Some things I noticed 07/27/2020:
- 紅の豚 予告
- North Korea reports first suspected case of COVID-19
- “Even if they don’t have cocaine in them, they still use the leaves.“
- “Crucially, this step assumes that the bits selected by the hash function end up all being distinct, which is not always guaranteed“
- “recent increase in successful jackpotting ultimately results in higher fees, as financial institutions pass on the costs caused by the losses.“
- “the quantitative revolution has become the biggest today, capturing some $500 billion of the industry’s more than $3 trillion in assets“
- “Jeff Bezos, who had joined in 1990, was in charge of the online retailing project at D.E. Shaw.”
- “These days, betting on inefficiencies in public markets has become less profitable. D.E. Shaw has moved into emerging markets”
- “a property tycoon has been searching for potential sites for a new city due to political uncertainty between Hong Kong and Beijing.“
- “The day Khan got a contraband phone in prison, he and his cellmate spent the night sobbing as they reconnected with family members.” ?
- “export drive on backs of Chinese working class one; blow to America’s blue-collar second; Wall Street profited third front in class war.“
- “state support for Chinese industry extends to subsidised land deals, cheap electric power and a subsidised low interest loans”
- “the US did not prevail in the Cold War in Asia. The mistake in thinking we are in a ‘new Cold War’ is in thinking of it as new.”
- “The key lay in rebalancing domestic inequality such that domestic demand was adequate to domestic production.”
- “not domestic reform as means of defusing international tension, but international tension as driver of domestic transformation.”
- “the novel challenge we face is how to disarm economic growth as a planetary threat”
- meaning of emoji in Twitter handles