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No one at this level is playing tournaments without massive preparation. This is especially true at the WCC where both sides have not just one but teams of seconds to help with prep.

Ding has been a shadow of himself ever since he won the world championship and if anything has been seen as the weakest world champion since 2006.


Yet, it took Gukesh pure luck to win the final game. So it is Ding’s loss than Gukesh’s win. Who is the weakest, your logic?

“The winner of a game of chess is he who makes the last mistake but one.” - Probably Lasker but people often attribute this quote to Tartekower[1]

Ding won the WCC due to a terrible blunder by Nepomniachi. Good as he was Fischer blundered his bishop like a patzer during his WCC match against Spassky and came back to win the match. Chess games between humans are generally decided by somebody making a mistake. Is that luck?

Of course not. To put himself in a position to benefit from that luck he had to play extremely well for the entire match so that it would be even going into the last game.

[1] https://chesshistory.com/winter/extra/mistake.html


"Zone" training is primarily a way for high mileage runners to get the physical adaptation of running with lower risk of injury on easy days. If you're running < 20 mpw there should be minimal risk of injury and you should focus on increasing mileage and not on heart rate (which is highly variable depending on the person anyway, and should be properly determined with a LT test).


Notation has changed over the years. Even twenty years ago you could pick up (admittedly dated) books using descriptive notation (e.g. P-K4). It's pretty clear what is the accepted standard for notation today though.


Algebraic notation hasn't changed notably in the last (at least) 50 years. The abbreviated form that most people use today was also the form that most people used 50 years ago. (A change to indicate draw offers is the only one I can remember.)

The point is that there are multiple ways of writing the same move, and none of them are more correct than the other. Basing your definition of a move on the precise text that the computer happened to spit out when the games were retrieved, that's just being lazy.


The article's headline is a little misleading. It is only referring to college graduates that are "underemployed," i.e. have a job not requiring college-level skills in general, as opposed to a job that is unrelated to their major.

Your case would not count as underemployment (of which examples are office support, retail sales, food service).


Simon is Sacha's cousin (according to Wikipedia).


Separately, retail investors also outperform the S&P on average: https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/who-you-calling-dumb-mone...

> The average individual-investor stock portfolio has risen about 150% since the beginning of 2014, according to investment research firm Vanda Research, which began tracking the data nine years ago. That beats the S&P 500’s roughly 140% during the same period.


How are search trends the same as ownership of the currency?

Also in Argentina it's "dólar," not "dollar": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=AR&q=g...


Good to see that myth busted.

Having spent enough time in the country people buy dollars to save money, there is no other way except investing in real estate and other large investments that are typically only available to people that are already rich.


Since we are here, why "gold" and not the actual Spanish word "oro"?

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=AR&q=g...


I'm guessing it's more about the faculty being hard and/or expensive to retain for those majors.


For linguistics? I can't speak for the others, but I know that linguistics departments are pumping out a lot more PhDs than there are positions in the field. I expect that is true for all of them. Because these fields don't tend to bring in grant money, I expect professors can't demand rock star salaries.

But if your ratio of professors to students is poor, your department is going to be a money drain even if its demand in salaries and facilities is low.


That and the ultra-stagnant economy which in turn leads to mortgage rates of around 1%.


Low mortgage rates increase prices.


A quick search shows Garg's net worth is ~4B. Despite previous actions he deserves some amount of respect IMO for putting his own money on the line here.


Could be based on the valuation of the company based on the latest funding round

Which could be tanking as we speak

I don't see any news of the SPAC merge to have succeeded (estimated for Q4 21)

and this article shows they just laid off 1/3 of staff

https://therealdeal.com/2022/03/15/future-city-better-coms-t...


> net worth is ~4B

net worth is not the same as liquidity


Net worth is the more relevant value for a loan guarantee.


If Better can't itself afford to pay the loan back, bringing the personal guarantee into play, what value will the equity have?

Net worth is an abstraction that's generally useful to reason about outcomes, but it's a leaky abstraction.


One would assume Softbank made sure that the debt was collateralized with something other than Better.com shares. I'm sure a good chunk of that 750M is collateralized with better.com shares but I'd be willing to bet they made him put some other stock/investments on the line.


If softbank believes in Better, but not necessarily in Garg, then having him personally guarantee the loan against his own shares is an easy way to push him out cleanly if things go south.


Unless that loan underpins the value


But I'd assume a huge amount of that net worth is due to Better.com's valuation. Valuation is, of course, just the amount the most recent investors paid for their shares, times the total number of shares. And those most recent investors include Softbank, who also gave the founder the loan.

Seems like a pretty scary loop.


The good ol' Elon Musk strategy


Hard to respect when losing $750m would still leave you a billionaire.


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