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What Packt pays its course authors revealed(web.archive.org)
1 points by cepth 8y ago|2 comments
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Sears Exit Would Leave Big Holes in Malls. Some Landlords Welcome That(wsj.com)
4 points by cepth 8y ago|1 comments
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by cepth 8y ago
If you reference the article in that comment thread above: "Large technology companies and industrial conglomerates such as General Electric also take a decentralized approach. But retailers tend to favor an integrated model. That way,
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by cepth 8y ago
Kindly refer to the comment thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18086998 . No other major retailer creates completely siloed divisions, each with its own C-suite of executives. No other major retailer throws co
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by cepth 8y ago
I think we'll just have to agree to disagree on who Sears's peer companies are. I meant to compare Sears to other large department stores, though Best Buy is obviously more a peer to Sears's appliance/hard goods departme
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by cepth 8y ago
I agree that we should approach questions like this with some kind of epistemic modesty. At the same time, if you look at Sears's peers, most of them are still alive and kicking, if not thriving. E.g. Target, Wal-Mart, Macy's, Koh
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by cepth 8y ago
The Businessweek article seems to be paywalled, but it's available via Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20160313065855/https://www.bloom... . Some highlights: > "To boost “visibil
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by cepth 8y ago
Eddie Lampert's mismanagement of Sears is the reducto ad absurdum of financial "wizards" attempting to succeed as business operators. I will never forget reading this article (from 2011): https://www.wsj.com&#x2F
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by cepth 8y ago
If you want to see what pterhx was referring to in action, National Geographic did a documentary featuring Susan Polgar a few years back. The relevant clip and timestamp are here: https://youtu.be/LdKHrxcpxrY?t=238 . The dif
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Nothing is impossible, so sure it's not impossible I'm wrong, and Aramco goes public soon. Given that they've already signaled that it won't happen this year, you do wonder why 2 years on there's no meaningful progr
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There are a bunch of reasons, but the basic background is this. -Vision 2030, which first mentioned the IPO, was announced back in 2016 -Oil prices sit around $66/barrel today. This represents a recovery from the low-point of ~$40&#x2F
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by cepth 8y ago
Saudi Arabia has the whole Vision 2030 plan in motion. The general thrust is they want to diversify the country away from being a petrostate. The headline numbers for state investment in renewables are nothing to scoff at: https:/&#x2
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by cepth 8y ago
One caveat, the AI in those matches, Libratus, played heads-up Texas Hold 'Em, i.e. 1 vs 1 play. It's yet to be demonstrated that any program can defeat humans in 6 handed or full-ring play, probably due in no small part to the va
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by cepth 8y ago
You're correct that "career earnings" is a misleading statistic, but it's one that's popularly used in poker. Daniel Negreanu, currently #2 on the all-time money list, actually had a net negative year in 2017 despit
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by cepth 8y ago
In related news, RAND just finished its study of the Gates Foundation's "Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative". RAND found that "With minor exceptions, by 2014–2015, student achievement, access to eff
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by cepth 8y ago
I can try fleshing out my line of thinking a little more. Amazon, Walmart, et al. have put several industries out of business. The effect of the big box stores and ecommerce sites on traditional retail is visible anywhere malls are failing.
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by cepth 8y ago
I think there's a pretty simple microeconomics framework through which someone could make an argument about how one huge player depresses wages. Just think of Amazon as a monopsony, a single buyer of a good, for labor. The Roosevelt In
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by cepth 8y ago
I would say that the monopoly fear is a pretty significant one? Walmart and Amazon are the largest US retailers in the physical and online retail spaces, respectively. Yes, they have helped reduce prices on goods for the average American co
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by cepth 8y ago
In the US at least, MAP (minimum advertised price) policies are not an illegal practice, and speaking from my personal experience, the big box chains will give you no trouble if you ask for a MAP price. Apple does it ( https://www
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by cepth 8y ago
Just to add to this, you also want to prevent one customer from becoming too large a slice of your sales. If we use the Amazon and Best Buy example, if I'm selling to both Amazon and Best Buy, and Amazon cuts its sale price to the end
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by cepth 8y ago
Respectfully, I'm a little confused here. Your previous comment said: > If company A improves their margins and can sell for a lower price, then company B has to either improve their margins, differentiate somehow or stop selling th
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I think it's an interesting question whether an OEM has a vested interest in a price dumping case. If you are a multi-channel retailer, like ASUS is, where you're selling through physical and online channels, if a large retailer l
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by cepth 8y ago
I agree that if companies A and B both AGREED to sell at X price, that is collusion, and leads to the formation of an oligopoly. That kind of cartel behavior should be stamped out. However, unless I'm missing it in the article, I don&#
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by cepth 8y ago
Right. Selling below marginal cost can trigger these laws. But how do these two concepts interact? If someone is price dumping, and I cut off supply to them, are we both in violation of the law?
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Question for any lawyers/legal observers out there: What exactly did these companies do wrong? From the article, 'If those retailers did not follow the prices requested by manufacturers, they faced threats or sanctions such as blo
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Keep in mind that John Carreyou’s sources for the Theranos articles faced actual 24/7 surveillance, and received legally threatening letters from one of the country’s top law firms (Boies Schiller). This is not to say that Musk would d
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If you chose a p-value threshold of 0.8, and your tested result came in around there, that would suggest that your null hypothesis had a ~80% chance of being true. So in any case, you do not have a strong conclusion. I agree that over relia
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Again, academia/research is not my profession. But, some cool efforts in this area include osf.io, which is trying to be the Arxiv or Github of preregistration for scientific studies. The best preregistration plans will typically inclu
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Sorry if the second question was unclear. My point was that for simulation based research, it doesn’t seem that pre-announcing your sample size would do much for preventing p-hacking. E.g. if I say “I will do 10000 runs of my simulation”, w
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> clever experimental design and cherry picking can generate many results that are statistically significant at that level. I’m not sure what’s incorrect about this statement? If you disagree with the “fix” to the problem that is most fa

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