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by HSO 7y ago
Thank you. And yes, look into European institutions! Special shoutout to my alma mater ETH Zurich: It's essentially free to attend if you can get in and, more importantly, stay in. Classes are in English. And, very important for Asians
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by HSO 7y ago
It's MUCH worse than that. PFs and insurers are going down the credit ladder, taking worse and worse credit quality in order to get SOME yield. Thanks to QE concocted by MSEs (mainstream economists). Don't even talk about China. W
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by HSO 7y ago
You mean like opioid manufacturing and distribution or American food industry (disgusting, sorry)?
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by HSO 7y ago
I don‘t have an opinion on the macro picture of whether paper books are a net drag or benefit to the environment because I haven‘t done the math. I was only responding to OP that being taught on paper books somehow means lifelong attachment
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by HSO 7y ago
The „trick“ I use is I‘m offline by default and have to „turn the internet on“ on most devices (except the phone). Been doing thst for 8 years now, works pretty well.
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by HSO 7y ago
I don‘t think I would. I just don‘t see the point anymore. Don‘t get me wrong, I once was a romantic too! :) I used to spend entire afternoons after school in the bookstore or libraries and had a pretty good library. Now when I see paper bo
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by HSO 7y ago
> As long as children are taught to read on paper books, we will have an emotional connection to the printed page. I've learned to read on paper books and I have zero attachment to them at this point. In fact, I cringe when I
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by HSO 7y ago
> Having worked at a successful macro hedge fund for more than 10 years Do you mind sharing which one? (Ok, stupid question) Or whether it's a "quant" or global macro fund? > There is no point in trying to predict ma
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by HSO 7y ago
aimed in particular at macro- and monetary economists. There are some nice results but they apply, as far as I could tell, mostly to smaller settings, not the aggregate economy. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079505
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by HSO 7y ago
It's obvious why: there are too many confounding variables to run experiments on macroeconomically relevant scales. This is analogous to why econometrics is bullshit: lack of stationarity in the real world. This is amplified by nonline
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by HSO 7y ago
You can view economics (the field) as a coordination device. Basically, nobody knows anything[1]. But if everyone were to admit that, there would be no basis on which to conduct policy. → Chaos/arbitrariness/incoherence (over time
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by HSO 7y ago
Do you have any idea how absolutely crazy these numbers sound over here in Europe?
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by HSO 7y ago
> Your entire post is overgeneralization …proceeds to extrapolate from "my local dev market" to economy with thousands of sectors and tens of millions of workers without a trace of irony or self-awareness. Um, ok. As others h
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by HSO 7y ago
> The 40h a day week and modern-day work contracts come as a direct evolution of medieval servitude, with little modification. Well, in Europe it is more the estate system and urban manufactures, I think, that have influenced the cultu
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by HSO 7y ago
This is such a confident statement, and I don't mean that as a compliment. For starters, is the evidence behind this Hayekian market efficiency really so strong as to warrant this kind of absolute confidence in the wisdom of markets? &
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The mental health costs of building a new business(ft.com)
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Attack hits Protonmail users probing Russian intelligence(ft.com)
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by HSO 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20419574
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by HSO 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20419574
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by HSO 7y ago
Actually, he says it's 0-15 percent, which I've always assumed is just the granularity of the study to which he refers. Alternatively, since those retraining programs were focused on specific industries or occupations in manufactu
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by HSO 7y ago
I didn't say they dropped him from the debates. Of course they cannot do that, this is already decided by the DNC. What MSNBC did, and has been doing for months now, is "conveniently", "innocently" not show him in g
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by HSO 7y ago
I didn't mean they dropped him from the debates. Of course they cannot do that, this is already decided by the DNC. What MSNBC did, and has been doing for months now, is "conveniently", "innocently" not show him i
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by HSO 7y ago
Speaking of, I saw a particularly blatant example yesterday: https://twitter.com/scottsantens/status/1142442971922653184 I've been following the Andrew Yang campaign since his appearance on the Joe Rogan show
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by HSO 8y ago
Plus ça change… In this coldly pixelated age, old-fashioned writing implements make a small but meaningful comeback I used to be sympathetic but am getting quite tired of this trope. Without having researched it, could it be that this
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by HSO 8y ago
I see a lot of complaints here about the size (trend) and lack of smaller, SE-like option. But if product cycles really do take around 3 years (from conception to release), then 2019 might be the year. The SE was released in 2016 and was su
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by HSO 8y ago
I think the LinX acquisition was more related to FaceID.
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by HSO 8y ago
Question, since you listed Rösling's Factfulness : How many points did you get in their little quiz in the intro or ch1, I forget where it was, if you don't mind sharing?
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by HSO 8y ago
Enable the developer menu in Safari and assign a keyboard shortcut to the JS item. Done :-)
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by HSO 10y ago
It was very close, something like 51:49. The predictions circulating before the vote may have influenced the result. Apparently more Remainers would have bothered to vote if the predictions had not been so clearly in favor of Remain. It&#
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by HSO 10y ago
> Similarly, I would not be surprised if a face recognition NN worked better on Europeans rather than Chinese, for the prima facie reason that they have more variable facial features and other aspects like multiple hair colors other tha

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