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by gmarx 9y ago
He owns two houses which he has merged into a compound like situation. I rent next door in a tiny house that was likely created as grad student housing. Most places rich people live also have more modest homes intermixed
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by gmarx 9y ago
He Stanford. I MIT
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by gmarx 9y ago
On the other hand I pretty well fit the implied description of someone who would go on to be very successful and yet I did not. I'm doing okay. I took my shots and they didn't work out. My class valedictorian, in a bizarre coincid
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by gmarx 9y ago
This isn't much the case anymore from my experience. A generation ago I recall it being general knowledge that if a loved one had to go into the nursing home you would bankrupt and have medicaid pay. A relative tried that this recently
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by gmarx 9y ago
Most boys think of themselves as attractive and this is stable? Is this statement true for most of you? I was a fat kid (and fat young adult) and always thought I was unattractive. Even though it may not have affected me as much as it would
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by gmarx 9y ago
Ok stranger on the internet :). How about this. You pick 20 hedge funds. If over the next 20 years they return more to investors after fees and such than the Vanguard S&P 500 Admiral fund you win, otherwise I do? I'd even let you c
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by gmarx 9y ago
As with many high performers he did it by fantastic returns at some point. I just looked up his returns in a business insider article and a quick calculation indicates that although someone who invested year one got rich, his returns over t
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by gmarx 9y ago
I understand you have declared we are at an impasse so I will just take the "last word". Your second paragraph is mere assertion. I assert the opposite. The existence of extreme outliers is exactly what we see in statistical distr
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by gmarx 9y ago
same could be said of venture capital
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by gmarx 9y ago
The coin flip being tired or a trope is irrelevant. The million and 20 may not even be correct (haven't checked). the point is that people see patterns even where they don't exist. That's why science has methods for telling w
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by gmarx 9y ago
This strikes me as typical gambler mentality. I'd definitely bet against you. I saw your post above about skill and I agree there are people who have better skills at this. The problem is they are operating against a chaotic system. Th
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by gmarx 9y ago
We learned early on that one of the difficulties in eliminating HIV is that it hides in the nervous system and can reemerge at any time. This article show promise in that it can reduce HIV viral load during active shedding. I think it is le
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by gmarx 9y ago
I disagree. There is a housing bubble and it will pop is a thing you could have been right about or wrong about and many people were. When is it going to pop? You could predict this within plus or minus five years and I'd say you were
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by gmarx 9y ago
Maybe but it was also towards the end of an age when people generally considered it to be in poor taste to talk about money.
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by gmarx 9y ago
Ha!
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by gmarx 9y ago
When Fortune (or was it Forbes) introduced the list of 500 richest Americans (early 1970s?) many people on the list were angry and threatened to sue. Now it's honor, a form a celebrity
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by gmarx 9y ago
Uber is heading for the rocks? What did I miss?
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by gmarx 10y ago
These things don't matter and the airlines know it. People will continue to fly. I guarantee that a year from now if United is the most convenient flight to a place that guy needs to go, he will fly United. We simply aren't in the
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by gmarx 10y ago
The first three aren't parallel in my mind. Those people aren't saying 9/11, Pearl Harbor and JFK assassination didn't occur. they just have different, mostly unfalsifiable theories about why they occurred.
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by gmarx 10y ago
genius. I think it really adds something that we make this case strongly. Like it would make normal sane people question whether maybe Godzilla did exist for realsioes!
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by gmarx 10y ago
I'd be interested in that if it were just a critical mind examining how cognitive bias might have affected numbers and perceptions. The fact that most of them are only that way about the holocaust argues otherwise. Still I have to wond
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by gmarx 10y ago
I am fascinated by holocaust denial and the people who think the moon landing was faked. Does anyone believe both? Do the people who believe those have any other historic events that they think were made up? Most importantly (too me) would
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by gmarx 10y ago
plus all the guests that will be coming through (who have even less incentive to respect standards of quiet and order).
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by gmarx 10y ago
exactly. I've been in that situation. It sucks
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by gmarx 10y ago
You should complain to my medical school
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by gmarx 10y ago
3-5 to start ;)
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by gmarx 10y ago
So they are building too much luxury housing which normally would cause prices to go down but fortunately a startup is making it easier to pack people in like college students or illegal migrants? Wonderbar. If I rented a "luxury"
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by gmarx 10y ago
why do they keep saying "factory fresh"? Is the CIA at the factory doing the install on every phone that comes off the line? If they install it later on a per target basis then what does "factory fresh" mean? After a few
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by gmarx 10y ago
that's the joke. Well that and "works in test animals" clearly means nothing for humans
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by gmarx 10y ago
Oh to be a test animal. They need not fear cancer or AIDS or even aging...

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