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New comment by asdasdsddd in "Hedge Funds Are Pocketing Much of Their Clients' Gains with 'No Limit' Fees"

asdasdsddd — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 01:18:54 +0000

I always see this "excuse". Our fund isn't focused on alpha; we minimize beta. It's just unclear to me whether this is shown out in the data.

New comment by asdasdsddd in "Hedge Funds Are Pocketing Much of Their Clients' Gains with 'No Limit' Fees"

asdasdsddd — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 23:48:02 +0000

1. Crazy graph format lol

2. I thought management fees were supposed to pay for comp?

3. Buying SPY wins again?

4. I don't really care about rich people getting ripped off, but I wonder if any of my money leaks into these funds

New comment by asdasdsddd in "The Anthropic Economic Index"

asdasdsddd — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:29:52 +0000

The secret is buying a bidet so you dont need to buy from either ever again!

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asdasdsddd — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:16:20 +0000

It's a 500B company that undercuts everyone else with incredible efficiency, just like Amazon. It's an example of how capitalism can be great. If you really want to get of out of capitalism, you can just buy directly from farmers or grow your own food.

The whole thing about no ethical consumption under capitalism is a just a way to enjoy the conveniences of capitalism on a moral high ground. It's totally doable, you just might not enjoy it haha.

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asdasdsddd — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 21:22:59 +0000

This has to be a meme. Costco is peak hypercapitalism lol.

New comment by asdasdsddd in "Autonomous AI Agents Should Not Be Developed"

asdasdsddd — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 01:09:48 +0000

This has to be the least interesting paper I've ever read with the most surface level thinking.

> • Simple→Tool Call: Inaccuracy propagated to inappropriate tool selection.

> • Multi-step: Cascading errors compound risk of inaccurate or irrelevant outcomes.

> • Fully Autonomous: Unbounded inaccuracies may create outcomes wholly unaligned with human goals.

Just... lol

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asdasdsddd — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:30:55 +0000

Holy shit, what a scam...

New comment by asdasdsddd in "Perpetual stew"

asdasdsddd — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:57:57 +0000

Perpetual stew feels like a gimmick but stew does taste better on day 2 and 3 for sure.

New comment by asdasdsddd in "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)"

asdasdsddd — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 17:35:02 +0000

> Having a population of burma(a historically very active conflict area) that is well educated and more likely to oppose the military Junta

Ok so you haven't told me how this furthers Americans interests, that's pretty much every BS power projection argument I've heard for my entire life.

> When I ask why is America building anti-missile batteries and stationing their troops in my country,

Depending on your country, I'm ok with removing the batteries :)

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asdasdsddd — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:23:31 +0000

I'm pretty open minded so if you have a detailed answer, I would love to hear it. Just to be clear, I'm not a fan of hand wavy answers around like "stabilizing" or "soft power" because I feel like vague language masquerades corruption and misuse of funds. What I want to know are the direct causal links between our money and our interests.

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asdasdsddd — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:19:12 +0000

> because it's explicitly in American interests to do so

Please elaborate, and be precise because every interventionist argument is like, "but our trading partners, but our allies" but always fails to link exactly how that improves the lives of Americans. So tell me exactly what we are afraid of. If its trade tell me exactly what the comparative advantage is or what the resource we need is. And if its defense, tell me exactly what the threat vectors are, not just, "the island chains".

We've doing truly stupid things in the name of bullshit concepts like "containment" which led us into Vietnam, or "stabilizing the region" which led us into the middle east.

We can start with the Burmese scholarships that gives 300k per student; please tell me exactly what the American interests are.

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asdasdsddd — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 09:09:16 +0000

> so that US is less likely to engage militarily with whatever conflict happens in those coutries eventually

Or you know, we can stop getting into wars? Did our adventures in the middle east advance US interests?

> It's part of being a global hagemony

It's called overextension and almost every historical power declined due to internal rot coupled by continuously getting into conflicts, which, wouldn't you know, drained the treasury.

New comment by asdasdsddd in "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)"

asdasdsddd — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:46:27 +0000

Do you think inequality has risen or decreased as the size of the government increased? Regulatory capture can only exist with the existence of unchecked regulatory power. I personally work in a space that is insanely difficult to new entrants because of the thousands of regulations you need to comply to (90% are garbage btw). If tmrw, our industry had a regulation reform, the entrenched players would die overnight.

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asdasdsddd — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:42:05 +0000

Because those agencies are funded by the federal budget. We are literally going into a deficit to send money to other countries. Do you realize how insane that is? And don't tell me this is just a small part of the federal budget. Oh its just a couple billion here and there. That's a lot of money that could go towards not being in debt. This level of fiscal irresponsibility is basically taxation without representation on the unborn.

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asdasdsddd — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:19:54 +0000

What power has he gained.

New comment by asdasdsddd in "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)"

asdasdsddd — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:19:20 +0000

So you are saying if the founding fathers had 100 agencies then slavery wouldve been abolished?

New comment by asdasdsddd in "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)"

asdasdsddd — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:18:15 +0000

Yes and FDR also skirted around constitutionality and even threatened to pack the courts to ram his reforms in. I don't agree with everything the president is doing, but the rail we are going down is just doomed. What is your proposition to stop interest from eating 100% of the federal budget. We just paid 1T of interest, do you think that is going to decelerate?

New comment by asdasdsddd in "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)"

asdasdsddd — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:13:33 +0000

Yes and we managed to do that for 150 years with a fraction of the current government size.

New comment by asdasdsddd in "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45 (1955)"

asdasdsddd — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:06:00 +0000

The president is fascist because he's, checks notes... , relinquishing governmental power by shutting down agencies? I think the only thing people have been habituated to is the enormity of the government; go back to any other point in history, was the government this big in terms of independent agencies, employee/contractor count, budget/debt as percentage of gdp?

Sure the spoils system was bad, but the current iteration where you have hundreds of independent agencies that cannot be fired breathing down your neck with statutory power is fucking insane.

New comment by asdasdsddd in "He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along"

asdasdsddd — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:10:06 +0000

This is also the attitude that makes every dumbass think they are above the law.