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by qwrusz 10y ago
Moyta: Where did you get that $1B per month figure? That seems very very high. Cheers to the CEO of Shopify answering a question on Hacker News and on Black Friday - that is awesome!
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Don't first tackle something a bit easier on my behalf, but if you need to then we can. Like the definition of value, which I asked you about above, whether something "makes sense" to me does not mean it will makes sense to y
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Do you not having savings you put into a retirement account? 401(k)? Who do you think the clients of the investment/trading firms are? Do you keep your money under the mattress? > I really don't believe that the amount of money
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How do you define providing value to society here? Curious who and what types of jobs make the cut.
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For those questioning the returns, it's important to remember this fund's strategies clearly have capacity constraints. The article mentions a cap of $10B and a decade ago it was half that amount. Why cap the size? What this means
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I see a lot of answers on here that are misleading or confusing. One problem with economics is it's really a bunch of made-up mind games related to social sciences, which in turn has led to all kinds of conspiracy theorists and cults e
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I have worked on cross-border deals with Chinese firms over the past few years. (I work in finance, but not VC). I’ve seen the growth and impact of Chinese firms entering US capital markets, public equity markets, PE buyout deals and real e
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Do you mean probably wrong? Either way I disagree. Both approaches have pros and cons depending on the type of analysis. At the very least, just the presence of competing approaches in the field has pushed statisticians to have more rigou
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How about you guys are both right, sort of. There are both Bayesian and Frequentist approaches in statistics! They represent very different methods to statistics, but they are also quite similar. My apologies, I couldn't find one lin
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What's the difference between "early traction" and "early 'growth'"?
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It's been out a week? Pretty sure they are ramping up production. It takes time to hit the switch to build and then deliver to stores. Ask this again if supply is still low mid-December. As for why they don't raise the price and s
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RRG?
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Hard to give pointers without more details of what the product is. There's all kinds of strategies, like starting hyper local (Facebook started just on Harvard's campus) or other startups have used waiting lists before launching t
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by qwrusz 10y ago
This is good advice but on a practical level isn't clearly compatible with other advice like "fix the plane while it's flying". Also I was under the impression YCombinator focuses on helping companies grow and organizes
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I live in LA, traffic is an issue here too. I see other comments mentioning take a brain break from IT stuff. They have a point, but up to you how much you need or want this. Another option: instead of learning something new during this ti
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This article seems to say more blame goes to the landlords who want higher rents, for longer terms and from tenants with perceived better credit/deeper pockets. Makes sense though. I am not defending banks at all, but it's interes
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by qwrusz 10y ago
I can't offer too much insight, sorry. But I will say the "quant" fund label is very broad. RenTec and AQR both hire PhDs and use computers to trade, but AQR offers mutual funds with daily liquidity and they publicly disclose
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There's a big challenge for RIAs trying to do right by their clients and offer appropriate glide path investment portfolios: The products and potential returns that honest legit RIAs discuss with potential clients will always be unapp
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Behavioral Economics is exciting and unsettling. The research also can be used by employees in order to be overcompensated by their bosses! Likewise it can be used to get faster promotions or increase an employee's chances they are c
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I'd love to know if Priceonomics tested the idea for this "Idea Tester" product of theirs before launching it? This type of "customer research" trickery is not new. And I realize clickbait/fakebait is big bus
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Good point about omission of important facts. It's tough because facts can be absent from a news item intentionally and unintentionally. Journalists have time and size constraints - so even when striving for accuracy and objectivity, f
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Side note, reply to myself, whatever this is called. I see the author was at bwater prior to YC. Bridgewater and Y Combinator appear to have very different approaches to how they train young, ambitious people doing something new, and mayb
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I don't mean this as an attack on the author, it's clear he is smart and trying to be helpful, thoughtful and kind in writing this advice. But I see this type of sweet/safe/simple advice post so often on many sites. The
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As someone who studied economics and works as an economist, I agree economics today is full of bull$h^t and biased "experts" and politicking masquerading as legit social science work, I see it daily. And it goes on in mainstream a
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A different or supplementary approach could be removing the bias from a news item. Instead of trying to determine which biased side an article is skewed towards and then finding other links to what is determined to be the "alternativ
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How does Michael Lewis claim he had not heard of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky until 2003 while reading a review of his book Moneyball ? Lewis has an MA in Economics from the London School of Economics. And he writes books and articles
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While debating what is a "fake news" site. Maybe it's also time to revisit the debate what is a "news" site... Organizations that do original journalism and news reporting seem to be struggling financially. Meanwh
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Important issue. Glad it's being talked about and worked on. A bit of a tangent, but I see the author in the comments and that he is at a VC now. Im not a founder or VC, but do have a Q: to what extent do you see common term sheet prac
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Agree with your points. And also skeptical of the BLK comment - though for a venture capitalist joining the board, making this investment sound like it's a future $60B market cap firm is par for the course. I'm in the industry as
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The real news should be Why CEOs Aren't Being Fired Fast Enough When bad CEOs do get fired, you often hear 'finally, what took them so long to rid of that guy' and not 'aww, guy just got there, the board should have gi

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