subjectHarold

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by subjectHarold 8y ago
That isn't how most people work. Would you rather be the worst lover in the world but everyone think you are the best? Or the best lover in the world but everyone think you are the worst? For most people, work is their identity, it is
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Scroll to bottom. I don't know where the stuff like ROA/ROE is coming from but prices are from IEX. They make last price and actually their whole order book publicly available.
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Maybe I am missing something...but what is this? Why would I use this? Where is the screening stuff? This looks well-designed. The only thing that occurred from my, admittedly brief, navigation is the price/percent change on the stock
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
"If a guy brings me his code, and it has mistakes, it brings insane pleasure from how smart I feel ... And if you tell me that you haven’t had this feeling ever, then you’re lying." Wrong on so many levels. Taking pleasure from so
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Other responses are sceptical but this really works. I used to keep my AI locked up in a cage, never let it sleep, constant training...but I came to senses. I now have a small paddock in my back yard, I keep all my AI there, this is AI like
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
I agree. As I have said elsewhere, US spending is also unusually bad. But I have seen nothing to suggest that the tax-hike crew have any good ideas about spending either. Their idea seems to be "let's just be Denmark", this i
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
If you make the tax system substantially less progressive, as in Sweden or other often mentioned examples, I think it is quite possible to reach a sustainable level. I partly agree though in that US spending really makes no sense. Other cou
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files/PSZ2017.pdf - my reply was sufficient, you are just having trouble because it doesn't match with whatever you conclusion you jumped to without data.
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
That is fair, I didn't explain that. But it is fairly simple: progressive tax systems don't reduce inequality. The US already has one of the most progressive tax systems in the world? Is it working? The US is one of the most unequ
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
I have given up with the long answers. The US had a marginal rate this high before: wrong, this doesn't reflect tax paid which, for the top 1%, is only down slightly since mid-1960s (and not worth anywhere close to what the US needs).
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
The reason that extracurriculars are valuable is because they are worth doing in and of themselves. You play an instrument because you enjoy it and to give enjoyment to others...not because it will get you into college. By devaluing those e
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Yep, I agree. The reason we have this problem at all is because, at least in our part of the world, education isn't well-funded. I think we should still have a lottery system but yes, other stuff will produce better results. I also thi
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
...really, the quality of education at Eton is better than a school in inner London where you are in a class with 35 other people, 90% of whom don't speak English? That information surprises me...what insights. The point is that: 1. Th
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
The problem isn't that we miss out on some specific genius. The real issue with our system is that we have "Feynmans" working as waiters and driving taxis (and some other countries don't have that system and are maximisi
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
The idea of lotteries is not new. This problem is addressed in most solutions by weighting for factors. The issue with the current system is that it produces the lack of diversity that you are describing because it optimises for things that
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Is that the same university that admits more from eight private schools than from 3/4 of the state school system? Yep, sounds like a fair system. Cool story bro.
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Nowhere have I seen the "well that looks weird...but they probably know what they are doing" expression used more than in finance. I have been through it myself more times than I care to mention. Everyone assumes that the other pe
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
It really doesn't. You may be able to push up the price but higher prices mean lower returns. What you are hoping for is that you will pile money in, for some unknown reason other people will panic and try to bid, and then you sell to
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
It's only an arb if your net exposure is zero. If you want an arb, look at Hansa. You can buy their trust and sell an underlying porfolio which, if you do it right, should come out to very close to zero exposure. But most CEFs aren&#x2
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
And yet...his wife's granny ended up investing a couple of mil in a stock priced in the single digits that is now worth over $1500/share. Don't overthink things. Btw: if you actually knew what happened to the share price at t
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
The chances of this data being accurate is close to zero. I have seen data looking at factors for major markets outside the US, and it is wildly inaccurate even as recent as the 1970s. Mainly trading costs and liquidity but delistings too.
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Most professional money managers aren't trying to beat the market. Distribution is way more important than performance. Trying to outperform the market is risky. Even if you have a good fund manager, they will eventually go elsewhere (
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Didn't you know that French protesters have been chanting "We want Trump"?
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
On this, I used to work in investment management. Good distribution is several times more important than generating returns. One of the most prominent managers local to me (worth $150-200m, probably one of the wealthiest people in my countr
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
So what? We have a separate bar for alcoholics? We ban alcohol? What are you saying? Great, I get it, you have empathy...but, ultimately, if you are an alcoholic you can't avoid people drinking alcohol and trying to avoid things genera
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Ah, I forgot...the most welcoming environments are ones where things are banned.
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
Yep, and thinking that everyone is judging you is often not a rational thought (it is probably the most common thought within a general social anxiety). The other person doesn't have to disclose anything...you just say "I don&#x27
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
I am not sure what diversity has to do with it? As said, I don't drink but does that mean no-one else should be allowed to drink? What is the idea behind that? Just imo: if you don't drink but have a problem with others doing so t
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
I think the boundary is well-defined (tech companies are not the first companies to hire people): don't drink alcohol at work, don't smoke weed at work (even if it is legal), and don't come to work drunk or high. If it is a s
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by subjectHarold 8y ago
I don't understand what the big deal is...we should ban alcohol at these events because some people don't like it? I don't drink, I haven't done so since my first year of uni...it has never been an issue. Might there be

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