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by gmunu 9y ago
It's a metaphor he also puts to good use in his later book, the Righteous Mind. It's useful to seeing through your own righteousness and recognizing patterns in others. I enjoyed that one too, but it didn't have the same life
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by gmunu 9y ago
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt. You hear 'ancient wisdom' on how to lead the good life all the time. These ancient aphorisms came from a time before the scientific method and the idea of testing your hypotheses. Tradit
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by gmunu 10y ago
Not surprisingly, the qz.com article distorts the meaning of the original paper and looking at the comments, they seem to follow the false, but suggested interpretation of the paper that qz gives. It's useful to note the title of the p
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by gmunu 10y ago
Actually, I think the studies generally show that active mutual funds do beat the market, but before fees. Their alpha, while real, is tiny and more than eaten by their fees. Yet remember that active mutual funds manager fees are close to 1
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by gmunu 10y ago
Matt Levine gives a great rundown of this https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-09/wells-far... ; you're exactly right, this wasn't Wells Fargo cheating customers. It was Wells Fargo putti
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by gmunu 10y ago
I've been to Spain once, went to Barcelona, and was robbed. I'd still go back to Spain and Barcelona though!
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by gmunu 10y ago
I never had the desire to read le Carré, even after seeing that movie that came out. But after reading this, I surely do.
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by gmunu 10y ago
No, no penalty needed. We shouldn't worry whether individuals are scientific or not, we should worry about whether our institutions are scientific. Just like in politics, people are people. If your solution to political problems is for
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by gmunu 10y ago
They aren't absolutely infertile, but in hunter gather societies this is handled by infanticide. When it isn't possible for a mother to support two children under the age of four, the only solution was to kill one, which is what t
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Staying Classy(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by gmunu 11y ago|0 comments
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by gmunu 11y ago
I've often thought the same thing. If I'm ever in an old cemetery, I walk through the graves and whisper names that are still legible to give the forgotten people one more time when someone said their names.
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by gmunu 12y ago
It doesn't look like the article is not about HFT in particular or even trading professionals in general. It's about academic articles, where the incentive is to publish a paper, not to make money. I recall (but cannot find) a pap
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by gmunu 12y ago
It is certainly not the case that cost == price, I agree. Price is determined by supply and demand. But if you change the cost of mortgages, you probably change their supply curve and hence the market clearing price. To argue that raising t
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by gmunu 12y ago
This is a very interesting comment and I used to think similarly, but Matt Levine over at Bloomberg convinced me over several articles (couldn't find exactly which ones on a casual searching) that it's a little more subtle than th
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by gmunu 12y ago
Does it matter that Andrew Sullivan was one of the early and very vocal champions of gay marriage? Or that he is quite openly gay and married himself? If you haven't heard of him, you might not have known that and it may change the way
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Yemen: The Most Dangerous Place You Have Never Heard Of(resilience.org)
2 points by gmunu 13y ago|0 comments
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Cesária Évora (2012)(economist.com)
2 points by gmunu 13y ago|0 comments
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by gmunu 13y ago
Here's the final report by the Gates Foundation on evaluating teachers that is mentioned in the article: http://metproject.org/downloads/MET_Ensuring_Fair_and_Reliab... . It's interesting that they have a whol
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N-sphere(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gmunu 13y ago|0 comments