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Productivity in this case is fairly simple to calculate = Cost/Duration. You can factor in the time (presumably that’s paid for so you should have a real number) and cost of materi…

2017 story on how Intuit killed the ReadyReturn program for pre-calculated returns for California. https://priceonomics.com/the-stanford-professor-who-fought-t... https://www.npr.o…

Not trying to be argue for the sake of arguing, but is there some data to back this claim up? Anecdotally I'm aware of many parents who think music makes their kid well rounded, bu…

Is it? The parent poster was specifically trying to say there is signal -- vs just noise -- in purchases like aeron chairs.

> The computerized GRE goes even further... it's like a videogame, it feeds you harder questions the better you do, then reverts to easier ones when you mess up. Isn't that one of …

This might result in jammed audio for human listeners, but recovering the original audio seems like a fairly mundane signals extraction problem subject to the standard signal/noise…

This is the right take. When you get to a certain level of income/wealth, it's all about figuring out ways to: 1. shift earned income into capital gains (e.g., private equity carry…

What would said dumb money be holding if not index funds? Single name blue chips? What would the blue chip holders do in the counterfactual world where there is a big downturn? Per…

Is there any way to minimize exposure to plastics in modern society? Modern homes all have PVC water piping, too. I'm guessing even the "safe" plastics will turn out to be not that…

If you're trying to sell GOOG, which trades a few billion worth every day, no. If you're trying to sell TEAM (Atlassian), which trades a few hundred million, maybe. If you're tryin…

I agree, this is a very good article. One consequence of increasing order internalization (because it's a good business, read the article) has been the remaining order flow on the …

It's been a while since I've used IB, but they are one of the few retail front ends that offer algorithmic execution. i.e., instead of showing 1000 shares to the market, it might p…

Some of the comments conflate retail traders with regular Joes and Janes. A lot of hedge fund investor money comes from pension funds who are placing retirees' money either directl…

This seems true, and also I think there's some nuance lost in the stats as well. My personal experience as a parent is that my kids don't get nearly the amount of independence that…