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professor later explained that these were “Fermi

McNeish’s tomcat, which had mistakenly been named Mrs. Chippy before his sex was determined, also was to be destroyed. There was only food for those who could pull their weight.

He gained a reputation as one of the best shipwreck divers on the East Coast; some said he might be among the best in the world. One day Nagle paid him the highest compliment by saying, “When you die no one will ever find your body.”

William Hawkins,

This alternating rhythm of price-revolutions and price-equilibria was discovered as early as the eighteenth century.

He was struck by what Jane Street did next: not much. There was no big firm-wide formal postmortem. No one was punished, or even questioned. On the one hand, Sam admired the way the firm distinguished process from outcome. A bad outcome, in and of itself, did not suggest anyone had done anything wrong, any more than a good outcome suggested anyone