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I entirely agree with you. In fact, there are still people doing arbitrage on eBay, although eBay is now an established site visited by millions. An example: some people look for m…

Fair enough. Please do note: 1) I find your writing style juvenile and distasteful. Maybe some of you yanks actually like that kind of writing. Personally, such writing makes the r…

The world changed faster than Statistics. These days, anyone with a computer can analyze data sets, which is awesome. The problem is that the Statistics books are not designed for …

I find MIT OCW courses on Statistics a good source of references. Reading books takes time, but you can find some lecture slides and lecture notes there. I, too, found Statistics i…

I am not saying Zed is wrong, I am merely saying his post is not really that insightful... at least when compared to other essays on Statistics one could read instead. For example,…

Nine out of ten people learned Statistics from teachers who knew jack of Statistics. The difference between Statistics and Math is that Statistics is data-oriented and somewhat "ex…

OK, I must admit that one made me laugh. I assume it's a rhetorical question, so I won't even answer...

Maybe the "Chinafication" of NK started in 2009: last year the country had its first pizzeria opened, and there was a beer ad on TV! :-) http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/16…

Not to mention that only in textbooks can one find perfect risk-free arbitrage opportunities. Unfortunately, the real-world offers only quasi-arbitrage opportunities. Fortunately, …

Ruby ninja, guitar-player extraordinaire , self-taught Statistics expert... wow!!! Zed's propaganda machine rivals that of Kim Yong-il. Get this: you need deep understanding of the…

Look, I know it's none of my business, but if you're a newbie and you want to learn some Statistics, wouldn't you be better off checking the MIT OCW pages, or the countless lecture…

At least I don't write like a slightly retarded teenager, and I don't pretend to be an expert on Statistics. Thanks for the "kudos" anyways.

Zed Shaw should stick to his area of expertise. His angry, opinionated rants on topics he clearly lacks deep knowledge of are perfect examples of the pseudo-intellectual junk that …

Even sadder is that married British women are very seldom worth a f*ck.

When I mentioned that NK could be a gold mine, what I had in mind was investments like real estate, utilities, land, agricultural commodities. My point would be clear if I had not …

Very good point. China is only the tip of the iceberg. For example, about 10 years ago, there was a scandal that Nike used slave child labor in Pakistan to manufacture soccer balls…

Please note that I stated that some people were willing to pay for the privilege of blowing up Somali pirates with heavy weapons. You found evidence that the Russian company sellin…

I wondered the same. North Korea is a potential gold mine. Sooner or later, the regime will collapse or open up to capitalism, and when that happens the influx of foreign capital w…

Weren't some rich Russians willing to pay for the privilege of a pirate-hunting vacation off the coast of Somalia? You're assuming everyone has a conscience, which is an unrealisti…

You should have added "Ask HN" at the beginning. Maybe someone would have replied.