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by tjs8rj 5y ago
I think sincerity is a short hand to cut through partisanship. You believe what you believe sincerely, likely because you find it backed in truth / agreeing with your morals and best intentions. If we assume all humans generally back t
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Great! They do account for slippage and false entries, including fees on certain trades, and many of them are live results (like the sentiment tracker). Hope this helps!
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Why not a mandate to wear 2 masks? Or a mandate that you should wear surgical gloves everywhere (non latex for the allergic of course)? Don’t you realize how many lives could be saved with these minor inconveniences? What’s the harm? Why no
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My pet theory that fits the timeline pretty well is that when Tumblr died and they migrated to Twitter, what was incubated and contained on Tumblr dramatically changed the demographics of twitter and became more mainstream. Most of the last
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Isn’t this the classic argument about how Athenian democracy dies? Either a majority oppresses a minority or the people start voting for excesses until the society goes bankrupt
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This is an interesting point. I thought about it and concluded that for me there’s a gradient of any freedom between the harm it causes and the liberty it grants. Making nukes accessible at Walmart is a little bit more freedom with likely m
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by tjs8rj 5y ago
HackerNews isn’t for “scoring points”, your comment doesn’t contribute anything to the discussion. Make your snappy clap backs on twitter
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What? I justified why I put culture and social cohesion first explicitly in my comment: because many poorer asian countries do much better than many richer white countries on average. The culture variable is overriding the income one. Cultu
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Ready access to guns, also ready access to alcohol, ready access to knives, etc these are all part of the equation, but I contend that they are so dwarfed by the other factors that focusing on them seems disingenuous and otherwise random ex
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Sure, but access to alcohol has the same effect and I’d imagine has the same level of magnitude impact in increased violent crime. There are a million factors, but singling our access to guns - which is way down on the list of factors - sou
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This doesn’t square with the fact that many of the most gun dense states have the lowest violent crime rates. New Hampshire has tons of guns, violent crime comparable to Nordic countries. I’d say in order the biggest determinants are: cultu
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I’m jaded with the crypto-scammery too, but isn’t lower fees with 24/7 instant transactions the selling point? (For low fees think Binance not Coinbase).
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I’m not convinced that’s a good rule of thumb at all, because there’s so many examples where it applies and is wrong, and many where it doesn’t apply but the tech was revolutionary. Not to mention the greater point: Im not even that convinc
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We’re not talking about bootstrapping for a year, op said selling to Facebook in a year. To pull that off means awesome traction or clubhouse level hype or deep serial founder connections, or corruption at high levels. All of these are much
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If leetcoding and going from 0 to acquired by Facebook in a year were just as hard, we’d all be rich. Even if it was only an order of magnitude difference, the expected value of starting that startup would be so much higher. They aren’t eve
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Personally what I find most frustrating is the two-facedness of it. State your bias. Maybe each reporter should have a visible profile above the article below the headline stating their “political compass results”. Why does CNN/Fox New
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I tend to be on the riskier side, so if it isn't in my 401k it's in these ;). I do keep some cash for emergencies and stock from my company too! 1 in particular (the Double Leveraged In & Out) has quantitative papers written a
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by tjs8rj 5y ago
Nice to keep in mind!
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Hey everyone! This is a collection of my investment modules - strategies codified from my experience in quantitative investing and software development. All categorized into a short menu. These models (algo-investors as I call them) serve d
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Show HN: Deploy your own algo-trader in 5 minutes with 0 code(getquantbase.com)
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What does your process look like? You can validate or destroy a startup idea in a day with enough conversations (if you can get them).
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You have to consider the problem from first principles. A startup is always: creating value by addressing a need for a group of people. Skill and luck weave through all of this. Finding the group of people? Maybe you strategize and seek tho
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As for Jesus vs Mohammed, Mohammed is an incredibly popular name among muslims generally, so it’d be like leaving out “John”. Jesus is a much less popular given name around the world.
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This is exactly my point: none of your response is factually correct. You’re making value judgements and demanding others agree. Don JR says covid is being blown of out proportion, you say it’s a big deal, these are subjective. Conservative
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I think you’re misrepresenting the other side. Trump JR never said covid wasn’t real, he said “it would disappear the day after joe Biden was elected” the suggestion from the context being “Democrats are blowing the situation way of of prop
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My gut reaction to “conservatives generally resent environmentalism” is that it’s wrong. I know you mean from a policy standpoint, but the people who live most in nature, who feel most at home outside concrete jungles and actually experienc
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I think this is a consequence of “make your product for the customer”. I think it should’ve been obvious that Americans weren’t Koreans or Kiwis in attitude, numbers, or behavior, and so the solutions requiring that level of cooperation and
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I think the truth is that they were naive or focused on their consumer existence, but as soon as they were the owners of the hottest and best search engine it was a simple next step to monetize with ads. I don’t this excerpt suggests they h
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by tjs8rj 6y ago
I’m specifically referring to this paper: https://www.nber.org/papers/w24112 where researchers tracked several asset returns since the 19th century across several western countries. While real estate and equities have
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That’s not a pyramid scheme, that’s a referral system.

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