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by tryitnow 9y ago
Does cycling cut cancer and heart disease risk? Or are people who are at relatively low risk of those diseases more likely to cycle? Or both? The way the headline reads, many people will be led to believe "Oh, if I start cycling, then
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by tryitnow 9y ago
It's been a looong time since I've studied financial economics but I do think there's an active research literature around this topic (under the topic of market microstructure maybe?). If I recall correctly (and again, it&#x2
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by tryitnow 9y ago
I don't really see a full fledged regression analysis here: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/01/the_college_pre.... There are several potentially correlated variables (College grad and cognitive
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by tryitnow 9y ago
Exactly. I'm not going to cancel my Prime membership, but I do make it a habit of buying certain products on other sites now. Another pet peeve: product descriptions are frequently insufficient to inform a purchase decision. I recent
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by tryitnow 9y ago
I don't think this could happen in a world dominated by blockchain. Blockchain basically makes unnecessary all the layers of internal and external accounting controls because it "automates" trust. Th big issue here is the au
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by tryitnow 10y ago
I'm skeptical of dual class shareholders. Honestly, it's not a terribly inventive idea. So why hasn't it been done before on such a widespread basis? If the ability to vote is valuable then that means investors will be willi
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by tryitnow 10y ago
Good point. I personally support a basic income, but I also accept that it would require massive tax increases. It seems like a lot of the pro-BI rhetoric out there just waves away any serious fiscal concerns.
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by tryitnow 10y ago
This is a pretty good summary of Hayek's argument. I wonder how he would think about the discoveries of behavioral economics and information economics
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by tryitnow 10y ago
This sounds insane. Why would you hire a cohort of employees only to fire them later? This may make sense in professional services firms with a pyramid structure. That's a situation where "up or out" might make sense. But a
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by tryitnow 10y ago
Is this perhaps a signal that it might be a good time for others to start selling Amazon stock? I know if I were Bezos I would sell when I thought the stock was overpriced. I wonder if this is an indication that Bezos and his team were bril
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by tryitnow 10y ago
This seems pretty obvious. Is this considered newsworthy in part because the recently popular media refrain has been "Uber is bad"? So now articles that point out the good that ride-hailing apps do are considered interesting?
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by tryitnow 10y ago
What's really interesting is comparing the outbound job search percentages of various cities. I'm surprised SF/SJ were at 44% versus only 2% for NYC and Seattle. I have no idea how real estate can maintain its value, clearly
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by tryitnow 10y ago
There's an important distinction here: tech culture versus local culture. The tech cultures of SF and the Peninsula/South Bay have more or less merged. The local cultures are very, very different. I think in the context of busin
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by tryitnow 10y ago
That's pretty typical of these reports. I use it mostly to get a sense of where the financial elites think things are going. It's not so much a predictive tool as it is a summary of what people are chit-chatting about in executiv
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by tryitnow 10y ago
Rwanda, Bosnia, Latin America death squads, the Confederacy, Andrew Jackson's March of Tears, the list sadly goes on and on. Your question is a bit odd. History is chock full of examples of genocide, ethnic cleansing, slavery, etc. Th
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by tryitnow 10y ago
No. It's more like he was swinging a foam bat and is warning us how easy it would be for someone more malicious to swing a spiked bat. Seriously, I don't really care if some teenager creates a non-sense fanfic world on poorly mon
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by tryitnow 10y ago
"But the probability of this study having failed to control for some other variable is higher than the probability of an as of yet unknown process allowing microwaves to produce changes in the chemical bonds holding together DNA."
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by tryitnow 10y ago
Isn't LinkedIn supposed to have an amazing data science team? Hmmmm.
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I love this, but why does he list just those specific members?
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by tryitnow 10y ago
Does anybody know why Gawker thought it was such a great idea to publish the tape? And not just to publish but to keep it up despite warnings from authorities? Is this something that is normal among tabloid outfits? I have no idea because
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by tryitnow 10y ago
Just want to note that yes, cost can rise in advance of growth. Whether or not that's "OK" depends on the unit economics. Frankly, I share your skepticism. I think you hit the nail on the head - Twilio has few, if any moats
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by tryitnow 10y ago
Honestly, I think "abus de droit" is a very interesting concept. I'm partial to liking it but I'm curious what the downsides are. Sure, some will say that it creates too much of a gray area, but that's life. Sorry
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by tryitnow 10y ago
It's not really a "free-market" issue. It's more about good regulation versus bad regulation. Sure, we could just complain about how NIMBYism hurts us all, but as long as there isn't a more powerful government unit
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by tryitnow 10y ago
No, not really. You're trying to make this about political correctness and libertarianism. It's just not. It's about NIMBYism and NIMBYism has been used to hurt the poor/women/minorities. It's also been used
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An interventional study is ideal, but unlikely to happen. I would have been happy if the authors just tried to factor in other characteristics like socioeconomic status, education level, etc. It looks like they didn't do that but inste
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I would add a little to this: It only holds true if there's nearly endless demand for high end units relative to supply. In SF, Manhattan, London, and other major cities this is true. There will always be a bunch of rich people willi
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by tryitnow 10y ago
To play the devil's advocate: What's wrong with being more selective? I don't think anything is. What's problematic is how people go about it. Our society doesn't teach us how to be selective with grace and manner
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I have no evidence one way or another on whether this will pass, so I'm curious as to what you're basing your assessment on. The local NIMBYs have virtually no power at the state level, so I don't see how they could block thi
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My guess is that that would be a tougher law to pass. The real estate developers and construction trade unions would pretty much swear to block something that extreme. It could also wreak havoc with small-time landlords who want to improve
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As someone else already pointed out we actually do have robots doing surgery. AIs are not dogs - that's a bad analogy. Right now development costs per head are sky high. If there's any way to cut that spend, you better believe e

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