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by ucaetano 8y ago
I posted it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18145067 But essentially, as % of market on index funds increases, the returns on arbitrage-seeking actively managed portfolios will increase (vs. the market) to the po
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> To me, the interesting question is: if the market is mostly index funds, what does that do? This will never happen. It might be interesting, but isn't a realistic scenario.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
This is fearmongering. If the market approached an allocation to index funds that enabled arbitrage, more actors would switch to arbitrage eliminating such arbitrage. It is a self-balancing situation. A scenario of "oh my god, everyone
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by ucaetano 8y ago
This is a test vehicle. Actual Waymo "production" cars don't even have drivers. Humans are the weak link.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Not really: > So here are some YIMBY claims and why I cannot be entirely on board with them.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Cloud computing continues to boom, and blockchain continues to go nowhere. So far, he's wrong.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Not really: https://www.weetas.com/article/rent-income-ratio-17-major-ci...
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Oh, it is, far more affordable than most of the US cities. Not only that, but over the past 20 years, the housing prices have increased just slightly above inflation. https://www.ft.com/content/023562e2-54a6-11e6-befd-2
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> How does this compare to other cities? This is the BS part of the article. The author shouldn't be comparing to other US cities, but to other large cities in the world that don't have a housing crisis. His argument is picking
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by ucaetano 8y ago
I talk about it a bit in the original post and the replies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11209768 > if the decision makers were profit maximizing individuals This might be a different problem, because "profi
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I think the general complaint is that MBA's have very little knowledge about the businesses they run. Most managers don't have a lot of deep technical understanding of the products that are part of their business, even if the
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Looks like you're taking this personally... > you are implying that MBAs are aware of their boundaries but scientists and engineers aren't? No, a lot of them just don't care about those subjects. But engineers clearly aren
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> A lot of them are quite ignorant about engineering and scientific basics. Yes, they are, but you don't see a lot of MBAs sitting by a coder's desk and saying that they're choosing the wrong name for a function. [Edit: ad
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Computer Engineer by education here, I posted about it a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11209768 Pasting it here: I went for it mostly to switch industries and geographies, as well as for the "learnin
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by ucaetano 8y ago
For what? As a map provider API? As a geocoding API? As a consumer map app?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Facebook is not in a traditional 'monopoly'. Just because you invented a new definition of the word monopoly, doesn't mean it is relevant. It isn't. > The term 'monopoly' is conventially used in connect
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by ucaetano 8y ago
PS: Quoting stack exchange for a definition of monopoly can only be a joke. You need to read better sources...
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> There is a moral difference between providing information requested by government that already exists in the systems, and creating tools to assist in censoring information. Morals are personal values, so you should say "there is a
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> or a massive number of people, FB is the only [online] platform that they and the majority of their friends to share and comment. For a lot of people, Amazon is the only online marketplace they buy from. And for a lot of people, Coca-C
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> arguable international monopoly on a major form of communication and dissemination Monopoly in what, precisely? Facebook has a monopoly in online, blue-themed social networks owned by Harvard dropouts. It doesn't have a monopoly o
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Because Fox is the one speaking in their favor? Or you didn't understand GP's argument?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
All American companies operating in China, including all telecom companies, Apple, etc. are handing over all Chinese user info to the Chinese government. As much as I think that's horrible, there are no laws in the US objecting to any
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Oh, there are no bounds for human stupidity!
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by ucaetano 8y ago
Simple: price discrimination. Coupons allow you to selectively target price-sensitive customers with lower prices, resulting in better matching of your price to buyer's willingness to pay.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> I imagine they are hard to run. But they don't require "genius" to run, they require people skilled in process management, supply chain operations, assembly automation and the rest. That's pretty much any company (w
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> Tesla is an engineer first Nah, Tesla is a Twitter-first. Engineers seem to hate working there and are constantly leaving because of the PR obsessions.
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> make it a private company and stay CEO Yeah, with what money?
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by ucaetano 8y ago
> How is it possible that this event, which was a 100% certainty, was not already baked into the price? Nothing is ever 100% certainty. And this isn't the outcome, just the lawsuit. There is plenty still left to chance. But I'v
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I'm not talking about peering, or transit. I'm talking about transport.
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> The value of a business is not, or should not entirely be, measured by its return on investment. No, it is the opposite. The return on investment is measured by the value of the business. But I'm not getting your point, are you su

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