nuclearnice1
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Comment · 2 years ago
polyptoton?
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for the great video on international diversification.
I noticed he has another on the related topic of bias toward investing in one’s home country.
Comment · 2 years ago
A slight over simplification, for example s&p was negative 1% per year from Jan 2000 to Dec 2009. Plus the cost of your leverage.
But the general point that US equity returns have been good and leverage would have increased them stands.
For some reason, Americans are “told” to get 4x leveraged to the real estate market but to pay for their equities with 100% cash.
Comment · 2 years ago
Interesting. I did not know about this case.
We had a similar thing in Pakistan. In fact, same font.
https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/pakistan/how-calibri-font-br...
Comment · 2 years ago
Be sure to read that link with showdead.
thedrake’s victorious final comment “ SOLVED!!!!!! I spent several hours looking for an axe or a hatchet or an Ubåt…” is dead.
Possibly because of a heuristic aimed at killing spam posts with too many links.
Comment · 2 years ago
Great points. It depends on how confident you are in the claim that the primary purpose was “artificially boost quarterly profits.” No particular evidence presented in the excerpt.
Comment · 2 years ago
> For example, Gryta and Mann report that GE would sometimes artificially boost quarterly profits by selling an asset (e.g., a diesel train) to a friendly bank, knowing that it could then buy back the asset at a time of GE’s choosing.
So fraud?
Comment · 2 years ago
You did a beautiful job and you should be proud of it. Both the information and the aesthetics are a treat.
Can I ask what technology stack you used? For the images, the animations, and the voice over?
I’d like to be able to do something like this.
Comment · 3 years ago
Exactly. Almost as much fun as when Garry wanted to take our money to keep him rich: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35118988
Comment · 3 years ago
Interesting point. There are obvious connections from
the Yamas to the eight-fold path of Buddhism: Right View, Right Resolve, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration.
I’m not aware of an explicit ordering. But the other seven steps complement and deepen the meditation.
Comment · 3 years ago
You may be interested in Terry Tao’s polymath collaborations.
https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2018/01/24/polymath-proposal-...
> As for upper bounds, de Bruijn showed back in 1950 that {\Lambda \leq 1/2}. The only progress since then has been the work of Ki, Kim and Lee in 2009, who improved this slightly to {\Lambda < 1/2}. The primary proposed aim of this Polymath project is to obtain further explicit improvements to the upper bound of {\Lambda}. Of course, if we could lower the upper bound all the way to zero, this would solve the Riemann hypothesis, but I do not view this as a realistic outcome of this project
To your point, there was some excitement and progress in the beginning, but it remains an unusual approach to mathematics.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ha. Right. I guess it’s just one more way in which the interview is an anti pattern for the behavior we want in a coworker.
Can I Google this? Sorry no.
ChapGPT? Pretend it’s not available.
Use a library? No no no.
Ask for help? Thanks for coming in.
Comment · 3 years ago
Generally, if you find a simplification that makes the problem trivial you’re interpreting it wrong and should reconsider.