marckhoury

> If people with over 250,000 in deposits are covered, the once again the the rich is allowed to avoid all risks for bad decisions.

I feel like putting your money in a bank should not be considered an obviously bad decision. The risk profile your bank takes on with your deposits is largely opaque to you, and it’s not feasible to expect every depositor to do due diligence on it. Even if you understood their portfolio you might not be able to understand the implications as market conditions change. It’s also not feasible to expect people to split up their deposit into multiple 250k accounts.

There’s actually a lot of risk and costs when shorting. You need to pay borrow fees to borrow the stock, you need to post collateral that can be liquidated in the event that your position gets too risky, you need to post more collateral as the price of the a stock increases to cover the increased risk, and you can in theory lose an unlimited amount of money. You have to be right both about the stock decreasing in value, and the timing around when it will decrease in value. Otherwise your position might get liquidated before you can realize your possibly correct directional prediction. This is what the phrase “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent” refers to. Shorting is really hard.

Ah good point, you’re right. This is probably legally fine.

I know, I just thought they would have acquired it. My statements were somewhat separate.

I’m very surprised UC Berkeley doesn’t own that domain name. They have a trademark on “Cal”, don’t know if they’d file a trademark complaint if this got larger.

Thank you! It's funny you should mention that because I've been thinking about continuous optimization a lot lately.

That's a great video, I really like his slider method for understanding the coordinates. Thanks for linking it!

Thanks, I put a fair bit of effort into cleaning it up!

Mars and sfdp take very different approaches to graph layouts, attempting the embed the graph metric (mars) vs keeping your neighbors close while pushing everyone else away (sfdp). As a result the drawings look very different and emphasize different features of the graph. We're not trying to say that one gives a better drawing than the other, but that here are two techniques that scale and produce different drawings, one of which may give a better visualization of your data. However one clear advantage of mars over sfdp is mars' ability to easily incorporate edge weights.

You did read the documentation right. Sfdp is just as scalable, if not more so, as mars. Although I've never run mars for as long and on as powerful of machines as Yifan has run sfdp.