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> The Economist had an article about this issue recently and they concluded that the main effect of Index Funds was to drive low-performance fund managers out of business. If that's the case it should drive most fund managers out of
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> Matt Levine is not a clickbait writer Come on. Enough of this. For some odd reason, every week there is a levine article here and every time someone goes out of their way to praise levine. The guy works for bloomberg. Clickbait is par
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Help help, I'm being repressed! See the violence inherent in the system. God I love that movie.
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Like all quotes, on first glance it appears insightful and impressive, but a closer second look reveals it to be nonsense. > Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Luck and circumstance can. > Talent will not; nothi
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> It's been a few years I've given up on the idea of privacy with technology. The problem with tech is that it's modularity and dependency on other people/tools/hardware/etc ultimately requires trust. > i
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> We already do that with our voices.... But that requires one side speaking. If they refuse to speak, then we can't know their thoughts. And people can also tell lies with their voices. Now if we could somehow interface directly wi
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Watchdog groups should only exist for a short period of time and for a specific purpose. If it is open ended, it will inevitable arrive at an extreme. In a sexist society, if I was paying you to find sexism against women, you'd be able
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> Is Breitbart the only source of "right wing" facts in your world? Breitbart isn't "only source" for anything. But it is one of the largest news sites that a lot of people read. > Furthermore if you'd ac
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So it'll be all left wing from here on out then? I don't think wikipedia realizes how close they are to irrelevance. With google, facebook, etc lowering wikipedia's priority and with wikipedia's recent move towards a par
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> That's not BS. It is BS. > a) most Americans don't want to do back-breaking manual labor for a living No. Most american don't want to do back-breaking manual labor for peanuts. As maerF0x0 said, raise the wages and wa
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Why? We lead the world in software by a long margin. It's one of the reasons english is the lingua franca of software development. As for electric cars, it's only the US and the chinese who are heavily invested in it. The japanese
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I'm not scared. Bring it on. Edit (2:18): Got the alert right on schedule. Freaky.
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> It's the best capitalised YC company. "YC doesn't hold shares in Cruise anymore, since the company as a whole was sold to GM for 1 billion in 2016.". It's no longer a YC company.
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Could've just linked to the actual source. https://www.nobelprize.org https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2018/press-relea...
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> Curious... I always read 'America' when people from USA talks about them. Not just americans talking about the USA. Most of the world. From Britain to Japan, america is used to denote the US and americans to denote citizens
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Every post about google, facebook or privacy, there is a PR comment about Apple. Apple doesn't care about privacy any more than google believed in "do no evil". They collect data on you just like google does. They buy data fr
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This isn't new. It's been going on since the end of gilded age with wealthy tycoons setting up family run charities and foundations. Rockefeller, Carnegie, etc all did this. Gates is the most famous one to do this in recent times.
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> Sure, C is great in its simplicity but the world has moved on to safer more powerful languages. Sure, we have more type safe languages. But I wouldn't call one language "more powerful" than another. Certainly Rust isn&#x
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C and systems programming to learn how software works. Paraphrasing Churchill: I would make them all learn [python|java|ruby|etc]: and then I would let the clever ones learn C as an honor, and assembly [MASM|NASM|GAS|etc] as a treat. An edu
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> It is on track to end civilization as we know it within two generations. The reason why so many people don't take climate change seriously is because of extreme hyperbole like this. Climate change is outdoing even the "peak o
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> Real estate bubbles rarely burst unless there is accompanying unemployment. The reason is psychological, people hate realizing a loss. Real estate bubbles generally burst when buy side gets squeezed. It doesn't matter if people
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The "higher" the language and more declarative. "Higher" because all the lower level work of data structures/etc are taken care of or even embedded into the language itself. "Declarative" because in declar
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[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120433
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> In practical terms, imagine all humans have similar potential. We should imagine all humans have the same rights, but not the same potential. If we all had similar potential, then we would all have the same shot at being top physicists
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> Churchill was a notorious scoundrel The topic of churchill was the first time I realized I lived in a bubble. In the US, we laud churchill as a great statesman and take pride in that he's half-american by his american mother. He&#
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> I can't see how it's worth close to $800 million either. It's worth $800 million because someone was willing to buy it for $800 million. Why is anything worth anything? Because someone is willing to pay for it. > isn&
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It's far simpler than having to teach all the prey animals ( from rodents, to birds, to snakes, to reptiles, etc ) to learn a behavior. It's not like we don't have experience wiping out animals before. The only reason it isn&
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> Proof by insistence? Proof by statistics and facts. Hardly any women went to college back then. So that's about 50% of the population who were less educated. Thrown in minorities who were discouraged from getting an education, it&
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What exactly would be "copernican" about it? Also 3 of the 4 "copernican" revolutions outlined have nothing to do with copernics. Even copernicus's "revolution" was just a rehash of ancient greek idea of h
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Seems like pointless temporary exercise not even based in science. Even if you "teach" the current batch of rodents to be afraid of cats, how will their offspring be afraid of cats if they aren't naturally inclined to be fear

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