The 5th meridian west is a line of longitude that is located 5 degrees west of the Prime Meridian, which is designated as 0 degrees longitude. It runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and passes through various countries. In terms of geographical coverage, the 5th meridian west passes through several countries in Europe and Africa.
The 61st meridian west is a line of longitude located 61 degrees west of the Prime Meridian, which is the line of longitude defined as 0 degrees. This meridian runs from the North Pole to the South Pole, passing through several countries in the Americas, particularly Canada and the United States. In Canada, it crosses regions of Newfoundland and Labrador, and in the United States, it passes through parts of the state of Maine.
The 83rd meridian west is a line of longitude located 83 degrees west of the Prime Meridian, which is the reference line for longitude that runs through Greenwich, England. The 83rd meridian west runs from the North Pole to the South Pole, passing through North America, specifically the United States and parts of Canada. In the United States, the 83rd meridian west notably passes through states such as Ohio and Michigan.
The 85th meridian east is a line of longitude that is located 85 degrees east of the Prime Meridian, which is defined as 0 degrees longitude. It runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and is used in geographical coordinate systems to specify locations on the Earth's surface. In terms of geography, the 85th meridian east passes through several countries, including parts of Russia, Mongolia, India, and Bangladesh.
Ciro Santilli once talked to a man who had been working on high-frequency trading for the last six years.
He was quite nice.
Ciro asked him in what way did he feel his job contributed to the benefit of society.
He replied that it didn't contribute at all. It was completely useless. More than that, it so completely useless, that it was even pure. A bit like advanced mathematics, but not even providing beauty for anybody outside of the company, since everything is a closely guarded trade secret, unlike mathematics which is normally published for the vanity recognition.
A great mind can work in the most useless branches of finance, without the desire to improve the world, nor make it worse. Not to compete, nor be afraid, nor anxious. A sand mandala.
Only being. Being, in the exact fraction of a moment where bid meets ask.
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The Men Who Stole the World by Benoît Bringer
. This timestamp contains a good explanation of how banks were knowingly reselling bad loans at incredible profits. It features Richard Bowen, previously from Citi Group compliance.
Margin Call (2011) by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
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Peter Sullivan discovers the issue scene from Margin Call
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Senior partners emergency meeting scene from Margin Call
. Source. God, Jeremy Irons is destroying it!!! And all others too.
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Fire Sale of Mortgage Bonds scene from Margin Call
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Investment Analyst Explains Margin Call by The Plain Bagel
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The Big Short (2015) by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
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I'm Jacked to the Tits remix by The Big Short (2021)
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Inflation by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
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One Million Dollars scene from Austin Powers
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100 Billion Dollars scene from Austin Powers
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Money creation vs tax by Ciro Santilli 40 Updated 2025-07-16
To Ciro Santilli, a key observation is:
The rich are more easily able to avoid the harm than poor and middle-class people [...] they are more likely to have large amounts of non-cash assets to shield themselves from inflation.
Clearly the rich will be much, much more shielded by keeping large parts of their wealth in shares... from this point of view, it is insane to print money!!! Tax the rich instead...

Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project

Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
We have two killer features:
  1. topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus
    Articles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
    • a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
    • a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
    This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
    Figure 1.
    Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
    . View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivative
  2. local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:
    This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
    Figure 2.
    You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either https://OurBigBook.com or as a static website
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    Figure 3.
    Visual Studio Code extension installation
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    Figure 4.
    Visual Studio Code extension tree navigation
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    Figure 5.
    Web editor
    . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
    Video 3.
    Edit locally and publish demo
    . Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
    Video 4.
    OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo
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  3. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook-media/master/feature/x/hilbert-space-arrow.png
  4. Infinitely deep tables of contents:
    Figure 6.
    Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
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    Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact