FastMonkey

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by FastMonkey 5y ago
A payoff has to happen over years too. Sure you optimally ignore sunk costs when looking at a given project, but if you keep ditching solutions 2 years into a 3-year payoff you're going to lose a bunch of money.
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
If you ever visited the killing fields in Cambodia, you'd never make a statement like that. A sub-optimal economic policy isn't even on the same measurement scale as the raw, senseless, brutal cruelty and violence of that regime.
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
I don't know how to break it to you, but the system you're looking for that does all the things you're saying is capitalism. Have the talent and desire to be a heart surgeon? Go for it, and you'll be rewarded. Want to ma
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
I suppose in the absence of cash we would just force some people to do the necessary tasks that aren't anyone's favourite hobbies?
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
There's a lot of power in stories. Even today, on social media someone can make or break your reputation with a single post. A difference today is that you can fact check things much more easily. Historically, it's not hard to bel
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
A lot of the posts and comments I see on here are made by people in the dangerous phase between becoming interesting in markets and actually having experience.
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
I've been around, and there very few 9-to-5 places that mind if people work 10-to-6 or 8-to-4 instead.
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
I had the same questions myself. I tried to follow the citation on wikipedia, but that links to a newspaper article that doesn't seem to mention it at all. Edit: on the other hand, the claim "meta-analysis by Rutgers researchers f
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
Gold isn't confusing, it just doesn't work so great for the economy as money. Money is more complicated than just being a token that you can own.
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
People like this don't realize that it's their own epitaph they're writing. They're creating a community that disdains the fairly recent past, with the result that they'll be disdained in the fairly near future.
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
I understand. On the team I'm on right now, we're trying to make some large changes, and some of that has to do with challenging assumptions. I'm just primed to see things like "10 weeks is a reasonable amount of time fo
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
I'd argue it's ordinary rather than reasonable. It seems like the tax is fair, you can import a 1000hp beast for personal use and get taxed heavily, or you can import it for whatever sort of haulage you need a 1000hp pickup truck
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
A half a kilo of CO2 per km is pretty hefty... Edit: 1.8lbs/mile of you prefer.
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
This makes sense if you're talking to business people. They don't know or care about the details, they're looking for something with basic graphics, a few big numbers, and some soundbites. I'd feel ripped off I spent my
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
Agreed, and how many stay on the same or a similar subject for decades? It seems like the great artists he mentioned jumped from one thing to the next, whereas academia seems to incentivize patient deepening of a single furrow.
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
That sounds about right. A search engine has to try and intuit what users are going to want. Decisions have to be made to show one thing above another. In order for us to trust the engine though, we should have a way of knowing what values
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
Maybe people are so used to living in such a safe country that they can't even conceive of a real threat to its existence. Countries only exist because they're willed into existence. Sure, Ukraine isn't perfect, but it's
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
Doesn't that get you back to the problem of click bait? If newspapers are only paid for articles with headlines that grab your attention, then that's where their incentives will drive them. Part of the attraction for newspapers fo
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
I think "sensible" is highly context dependent.
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
It's easy to spend your entire life running from one thing to the next. Meditation can just be a 10 minute break where you give yourself permission to take a mental break. Like almost everything, there is an unhealthy extreme. As an an
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
I got a proposal last year from a vendor where I wasn't allowed to copy or download the text. They were one of a handful of proposals I got, so since I wasn't able to share they're stuff with other decision makers they put th
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
It's almost like they're sanctioning themselves!
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
It's like a loss you would make if you bought a stock for $20 and sold it for $18. Someone else buys it for $18 and it might go up or down from there. Rosneft got their money back when they initially sold the stock to the market. I thi
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
They've made the accounting changes that show they may sell. Instead of telling investors "we are holding a significant portion of rosneft and intend to hold it for the foreseeable future", they will now be saying "we ho
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
Rosneft is a publicly traded company. When you "exit" a position, that usually means you sell the shares onto the market. Public shares are traded on a secondary market, so if they do that some other investors would be buying them
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
I've worked in a couple of different industries, and from what I've seen an associate is generally a title for junior staff. After a few years, most graduate some type of specialist or project management job title.
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by FastMonkey 5y ago
Depression might lead people to eat differently. I know when my diet suffers when I'm down, there's definitely more pizza and less fruit and veg.