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I think one problem with this advice is that not everyone can be a passive investor. There has been an absolute explosion in passive investing in the past 10-20 years, so there is actually a bigger battle going on to lead the giant sums of that passive money. Mike Green has commented a lot on this new phenomenon, some very good info: https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/mike-green-passive-investin...
The future of remote work is Microsoft Teams merging with Sharepoint? (I guess everything eventually merges with Sharepoint... "Resistance is futile.")
That just takes a crowd, and time
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Damned if you do, damned if you don't. In this climate, short sellers are viewed as evil. If you are trying to speak to those exact people about one of their heroes, do you follow the playbook of one of their enemies (shorters who post negative outlooks) or try to appear genuine by not having a position?
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Probably because you ignored the fact that Tesla is the first to deploy, so obviously there have been more crashes. but on a per mile basis maybe not. It's such an oversight that it comes off as dishonest.
This response is common, but flawed. At root it is a “no true Scotsman” fallacy. Behind that, it argues, or at least heavily implies, that the only “true” free market is one wholly unburdened by regulation. Such a thing does not exist outside of history books, and there are good, historical reasons as to why.

The fundamental premise, though — that the market is not ideal for healthcare —- remains. For shoes and smartphones, the market is fine. For MRIs and insulin, it is not.
Base64 encode it.

If someone wants to send you email, he should be able to decode your address.
Yeah, Go is such a great improvement to C. Finally, a programming language for the 90s.
Through all of this, no one has received any jail time. That's the biggest crime.
>It's not a free market.

If you hadn't opened with that I think we could have gotten another two or three people extending the chain of indirectly stating as much.
This is a good description of why people throw money at lottery tickets (like actual lottery tickets), particularly those who probably shouldn't be.
I agree, I spotted some words that were in use before 95 as well, like Antifa for example, but it’s his list of words, not an official one. It could be useful and simple
practice for people to engage in.
Except high earning women are still women and tend to marry even more successful men.

Divorce law is not gender neutral. Custody of kids favors the mother, does it not?

A 50/50 asset split disadvantages men on average because they typically bring more than 50/50 into the marriage.
Or in other words, the problem is lack of patience. I certainly have it, which is why I occasionally swing trade options.

But the numbers clearly show the long hold strategy as in the article is the smart, reliable play, one that can be done simply by contributing small amounts each month.
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As I actually did read the article, it is poor form on your part to accuse me of not doing so. It also makes you look like a jerk.

If you think teachers should be forced back to work without vaccines or proper PPE, then you are advocating for something awful - not allowing people to make their own decisions about their career and personal safety.

The rest of your garbage comment is not really worth discussing, as it relies requires adopting some pretty biased perspectives that I would rather not try to emulate for the sake of discussing some point with someone like you.

Have a good day.
Was the bread price fixing good work?
That’s not every minor bump, though, and is worth the extra effort!

Also, my use case is 100% non critical from a security standpoint, so I can afford to be careless... your point definitely stands in sensitive environments
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This gave me the mental image of an HNer patting himself on the back for not following the crowd after finding himself burning alive in the nightclub's broom closet as it burns down.
What could be ways to detect such personality traits / mindsets, during job interviews?

(If you're the interviewer, looking to hire a manager)
War and Peace is a few MB. A “YouTuber” gossiping in HD is more bits. Luckily video services rely heavily on on-net caches.
Don't use 'to whom it may concern' in job emails
Just a PSA - when I see a hiring email addressed to 'To whom it may concern' I skip over it. It tells me this is likely a form email you sent to a lot of companies not just mine. If you're cold emailing for a role, it takes more time, but try to personalize it a bit. Explain why you like the company and what you think you can do to help. I always respond to emails that mention positive, concrete things about the company even if I don't have a role, and sometimes those conversations turn into something down the road. And by concrete I mean not just a "hey your company is cool" but something that shows that you have used the product and get what we're doing.
The healthcare market isn't free. Also, we should call it "lifecare" rather than "healthcare", because the market doesn't care if you're healthy or not, just alive and using medical services.

"If the image of medicine I have conveyed is one wherein medicine lurches along, riven by internal professional power struggles, impelled this way and that by arbitrary economic and sociopolitical forces, and sustained by bodies of myth and rhetoric that are elaborated in response to major threats to its survival, then that is the image supported by this study."

- Evelleen Richards, "Vitamin C and Cancer: Medicine or Politics?"
Not patients. Insurance.

> she was “shocked” to see a drive-through coronavirus testing site bill her insurance $1,944
Yep. For better or worse i've been up to my eyeballs in "hey, you know, biological systems are actually insane!" since high school, and now through a few advanced degrees :)

I've been working in tech more than normal for a few years now, and the endemic nature of "the andy grove fallacy" among my coworkers has ceased to startle me, but it's just kind of bothersome every time.

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2007/11/06/an...
Please don't give the HFT's ideas, they'll probably do it and cause a half dozen tsunamis in the process.
There's a book "Honest Business" by Salli Rasberry and Michael Phillips. Grew out of hippy businesses in the SF East Bay in the 70's IIRC. Anyway, they advocate for a radical openness in business management, like spreadsheet on the wall for all to see.
John Bogle was from the silent generation, while the get rich quick mantra is more of a boomer and Gen-x stereotype.
Tesla is in the top ten most valuable companies in the world. I'm not sure why you think that process is "not translating well".
> And I'll bet money that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were, as a practical matter, given a green light by the FDA when the first early phase III results came back, months before formal approvals (which actually came in the middle of the phase III trials); meaning there would've been no regulatory risk to pushing the manufacturing pipeline into maximum overdrive.

