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by reascenda 7y ago
The CEO of Credit Suisse is a black man from the Ivory Coast. Not to say that racism doesn't exist in Switzerland but equally you don't see policemen shooting unarmed black people in their houses either.
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by reascenda 7y ago
It's actually the other way around, at least historically speaking. Typically a very small number of names account for the lions share of the index return.
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by reascenda 7y ago
They've probably priced themselves out of that scenario now though. With valuations >billion even for millions of users the acquiror is paying hundreds per customer. I'd be surprised if the economics of that stack up.
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by reascenda 7y ago
Would it be conclusive evidence if you saw him cheating with your own eyes? If yes would you say that the chance of your being mistaken is higher or lower than one in 10^100s. The widely shared preference for certain kinds of evidence over
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by reascenda 7y ago
Poker is semi solved, not like chess is of course but to the point where good bots always beat good humans over a large enough sample. There are objectively better and worse ways to play poker if you make some assumptions about the behaviou
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by reascenda 7y ago
My dude over an 8k sample of hands he's winning at approximately 100x the rate of the best players, while deviating colossally from optimal strategies. The probability of winning at the rate he does is beyond the one to the number of a
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by reascenda 7y ago
I mean if a guy wins a coin toss 1000x in a row is that definitive evidence? That's basically what you have here. With the added extra of being able to see him check his phone before making ridiculous bets.
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by reascenda 7y ago
Check out the Doug Polk or Joe Ingram videos. It's 100% cheating in this case.
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by reascenda 7y ago
Just a heads up that you can get the column free if you subscribe to it as an email newsletter.
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by reascenda 7y ago
This may now be moot after the LinkedIn Vs hiq labs case a couple of days ago which appears to have blanket legalised we scraping.
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by reascenda 7y ago
For some of those things yes. Dangerous driving and smoking for me are reckless to the point of being blameworthy. I'm less sure about eating badly and not exercising but I'm not sure that's a difference of kind rather than d
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by reascenda 7y ago
I thought he was an asshole. Quite apart from how he came across in the film exposing yourself to utterly needless danger is a very bad way to treat people who love you.
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by reascenda 7y ago
Roche, Novartis, AZN, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi,GSK and on and on. You could hardly pick a worse sector than healthcare to make this kind of nonsense America first point.