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zhonwang | 7 years ago | on: Coinbase and the Widespread Adoption of Cryptocurrency

Silk Road has been gone for a long time. At this point I would guess that 75% of the volume of BTC movement is from speculators. That's probably conservative.

zhonwang | 7 years ago | on: China's Peer-To-Peer Lenders Are Falling Like Dominoes as Panic Spreads

Well Subprime loans were knowingly targeted at people who had poor prospects of repayment in the first place (People with subprime credit).

zhonwang | 7 years ago | on: 2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Winners

This is a strange attitude to have. The prize was specifically designed to highlight the work of promising young Mathematicians so why is this an issue? It would be like complaining that the Little League World Series is ageist because it doesn't allow older competitors. Besides there is also the Abel Prize which is equally if not more prestigious, is open to any living Mathematician and has a far more substantial monetary prize attached.

zhonwang | 7 years ago | on: 2018 Fields Medal and Nevanlinna Prize Winners

This seems better to me than the Nobel Prize where it may take Decades for your work to be recognized and is kind of a nice retirement gift for old academics. The Fields though can forever change your career trajectory when you win it.

zhonwang | 7 years ago | on: Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

Might surprise you but the vast majority of IT units hiring people are not giving them $1500-$2000 Macbooks

zhonwang | 7 years ago | on: Tech's diversity crisis: 40% of VCs went to Harvard or Stanford

Wasn't the whole point of Moneyball that the A's were able to perform far above their level and salary cap based on evaluating players on hard stats and not appearances? Not sure what your point is.

zhonwang | 7 years ago | on: The 4,000 Lines of Code Harvard Hopes Will Change Translation (2017)

>For quality translation of complex, non repetitive ideas, a human is, and will always be required.

This is almost certainly not true.

zhonwang | 7 years ago | on: Amazon Dark Patterns

Its a serious issue if Amazon does not have this feature and still deletes reviews.

zhonwang | 7 years ago | on: Tech's diversity crisis: 40% of VCs went to Harvard or Stanford

Never said it was. But the implication was that Sports are more meritocratic than Tech. You don't win MVP of your league through Nepotism but you could easily get $20M+ in VC funding that way.

zhonwang | 7 years ago | on: Tech's diversity crisis: 40% of VCs went to Harvard or Stanford

So more than Professional Sports?

zhonwang | 7 years ago | on: Tech's diversity crisis: 40% of VCs went to Harvard or Stanford

SV is definitely a Meritocracy though right guys??