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  • Did you look at the markets Friday? They was probably mostly tarrif response but it’s also lots of articles in the last month about everyone acknowledging there is a bubble, lack of other gov data being released, it could come any day or be a few years away. Altman said 2 months ago "yeah there are a lot of bad AI companies that money is being wasted on, that was my current to retreat to some more conservative assets. Have a bit of exposure still but more than ready to stop hearing about fucking AI.


  • The analytics are overblown, and coaches need to get back to the big picture. Stanford traded Hollins at the deadline for Wu, but picked up the player option on Candell for the 4th year. The performance bonus if they make the all-star team should provide enough motivation to ensure they don’t get saddled with a mid-career ball hog. Team chemistry will be key, hopefully during the preseason they can get it together and not have any niggling injuries interrupt. There is concern about the defensive strategy on set plays, their specialist Franco just had their contract waived and stretched under the current contract, so the team may look to the transfer market mid season when it opens, or potentially to move up in the spring draft to fill needs. Still can’t believe they traded Simpson and pay 2.7 per year for Johnson.


    Universities run by MBAs and academics operating like sports franchises.Meanwhile, they’re arresting students in campus for protesting genocide and fascism.

    Seems legit.




  • pdxfed@lemmy.worldtoFuck Cars@lemmy.worldUS Pedestrian Deaths Per Capita
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    7 days ago

    It’s actually kind of what is reflected in this map: so many fewer deaths in the north because they have much less time per year when anyone, even reasonably motivated or inclined people are able to walk or bike due to harsh winter weather and poor public transit and urban planning.

    Look at Oregon, it’s got tons of bikers compared to a Wyoming, but greater density so many more deaths. Pedestrian deaths are combo of transport options, culture, inclination, and environmental variables. Cleveland Ohio probably has much worse active/bike culture than Portland but the weather is so much harsher than Portland there are less pedestrians to hit as people are inside or in cars.




  • I’ve never been in a single accident and drive a basic compact sedan I bought new off the lot 10 years ago. I could buy it used today, with current mileage for about the same price I paid new. I’ve paid about half the initial purchase price in insurance premiums.

    Being a good driver sucks, but it’s kind of like healthcare where…wait a minute I’m healthy and getting fucked there too. As I age I’m going to street race and try to gain as much weight as I can.




  • While your broker will likely buy a call (a contract opposite a put that is the right to buy a security/stock at a certain price, it’s more insurance for them should the play not work out as you hope.Calls are just the flip side to puts; calls are a bet the price of a stock(or anything) will go up to $x and puts are a bet the price will go down to $x by date.

    The “sap away” mechanic of an option (whether you buy call or put, butting a stock goes up or down) is due to “theta decay”. An option contract, by nature, is time bound. X stock(price goes up, down and by how much) by y date at end of trading. That deadline is what drives the value of the option contract, and also what drives the exponential swings in prices for some options. You can buy contracts for the end of any week for most stocks in the US. You can buy it for two weeks out, or up to a few years depending on the contract. Let’s pretend I say Disney is going to $150 a share by 1/1/2027. The “sap away” is that every week Disney doesn’t get to $150 the value of my contract goes down a little bit as there is less time for the stock to make enough of a move to get to $150. Longer contracts have more time to move and are therefore “less volatile” but every options contract has theta decay. This oversimplifies the complex world of options but the point is that “calls” don’t have anything to do with theta decay.




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    Great to have this investigative reporting into a government’s efforts towards the subversion of free speech and censorship from …Disney/ABC.

    It doesn’t matter they put Kimmel back on; they bent the knee and kissed the ring and showed, to no one’s surprise, that corporations care only about profits and access to power to increase profits.

    Edit: delighted to learn there are places where ABC isn’t owned by fascists.



  • What if you weren’t concerned about delivering what the user wanted as there wasn’t sufficient competition to force you to, why you could just deliver whatever the highest bidder or your own interests and biases decided?

    This used to be a debate Google had with itself, now it’s every single company’s dream to provide what they want you to see.“Splinternet”. What are your options to find other info if there isn’t a functional, reasonably searchable internet to verify, compare, research, debunk, etc.?

    It will take a shorter time to ruin the Internet than it did to build it, and I’ll be racing back to the library as long as books are still in print.