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by lionhearted 12y ago
A couple problems with that -- 1. Studies that say "XX% of active managers don't beat an index" include every tiny poorly managed fund. The best attractive lots of capital; Bridgewater has $169 billion under management and ha
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by lionhearted 12y ago
Surprisingly good article. I wonder if index funds ever get widespread enough adoption that they start to drive prices of the major indexes up and underperform... maybe it sounds crazy right now since institutional investors don't real
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by lionhearted 12y ago
This article isn't very good. I actually agree with the idea. The quote about shareholder value being a dumb idea from Jack Welch, yeah, sure. This article is sloppy though. The author side-by-side compares economists speaking in abstr
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by lionhearted 12y ago
Close Air Support -- CAS -- is one of those interesting things that you rarely read or think about when you think of air power, but is absolutely critical to mission success in anything that looks like conventional warfare. Someone already
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by lionhearted 12y ago
> And this is when you begin looking into Zen, and things become clearer and muddier at the same time [...] I hope you take this the right way, but this position is very California-ized pseudo-Zen. Many of the most well-regarded Zen prac
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Ask HN: What are the best (book) libraries in the world?
2 points by lionhearted 12y ago|0 comments
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by lionhearted 12y ago
Tangent: UAE is actually effectively 0% corporate tax rate for most industries. From the notes on that KPMG link -- > Although in theory these emirate-level decrees impose tax on the income of all corporate entities, in practice tax is c
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How To Live In A Simulation(jetpress.org)
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by lionhearted 13y ago
A potentially interesting thread of discussion -- Who has ideas on how to handle customer service and public perception in an industry where the downside of a single bad event is the mix of horrific, intimate, and very newsworthy? Even if t
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by lionhearted 13y ago
Luttwak's writing is often brilliant. Check out as many of his essays and summaries as you can. "Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire" drags and is difficult at times, but quite insightful. One important point, re: this art
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by lionhearted 13y ago
I found the article saying "behind Mongolia" to be a bit misleading, because it's apples and oranges. I've spent a fair amount of time in Ulaanbaatar and know Mongolian history reasonably well -- it's unique in that
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by lionhearted 13y ago
Not sure if you're still reading this thread bane, but a couple thoughts that might be useful -- 1. The "I" ratio on your comment -- how much you're talking about yourself, your needs, your wants, your opinion, and your
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Flashes of Nondecisionmaking(sebastianmarshall.com)
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by lionhearted 13y ago
When I first left America, I disliked and felt disillusioned with the country. I've now spent more of my adult life outside the States than in the U.S., and I've also come to the opinion that the U.S. is one of the most amazing pl
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Why The Winning Plans For the WTC Rebuild Were Then Vetoed(thegateworldwide.com)
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by lionhearted 13y ago
Ever since I heard about this, it became an exciting idea to me. 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day is just a mess for doing math and analyzing how long things take and what of our life they make up. Eliminate
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Skype's Brand Bible (download.skype.com)
2 points by lionhearted 13y ago|0 comments
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The Single Most Unfair Advantage A Person Can Get(ivanmazour.com)
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Build the tide to rise all ships(medium.com)
2 points by lionhearted 13y ago|0 comments
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You're Deciding How Well You Want To Do It(medium.com)
1 points by lionhearted 13y ago|0 comments
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Don't Believe Your Stories(madeofmetaphors.com)
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Better Project Planning Means Less Project Failure(sebastianmarshall.com)
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You Assume Unfairness Because It Makes You Feel Better(medium.com)
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The Only Six Things You Should Be Doing(medium.com)
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by lionhearted 13y ago
Ramping off caffeine is actually quite simple. You go to the pharmacy and get 100mg or 50mg caffeine pills, and start taking 10% to 20% less caffeine per day than you were taking beforehand. Do a little research beforehand, but the average
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by lionhearted 13y ago
I just realized I that I look forward to Priceonomics articles and respect their writing tremendously, but I don't actually know what they do. I thought it was a blog about weird economics-like social signaling effects, and was only va
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Deducing the Origin(sebastianmarshall.com)
2 points by lionhearted 13y ago|0 comments
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On Design Driving Everything(sebastianmarshall.com)
4 points by lionhearted 13y ago|0 comments
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Sherlock Holmes in the Soviet Union (video)(filmannex.com)
1 points by lionhearted 13y ago|0 comments
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thoughts on the creative career(ashow.zefrank.com)
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