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by pitt1980 11y ago
that's a great idea someone should figure out a way to make that happen
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by pitt1980 11y ago
for one, parents have a different incentive structure than teachers do while parents aren't perfectly incentivized, they have a larger stake in you growing into a happy and healthy adult than teachers do
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by pitt1980 11y ago
thanks, I hadn't noticed that feature before
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by pitt1980 11y ago
why? I'm trying to keep track of things that catch my eye
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Trade Deficit Is Selling the Nation Out from Under Us, Warren Buffett (2003)(archive.fortune.com)
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by pitt1980 11y ago
bookmarked
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by pitt1980 11y ago
if a founder was recruiting you as an employee, and told you their strategy was to shoot for an IPO instead of shooting for an acquisition would that have any tangible value to you as a prospective employee?
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by pitt1980 11y ago
being a student is a near universal experience, so its an industry that nearly everyone has some degree of experience with also there is at least some degree of connection being the education industry and being perceived as intelligent, so
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by pitt1980 11y ago
I don't have an opinion on whether that is or isn't a good strategy what I find interesting is that seems to be the converse of the historical trend of the last 30 years or so Rust Belt places like Michigan and Upstate New York, a
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by pitt1980 11y ago
"Tre, who was in a math support class of mine last year, had phenomenal retention of any concrete fact he learned. Total inability to grasp abstract concepts. Couldn’t estimate. Couldn’t isolate x. Couldn’t figure out what the slope of
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Retiring Cisco CEO prediction: 40% of companies will be dead in 10 years(businessinsider.com)
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by pitt1980 11y ago
in many/most parts of the world wealth is dynastic in nature the dynastic nature of Slims wealth is relevant to Americans in that he's a major financial backer of the most respected media institution in our country if that doesn&#
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by pitt1980 11y ago
"agents of bourgeoisie capitalists" I don't wonder about the sincerity of most economists I do wonder if there are selection pressures to becoming an economist that prevent a diversity of viewpoints on certain issues sometime
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by pitt1980 11y ago
Here's the problem I have with this (I probably haven't worked this out well enough in my mind to pursausively argue for it on the internet, but this is what goes through my mind every time I encounter this): - (all/most&#x2F
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by pitt1980 11y ago
http://radicalpersonalfinance.com/my-plan-for-how-i-would-be... buried link in the story, seems more interesting than the story itself
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by pitt1980 11y ago
what multiple of its earnings was Yahoo trading at at the height of its glory? given that we now know the postscript (or at least much of it) did that multiple make any sense?
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by pitt1980 11y ago
let's be concrete about what we're talking about ------------------ from your link: "A fraternity brother who was at the party gave an entirely different account than Petros-Gouin. Speaking on condition that his name not be u
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by pitt1980 11y ago
this is so dependent on the macro economy in which you live, its almost completely independent of you http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2013/08/26-years-of-growth-... can you imagine having been a 10 year old
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by pitt1980 11y ago
is that style of writing actually easier for other professors to read?
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by pitt1980 11y ago
What percentage of these guys are taking PEDs anyways? How many PED suspensions should there be if 1% of NCAA football player are taking them? ---------------------------------- 128 teams x 85 scholarship players a team = 10,880 total playe
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by pitt1980 11y ago
somebody else can probably answer this better than I can but my understanding is that managers who beat the market don't repeat their success at a rate better than you would expect to happen simply by randomness if you have 100 people
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by pitt1980 11y ago
"noticing others' work and collaborating with them effectively in a complementary way" I'd love an example of what you're talking about
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by pitt1980 11y ago
yeah, this seems like some YC would be well positioned to either provide as reference, or give a pointer to an appropriate reference
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by pitt1980 11y ago
thanks
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by pitt1980 11y ago
Do you work with the Sport-Reference.com sites? if so, would you mind if I asked you a somewhat technical question? Is there some sort of advanced query function? ------------------------------- Here's kind of what I'd like to be
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by pitt1980 11y ago
I'm actually not convinced that making it a higher percentage threshold doesn't make cooperation less likely at 10% (depending on class size) each student realizes that their noncooperation goes a good distance of the way towards
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by pitt1980 11y ago
I wonder if the prof has given any thought to what made that one class unique, if there were any factors that distinguished it from his other classes off the top of my head, I wonder if it was a particularly small class though I could imagi
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by pitt1980 11y ago
what does "machetes in the streets" mean? I hope that was supposed to be marches and it auto-corrected
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by pitt1980 11y ago
Where Has All the Education Gone? Lant Pritchett + Author Affiliations The Kennedy School of Government. e-mail: lant_pritchett@harvard.edu Abstract Cross‐national data show no association between increases in human capital attributable to
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by pitt1980 11y ago
"Property will always increase over the long term" what makes you think this is the case? for all the singularity and robot economy talk on here, if give those things have even a small chance of occurring, over 30 years that adds

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