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5 years ago
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on: How to Think for Yourself
there are loads of these folks in VC. Anyone who went to an ivy/stanford/MIT, worked in banking for 2 years, and now is at a VC by definition isn't a contrarian. Contrarianism bears out in life decisions - not a faux intellectual attitude
thegjp210
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5 years ago
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on: Jane Street Market Prediction ($100k Kaggle competition)
HFT firms aren't trying to predict "the market" as a whole - just small eddies of it. A typical example of this is arbing names at the bottom of index fund rebalances. Speed is important mostly to make sure someone else doesn't hit the arb first.
thegjp210
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5 years ago
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on: So you want to buy a farm?
Comments like this are why I love HN. Will order.
thegjp210
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5 years ago
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on: Should Remote Compensation Be Tied to Location?
I don't think that 'should' is the best lens through which to view this. The better question is, would offsite talent (at or above the quality of onsite talent) be willing to do the job for less. I would hazard a yes to that because of the drastic difference in savings rate in low CoL areas. E.g. would be willing to make 30% less to live in a CoL area where your CoL is 40% less? If the delta in CoL exceeds the delta in pay change, I bet this takes off.
thegjp210
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: You've got $300 to fill an empty library. What do you choose?
Happy to share! I have quite a few of both the LoA & Everyman's, and prefer Everyman's. They're IMO the best quality books in print.
thegjp210
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5 years ago
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on: Ask HN: You've got $300 to fill an empty library. What do you choose?
In this vein, ‘The Everyman’s Library’ collection excellently assembles classics on thick acid-free paper, cloth bindings, and essays introducing/contextualizing the work
thegjp210
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5 years ago
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on: Physical attractiveness bias in the legal system (2017)
I would imagine there's a strong causal link between competence and being "dressed-to-the-nines"/"very sharp". Maybe signals of fitness and fitness here are to an extent the same thing.
thegjp210
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9 years ago
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on: What is it like to be poor at an Ivy League school? (2015)
thegjp210
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9 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Best sites for finance, hedge funds, private equity?
