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by HSO 17y ago
Agree. There are some areas where numerical affinity is correlated to actual work being done, say in number theory, but I've seen professional mathematicians stumble over much lesser calculations. Without detracting from the auteur's own ta
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by HSO 17y ago
Maybe it's a bias but I'm usually underwhelmed by people who call themselves "smart".
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by HSO 17y ago
At the risk of being polemic: The discrepancy you point out is perceived much more generally about the US as a whole by, dare I say, much of the rest of the world. High-minded talk about freedom coexisting with military aggression/intervent
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by HSO 17y ago
I think this comment says more about you than a Mac about its owner. ;)
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by HSO 17y ago
Have you even read the article? Your first two points are mentioned prominently.
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by HSO 17y ago
You can switch the stoplight coloring on the buttons via system preferences to all-grey. That worked for me. Also, you can switch key bindings.
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by HSO 17y ago
Agree. OTOH, a business is not a charity, by definition. I guess that as a businessman, you'd have to calculate whether your expectation of future revenue justifies the added expense, in which case you are really "investing" in a future mar
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Senator: open source software needed for medical records(arstechnica.com)
1 points by HSO 17y ago|0 comments
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by HSO 17y ago
I'd be interested in how the process at Apple compares. Does anyone know of credible references/interviews on the web?
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The Economic Case Against the GPL(esr.ibiblio.org)
13 points by HSO 17y ago|16 comments
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by HSO 17y ago
From the profile, it seems the author deliberately sees the world through pink glasses in order to countervail what he perceives as pessimists. Duh... How can you take someone seriously who actually states he wants to see only one facet of
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Inside These Lenses, a Digital Dimension(nytimes.com)
4 points by HSO 17y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Profit Falls for First Time in 23 Years(nytimes.com)
1 points by HSO 17y ago|0 comments
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DVRs were supposed to undermine television. They have done the opposite(economist.com)
24 points by HSO 18y ago|8 comments
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by HSO 18y ago
I too thought there must be opportunities in "disrupting" finance. Then I realized people "want" to be taken advantage of. Of course, not literally. But in a weird sense, people do not want to take responsibility for their finances. Instead
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by HSO 18y ago
The middle age thing was just a reference to the general struggle between the church representation of the world and the emerging scientific approach. I agree with you on the racial prejudices. They are definitely not dead; many people seem
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by HSO 18y ago
Come on, I don't see why the original authors were "blurting out" their hypothesis. From the article, it sounded like a normal, legitimate way to come up with something in the scientific research process. Science needs communication and as
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by HSO 18y ago
http://xkcd.com/552/
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by HSO 18y ago
Perhaps "everybody can see" was a bit offhand, since I don't specialize in these matters. But the point I was trying to make actually was this: In general in daily life, we should not care about the average but about the individual. I'm Eas
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by HSO 18y ago
"But the idea that some groups of people are inherently smarter is troubling to many. Some scientists say it has such racist implications it's unworthy of consideration." Why is this troubling? What are the racist implications? I thought be
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by HSO 18y ago
Sorry if I ranted but I went on for "over 6 sentences" because I am sensitive to this cliche of investors/speculators as nonproductive blood suckers. It was one of the images that was used in a certain historical catastrophe where I live (G
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by HSO 18y ago
Several misconceptions in this articles, quite typical ones actually: 1) "I can’t imagine what led all of us to believe that we could regularly expect double-digit annual returns on our money, for doing no work" You did work. You worked, ex
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Economic Blogger Who Angered Seoul Is Acquitted(nytimes.com)
1 points by HSO 18y ago|0 comments
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by HSO 18y ago
John Paulson is not an economist, he got an mba but you don't go to business school to learn something, you go there to get a passport and connections. Be that as it may, he is definitely not an economist but a hedge fund investor. Taleb is
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by HSO 18y ago
"they still go for the strong guy over the "nice" guy" The antonym to strong is weak, not nice. I think people often forget that girls, particularly sane and intelligent ones, do not reject the prototypical "nice guy" because he is nice but
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by HSO 18y ago
This "leader of the pack" thing is overrated IMO. Being the leader of a bunch of boisterous pussymen doesn't make you attractive, quite the opposite. Depending on the environment, you may appear more attractive being the strong, silent type
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by HSO 18y ago
Oh I don't know. How is it "taking your chances" if "it will turn out good"? It may turn out bad, in fact, the unconditional odds are against him. Not to be a sourpuss, just being realistic. I think he is quite right to agonize a bit and th
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by HSO 18y ago
I didn't say "one" hedge fund pursues the strategy. I said I read about one. Also, aggregators do the exact opposite of what this hedge fund was doing: averaging. Whereas the point would be to measure their predictive accuracy individually.
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by HSO 18y ago
I wouldn't dismiss the "learn to code" advice altogether. Can you do/learn enough to build a prototype? Perhaps one iteration level beyond? Then you're good to go, IMO. Getting to that prototype, you learn what is difficult and what is impo
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by HSO 18y ago
Actually, I remember reading sth about a hedge fund that employed just that approach. They had every analyst or broker send in their predictions or collected them from somewhere and kept track of who did well and who did not. The better som

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