pongogogo

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by pongogogo 8y ago
Firstly, it's difficult to get perspective on something when you're in the thick of it. You may have made better friendships than you realise and these things will become clearer with time. Secondly, it sounds like you've liv
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by pongogogo 8y ago
Great read. It's interesting that he starts out by arguing that he's engaging with popular culture through television and he is not an elitist, but then ends the piece disengaged from the internet and arguing for the intellectual
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by pongogogo 8y ago
I parsed Taleb differently to you, I think part of his point is most behavioural economics is only looking at whether behaviour is rational or not and the individual level, but they are missing the fact that we're a herd species and be
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by pongogogo 8y ago
Most of the startups we've seen grow massively in the last decade through word of mouth have been because people make a change and then tell others about it, i.e. viral growth. If you switch to become veggie and start biking, and persu
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by pongogogo 8y ago
+1 for simplenote, for plain text it's the best I have found.
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by pongogogo 8y ago
If you computed a weighted average of all hedge fund returns, you would get a global contribution to GDP. Since hedge funds often don't publish their returns, and it's well known that there's huge amounts of survivorship bias
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by pongogogo 8y ago
Not this, go to the source rather than Gladwell (Anders Ericsson) if you Google him a bit there's some podcasts where he talks about deliberate practice and he cowrote a pop book called Peak which introduces his major findings. Definit
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by pongogogo 8y ago
I think the article is wrong, he assumes 100% automation. I'm not sure the marginal gain from completely eliminating all serving jobs will be worth it for a long time given that there's probably quite a long tail of quite complex
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by pongogogo 9y ago
Do you need multiple batteries though to really stabilise the flow? I.e. these look like they will be right at the point of power generation, guessing that the bulk of inhabitants will actually be in Adelaide, why not put the batteries ther