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by Riod 11y ago
You clearly have no idea the kinds of crimes Diem and his cronies got up to in South Vietnam. Vietnam would have been another former colony with western companies exploiting resources and the political class getting rich off corruption.
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by Riod 11y ago
Have you been to/lived in Vietnam? Their economy is booming compared to their neighbours. They are communists in name only; much like China. You're conveniently missing out the part where the South reneged on promises for a vote o
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by Riod 11y ago
Way to shoehorn BLM and feminism (both movements seeking equal rights) into the same frame as ISIS and Trump.
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by Riod 11y ago
Buffett? Look up the Superinvestors of Graham and Doddsville; addresses your 'just statistics' issue. On the general investment management industry, in aggregate they are the market so why would they outperform it? There are funds
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by Riod 11y ago
Simple solution. Set up an Ask HN: What does job not being a good fit mean to you. See how many people say it relates to cultural fit vs pay.
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by Riod 11y ago
Quantitative risk measures for longer term fundamental investing. Beta, cointegration, correlation, VAR all break down when there is a discrete event that completely changes the fundamental outlook.
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by Riod 11y ago
Precision matters. Fit is a poorly used term to basically mean, we don't want you for reason X but don't want to tell you that.
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by Riod 11y ago
That's not a fit issue. They just don't want to work for that wage. Find someone who will. Why do they have to ask? If you're really interested in efficiency, state it upfront, atleast the lower and upper bounds.
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by Riod 11y ago
That's exactly it. They haven't yet. Right now what they do is assembly. Look up what Chanos said about Tesla.
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by Riod 11y ago
Ironically getting that reserve currency status could be biting them in the ass in the short term. You need to have fairly free currency flows as part of the deal. Which means its tricky for them to impose capital controls now.
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by Riod 11y ago
Not to mention Porsche is coming out with their own electric vehicle. And Porsche always delivers. The Macan is ridiculously good looking. I'd say the Tesla is going to find a ton of stiff competition
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by Riod 11y ago
Thanks for inserting some logic here. This is all public information
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by Riod 11y ago
A company can make good products and still be overvalued.
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by Riod 11y ago
Except Tesla licenses their battery tech from Panasonic. Says so in the 10-K. Anyone else is free to make a deal with Panasonic
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by Riod 11y ago
The biggest risk is actually China devaluing the yuan. They are reporting their forex reserves on Sunday. If the yuan gets devalued this year this means China starts to export deflation. One or 10 stocks losing 50% in value is not a big dea
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by Riod 11y ago
That's rather depressing to hear. I think it is a question of how you rate yourself (objectively). If you're good, you can go on to found the biggest hedge fund of all time (Bridgewater). If not, then yea, I think yours is the way
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by Riod 11y ago
I think the issue is that a fair number of people doing hiring think this is still the 1980s. People worth hiring would like the company to be upfront with them too. If you put the salary range in the posting or mentioned it upfront then pr
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by Riod 11y ago
Would have hedged it if they were smart.
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by Riod 11y ago
They send emails to your contacts/dig through your email list to find people you know and ask them to endorse you for xyz skills through one click. Your great aunt was probably thinking she did you a solid. Scummy by the company.
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by Riod 11y ago
Given that Michael's book is 90% about using Rails, I understood the asker's question to be related to using the framework more so than the language itself.
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by Riod 11y ago
Jobs report was good so usd shot up because the case for looser monetary policy harder to make.
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by Riod 11y ago
Look up primers on us power generation, should be a section mentioning ercot and highlighting its unique features. Agree that cities could own last mile (preferable really). But, and this is a big but, they're not always well equipped
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by Riod 11y ago
If the Ruby tutorial is any indication, Michael's book will be the best when it comes out. Never gone through any Python tutorials but I've heard good things about: http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/index.
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by Riod 11y ago
Awesome! I've recommended your ruby tutorial to lots of newbies. Hands down the best out there. Looks like this is another high quality product.
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by Riod 11y ago
It's not a price war if you're reverting to a competitive market after many years of running a cartel. Unless you dislike a competitive market? The Saudis realise that setting a high price allows for artifically high shale investm
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by Riod 11y ago
Streisand effect
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by Riod 11y ago
Waging a war by not supporting artificially low quotas enacted by a cartel? That makes no sense
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by Riod 11y ago
Investors want management to be efficient capital allocators. Not surprising.
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by Riod 11y ago
$800MM is a small business and $10BN is a small industry fyi.
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by Riod 11y ago
Economics dont always work to split the three because each business needs to have sufficient competition for it to work. You can't exactly build 5+ grids running parallel to each other. The generation part is already competitive FYI. I

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