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by exelius 9y ago
By all accounts I've heard from friends working at Google X, Sergey Brin is the textbook definition of a "brilliant jerk". This probably has something to do with it.
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by exelius 9y ago
I think the key here is that the valuations would change and likely be far more realistic. We certainly haven't seen the whole story on cryptocurrencies to know what regulation needs to apply, so I'll withhold any speculation ther
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by exelius 9y ago
> No one would want options anymore, which would make it impossible for startups to compete with large, cash-rich incumbents. You're right; nobody would want options. So we have to start paying people in actual shares if we want to
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by exelius 9y ago
Good question! That’s why we need research. We don’t know if they have a common cause or just a common mechanism of action. They very well could be the same disease; Lyme Disease is not well understood and has been implicated in all sorts o
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by exelius 9y ago
Honestly I just think it means that this stuff really isn't all that difficult. I mean, sure, the first person that figured it out and posted a "how to" blog article is usually pretty smart (or at least a domain expert) but i
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by exelius 9y ago
They just pick their spaces well; there are plenty of ways to find a niche where you are the smartest guy in your space. But there are a lot of traders / fund managers who lose their asses; most people don't last very long in a pr
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by exelius 9y ago
Well, the guys making that kind of money (David Tepper comes to mind) are managing their own money with the fund / family of funds as well. I'm sure it's almost all capital gains.
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by exelius 9y ago
Haha, you're right. There are fund managers who make that much though :) I meant 8 figures for quants; need more coffee...
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by exelius 9y ago
Reliability is a big question here. I don't want to deal with replacing failures, and the risk of fire can be high (a lot of these chinese electronics don't use adequate gague wires or have legible datasheets to even be able to pl
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by exelius 9y ago
Hedge funds operate across a whole bunch of arbitrage options -- not all of which are available to Quantopian. At most hedge funds, "alpha" boils down to information asymmetry (aka "how well-connected is my fund manager?&quot
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by exelius 9y ago
Given commercial investment rates, only 25% of the US is winning. You have to play to win.
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by exelius 9y ago
The problem with home automation is that it is so expensive just from a hardware standpoint (you’re talking $50 light switches instead of $2 light switches) that most folks willing to pay for it are already served by existing home automatio
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by exelius 9y ago
This is exactly why I went with SimpleControl and an IR blaster. I saw the writing on the wall with the Harmony platform, and it really is a product that a small team can maintain. SimpleControl is far from the only app in this space, but t
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by exelius 9y ago
Around here, he was likely downvoted by all the Stanford grads who thought he was being sarcastic. Or by the dropout hackers who make just as much as their peers without having gone to college. Who knows :)
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by exelius 9y ago
If it's like any other large suburb, the people who run Anaheim are only there short term as a springboard to bigger offices. If you want to move up in politics, Disney is a great friend with deep pockets. So they probably did the bare
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by exelius 9y ago
I'm speaking of a near-zero corporate tax rate more from a game theory perspective -- if you look at the game from the perspective of a central government, and your competitors are both the corporations and the other countries. In this
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by exelius 9y ago
As I look at schemes to prevent this, it's pretty obvious that a low gross tax rate on exported goods is a net positive for a nation. But that leaves the question of how/whether to tax companies with comparatively few exports (thi
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by exelius 9y ago
I wonder if it's just Bezos stirring the pot with the hopes of a favorable outcome for Blue Origin...
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by exelius 9y ago
I'm not saying I agree with them, but a common theme I hear from the alt-right is "no gods no masters" (Game of Thrones reference, ding on the pop-culture). Now, nevermind that these guys are setting up as many gatekeeping fu
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by exelius 9y ago
I think interest in football is waning because the sport is a lot less fun to watch now that we know those bone-crushing hits actually leave guys debilitated for life. And not just in the long-term; Aaron Hernandez should be a wake-up call
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by exelius 9y ago
Let's say you take the NFL's revenue and it drops by 90% (as I think it will relatively quickly once "TV" ad rates start to come in line with online video -- oh yes, all these issues are related). So the salary range wou
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by exelius 9y ago
The US is, if anything, moving further to the right. The rest of the world is moving to the left. China's decision to abandon absolute equality and move to a less equal system is pragmatic and based on the idea that a rising tide lifts
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by exelius 9y ago
I mean, it may be an attack on their linguistic plurality but the flip side of that plurality is that English is the de-facto national language rather than a language native to India. Not saying either viewpoint is more correct than the oth
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by exelius 9y ago
There was another article I read recently that made that connection; but that article did reference George Lakoff.
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by exelius 9y ago
I forget the article I read this in, but basically here in the US there is a large percentage of the population with a "strict father" worldview (i.e. its up to each individual to save themselves so nobody gets a handout), while i
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by exelius 9y ago
You're making an assumption that he didn't feel like China would be a better option for him personally. If he fundamentally disagreed with the direction the US is headed, I wouldn't call it irresponsible at all. All things co
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by exelius 9y ago
Americans tend to have difficulty believing that others can possibly have different values. Part of the core of American beliefs is that Democracy is the natural state for all nations; and I'm not sure that's entirely true. It fee
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by exelius 9y ago
Chinese culture values harmony and stability over individualism and total freedom. The actions of the individual glorify the group; and they view "dictators" as more of a "father-like figurehead". They look at the US and
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by exelius 9y ago
Most middle managers at large companies are totally clueless. Consulting companies are built to take advantage of them and drain their budgets.
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by exelius 9y ago
Much of the interesting work is done by Chinese nationals, many of whom feel the startup field in the US is slanted towards white people, so they go back to China and take their knowledge with them. US research institutes are top-notch, but

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