daveshistory

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by daveshistory 5mo ago
The first time I read about this stuff I thought they were playing the Battleship game from when I was a kid, and didn't understand the importance. So I guess I must be one of the humans who has lost the game.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
You will feel more judged when you score 67% like me. Edited to add: we must have followed different links though, mine only had three questions obviously.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
I didn't consciously focus on speed. I just completely overestimated my ability to skim. Interesting. I think I actually would have done better when I was younger and used to doing these things in school. I obviously don't read as
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
I feel like in high school I would have scored better on this. I was overconfident. I skimmed it quickly, like anything I would have done at work, and figured I'd sort of internalize the main points. Like I think I do at work. Oops.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
I'm curious what these tests are measuring if you say your reading comprehension is only 50%. Your comment here is completely articulate and sensible so you are obviously fluent in English. Edited to add: hm. I just got 67%. I guess my
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
Yeah, but that's always been true. The other poster seemed to suggest something had changed more recently.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
I haven't been to Europe since before 2020. I assume we're not nearly as welcome over there now?
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
As hard as the original story was to believe, I have to say it's also disappointing that it can't really be true.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
It would be a hard model to pick up and move over and just drop into place. The trades that have union halls for carpenters, electricians, etc., aren't normally working in anything as unstable or dynamic as tech startups. If I try and
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
Only on their 30-minute breaks, perhaps.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
Absolutely. Your personal time is that time which, in retrospect, the company didn't need you for. It's strictly a backward-looking definition.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
I don't know what to tell you guys because I am not a fund manager. If any of you are, then I'll go with what you're saying. But I do know how large organizations work first hand, and I'm sure lots of us do on here. Who
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
I agree with that but I think we are on the losing side. This approach probably works for more people than it doesn't work. Also: "Clicking through now feels like expressing distrust in the tool, rather than just doing your homewo
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
Presumably these companies all have insurance policies and just weighed the cost-benefit of fighting it out for years in court. I guess I'm getting old but "gender reveal smoke bombs," this is really a thing?
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
Whew, good thing I read this story before re-mortgaging my house. This ought to be a wholly unsurprising analysis. I would say it feels like 2007-2008 again except that nobody feels particularly complacent nowadays.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
When I was a kid, just after that in the 80s, there was a book series where the two main characters were friends who had coded their own custom word-processor on a home computer and used it to talk to ghosts. Also Wargames came out in 84 ab
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
Especially if "someone" knew it was coming, yeah.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
I was looking at it from a more institutionalized perspective I guess. At least in my field, I know how this works because I see it play out. People are conservative and sometimes would rather be wrong with the herd as long as it means they
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
I guess that's true but put yourself in the position of a major fund manager. Would you rather explain "We lost 3% this year because of a dumb IPO because we track an index that includes dumb IPOs," or would you rather say, &
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
No joke the actor who played Cigarette Smoking Man (William Davis) has said that he got all kinds of mail from people who had "proof" of aliens and for some reason thought he'd be the right one to share it with.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
The lesson would be that you spend a great deal of money upfront, go through a tremendous amount of stress, end up with a judgment against someone who doesn't have the money to pay it anyways?
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
Of course it's sarcasm, but if it WAS true, it would be because the government was working in cahoots with all those defense contractors all along, until the Trump administration came along and decided to privatize it, at which point S
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
It's just the plot to the X-Files, upgraded to the social media age.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
Exactly all this. The whole idea of passing investing is "hardly any of us know better than the market as a whole." If you don't agree with that, then you don't agree with passive investing. Which, whatever. Live your li
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
I think the point is that they don't have the influence to intentionally deviate from the index because they think they know better. If your mandate is to be passive, then you need an index to follow. If you are that sure the S&P 5
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
Pension funds that are actively tweaking the mix of stocks they hold likely might decide to play it safe. On the other hand, do you want to be the one who says, "As a rule we follow the index, but this time we decided to break our own
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
Trump's "directional calls" are not what is adding value to the stock; the unprecedented opportunities to benefit from favorable government policy are.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
Shouldn't have made it a game if they didn't want people to make use of the new rules.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
I can think of few better examples of why a new "service" is not actually servicing, than that management has to gamify its adoption.
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by daveshistory 5mo ago
"The 83-page suit alleges that OpenAI allowed ChatGPT to... degrade users’ critical thinking skills..." Well, I do not know if that is illegal, but I certainly know that it is true!

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