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The Economics of Twitter(brontecapital.blogspot.com)
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Economics Nobel Prize Winner 2016: Bengt Holmstrom(afinetheorem.wordpress.com)
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My First Gulfstream (2001)(vanityfair.com)
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by oli5679 10y ago
I find the lack of automation of many business processes fascinating. Many of my friends are paid a fortune to carry out mundane data processing tasks and confidently reach analytical conclusions that do not seem really robust. I dunno how
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by oli5679 10y ago
Why is 'building tools that makes it easier for non-technical people to build apps' such a serious trap? Products like Tableau, R+R Studio, Ruby on Rails and even Excel have been highly successful because they lower the technical
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How Goldman Sachs Lost $1.2B of Libya’s Money(bloomberg.com)
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by oli5679 10y ago
Why is the plan to start off with so many fragile, resource-greedy people before the planet is improved? Wouldn't it be better to send a robot factory capable of building more robot factories using materials available on Mars and minim
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by oli5679 10y ago
Elon's Simpsons episode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDOI0cq6GZM
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by oli5679 10y ago
You have said that the best founders believe their success is inevitable, yet YC (understandably) has a really high failure rate. Do you think it helps, as a founder and in life, to be optimistic rather than realistic?
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by oli5679 10y ago
Even if we don't understand higher order dynamics of the entire system, we have an approximately understanding of parts of the system and can use total intermediary fees as a welfare measure. Imagine two worlds, one where American fina
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by oli5679 10y ago
I can't find good data on the topic but I'm sure it exists somewhere and would be confident that the the overall trend is a large reduction. Have a look at the female labour force participation rates in America and USA between 190
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by oli5679 10y ago
You can just use the gross margin accounting definition, this isn't too difficult and firms should be roughly compliant. Also, firm profits should be higher than if you ban price-discrimination, so I don't see where the political
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by oli5679 10y ago
The fall in time spent doing cleaning, cooking and household chores since Keynes' death is well documented. http://research.sabanciuniv.edu/277/1/3011800000841.pdf "It took her 4 h to do a 38 lb load of
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by oli5679 10y ago
There is a result in microeconomics that if you ban price discrimination from a previously discriminating firm, there was a always an alternative policy (specifying a maximum profit margin the firm can achieve but placing no restrictions on
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by oli5679 10y ago
Ok, but there are other less ambitious questions you can answer within the paradigm of economics. What are the losses caused by the current system vs an alternative according to a specific welfare measure?
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by oli5679 10y ago
Ok, that's a reasonable view. How do you a) estimate the tipping point were finance becomes so dysfunctional that it causes a revolution B) measure the dysfunctionality of anther system relative to this benchmark level. To me this can
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by oli5679 10y ago
What do you mean by kill? To me it's likely that finance represents a depressingly large drain on growth in output/welfare compared to a better regulated alternative but I can't see it making things bad enough to cause anarch
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by oli5679 10y ago
I find it frustrating when journalists level these claims of market manipulation without clearly specifying the trading strategy. I am struggling to write down a sequence of trades that corresponds to the allegations of the article, generat
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by oli5679 10y ago
This is because of cable news reporting on several high profile young-girl abductions over the last 20 years. Statistically the chance is very small, but these horrible stories have been burned into the consciousness of a generation of moth
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by oli5679 10y ago
There is a reasonable case that 'value' (low beta) stocks exhibit excess returns in equity markets. See Fama & French http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.459... M&M says there sho
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by oli5679 10y ago
Yeah, I think the best econ and finance journalists are more captivating than a textbook. I'd recommend Matt Levine, Tim Hartford, anything in the Economist magazine Paul Krugman's early essays (before he became a political column
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by oli5679 10y ago
They are similar, with a lot of overlapping material. I would recommend focusing on micro to start with because to me its basic ideas, models and techniques have the most value for life/business.
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by oli5679 10y ago
I'd recommend textbooks or corsera rather than pop econ books. Mostly Harmless Econometrics - Angrist and Krueger Principles of microeconomics - Mankiw (beginner) Intermediate microeconomics - Varian (intermediate) You also want to cov
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Codewars(codewars.com)
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by oli5679 10y ago
Two recommendations: Tim Harford - http://timharford.com/ Tyler Cowen - http://marginalrevolution.com/
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Algorithms: Design and Analysis Part 1 – Stanford University(coursera.org)
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Practical skills of SQL language(sql-ex.com)
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by oli5679 10y ago
Annual salaries come from our weird convention of defining years as groups of 365 days. A software engineer can earn $100k/year but also $1m/decade. Neither is comparable to a company being worth $xbillion because you're comp
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by oli5679 10y ago
This is my current favourite: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12496558
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Thresholds of Violence – How School Shootings Catch On(gladwell.com)
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