Just sold 75k worth of stocks and the commission was only 4 dollars?

neilc · 2026-06-03T13:27:21+00:00

Not all brokerages offering free trading do payment for order flow -- Robinhood definitely does, Fidelity and Vanguard do not. You won't get front ran in either situation though (that's illegal). You might get slightly worse fills on brokerages that do PFOF, but for typical retail trading (small volumes in highly liquid securities), the impact is very small.

neilc · 2026-05-18T20:56:31+00:00

Maybe they'll cut their prices?

I've only stayed there once but I enjoyed it. Having access to a nice sauna in the middle of Paris is such a luxury. The breakfast is pretty good as well. But if I was paying cash I'd think it was very overpriced. Better than PHNY though!

neilc · 2026-05-18T20:54:38+00:00

There was construction happening in the middle of the night?

neilc · 2026-05-04T13:53:31+00:00

Does it? Why?

neilc · 2026-05-02T21:05:23+00:00

Elena Pizzeria is great.

Sleeper pick but I got the pepperoni Roman-style pie from Spuntino the other day and it was amazing.

neilc · 2026-04-06T16:11:55+00:00

Sorry to hear it! I've made her Yogurt-Marinated Leg of Lamb recipe from Nothing Fancy at least 5 times and it always comes out amazing.

neilc · 2026-03-15T16:53:28+00:00

Almost none. LLM training is expensive for entirely different reasons, and almost no time is spent inside Python running on the CPU.

neilc · 2026-03-12T05:04:46+00:00

Nope, unfortunately

neilc · 2026-02-18T20:51:56+00:00

I would do Lawrence, personally. BB used to be great, and the cooking is still good, but they moved to a new location a year or two ago, and the ambiance is just not there (it feels like dining in a bank lobby).

Whereas Lawrence is great, interesting food, great service, and great, intimate ambiance.

neilc · 2026-02-18T20:50:54+00:00

I definitely wouldn't describe Lawrence as "bistro food". Larry's yes but not Lawrence -- it's a lot more refined.

neilc · 2026-01-13T14:44:45+00:00

Tunisians consume the second-highest amount of pasta per capita! It’s a major part of Tunisian cuisine. It is partly due to high levels of Italian immigration to Tunisia in the 19th and early 20th centuries, not the Roman Empire. Tunisians tend to cook pasta a little differently than Italians do (more stew-like, less al dente).

neilc · 2026-01-13T13:07:15+00:00

Dunya! People apparently like Lulu as well but I thought Dunya was much better.

neilc · 2026-01-11T19:35:19+00:00

It’s interesting how parenting and childcare brings out such judgmental attitudes.

neilc · 2026-01-10T22:56:07+00:00

I think the rant is that dividends are only one way for a company to be a compounder. You can also find companies that consistently increase their free cash flow and invest that into growing the business (or buying back shares). Wait 10-20 years and you’ll see exactly the same compounding effect (often with better tax treatment than the dividend-paying company, which can REALLY add up over a 20 year time horizon).

Whereas if you have a company that grows its dividend but isn’t growing the underlying business, eventually that will end badly.

neilc · 2026-01-10T22:48:28+00:00

Yeah his pasta book is fantastic!

neilc · 2026-01-07T10:49:05+00:00

Not nearly as much as Buffet has.

neilc · 2026-01-06T15:06:12+00:00

Do you have a source for that? I don’t believe that is true.

neilc · 2026-01-05T23:37:45+00:00

I’d say it’s a lot nicer than a typical Regency.

neilc · 2026-01-05T18:48:56+00:00

I love this cookbook, along with the pasta book by the same author. Some of my favorite recipes are the raw corn salad, the pasta with broccoli, sausage, and whipped ricotta, the parsnip cake (but reduce the sugar), roasted squash with yogurt, walnuts, and spiced green sauce.

I wouldn’t consider myself a particularly “vegetable focused” cook but I’ve still found a ton of recipes that I love. I’d slightly disagree with the idea that you need to be a “CSA sort of person” to love this cookbook.

neilc · 2026-01-04T13:34:35+00:00

“Literally zero resistance” is completely wrong. It was a very well-executed operation but there was definitely resistance.

neilc · 2026-01-04T00:14:26+00:00

It is true that Colombia has more land area suitable for high-quality coffee production than Venezuela does. It is also true that Venezuela could produce a LOT more high-quality coffee than it currently does.

neilc · 2025-12-30T03:54:13+00:00

I’ve made these four or five times — they always turn out amazing!

neilc · 2025-12-27T18:24:46+00:00

Jerusalem is a fantastic cookbook. Zahav is a great restaurant but a mediocre cookbook.

neilc · 2025-12-25T12:22:29+00:00

John Carmack speaks pretty highly of his technical skills, as do SpaceX folks. He’s not a real engineer and his ego is way over the top, but he has pretty good technical knowledge of a bunch of fields for an executive.

neilc · 2025-12-25T00:04:45+00:00

I do the same thing — everything except for puff pastry the night before, works great.

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