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by jshaqaw 5y ago
One thing I notice about the people who seem to achieve the most in this world - few of them seem to have intricate PKM/organizational systems. I say this as someone as guilty of productivity app porn as anyone. I think these systems a
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We’ve long moved past the zero rate bound being a hard constraint on monetary policy. Whether they should or not is a valid question, but money can always be created and injected into the system.
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This. I’ve been investing professionally for almost 20 years. You know those internet memes with the bell curve iqs…. For much of my career I was contrarian to this view but after watching the government responses to repeated financial asse
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The great resignation is fascinating. Some people are trapped in jobs with toxic cultures because they really have obligations to meet and a lack of good alternatives. Lots of other people just think this is the case. A toxic manager with a
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I live in NYC. I love NYC. Anyone who starts a business in NYC is insane unless and until the political climate changes. Other cities seem to value and nurture the economic foundation their tax base is built on. Since Bloomberg the entire N
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This isn’t fair. By 2021 we have learned that the way to judge the merits of a scientific proposal is not testability or provability but the ability to exchange Joe Rogan anecdotes on the Lex podcast.
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Perfect, thanks
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The Basis of Wolfram Language
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KDB is trying to expand out of the finance niche into other applications no? Is that a viable path? Is KDB competitive in other sectors?
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I’m not sayin this is impossible but… if it emerged that big tech was secretly spying on every citizen the political backlash would end these companies as we know them and every CEO would end up in jail. Or there is at least a 50 percent pr
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Let's be clear about what G&T programs mean in NYC. There is a heavier workload and more intensive academic focus but not really so much in terms of constructivist learning, child autonomy etc... That why we skipped it. To be bl
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I am all for supportive programs for really smart kids. FWIW my kids go to NYC public schools. We did not go with gifted and talented because we didn't really like the structure of the program. If the city ends up providing REAL enr
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This looks fantastic. This generation needs a Robot Odyssey.
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Some of the mathematical equivalences worked out on the underlying article are quite interesting. The broader implications part is fairly hand-wavy vague but you can skip it. Part of me wonders if Smolin is trolling the string theorists wit
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What is also dangerous are zombie corporations stuffed with excess capital forced to reinvest it at subpar rates of return or go on wasteful m&a sprees because they can’t return capital to where it can be most efficiently redeployed int
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Must be nice to be a tenured professor teaching a few hours a week with plenty of time to homeschool his kids.
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by jshaqaw 6y ago
The NY DOB is a textbook case of regulatory capture by the construction and real estate industries. I
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I’m a renter. I like being a renter. If nobody owned properties to rent who would I rent from?
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As a renter in NYC I expect to pay for this for years to come as landlords have to price in periodic expropriation risk. Society absolutely had the right (and perhaps moral obligation) to prevent harms like evictions of the vulnerable in a
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Mypillow ads?
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This is an ever recurring critique of McKinsey and as a long-ago (and very jaded) McKinsey associate this isn’t quite right. The on ground teams do valuable analytical and data sourcing work but the clients are really paying for the counse
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Because it's so easy to play asset stripping games, personal guarantees are very common in the commercial real estate world.
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It is irrational behavior for these landlords to evict or pileup unrealistic future obligations. On the other side of covid it will be far better to have an existing in place restaurant or bar tenant than to try and lease space in a glut ma
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I'm not a boomer. I am a market professional for whatever that's worth. Yes with age there does often come less risk tolerance. Money is a more serious thing when one is older with responsibilities, bigger dollars involved, and
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An index fund ETF is just a basket of stocks packaged together under a single stock ticker with hopefully low fees. It's the simplest way to just buy an index but yes its value will reflect the value of the underlying stocks so there
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Maybe he should run for mayor.
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Our family takes vitamin d supplements. I’m not sure what the ultimate efficacy is but the low risk-high potential reward seems compelling. My kids think the yummy gummy versions are a treat anyway. Just be aware that like most things you c
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It’s really hard for me to get in the headspace to understand this. Maybe one way to think about it is if you were ever playing a Civ game where you were in that “just one more turn” mode. You know you have just lost 8 hours of your life
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As a non-Californian I marvel at the constant stream of articles about what a hostile Soviet environment California is for private enterprise and yet over the past few decades it has been one of the greatest centers of innovation and wealth
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I am a tv producer. Stealing is if I invest years of blood, sweat, and capital into a project with the paradigm that in a free market exchange you can pay in some form to view it or not and happily find some alternative way to enjoy your ti

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