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by oli5679 10y ago
Low beta just means low historic correlation with market returns. It can be computed mechanically with no subjective judgement needed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_asset_pricing_model If you had invested in l
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by oli5679 10y ago
Yes, the disaggregation used in the linked paper is robust. You're welcome to critique it if you find a specific error. There are often leverage restrictions for financial products sold to individuals and even beyond this people are of
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by oli5679 10y ago
True, should have written leverage rather than debt but the risk profile is the same for investors.
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by oli5679 10y ago
Buffet's approach of combining high leverage with low growth 'value' equities is a large part of his great performance. This is not to say there isn't a skill in noticing the benefits of this approach and convincing cred
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The Case for Wooden Skyscrapers(economist.com)
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by oli5679 10y ago
Ironic name for a free app with no ads! Just downloaded, thank you.
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by oli5679 10y ago
In the UK, a majority of bars and corner shops will have a 50p charge for card use below a certain threshold or even refuse to take payment.
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by oli5679 10y ago
The problem is if enough people have been working on a sheet for long enough it becomes very difficult to replicate your work. this is particularly true for projects involving data processing and if they have poor version control practices.
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by oli5679 10y ago
Excel is super useful for the range of tasks where speed and transparency to business execs is more important than flexibility or maintenance. Its great to rattle something off in a couple of hours that you can email to your boss to tinker
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by oli5679 10y ago
Hi, I'm interested in taking your test too?
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by oli5679 10y ago
Freakonomics is a write up of several economics papers that used a statistical method called Instrumental Variables for causal analysis. Schelling's book is a write-up of the theoretical predictions of several different game-theory mod
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by oli5679 10y ago
No worries.. Programming all the draw scenarios in chess wouldn't be completely trivial. If you add clocks to the game then you also need to account for when you flag but your opponent cannot win the game with legal moves. There are so
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by oli5679 10y ago
Edit - I suppose it is a draw rather than a stalemate Fide Rules 5.2 (B) The game is drawn when a position has arisen in which neither player can checkmate the opponent’s king with any series of legal moves. The game is said to end in a ‘de
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by oli5679 10y ago
Paul Graham's Essay on 'What You Can't Say' http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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by oli5679 10y ago
I think this is how it works. 1) A judge awards the estate be split in a given proportion 2) Illiquid assets are priced and allocated using the mechanism 3) The judge's split-proportion is achieved using the liquid assets' market
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by oli5679 10y ago
If you know the preferences of the other person, its often an advantage for a non-regular cake because you can offer them a small amount of stuff they value more highly than you
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by oli5679 10y ago
One thing to note is that no allocation mechanism for more than 2 parties cannot satisfy all 3 of these criteria for general preferences a) Efficient - guarantees an allocation where making at least one party better off without making anyon
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Judging Books by Their Covers(textbookleague.org)
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Lesson learned(medium.com)
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Signal traced to sunlike star sparks SETI interest(geekwire.com)
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Ah ok, if there are 2 roads and 3 people then the question makes complete sense.
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by oli5679 10y ago
I'm have some trouble understanding the solution to the 3 natives puzzle. Is the objective to find the road guarded by the truth teller? SPOILER BELOW The solution suggests Q1) --> A Q1): Is B least likely to tell the truth out of B
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by oli5679 10y ago
If you're competitive and come from a technical background, you might enjoy playing chess?
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by oli5679 10y ago
Simpsons reference?
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by oli5679 10y ago
She seems like a really impressive young lady, but still has a long way to go before becoming an elite chess player. Her Fide rating of 1622 is 91,039th out of current active players, 102 out of female African active players and similar 10t
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by oli5679 10y ago
What your saying sounds like the Grossman-Stiglitz paradox. http://www.wilmottwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Grossman-Sti...
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Philippines drugs war: The woman who kills dealers for a living(bbc.co.uk)
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What are some books a programmer must read?(quora.com)
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Its hard to draw definitive conclusions when you're speculating from a sample of one! Imagine showing a child with no knowledge of animals a snake and asking her to describe what she thinks the other animals on earth are like and the h
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Private Prisons aren't that big a deal(washingtonpost.com)
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