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50m^2 in Zug (the actual city) will probably cost you like 2.5k CHF in rent at least.

Given that most management companies follow the 3 to 1 net salary to rent ratio as the minimum, you need to be making 7.5k after 1st/2nd pillar contributions which is like 8.6 gross. So you basically need a 3rd quartile or thereabouts salary to live in what is basically a "starter" apartment.

But on the other hand your tax bill is like a third of what you would pay in Zurich.


Imagine prime Jack Welch in this A.I era and the 10x coder-PM-builder slop you see.

>What President before these last two wouldn't have jumped at it?

This ignores/forgets the fact that Biden had the Ukraine crisis directly after Covid ending so he basically couldn't actually go all in on the conflict.

>It's hard to imagine any earlier US administration not backing Ukraine to the hilt

Earlier administrations were operating in a much better economic environment and had a much higher international standing. Don't forget that outside of Europe US standing was dropping already before Trump 2.


On Twitter I think most of the "Decadent West" accounts are for ad share. Elon has a whole harem of these accounts to retweet and ask stupid shit like "But has he actually done something illegal"

>I've always felt the main reason That most companies use Salesforce Is that most companies use Salesforce.

It's like this for most software, but as a salaryman it's better for you if you use the common software. If you have an interview you can now say "I know how to use the thing that most people use" instead of "Actually we had an inhouse system so if you hire me I need to be onboarded for 3 months".

I got hired to my 2nd job in large part because I knew how to use Broadridge Paladyne (back then it was pretty good if you got over the pretty bad UI/UX, by today's standards it's not great).


I still don't get why Axler decided to discuss the Jordan normal form after already doing the spectral theorem, it's a bit like presenting Riemannian integration after Lebesgue.

For the long term his emphasis on operators is probably better as naturally transitions into functional analysis, but you can get a lot of stuff done without ever touching them.


Did you misstate your comment? The Jordan normal form is more general than spectral decomposition so it should come after.


I'm open to being corrected, but AFAIK the normal form (1870) precedes the official focus on operators (with Hilbert) by like 20-30 years.


KalMann is correct. Jordan canonical form decomposition is more general. Every matrix in an algebraically closed field will have such a decomposition. This is not true for spectral decomposition. Only diagonalizable matrices will have a spectral decomposition and they are a smaller subset.

That said, Jordan form is uglier than spectral decomposition, to my taste that is. Spectral decomposition so beautiful and neat.


>Also worth noting: Poland didn't receive a dime of reparations after the War.

Poland received virtually all of the lands that were considered Prussia though.


If you peer into the (un-tendentious) history of much of those lands, you might take a slightly different view of them and their role and importance in Polish history, culture, language, and statehood, beyond just the 20th century... But perhaps more to the point, Poland lost nearly half of its prewar territory, east of the Curzon line. Poland is territorially smaller today than it was before WWII.


As is alluded to by others, you might want to look into the disposition of those lands before 1100 or so


Indeed it received Pomerania and the industrial center Silesia. Russia got East Prussia.

Probably worth more than the EUR 1 trillion fantasy figure that Polish right wingers demand.


It also "received" several million of its own people killed, including the highly educated Jewish community. While we are crunching numbers, let us not forget that loss of human capital matters in economy as well.


This is like when I went to Paris for a business trip and learned that a specific set of French bourgeois take "bon appetit" before a meal to mean "have fun eating this shitty food" (and that you shouldn't say it in a classy restaurant someone picked to take you to).

I thought I was being pranked at first but then I learned that the exact same rule applies in certain "high establishments" in Geneva.


What I got from listening quite regularly (up to like last year or so) to All-In is that Thiel and Sacks were really the first to understand 2 crucial developments:

1) Making startups to explicitly target areas of government spending and thus disrupt government contractors and/or agencies is a very good play. Your target customer has infinite cash, likes long-term contracts and can be upsold.

2) That to facilitate 1) guys from VC had to take government roles and get behind a candidate explicitly.

Sacks as AI Czar, commissioning Palantir guys as officers, Rabois' husband as Undersecretary, A16Z literally writing primers on how to talk to government procurement, etc. The libertarian era is fully over, but Sacks(and the whole Thiel gang) should get the credit for being first movers in this shift.


This is (unironically) what big institutional allocators love to hear. They've been sold the idea that almost every medium-very big tech corp is vastly overstaffed and can become a monster cash cow and stop SBC dilution by cutting headcount + becoming A.I first.

They hear this from the sellside, from activists, from the guys managing their private market allocations etc.


Are any of these fields hiring?

- big institutional allocators

- activists

- the sellside

- guys managing their private market allocations


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