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by csa 4y ago
> advertisers would have no idea how to target it (at least at first). It would take very little time to reap massive efficiencies in targeting, and the rest would be long-tail that would be discovered as budget allowed.
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by csa 4y ago
> I have much more respect for Gladwell. Is it safe to say that the Gladwell bar is low and the Lewis bar is lower? They are both fantastic story tellers. Sadly, these stories more of than not seem to be creatively spun fiction (to be po
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by csa 4y ago
> So FTX had an 11% leverage ratio, pretty good. A better comparison would be a stock brokerage that took your money to buy specific stocks on your behalf but then did something totally different, including “investing” in illiquid assets
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by csa 4y ago
> the Democrat party... are consistently better organized, more presentable, better funded, more advanced psychological operations, better connected, and more coherent than their Republican counterparts In the US? Are you serious? - The
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by csa 4y ago
Do you have any direct experience with the medical industry? If not, do you know anyone who has? It really seems like you are arm-chair quarterbacking your comments based on some quick online searches. I strongly encourage you to talk to fo
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by csa 4y ago
> It is a competitive business without a lot of pricing power. But what it will do is provide consistent, reliable returns. And since more people are getting more healthcare, the magnitude of the profits will obviously be higher, hence t
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by csa 4y ago
> My wife wrote five articles on the myths behind rising education costs, including administrative bloat She casually mentions Title IX and “high touch services”, and then calls those expenses a “necessary cost of doing business”. I thin
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by csa 4y ago
> The head start you get from an elite school in the US, in things that have nothing to do with education per se, can not be overstated. Yes it can be, and you just did. The people who routinely get the best jobs and keep them into their
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by csa 4y ago
> Health Insurance stocks in the US did better than tech stocks after Obamacare passed. Why? Is this a genuine question or is it rhetorical? I can’t really tell these days. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles&#
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by csa 4y ago
> Do you have recommended resources for getting into #3, specifically around funding / assisting others in building businesses? It depends on on much money you have and your personal network, with network probably being most importa
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by csa 4y ago
The options have decreased dramatically since 2008, since cheap money has pretty much caused all asset classes to have inflated prices. The best course is/was to start your own business and sell it, since the investment market has&#x2F
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by csa 4y ago
> If stocks are so over priced, can anyone show an example of a fund that's making a killing off of these mispricings? You won’t find them until the market crashes. The ones who make a killing will simply be the ones who timed the c
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by csa 4y ago
> Alternatives for dealing with overpriced stocks are abundant: shorting, options, index futures, etc. All of these either have a timing component or some sort of a penalty for holding them when the market increases, even if just tempora
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by csa 4y ago
> So unless your threat model is the three letter agencies entering and bugging your house The three letter agencies will have no problems gaining access to a house via picking a lock. Their ability to access without detection extends be
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by csa 4y ago
I knew from the title that this had to be LockPickingawyer. The guy is an absolute genius. His YT channel made me realize how mild of a deterrent most locks are. If you haven’t watched his channel yet, I recommend giving it a spin.
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by csa 4y ago
> By using the metrics you use, you are limiting your son and yourself. Those metrics come with a hard ceiling. Where the Ivies are going, there are no ceilings, there are no metrics in the first place. World class admissions means being
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by csa 4y ago
> "An Asian American in the fourth lowest decile has virtually no chance of being admitted to Harvard (0.9%) but an African American in that decile has a higher chance of admission (12.8%) than an Asian American in the top decile (1
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by csa 4y ago
> My point being that there is a natural urge to defend your profession regardless of whether you are being paid for it. I currently run a small PE firm. I don’t see any of my comments being in defense of my profession. I was a professor
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by csa 4y ago
Let me give a less Monty Burns-esque take on things (with one very valid wart): 1. A good history of the SAT and ACT can be found here: https://www.erikthered.com/tutor/sat-act-history-printable.h... 2. Here is another
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by csa 4y ago
> With all due respect, it is not possible for you to understand this since your salary depends on not understanding it. Nice meme you got there. Too bad it's inappropriately applied. For reference, my salary or income has never bee
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by csa 4y ago
They are rolling back to February 2022 levels, after having grown a lot in 2020 and 2021. If this is the only cut (big if), then I imagine that most areas outside of HR will not feel much different.
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by csa 4y ago
> Everyone believes this. Based on the replies I get here and elsewhere (I beat this drum a lot since I think many people have such in accurate perceptions), many people still think that grades and scores are the primary determining fact
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by csa 4y ago
> What can "strong extracurriculars" mean if not the things you described? In my experience, a typical parent thinks that a student with 4-year varsity sport participation (more than one doesn’t help if it’s just participation)
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by csa 4y ago
Many good points. > There is a huge difference between the Admission rates for Asians Vs African Americans. In fact the admission rate for Asians is lower than Whites! You seem to assume that the applicant pool is equally strong across r
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by csa 4y ago
> but I do know that he's being held to a much higher standard than almost anyone else because of his race No offense, but this is almost certainly a false narrative that you are telling yourself and your son. It’s not healthy. You
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by csa 4y ago
> I think the ~1300 Asian students that didn’t get into Harvard from 2010-2015 that scored above white students that were admitted really suffered as a result of Harvards policies. Grades and test scores are not the primary determination
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by csa 4y ago
> Now what exactly is the difference between what Harvard is doing and Misogyny University? Harvard admitted 27% or so Asians in this years class. They aren’t turning away any “strong admit” Asian applicants. The real decisions among the
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by csa 4y ago
> In a normal world, his chances of getting into top-ranked CS programs (Stanford, Berkeley, MIT) would be decent, but we're Indian-American and are considered over-represented on elite college campuses. Let me help put your concern
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by csa 4y ago
> He closes by positing that university intellectuals are above the whole mess That is a very disingenuous if not flat out incorrect summary of what he said. That may be one group of people who might be outside of “this mess” and in hi
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by csa 4y ago
I concur with all points, and I envy your brevity.

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