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You mentioned actuarial - as an actuary interested in quant work, I'm surprised they are so well-represented on your team. Do you find lots of them in the industry? I'm taking the Quantitative Finance specialty actuarial exams and figured it'd be a long shot to break in, but maybe there's hope.

Really enjoyed this article - seemed to give a pretty objective look at what happened then and parallels to now.

What I liked most though was the author's honest assessment of what happens if Uber and others win. Most people seem to imagine this utopia of competition between the ride share companies, but given that Uber is already engaging in immortal practices to eliminate competition and hiring people to schmooze regulators, I doubt that's the direction we're headed. If they get their way, we'll be complaining about them in 20 years when they are established, another company comes along, and Uber tries to regulate them away.

This is all sick in it's own way, but it's not capitalism. Why do people equate every system in which someone makes a profit with capitalism?

Approve!

I don't understand why Average Joe thinks he can beat investment firms long term with staff dedicated to tracking each and every tradeable asset. Who do you think you're trading with?

If you want to gamble on a company or a market shift then fine, but for the most part that's just what it is - gambling.

Given the size of Big Oil, Big Agriculture, and Big Auto, I don't think you'll see a major shift to electric in 10 years.

I have more faith in freedom than faith in a group of humans with the same greedy intentions as any other human, but with regulatory power over everyone else in the market.

You were effective at using big words and quoting an economist, but not at providing any counterargument to the essay.

So you don't shower then? Just hand-washing?

> "My advice is to attempt startups in the center of a confluence of macrotrends"

That's basically like saying "buy the winning lottery ticket" in my opinion. There are lots of eyes watching for macrotrends, and lots of people trying to capitalize on that. Identifying the trend is part of success, sure, but that's the easy part - the hard part is separating yourself somehow. Luck isn't the whole reason for that separation, but it's a significant part of it.

I do agree that many founders don't recognize their luck. To their credit though, I think they often emphasize the "work hard, be smart" part instead of saying "I knew I was better than all my competitors because..."

> After another three generations or so, chips will probably reach 5nm, and at that point there will be only 10 atoms from the beginning to the end of each transistor gate, he said. Beyond that, further advances may be impossible. "You can't build a transistor with one atom," Samueli said.

I don't get it - did people assume that chips could get infinitely small?

Seems pretty obvious that Moore's Law would fail at some point.

Disclaimer: I didn't know about this law before today so I'm probably ignorant of something.

> money this guy has made

I think you mean "beer this guys has drunk"!

Reading comprehension fail on my part!

This site finds similar artists to the one you search for. It has no reason to expect you'll like The Offspring when you entered Symphony X.

It's like telling a friend you like Band X, and they say "Oh man, if you like Band X, you'll probably like Similar Band Y! or Similar Band Z!" It would be odd if you said you liked Jay-Z and someone recommended The Clash because they're so different, even though it's not uncommon to like both.