secretasiandan

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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Society attributes value to them for having taken the risk, but that doesn't necessarily mean it was a risk worth taking. I would ask if there are moral implications of selling what you believe you can do (to employees/customers/investors)
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Looking Into the Future: Amy Chua’s Parenting Style(8asians.com)
1 points by secretasiandan 16y ago|0 comments
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Further, at the rate they are paying/saving for their and their children's education, they don't need to do that very long before they no longer need to make the payments. To present it as steady state is misleading. EDIT : as other people
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
A link to the article text rather than the photo gallery might be more appropriate http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2011/01/largest-cave...
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Notice the caption in the picture of the metro article "A broker looks on in horror as the news that Justin Bieber has a mild cold brings about a global economic collapse (AP)" The article you really want is the one linked to http://thenex
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
M-W defition 2(b) of transparent : readily understood It seems clear to me that the pricing mechanism is not readily understood by anyone, hence the ability for quantitative models to make money and yet still not be pure money printing mach
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
The invetor's slides say that the only time the analogy breaks down is with ungrounded capacitors, though its unclear to me what exactly that means (I don't really feel like thinking too hard about it). See slide 17 http://www-control.eng
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Charge being equivalent to position doesn't make much sense to me. When I learned systems modelling, we studied spring-mass-damper systems right next to electrical circuits and I have ever since thought of a capacitor as equivalent to poten
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Arguably, Singapore/Ireland/other small, developed, low tax nations can only exist given the presence of high tax countries like the US, UK, etc.
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
I think the color of Carmack's statements are much more anti-gov't than anti-ineffcient-gov't. The way I read it, he's saying lets make government more efficient by cutting out services, not by making all services operate more efficiently.
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Does that mean you never have a similar experience doing business with private companies? I think booking a hotel room or flight can be a comparable experience if it goes poorly.
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
The huge expenses you incur for moving are part of what the private companies would extract from you. While the company may be able to "efficiently" provide you a service for for 1/10th the equivalent government price, they will charge you
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Re : costs almost always are greater than the benefits Perhaps you can argue this on a case by case basis, but do you think this is still true if you have to take or leave all service at once? As evidence that the costs are worth the benefi
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
That it is "priced in" only means that the probabilistic effect of it is priced in : what is priced in is its probability of working (p) times its effect (e). As things play out, p will get closer to 0 or 1. That things don't change immed
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Buffett has stated : "I think I could make you 50% a year on $1 million" http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/june1999/sw90625... For him, its really a matter of how much money he has to put to work. This is probably in part why B
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
If you told me that you watch bloomberg for ambient noise and use CNBC mostly for comic relief or to get frustrated/angry before a hard workout I'd be more interested. If you told me that you peruse nuclearphynance but that (almost) all for
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
G. Waaaaaaaaaaaait a second. People currently write books and software and distribute them free.
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
You haven't made an argument against an NGO operated cafe, you've made an argument against an NGO operated cafe that pays out all its earnings. Also, assuming that they have any sort of tax or cost advantage (if only from people willing to
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
I believe the last sentence of the text incorrectly specifies the energy savings as 17% : "In this video, Cohen talks about cutting his carbon footprint by 17%..." At 3:25 he says "... and the overall energy consumption dropped to 17% of th
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
I don't think that word means what you think it means "Many common stocks issued today do not have par values; those that do (usually only in jurisdictions where par values are required by law) have extremely low par values (often the small
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
While their culture might be necessary, its not sufficient. You also need the high end of the market with its fat profit margins to support the cost of maintaining that culture.
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
I don't get that sense from posts. But even if being in finance is better than being in CS, in places where performance is rewarded being in finance with a CS degree is better than being in finance with a finance degree.
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
I am and have spoken with a few others from here that are as well. You should put your contact info in your profile
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Are TIPS mispriced?(ftalphaville.ft.com)
4 points by secretasiandan 16y ago|2 comments
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
What percent of good starcraft players do you think are developers like that? What percent of good developers do you think are good starcraft players?
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
I think this is well said and summarizes the main things to think about. I've quit a job twice without an official plan or offer in hand on two occaisions. The metric for savings I used was 6 months living expenses. The main reason I was c
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
I don't think your summary is quite correct "abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heav
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
Does that mean everyone who does not have such a track record should believe in EMH? Or should they just not make arguments that do anything to contradict it? Or something else?
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
re completely efficient markets, you're right. My eyes focused on the "making mistakes" part and missed the "closer to" part. I guess I could throw something in there about gambler's ruin, but that would be a little pedantic. re the space
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by secretasiandan 16y ago
"don't forget that even the non professionals making mistakes will get less losses and a return closer to a long term index when better quant system are betting agains each other and keeping prices close to their optimum levels." Do you hav

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