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"Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk," Damn good name for a book! Anyone notice; if you selected text then right clicked, WSJ throws up some css bo
by redorb 19y ago
"Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk,"
Damn good name for a book!
Anyone notice; if you selected text then right clicked, WSJ throws up some css box with information relating to that text>? kinda neat.
- ctkrohn 19y agoA lot of people on Wall Street seem to be fans of that book, but I found it a rather dull history of probability theory. There wasn't much focus at all on the development of the truly remarkable system of risk transfer and management via derivatives that underlies much of modern finance.
- s3graham 19y ago"Kinda neat", like, "I hope there's a Greasemonkey script to turn it off?" Or "kinda neat", like, "possibly a useful way to monitize my site and annoy my users". Do you honestly think that anyone has ever selected some text on that site, and then randomly right clicked on it hoping that related search terms would pop up?