. I think it hangs better and has that bouncy feel of wool without wearing warm. Also less preppy.
Jake Woolf@jakewoolf
Maybe a controversial opinion but I’ve never felt truly *great* in a seersucker garment A light suit makes me feel way too colonel sanders A shirt is lowkey uncomfortable compared to light cotton Shorts? Meh Regular cotton weave > seersucker
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Post calls for Trump resignation.
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Countries get the cabinets they pay for. Singapore pays its Foreign Minister about S$1.1m, around US$800,000. The salary is benchmarked to 60% of the median income of the top 1,000 Singaporean earners. That is why you can get Vivian Balakrishnan, former eye surgeon and hospital chief executive, implementing @karpathy's external brain idea (link below). The speech shows deep understanding of AI and fills one with confidence about Singapore's future.
The UK Foreign Secretary earns roughly £165,000: the MP salary plus a ministerial salary of about £67,000. The ministerial part is frozen since the crisis and is down by roughly a third in real terms since 2010. This is what a junior Magic Circle lawyer earns.
Spain pays its ministers around €85,000. So you do not get a surgeon who has run hospitals. You get a party loyalist who has never run anything.
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen
Singapore’s Foreign Minister, Dr Balakrishnan casually explaining how he built his own AI agent (a 2nd brain for diplomacy) using Claude & WhatsApp integration etc. on a Raspberry Pi “You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on.” 🇸🇬
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@owroot We have them for our kids as well. Everything you say is true, so not saying the goodness is negated necessarily, but Yoto is brought to you by Mark Zuckerberg:
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Yoto player is a fantastic invention. We have them for our kids. We were thinking about giving them tape players to listen to stuff but then we discovered the Yoto and it achieves the same thing in a more modern way.
They have great stories, classics, and geography, science and stuff like that too. Our kids honestly learn a lot of great stuff from them.
A great alternative to screens on long trips etc.. Listening to something is different than watching. I think it's because when listening we still have to use our imagination in some way. Like listening to a book, or a radio broadcast (in the old days) etc... I think there is a little more going on in our brain.
Yoto is good.
Charlie Petty@incredutility
Another iPad alternative is the Yoto player - audiobooks, podcasts, and music for kids. They also have an amazing BBC-style daily news report! Strong recommend.
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He allocated half a billion dollars. Asked what an emerging manager actually needs to walk into an allocator's office:
Tom Costello (@tcoste110) explains:
"Evidence. Externally audited, multi-year returns."
"Once you can provide that, everything else is just color and personality."
"Two years is the benchmark in equities. Two years of returns confirmed by an auditor — that's reality. That's what you are."
"You are a business that produces that cash flow."
"If you went to MIT, you can maybe get away with one year."
"You walk in their office and say things they absolutely believe. What would make anyone believe you when you're talking about money? Proof. Proof more than anything else."
Ethan Kho@ethanrkho
"I haven't seen a real new idea in trading in at least 15 years." Tom Costello (@tcoste110) ran money at Tudor, Moore Capital, and Caxton. Built one of the first NLP-driven equity systems in 2003. 20 years managing capital, never had a down year. "Comparing what a retail trader does to what a quantitative hedge fund does is like comparing driving a bus on the New Jersey Turnpike to winning a Formula One race." We cover: - His hot take: no genuinely new trading idea in 15 years — only better people doing the same things faster - Why everyone in quant finance is a genius — and why that makes you ordinary, not special - Crypto is "super smart guys cosplaying at finance" — built for retail, which is exactly why it's the easiest money in finance right now - Why AGI won't beat the hedge fund industry — all the readily-capturable alpha is already captured - The status trap: why the path that made Paul Tudor Jones a billionaire won't work for the kid trying to copy it in 2026 - His friend the investment banker who'd quit it all to run a 10-employee ambulance supply company worth $150M - Why excitement is "wildly overbid" in finance — and why wanting an exciting trading job is itself a disqualifier - The most honest end of the financial industry — and why the media has it exactly backwards Thanks so much to Tom for coming on Odds on Open! Highlights: 00:00 Intro 01:18 Building institutional credibility for early-stage managers 03:01 The Pareto distribution of hedge fund returns 04:25 Applying the Unified Field Theory of Finance to fair value 08:14 Trading against human incentives in a deterministic market 13:54 Why allocators don’t steal alpha from prospective PMs 25:16 Evaluating career edge in quantitative finance for 2026 30:48 Paul Tudor Jones and the art of game selection 33:42 Analyzing the economic viability of starting a new fund 35:16 Identifying common retail pitfalls: Mean reversion and arbitrage 38:55 Why there hasn't been a new trading idea in 15 years 50:33 Managing tail risk: Physics vs. deterministic financial distributions 59:10 Career pathing for PMs after a fund blow-up 1:07:53 SBF and FTX: Credibility vs. the "Founder-Genius" archetype 1:13:44 Establishing proof-of-concept through audited multi-year returns
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@Azradok @KevinEspiritu Great idea. Going to try this.
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@KevinEspiritu i love my mint. Here's a hint with it. Cut walkways in your garden, then plant it in the walkways and walk on it with light sandals when you tend your garden. You release the oils, the garden smells great, and you're more aware of it to cut it back properly when it needs it.
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Liberal arts majors - and I mean those committed to the broad intellectual canon and to critical thinking, textual analysis, etc. - are best positioned for the AI age. You learn how to evaluate AI output. Pre-professional degrees, esp in high tech fields, are most vulnerable.
Marc Porter Magee 🎓@marcportermagee
The Economist: “We found that graduates in fields more exposed to AI have suffered markedly worse outcomes.”
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Why are .@EricTrump .@LaraLeaTrump departing Air Force One on the US diplomatic mission to China? Axiomatic, but is the whole Trump family incapable of doing anything outside the sphere of familial grift? Even .@elonmusk looks disappointed...
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@astrowatchx @JoshEakle Have you figured out how to suck your own dick yet?
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@JoshEakle The child was used as a puppet. He got an honest answer. Hopefully he won't be a cocksucker when he grows up.
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A 10-year-old wrote MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for a school project.
He chose to write about an electric vehicle tax credit. Something he thought was good for the environment.
Virginia responded by attacking him and his teacher for being propagandized.
Her words: “your teacher will not be able to give you a good education as they are too interested in indoctrinating you... How sad.”
An 80-year-old woman. Attacking a 10-year-old. For doing his homework.
These people have power over your life.
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@bradley_tindall @JoshEakle Have you figured out how to suck your own dick yet?
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@JoshEakle Indoctrinating 10-year olds into the climate change hoax is almost as evil as transitioning children to hate the gender they were born with.
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You completely missed the point. A no time when I was in fourth grade did I worry about what type of vehicle people were driving. Kids should be kids as long as possible. Touch some grass or learn to code or whatever you whiny libs tell everyone to do that doesn’t agree with you.
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@ConnorMEwing A ≠ Gold Medal. Supply not as constrained.
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The Olympics allow only top athletes to compete; it’s hardly surprising when these athletes win medals. If you want a wide distribution of results, allow a wide distribution of athletes to compete. If you allow only top athletes, why be surprised when they all get gold?
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@TheStalwart Doesn't make it wrong though. Objectively less bitter because water not in contact with the grounds as long.
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Is “caffè americano” (replicating drip coffee by diluting espresso with water) meant to be something of a subtle dig? It is in fact how I prefer to drink coffee, but am I supposed to be feel a tad embarrassed when I order it? (It’s fine, I can handle it, but I’m just curious)
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