s_jambo

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by s_jambo 16y ago
Every time anything tries to make me like it, it has turned out to be a hoax (discovered by googling the thing not by liking it I might add).
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by s_jambo 16y ago
Are you sure on that last point? There have been some kings with pretty low standards of living historically... :) I think a big part of the issue is our economy isn't aimed at letting everyone live like a king for just breathing, it's aime
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by s_jambo 16y ago
This may thwart kettling but I think it also thwarts protesting. The whole idea of the kinds of protests which get kettled is to show that a large number of people care about an issue. If the software advises people to disperse if the polic
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by s_jambo 16y ago
I'm surprised google didn't just use this to poison the results.
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by s_jambo 16y ago
homo-economicus is an absurd simplification.
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by s_jambo 16y ago
So I think the author could do with reading "The long and the short of it" by John Kay. Might help him understand how NNT did what he did. The extra takeaway is that portfolio construction should be about finding investments that will proba
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by s_jambo 16y ago
Going long on a 2x leveraged oil ETF for the long term IS a surefire bet, just a very bad one. Going long via a normal oil ETF for the long term is still quite questionable. What the above poster is saying is - you're doing something with r
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by s_jambo 16y ago
I think a large amount of our monetary inequality is down to the way we've allowed our markets to become warped. The numerous examples of CEOs who kill their company but still make out like a bandit. The traders who're supposedly part of pr
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by s_jambo 16y ago
Get a refurbished thinkpad. Mine was 3 years old when I bought it, it's now 4 years old and runs fine. When it dies I'll get another refurbished thinkpad and once again save hundreds of pounds.
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by s_jambo 16y ago
In order to move this away from debate about semantics I think this meshes nicely with an alternative view of intelligence. Specifically Human intelligence as a social endeavour rather than an individual struggle. If you look at intelligenc