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by fbbwsa 18y ago
love that article. i wonder how much better it works for tall suave sophisticated types vs short stubby fat types. the diner's appearance is probably more important than the "tip".
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
Great interview, I enjoyed both Blink and Tipping Point. However, I bristle at this: WSJ: Do you worry that you extrapolate too much from too little? MG: No. It's better to err on the side of over-extrapolation. I definitely disagree. Overe
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
this is phenomenal. i hate this blog in general, but this was a good post, and i think it aptly describes America's consumption problem. Americans consume for fun instead of necessity. The "shopping as an outlet for women" idea has never ma
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
i think there are still plenty of fun things to find in stock market data. most quants are looking at the same problem. i play with market data a lot and you'd be amazed how uneducated the general public seems to be. also, i second ntoshev'
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
allowing smart people creative freedom seems to solve so many problems that it blows my mind its not more common. as far as i can tell, thats the thesis behind google's 20% time. i think its even cooler that Honda encourages this behavior a
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
pseudoscience is the worst kind of "science". its amazing how graphs and pretty rhetoric trick uneducated readers. see: current HN post #1 -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=366857
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
i like french fries.
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
definitely source specific. innovative algorithms stay private for good reasons
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
agree. best article i've read in 2008, hands down. phenomenal prose, somehow he seems to write in a way that could make any subject compelling. This is what the author of Bringing down the house should aspire to be.
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Ask HN: vote breakdown by various categories available?
1 points by fbbwsa 18y ago|0 comments
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
"Howard currently manages a hedge fund and has done so since June of 1998. The fund has evolved into a long only fund..."\ uh oh... nothing says "disastrous returns" more than "long only fund" right now...
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
yes, i'd be interested in seeing it put on the web for use. for casual observers, this is interesting. no, i don't think it could be built into a viable online business. most people who have backtesting needs have access to the necessary da
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
provide some value. there doesn't really appear to be anything there that provides anything there that isn't already readily available in other places. Aggregating market information is good, but there is so much out there that does it alre
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
obviously they DO work then, since most indices are down 40% on the year. Hedgefunds are designed to outperform benchmark indices. Outperforming by 23% is phenomenal. By the logic of the poster, a year where the SP500 returned 50% and a fun
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Ask HN: How should I approach selling ideas?
4 points by fbbwsa 18y ago|2 comments
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by fbbwsa 18y ago
i hate to endorse that behavior, but i actually tend to agree. the pie is huge. taking small crumbs of marketshare as an individual is plenty. might not be the model for your million dollar idea, but there's a subtle, guilty fun in beating