superquest

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by superquest 7y ago
> This is remarkable because it's hard to imagine most American companies, which are always looking to squeeze out a little more profit to juice the quarterly report HEB is privately owned and run by the owners. Those are very diffe
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by superquest 8y ago
This last week I took an in-person class where we covered almost all of the book: https://dabeaz.com/SICP.html The instructor David Beazley very skillfully weeded out all the non-essential parts and added one amazing exerci
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by superquest 8y ago
https://www.fs.blog/mental-models/ This site has great information on how to think. The above post is particularly excellent.
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by superquest 8y ago
Reddit link missing a 'r/'
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by superquest 8y ago
In this case it seems the customers are unlikely to revolt. Most won't even notice, right?
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by superquest 9y ago
Benedict Evans tweet: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/955539670103859200?...
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by superquest 9y ago
Draw lots of pictures. That habit helped me learn analysis most.
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by superquest 9y ago
That's the only reason I won't delete. So many friends from traveling that would be lost ...
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by superquest 9y ago
"openly supporting" the winning presidential candidate isn't "absurd".
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by superquest 9y ago
Scientists generally pursue truth whereas politicians spend most of their time pursuing power by building a constituency, trying to get and stay elected, raising money, etc. And I'm not saying "scientists are bad politicians"
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by superquest 9y ago
They also might be bad at politics.
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by superquest 9y ago
Stopped reading after their first example of an investing model was "high frequency trading" ...
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by superquest 9y ago
Attempting to follow the news in real time is what wears most Twitter users out. I felt the same way, but then I unfollowed everyone who tweeted about current events and the stress is gone.
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by superquest 9y ago
Ethereum was an ICO. Was Ethereum a scam?
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by superquest 9y ago
The comments section on aeon.co is very good . Encourage you guys to read the comments.
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by superquest 9y ago
Which means they are still basically farmers and just getting started.
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by superquest 9y ago
I can't find any evidence from 20th century, but here's a study from 2016: http://ftp.iza.org/dp10179.pdf It says Americans work 25% more. This is usually the conclusion of this kind of thing.
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by superquest 9y ago
And this explains Africa's dominance of the world economy?
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by superquest 9y ago
> a true digital commonwealth. That is hysterical.
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by superquest 9y ago
Elon's take: https://youtu.be/GtaxU6DZvLs?t=1m36s
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by superquest 9y ago
Fair. I became interested when this happened: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/18/f8/f818f8735acfdbf8f4a6...
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by superquest 9y ago
I'm deliberately being vague for the sake of argument. Of course there are many details in practice. A similar argument applies to the economies of Europe and the USA in parts the 20th century. A lot was similar, but Americans had the
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by superquest 9y ago
True. Because everything else wasn't equal. And it won't be here. But if it gets close to equal ... I imagine Chinese work ethic had something to do with the destruction of the Rust Belt, no?
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by superquest 9y ago
I can see why people hate on this POV, but one thing is very reasonable: Imagine company A and company B are equal in all ways, except company B's workers work twice as much. If they come into competition, company A will be crushed. Al
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by superquest 9y ago
Sequoia has been in China for more than a decade ...
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by superquest 9y ago
I think the article was pretty fair. He is controversial and polarizing: many people hate him and many people love him. https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/Jo
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by superquest 9y ago
No. This is the "so you're saying" interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
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by superquest 9y ago
She is such a firebrand. After watching that interview I've tried to make my body language more expressive like hers.
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What is driving the rise of the ‘Intellectual Dark Web?’(conatusnews.com)
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by superquest 9y ago
Below is a very good related article about the "intellectual dark web" consisting of academics like Peterson who are being driven out of the academy by orthodoxy and instead work through podcasts, Youtube, Patreon, etc http:&#x2F

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