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by amsilprotag 8y ago
Guess the age of the author at the time of writing and then click [0]. If you're like me, you were pretty sure he was over 40, likely over 50. The reason why this is statistically likely is because cool died about 15 years ago and ev
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
AmEx was one of Warren Buffet's earlier investments, and a proof-of-concept of investing in companies with defensible moats. This ruling comes 55 years after his initial investment, and the moat feels as deep as ever. Later businesses
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
If podcasts are more your speed, I'd recommend Bloomberg's Odd Lots with Dan Wang, which talks about China's 2025 plan. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-21/this-is-c...
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by amsilprotag 8y ago
There's a great breakdown here [0]. The first chart shows age 15-44 deaths going up ~10% from 2010 to 2016. The third chart shows drug overdose deaths going up 50%(15-24), 80% (25-34), and 60% (35-44) from 2012 to 2016. [0] http:&#x
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
The cited fragment does suggest that interpretation, that the de facto goodness should be scrutinized. But the entire memo frames terrorism and bullying as unfortunate side-effects which must be tolerated for the sake of ever greater conne
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
I remember watching a Stern interview, Billy West Vs John Kricfalusi 1995 [0]. Kricfalusi came across as petty and self-absorbed, essentially calling West a scab for acceding to management by voice acting multiple characters in later seaso
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
If you're interested in Blizzard history, there's a 4-hour interview with Rob Pardo hosted by Civ 4 lead and Offworld Trading Company creator Soren Johnson. Pardo also recounts the beginnings of Diablo in part one around ~1:27:00
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
(Pinker lists the following medical researchers and public health crusaders as having saved more than 100 million lives each: Karl Landsteiner, Abel Wolman, Linn Enslow, William Foege, Maurice Hilleman, John Enders. How many of them had y
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
This reminded me of the $560MM "AI Fund" South Korea touted after the AlphaGo-Sedol Go competition [0]. Looking for news now, it seems like they teamed up with Singapore and are taking a less centralized approach. From [1]: Gwa
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
What a coincidence. I just started reading and bookmarked the archive.io of Impro yesterday after seeing used copies on Amazon starting at $25. I'm assuming it's out of print? https://archive.org/stream/pdfy
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
There is a popular anecdote along these lines that comes from the 1950's US Air force. https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-... The scientists also expected that a sizab
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
If we assume investors are omniscient, there is somewhere between a 3% and 11% chance Amazon Health will commoditize the market. Weigh those numbers a bit upward if you think Amazon can't do it instantaneously. CVS dropped by just ov
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
I don't remember that 99pi. Was it Reply All? https://gimletmedia.com/episode/112-the-prophet/ After Andrea is attacked by a stranger in Mexico City, she just wants to figure out who the guy was. Investigat
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
How much of the genre's success can we attribute to an inclusive culture? I would guess it may have helped level out the income curve - a $10,000 median annual income is higher than I would have guessed for a saturated, hit-based ind
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
I'd love to see the results of the following survey given to a representative sample of cryptocurrency investors. 1) If you want to invest in cryptocurrencies, you should understand them. (true/false) 2) Most cryptocurrency invest
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
A more quantitative, in-depth article on the topic was published by Bloomberg in early November. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-retail-debt/
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
In its filing, Waymo said it was inadvertently copied on an email from one of its suppliers with drawings of Uber’s circuit board design for its lidar technology, short for light detection and ranging, ” that are laser-based sensors used i
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
What a coincidence it would be if people's optimal speaking speed, both reading out loud and conversational, was equal to their optimal audio comprehension speed. There could be some evolutionary justification for this to be true, but
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
This is a recurring theme in Matt Levine's Money Stuff. One thing that I occasionally mention around here is that every bad thing a public company does is also securities fraud: If you did the bad thing and didn't first disclose
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
For those unfamiliar, or who want to explore the idea that Kapoor simply didn't bribe conspicuously enough, see [0]. And although it is true that so-called "deaths of despair" are all increasing[1], the trend-lines for opiat
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
I think his definitive piece on the subject is E unibus pluram: television and U.S. fiction (1993) [0], definitely worth a read if you have the time. Wallace's "six hours a day" refrain is an interesting contrast to our no
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
I've also enjoyed reading Chris Appy's post-show notes after viewing. Christian G. Appy is a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts. He is the author of American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identi
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
The marketing choices are interesting. I don't think we'll see that line in their B2B copy. The names Covetly and PreDxion feel like a tonal mismatch for their more rulebound audiences. The cartoonish visuals of Construct Simpl
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
The timing of this video is a lesson in humility. It's posted one month before a positive earnings report showing high growth in active buyers that gives the stock an ongoing 1.3x price increase. As far as I have viewed, Shkreli seem
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
The first graph linked below shows "hotness" as a function of time with upvotes held constant. The equations are above the linked section. Compounding this effect, there is a feedback loop where hotter elements are more likely t
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
I think people are trying to say abrogate. I've seen this usage a few times lately.
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
From [0]: > Musk is without doubt a dazzling salesman. Who better than a guardian of human welfare to sell you your new, self-driving Tesla? Andrew Ng—the chief scientist at Baidu, known as China’s Google—based in Sunnyvale, California,
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
Is this true? Wasn't Microsoft brought down for harming incipient businesses by bundling competing software into the OS? Wasn't standard oil fragmented in part for receiving anti-competitive freight fares? Couldn't it be ar
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
This slide show is a follow-up to [0]. I'd argue the context is more interesting than the content. The original article is a kind of counterweight to survivorship bias. What happens when an artist in his early twenties gets some gli
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by amsilprotag 9y ago
I was reminded of that talk when I saw the comic, and surprised to see the comments debating the influence of luck and effort in life outcomes. Both media are making the same joke, but I don't think anyone would feel a need to defend e

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