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> So the core part of the message that VC is broken because most of them don't beat the public markets doesn't really matter. No, it matters. Investors want investments that are not closely correlated with the public markets,
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Why on earth do you think the top quant companies will leave alpha on the table for you to snatch up? That sounds too much like wishful thinking to me. Furthermore, if someone is really smart enough to beat the market consistently why on e
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I'm currently evaluating BI vendors for my company and just about every major contender has this functionality or is developing it. Read the Gartner report from 2017 and they basically just come out and say that this will be the new s
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Actually, this has been available in Power BI for a while. I just went to a meetup last night and saw it in action. It's fairly trivial to get this to work with well-formatted data. I'm currently evaluating BI solutions for my co
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The flip side of this is abusive workers who will refuse to put in good effort because the cost of getting fired is lower. Of course, we could argue that workers should be more motivated by the promise of a good reward, but it looks like ev
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There should seriously be a class on "Stupid Computer Shit" - I think that would make programming, and hence CS, a lot more accessible. There was a good class on Coursera a while back called "Startup Engineering" which d
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Good question. I had never heard of Bombay Beach but it's a fascinating story: http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/salton-sea Having said that, I think it has absolutely nothing to do with the article. Wonder Vall
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On the first point: Behavioral economics has taught us that life is just a lot more complicated than that. You're referring to fairly simple econ 101 models of human behavior. There's also principal-agent problems. Maybe you cr
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How long have you lived this lifestyle?
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Improving the efficiency of biomedical research.
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I couldn't disagree more. There's a lot of jobs that add little to no value. In a fictional efficient market economy that conforms to neoclassical assumptions, sure, every job is value adding. But does anyone believe that that
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Why exactly would that be evil? Everything you're talking about is public information. And how on earth would you measure IQ? By some proxy measure? That seems like it would introduce unnecessary noise. It's not clear to me tha
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I think it's the latter. I remember being super worried about political correctness when I was in college in the 90s. I thought was terrible and anti-free speech. Considering we just elected the most politically incorrect presidentia
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Yes, it can be disincentivized with steep fines. But then you just end up back where we are now. Developers would not build if they face the future prospect of such steep fines. What happens if the code is unclear or ambiguous (and when b
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OK, so what's the content of the documents. Best I can tell is that he has a bank account in the Cayman's? Ummm, why is that surprising for a former investment banker? This just seems like a desperate attempt to help Le Pen.
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No, it's not. But it is a convenient solution for when you want a quick, kind of nutritionally complete meal that's convenient. Of course, the founder didn't really position it that way? The hype was all about it being a mea
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Yes. I've already switched some of my purchases to Jet.com because: 1) I don't want the bother of trying to figure out that products are "real" and not knock-offs 2) For some items (most recently under bed storage contai
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That's my use case too. I've also just bought something called MealSquares, which may be serve the same purpose with the advantage of being solid food and using mostly whole foods.
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That's true up to a point - but there are also ways to mitigate against those losses without completely giving up all the alpha you can get from betting on extreme tail events. I'm sure there are some fund managers who do follow t
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Of all places to make arguments about Darwinian resource struggles, HN is probably the least appropriate. I assure you the male heroes in those stories are definitely not the type to read HN. Just as our culture has in-built biases against
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If it interferes with his productivity or the productivity of others, then no. But they really can't be understood as "office hours" if he's not working for you, right?
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I'm guessing that's not a realistic option for people in jobs where automation is taking place. The companies that would otherwise hire them are probably automating or planning to automate. If they have the resources, then retrai
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Sure, a few reasons: 1) If they're public they have a lot of investors and even more potential investors. 2) People like to watch competition, they like to see some things (team, companies, athletes) perform better than others. They l
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Humanity never started as a single entity though, so it wouldn't make sense for it to merge into a single entity. If an AI begins replicating then its part will come into conflict only if its "immune system" is unsuccessful a
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I think Utah's success is not only due to the willingness of the Utah population, but also to their proactive pragmatic disposition. And let's be honest here, the Mormon influence is a major factor both in instilling the willingne
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This is a pretty disappointing list. First, the items do not tend to be mutually exclusive - there's a lot of overlap with each other. I interpret that as a sign of poor organization. It makes the whole thing hard to follow. Second,
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I don't have the time, but if you're really interested in this question I highly recommend taking a look at various indexes of innovation. I had the same question myself a few years back and I was impressed with how innovative ot
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You answer your own question when you state: "The upper & middle class is more likely..." "More likely" is the key term here. How much more likely? If they are very, very, very likely, then you might be correct. Ho
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Tragically, I bet this is all too common. Wansink's mistake was blogging about it. This emblematic of a larger problem with how science is practiced: the obsessive focus on p-value thresholds leads to irrational practices like trawlin
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Something like this was tried in the post-War era when the top marginal tax rate was very high and the government had large incentives to promote policies opposed to wealth concentration.

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