pitt1980

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   by pitt1980 7y ago

   The Chinese government's reaction to this seems extraordinarily strong to me. The NBA is hugely popular there, don't they risk annoying huge chunks of their own population by taking it off the air? Morey is not even an especially
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   by pitt1980 7y ago

   ctrl+f "free speech" comes back empty ------ ------ The 1st amendment only protects you from the US government, not the Chinese government this seems like a good example of why we need to rethink "...but not the consequences
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   by pitt1980 7y ago

   a tiny tiny sliver of college athletes will play professionally, a good way to think about it, is that college athletics is sort of communist society in action where the future professionals athletes subsidize benefits for the athletes that
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   by pitt1980 7y ago

   The economics surrounding most minor league sports suggest that the level of skill demonstrated by the players is not, in fact, the economic driver behind the revenues generated in college athletics. If you want to see athletic accomplishme
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   by pitt1980 7y ago

   Fwiw, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZbgCx2ntD5eu8Cno9/how-to-be-...
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   by pitt1980 7y ago

   The places where the profitability of football is in question is basically everything lower than the 5 main conferences (Big 10, SEC, ACC, Big XII, and Pac 10), and especially the schools lower than that level which aren't reliable win
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   by pitt1980 7y ago

   yeah, obtaining data, and correctly contextualizing it are different skill sets you need both
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   by pitt1980 7y ago

   method described seems very similar to Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book ---- I always wonder how many people follow this sort of advice, and how many hours are t
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   by pitt1980 7y ago

   but the market for rookie contracts is closed, you either already drafted and developed two rookies worth paying 1.2 million or you didn't your 1.2 million in cash doesn't mean you can convert it into (useful) rookies
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    by pitt1980 7y ago

    I guess the real comparison is whether the Mets could have raised $5.9 in debt back in 1999 on better terms
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    by pitt1980 7y ago

    fwiw Mets Payroll in 1999 - 71,506,427 5,900,000/71,506,427 = 8.25% of payroll --------- Mets Payroll 2011 120,147,310 1,193,248/120,147,310 = 0.99% of payroll ---------- Mets Payroll 2018 $154.61M 1,193,248/154,610,000 = 0
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    by pitt1980 7y ago

    Do all the players have the same skill set? Interesting to see how things like faster players change optimal play
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    by pitt1980 7y ago

    Interesting link, thanks for posting it
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    by pitt1980 7y ago

    I think steroids are the subtext of what motivated the author to write the article. Except, 'look, these guys are all fairly obviously on steroids', is a tough thing to get past current journalistic standards
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    by pitt1980 7y ago

    This isn't the right takeaway Schools like Harvard have become more and more adept at correlating themselves with success At the same time they cause it less and less Harvard is really a place for people who don't actually need Ha
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    by pitt1980 7y ago

    To riff off Charles Murray's thesis a little, it could be 'Coming Apart' too https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_Apart_(book) ------- I think youtube and twitter are sort of interesting tools in this re
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    by pitt1980 7y ago

    other way, kids today have access to the resources that Zuck's generation built (I actually think youtube, twitter, wordpress, amazon, and even Hacker News are much for helpful for an ambitious kid than facebook is, but whatever) I def
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    by pitt1980 7y ago

    "3.4: Could the issue be that students are just trying harder?" ----- without making a value judgment about it, I think an underappreciated aspect of our current spot in history is that we've had an explosion of resources tha
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    by pitt1980 7y ago

    Which country are you from?
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    by pitt1980 7y ago

    Yeah, I was wondering that too, How does muscle memory work? Does space out activity work the same way that spacing out studying work? Especially since muscle fatigue is a real limit on athletic training. I wonder what could be done trying
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    by pitt1980 8y ago

    So who is paying the scam Instagram influencers? My impression is that who’s interested in this sort of service is something like small start up fashion brands that can’t afford an actual celebrity. My brother makes independent video games,
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    Rule Thinkers In, Not Out(slatestarcodex.com)

    2 points by pitt1980 8y ago|0 comments
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    by pitt1980 8y ago

    Even if that’s the case, so what?
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    by pitt1980 8y ago

    Why is it 'worth drilling into'? What's the relevance?
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    by pitt1980 8y ago

    its tagged 'Things I will regret writing' I implied it, maybe I'm wrong
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    by pitt1980 8y ago

    its broken because the author didn't want it shared in this fashion
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    by pitt1980 8y ago

    opposite of survivorship bias If you've heard of them, its because they got caught
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    by pitt1980 8y ago

    I would think protecting their image for endorsement potential is worth more than even millions of dollars of tax savings
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    by pitt1980 8y ago

    Interesting that Messi had tax problems in Spain as well. Neither of these guys are filling out their own taxes. Why did their accountants think it was a good idea to complete their taxes in a way that wound up getting them in trouble? Or w
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    Reading List: Fog Creek Software Management Training Program (2005(joelonsoftware.com)

    1 points by pitt1980 8y ago|0 comments