msellout

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by msellout 15y ago
Allow sign up with Google account.
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by msellout 15y ago
Logarithmic scale would better show the percent change of population in the early years. Using linear scale hides the movement of the early years because the 20th century's magnitude is so great that the previous centuries look identical to
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by msellout 15y ago
I like Taleb, but I think you've misinterpreted him. High-frequency measurements of a random variable will reveal more about the probability distribution than will infrequent measurements. As far as I know financial time-series are scale-in
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by msellout 15y ago
I'm not convinced that inequality is freedom, or that equality prevents freedom. Can you explain what you mean by freedom? Imagine that a group of people, a nomadic tribe perhaps, wanted the freedom to live in a non-hierarchical society. If
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by msellout 15y ago
It is far from certain that technological progress was the cause of the increase in inequality. There has been much study on this question--why inequality--and the results are inconclusive. Unfortunately, I don't have the links to back it u
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by msellout 15y ago
I'm sure that $500k annually is a reasonable salary for product managers, just as it is for university presidents. Edit: Trolling successful!
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by msellout 15y ago
Perhaps we should say that people are driving less because there is less commercial incentive to do so. A slower-growing economy has higher unemployment and less need for trucking, etc.
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by msellout 15y ago
Not true. If his bank simply deleted his accounts, then no real wealth was destroyed. Unfortunately, he used his money to encourage the production of useless things. Real resources were consumed. As you point out, some of the value was save
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by msellout 15y ago
I suspect members of larger organizations benefit more. You build a very large network simply by connecting with everyone you interact with at your own organization. These large orgs also experience a lot of churn and voila, you have a larg
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by msellout 15y ago
Enjoyment of parties enough to make good conversation on Mondays, yet not so much that discretion is forgotten.
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by msellout 15y ago
I think the key is having experience at a major corporation (Dow Jones 30 or equivalent profile). After I listed that, I went from no contacts to once every month or two.
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by msellout 15y ago
That's true, but age is so strongly correlated with mileage that it's an insignificant factor in sell-price once you control for mileage (Based on my own research using proprietary data).
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by msellout 15y ago
Listings are valuable. I know AutoTrader.com works hard to protect its listings from mass downloading.