mayukh

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by mayukh 10y ago
I agree with this and in general think the degree of randomness in outcomes and survivorship biases aren't fully appreciated by a lot of folks examining the startup world. With that said, I do think there is one trait that is common to
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by mayukh 10y ago
Domestic travelers too. Congress wouldn't care as much if newspapers weren't reporting record wait times ahead of the summer travel months. It's a mess. And they'll pretend they've done something by firing this guy
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by mayukh 10y ago
For somebody who wrote 'Fooled by ..' one of my favorite books of all time, he certainly doesn't seem to suffer from self-doubt when it comes to stating his personal hypotheses. I can look past his condescending tone (especia
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by mayukh 11y ago
Interesting, definitely taps into a very large market. Some Questions: 0. Website/app ? url ? 1. How many rooms/houses have you managed so far? 2. How many tenants? How many owners? 3. Whats your take (assuming you're renting
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by mayukh 11y ago
> Presumably negative rates are a response to deflationary concerns. Under that scenario, cash under the bed would lose value faster than it would in a savings account >As a borrower you are getting paid to borrow, thats a good incent
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by mayukh 11y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/03/lyft-didi-ola-and-grabtaxi-... It's all one big fu to uber
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by mayukh 11y ago
Another datapoint: I downloaded scratch junior for the ipad and felt that it was overtly complex and left it at that. The next day my 5 year old discovers the app and before I knew it had figured out animations and scene transitions. He had
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India just turned off mobile internet for 63M citizens amid protests(thenextweb.com)
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Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace(nytimes.com)
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Citing porn, India blocks websites (bloomberg.com)
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by mayukh 11y ago
You bring up an interesting aside (Not related to growth prospects or productivity improvements per se) By Marketcap: Facebook > Amazon > Walmart By FTE: Walmart(2.2 million) > Amazon (150K) > FB (10K) I realize FB is not in t
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Why is finance so complex? (2011)(interfluidity.com)
164 points by mayukh 11y ago|144 comments
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by mayukh 11y ago
some long-term job listings come from: > the larger companies are for roles where there is constant churn (or growth) and they need to keep the pipeline of active candidates warm > As mentioned already, spammy recruiters looking to co
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by mayukh 11y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect . Also Cialdini's fantastic book (Influence) introduced me to this topic among many others.
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by mayukh 11y ago
Here's my 2 cents. Learn any language any way you want and don't give a shit for pretentious blowhards who tell you otherwise. Peace and love ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIJdFxYlEKE
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Hacker 'made plane climb' after taking control through in-flight system(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by mayukh 11y ago|1 comments
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Prodigy Has Lots of Promise, but AOL May Be the Prodigy [1992](wsj.com)
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by mayukh 11y ago
So true. I've switched industries a few times and by now you'd think I'd get it. It still takes me some time to get up to speed with the 'dynamics' of the space/industry I'm working in and the realization
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by mayukh 11y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted (I upvoted you). You make a good point. Valuations are both subjective (your view) and relative (where else can I put my money). This 'boom' could end tomorrow or go on for years
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by mayukh 11y ago
Agree, this seems like a collection of interviews with some famous folks who are in the field of 'data science' (can we just call it stats please). A handbook is a poor description indeed. For folks interested in learning about th
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by mayukh 11y ago
The NextDraft effect ?
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by mayukh 12y ago
Agree, This applies to pretty much every topic. If you make it relevant, interesting and create a safe environment where mistakes are ok a lot can be taught to kids.
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by mayukh 12y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Survivorship bias is a bitch! There are millions of such postings from remarkably talented people starting out interesting projects all over the world. Only a few will get the recognition they deserve and in hi
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by mayukh 12y ago
Also once you've narrowed the list of dealers. Make sure that the dealer actually has the car in question. Ask for the vin number. I've had the unfortunate experience of them trying a bait and switch once.
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How We Learned to Kill(nytimes.com)
144 points by mayukh 12y ago|134 comments
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by mayukh 12y ago
I'm with you. At this point the extremely open-ended, poorly written and understood laws exist to serve the uber-ambitious career-building prosecutors seeking the limelight.
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by mayukh 12y ago
While Montier makes a good (and unoriginal) point, I'm not convinced by his argument. The first example: IBM and JnJ are in wildly different industries, competing in different markets against different competitors employing vastly diff
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by mayukh 12y ago
year over year comparison
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by mayukh 13y ago
'Average' holding times don't help understand the issue. You could have one position that was a long-term bet edit: I did not imply that none of the hft strategies were taking market risk. The ones that scalp certainly seem t
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by mayukh 13y ago
Declining profitabilities caused by increased competition. What market risk are the scalp-style of hft strategies (not all hft's are scalping) taking ? If they can cancel orders at abandon and make pennies if they win the race (against

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