jackcosgrove

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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
> Probably led me to be a bit too conservative with such things Those who graduate into recessions have crimped lifetime earnings compared to those who graduate into expansions. I wonder to what extent it's lost income, and to what
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Investing in a market index today is even easier. Instead of doing historical research on thousands of stocks, you just compare the expense ratios of a handful of index funds and pick the lowest one.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I'm not sure if there is any literature to this effect, but an institutional arrangement that has known flaws is one in which peers nominate future peers for membership. Academia is an example of this arrangement. When evaluating wheth
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Novelty is a byproduct of immaturity. To take another field that matured recently, mechanical and in particular aerospace. You can see a lot of crazy airplane designs from the 1920s through the 1940s. There was a lot of novelty back then an
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I'm still waiting for the clothes-folding robot.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
> Irish and Armenian genocides were given special focus, probably mostly due to the demographics of the area I grew up in. There's just so much history to cover, and to be charitable to those who exclude events deemed important it c
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
It is mind-boggling to me that one of the most important numbers in life - the 2% inflation rate target - is not taught to everyone. It's the financial equivalent of not teaching what temperature water freezes at.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I have thought about this too. * Remote workers aren't actually a worldwide labor force because of time zones, so the competition on the labor side is less than in theory. * Remote work diminished the difference in liquidity between la
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Why are bats so often a vector? Is it because they are airborne mammals? Meaning they can cover a lot of ground and come in contact with a lot of other vectors, and also have biology more similar to humans than, say, birds? I am aware that
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Field hockey, water polo. If you include club sports there's more like fencing and squash. And yes I think rowing too.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I don't dislike talking to others. It's just hard for me to say what I want to say at the speed of normal conversation. I write more slowly and carefully, can edit what I've drafted, and check facts too, all before I hit the
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
> Would that advantage manifest as playing into the system - looking for opportunities for signaling? Or discounting - finding good education with less signaling value. Good question! I think that can play out both ways, ultimately based
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I just searched for "best predictor of career success" and found a bunch of conflicting results. Open networks, conscientiousness, grit, intelligence, class, etc. This is actually reassuring, since if there were a known path to su
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I disagree. More people have a desire to advance our understanding than have the ability to advance our understanding.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Pay is determined by the supply and demand for labor, which encompass many factors beyond the difficulty of the work. Being a game developer is harder than being an enterprise web services developer. Who gets paid more, especially per hour?
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
It's just portfolio theory applied to entrepreneurship.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
This looks like it's a bit more flexible than my accelerator idea, while in the spirit of it. Thanks!
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Diversified ycombinator :+1:
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
"Failing for generating a return" makes it sound like a skill issue, when it was probably mostly bad luck with the business model you tried out. Negative results can be as valuable as positive results in science, why not in busine
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
There is currently a risk asymmetry in startup world that drives away people who could do good work. Investors know the long odds of success, so they invest in twenty to thirty companies and wait for one to get big. Founders and employees c
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Just to be clear the "too much coverage" argument is about physical facilities and equipment, not personnel. I think everyone is in agreement that there is a shortage of medical staff. As far as convenience vs efficiency, the argu
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I have heard conflicting accounts of inefficiencies in the US healthcare system. One account is that the US has too many medical facilities in urban areas. In other words, there might be five hospitals each with its own radiology equipment.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I wonder why STRs are so popular with lessors. All I have heard is that the unit economics are tough and the market is saturated in many places. I also expect a history as an STR to reduce resale value as it's sort of like buying a use
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I'm curious if anyone has run the numbers and looked at what the interest payments of this bond over the past 400 years would have amounted to had they been invested in some theoretical basket of typical assets that were available at t
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
If an AGI can outclass a human when it comes to economic forecasting, deciding where to invest, and managing a labor force (human or machine), I think it would be smart enough to employ a human front to act as an interface to the legal syst
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Capital vs labor is fighting the last war. AGI can replace capitalists just as much as laborers.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
Whatever the next version of information retrieval at internet scale is, I don't think it will involve indexing the web. I think the web's moment has passed. Maybe the future is something like publishers supplying datasets to trai
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
I think it's a misquote of the phrase "Form ever follows function", commonly attributed to architect Louis Sullivan. It's an odd sentence structure, where the leader comes second in the phrasing, that trips people up.
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by jackcosgrove 2y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_ext... > Though the current rate of greenhouse gas emissions is more than an order of magnitude greater than the rate measured over the course of the PTME, th

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