What's the benefit of these fancy financial instruments other than for someone who wants to enjoy a slower, higher stakes version of the roulette wheel at a casino (assuming the Boglehead wisdom that individual stock picking is about as reliable as that)?
A guide to pricing and hedging (2003) [pdf]
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#12This is so cool. It's like the boy's king Arthur of finance. I get a fair few channels and podcasts on engineering and such, but I haven't found a lot of good approaches to financial topics. This is great.
Thank you!
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
i agree wholeheartedly with you but just to point out it does look like this is from 2003
I could understand this excuse if instead of 2003 it was written in 1920. That said, it only contains the word "boy" once in the entire article, and only in the provocative headline. I think we can all look past the provocative headline.
It does in fact contain the word "man" though in a (normally) non-gendered idiom.
> rather abbreviated poor man’s guide to the field
edit: just realised that there wasn't a space between "poor" and "man". However, it seems from a quick google search both versions (separate and a single word) are used for this expression.
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#14I hate to be "that person" ... but what is it in this paper that makes it appropriate to label it "The boy's guide ..." Answer: nothing. Nothing at all. Words matter, role-models matter, names matter, and this is just completely tone-deaf in today's world. Men (and boys) may scoff, but seeing the title is seriously off-putting. Unnecessary, inappropriate, and the problem is that the author probably has no clue. I've…
Agreed, and it's disappointing that you're getting downvoted for pointing this out.
It's probably an attempted play on words based on guides for boys, but yes, it's pretty tone deaf for something published anytime in the last 50 years or so.
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#15I hate to be "that person" ... but what is it in this paper that makes it appropriate to label it "The boy's guide ..." Answer: nothing. Nothing at all. Words matter, role-models matter, names matter, and this is just completely tone-deaf in today's world. Men (and boys) may scoff, but seeing the title is seriously off-putting. Unnecessary, inappropriate, and the problem is that the author probably has no clue. I've…
Articles with gender in the title tend to get complaints. If it has women, men, boy, girl, male or female in the title, there is almost always a comment complaining to that fact.
I think it would improve the comment environment if HN had a title policy against using gender in it unless the article is clearly focused on it and has something new to contribute on the topic of gender. A lot of article titles would benefit by simply removing it.
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#16I hate to be "that person" ... but what is it in this paper that makes it appropriate to label it "The boy's guide ..." Answer: nothing. Nothing at all. Words matter, role-models matter, names matter, and this is just completely tone-deaf in today's world. Men (and boys) may scoff, but seeing the title is seriously off-putting. Unnecessary, inappropriate, and the problem is that the author probably has no clue. I've…
I think it’s just a title in the British style from the 40s where there were lots of books with “for boys” in the title.
It usually implies a gloss over some otherwise serious subject: camping, survival, the universe, etc.
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#17I hate to be "that person" ... but what is it in this paper that makes it appropriate to label it "The boy's guide ..." Answer: nothing. Nothing at all. Words matter, role-models matter, names matter, and this is just completely tone-deaf in today's world. Men (and boys) may scoff, but seeing the title is seriously off-putting. Unnecessary, inappropriate, and the problem is that the author probably has no clue. I've…
Articles with gender in the title tend to get complaints. If it has women, men, boy, girl, male or female in the title, there is almost always a comment complaining to that fact. I think it would improve the comment environment if HN had a title policy against using gender in it unless the article is clearly focused on it and has something new to contribute on the topic of gender. A lot of article titles would benefi…
If you can't get over a word being used in the title then how can you be expected to grasp the content? Child-proofing the internet is absurd
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#18I hate to be "that person" ... but what is it in this paper that makes it appropriate to label it "The boy's guide ..." Answer: nothing. Nothing at all. Words matter, role-models matter, names matter, and this is just completely tone-deaf in today's world. Men (and boys) may scoff, but seeing the title is seriously off-putting. Unnecessary, inappropriate, and the problem is that the author probably has no clue. I've…
You're right, doubleplusungood. We really need to submit a proper report to the authorities for this flagrant violation of gender correctness rules. Thank you for your vigilance, comrade.
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#20The mus and sigmas in this paper on risk modelling would not make Nicholas Taleb very happy