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bosma

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    Comment #41631753

    > In reality the modal life expectancy of adults (most common age of death other than 0) has been pretty stable in the 70s-80s range for most of human history- the low average was …

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    Comment #22526882

    The CEO's, it's pretty clear.

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    Comment #22497383

    Do you have evidence for your assertion? Of what significance is the ratio of highest to lowest paid employee? Shareholders of a particular company pay CEOs, not whoever "we" is. H…

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    Comment #20364635

    CTRL-F "price" 0 results

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    Comment #11231677

    I recommend the book "More Money Than God" which studies the history of hedge funds and in the end suggests that successful hedge funds are not simply statistical survivors.

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    Comment #11231666

    Mandelbrot did not think the markets were random. He explicitly rejected the Efficient Market Hypothesis. http://www.amazon.com/Mis-behavior-Markets-Benoit-Mandelbrot...

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    Comment #7072648

    Do you disagree that secrets during war are necessary?

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    Comment #6977319

    http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html

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    Comment #6886802

    People don't like her because they disagree with her conclusions and what they assume are her methods. In order to understand her methods you must understand her epistemology. This…