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   by bitxbit 8y ago

   Stock was up 50% from the December low. If anything, this is the spot for the longs to unload on this stock which was riding on a lot of momentum.
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   by bitxbit 8y ago

   The system is too entrenched especially after all the unchecked consolidations disguised under the ACA. Put it bluntly it’s disgusting. The drug pricing trends we are seeing is a form of regulation arbitrage. We need to overhaul the FDA and
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   by bitxbit 8y ago

   Something seemed very off about FB’s metrics in the past 2-3 quarters. It could be my own bias but I expected to see a more pronounced slowdown/contraction based on my own anecdotal evidence.
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   by bitxbit 8y ago

   SimCity was my childhood. Played thousands of hours trying to find the right formula to optimize land value and population. Then they introduced more sophisticated terraforming tools and the ability to import contour maps in SimCity 4. I sp
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   by bitxbit 8y ago

   I think it’s pretty insane that it’s taking companies this long to transition away from Oracle.
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   by bitxbit 8y ago

   Wonder what this chart would like if you plot quality of care/life. It would also be interesting to see how health spending in the US (particularly drug spend) influence health related metrics in RoW.
7. 247.▲
   by bitxbit 8y ago

   You really should not be a CEO if you’re mostly in it for the money. That’s not leadership.
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   by bitxbit 8y ago

   People can still make money because it’s still a rolodex game.
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   by bitxbit 8y ago

   I read The Mathematical Theory of Communication every few years and find something new every time.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    They’ve been ahead for awhile now, at least a decade in some areas. This is akin to the Warriors getting caught cheating every other game.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    It boggles my mind why the Chinese choose to take on nefarious endeavors when they are already ahead.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    I am shocked that some people are still influenced by online ads. I mentally blocked them and I almost always make informed buying decisions based off of evidence/data.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    Programming is quite different from studying computer science. You can be a great programmer and be very mediocre in academics.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    Here’s the rub with Chinese real estate and the economy in general. Yes, it’s true there could be demand for these “modern” homes but the govt can’t afford to increase the standard of living too rapidly (or much at all). Meaningful wage inc
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    This is odd. If you have a decent job and health insurance coverage, there’s nothing better in terms of healthcare than living in cities such as Boston. I can’t think of another city where you have access to multiple world-class hospital sy
16. 256.▲
    by bitxbit 8y ago

    Yet it was considered acceptable to spend $4-500 on an email only device called Blackberry more than a decade ago.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    Jill Lepore’s These Truths was the best history book this year. Perhaps this decade.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    I am worried about how much access was given to Palantir.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    China’s problem is that its resource was cheap labor (or bluntly put modern day slavery).
20. 260.▲
    by bitxbit 8y ago

    Teach your kids how to write. Short and long essays.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    Three buckets: (1) people who figured out how to do it right, (2) people who’s yet to figure out how to do it right but can spot the things done right, and (3) everyone else.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    I would counter this by saying China has been and will always be an inward looking country. This alone limits its ability to be a global leader.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    This is a bubble price. Qualtrics is a nice service to roll out surveys but $8B is a lot of money for something so niche.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    I am pretty sure they decide to split into two and effectively double the benefits (tax) they will receive.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    That’s only true from a cash flow perspective. Buying a house is effectively a form of savings. When you rent it’s a recurring expense.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    How about all the mistakes companies make due to “sales” people? How many times have sales-oriented execs driven companies into the ground in the past 40+ years in tech? They nearly killed Apple. I am not harping on the article. It’s a good
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    Boggles my mind why youtube will NOT let users(parents) whitelist channels. You almost always end up with the same set of “black hole” videos.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    I agree and this is more or less how I have viewed them over the past few years. I would even go one step further and say they’ve almost tried to minimize human touch points from their products and overfocused on creating self-sufficient pr
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    Most quantitative economists do not use Python. They use Stata, SAS, EViews, etc. For methods not yet implemented, the go to application is Matlab (matrix). Python has been gaining traction in the past five years however.
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    by bitxbit 8y ago

    This article frightens me considering that you can almost always identify the endusers for a lot of the personal devices shipping directly from China.