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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. https://youtu.be/qYedjI03…

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 …

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...

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 bec…

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.…

> 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 cou…

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…

Exactly. Almost as much fun as when Garry wanted to take our money to keep him rich: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35118988

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 E…

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 t…

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 a…

Generally, if you find a simplification that makes the problem trivial you’re interpreting it wrong and should reconsider.

You may enjoy this old book. http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html

Great point. Code review gives some commentary on result, but process wise it’s a solitary activity. Perhaps this was some of the benefit of the mostly abandoned practice of pair p…

I agree coding is a great discipline for both deep work and deliberate practice. I would draw a distinction between the two. Deep work is about achieving the focus and attention to…

I think your point about law breaking is good. Facebook, Uber, AirBnB. Too much law breaking in the name of innovation. I intended to make a narrower more trivial observation that …

I like your optimism. The article points out they were previously hit a few privacy issues. There was an FTC order in 2012 which the FTC claimed Facebook violated with in months. S…

Probably too simplistic. Innovation serves some and “disrupts” others. Uber might be a handy ride for you. A NYC cabbie who is in debt for his medallion might see it the opposite.

The article disagrees. But my sense is you are right in relative terms. Much more failing than acquiring. Article: > Startup M&A bounced back: The number of venture-backed companie…

> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. https://news.yc…

Thanks for sharing your story. It is in some ways inspiring. Can you elaborate on step 6?