If this is true this is the most insane thing I've ever heard.

They can't have it both ways. You can't say "the FDA knew it was safe and effective so they gave the geeen light to the manufacturers" and also "they had to withhold this vaccine from the population because they didn't know if it was safe and effective".

> Is COVID-19 providing cautionary tales regarding government intervention in the free market?

I don't believe criticism of the government needs to be condensed into "government intervention good" or "government intervention bad".

I don't think the solution is smaller government or bigger government it's better government.

The FDA has royally fucked up over and over again by being far too cautious. A lot of the government fucked up when they said masks didn't work.

The CDC fucked up when they promoted vaccinating essential workers instead of the old.

And the executive branch has been far too cautious and uninvolved in ensuring we have enough high quality masks, and broadening vaccine the pipeline.
How much did it affect the value of the business or number of customers?
The main purpose of capitalism is to shift blame onto the consumer. You didn't want your new lawn mower to maim you? You should have done your research, it's your fault.
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It seems more likely that it’s a politically expedient way to get cover for a decision

That's certainly one of the reasons you would bring in consultants.

I think critics of consultants are, in general, too quick to dismiss the monetary value of political lubrication. If it's going to get your management hierarchy to admit there's a problem at all, or if it's going to get your management hierarchy out of a deadlock, that's worth something. If your organization is able to actually focus on the problems despite the politics, you are probably not a a typical McKinsey/Bain/BCG/etc. customer.

With maybe one exception, none of the consultants I know ever fit the mold of a fresh-out-of-college generalist who thinks their frameworks and raw intellect will help them come up with better answers than a specialist could. They mostly all understood that their jobs were to escort boring, good enough ideas through the boardroom politics. And that was often something they were good at, and they were often acutely aware that some people in those companies already had the answers but the organization was too dysfunctional to recognize the fact.

That's the core of the problem anyway. But naturally they'll sell you a lot of other promises and products, and those are where I think management consultants are the wrong answer. Just hire real specialists.

The other problem I have with management consultants is that I feel they, both the companies and many of the individuals, are too amoral to be healthy for society, but that's not about their competence.
iirc BLE is not that exact and you'd also have to model/measure your sensor position. I think creating a primitive statistical model for looking up the location seems sensible but the ML aspect is definitely a little bit overrated, but I think this thing was never meant to clickbait (it's means to an end available for ~40years now).
One would have thought that at least one person on their in-house counsel team would have heard the term "civil conspiracy" before.
Do you think we should add some laws or something to protect insurance companies' profits, which are suffering from this type of fraud?
> I am unable to get certain credit from my bank because of my employment contract (i.e. rolling yearly contract) even though I have a good income and savings.

That's purely a risk appetite decision by the bank. If you looked around you would probably find the type of credit your after. You just might not like the interest rate.

In terms of frozen accounts/money, I don't really see a fully developed DeFi helping much with this. Your transactions would have triggered KYC/AML warnings in the bank who are then obliged to freeze your account (and not actually tell you why). If a DeFi were to be big enough they would fall under similar legislation or quickly become an avenue for money laundering or terrorism finance.

>Middlemen have been completely removed from lending and exchange via DeFi and it can't be undone now. Even with strict KYC/AML and regulation at crypto off-ramps it can't be undone.

I get the concept, I don't really get the business model. Are we talking P2P lending? If so how many people are comfortable with doing the risk analysis required for lending in this scenario?

From my perspective that is what the middlemen are for. I could loan money to someone who needs it (locally at least) right now. But I don't have the time or the skill set to gauge 1) How likely they are to just cut and run with my money. 2) How long it is likely for them to pay it back. 3) How realistic it is that what they need the money for will produce the required income to pay me back in full. I have to use these factors to then calculate an interest rate on the money I lend but also make sure said interest rate isn't so punitive they don't want the loan. Or I could provide my money to someone else (the bank in this case) and they can do all of that analysis and deal with collection/enforcement, legal contracts.

As to making it a global function, that just ramps up the profile even more. I now need to research what, if any, rights I have to recover my potential losses in another country.

> You can lend/borrow stablecoins (USDc), even if you're in the developing world.
Sure, but what advantages does this have over the existing solutions in the developing world e.g. M-Pesa.
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It's even worse than that, he was testing asymptomatic patients with a full panel. That part takes it from probably unethical to full-blown fraud for me.

> But in interviews, asymptomatic patients said they had also received the more expensive test.
I tried the same, and it was really easy to think that I was picking stocks well when in fact most of the market was up - rising tide, etc.

I also tried options. Great way to lose money fast!
> The simultaneous attack from Google, Apple and Amazon was unprecedented. It should not have been planned for. The PirateBay for instance was slowly attacked at expected places with lots of warnings over years.

AWS cut off Parler's service after several months of moderation problems (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/13/parler-llc-...). It seems highly unlikely that they had a better relationship with either Google or Apple.

> He was fired due to a war from a section of the population who didn't want any speech from that site online. Pick your reality I guess.

Accountability ends at the top. Would you be happy with his performance if you were Rebekah Mercer? Replacing the CEO also makes it easier to try to build a relationship with another cloud service.

Parler's CEO was lacking in at least the following areas:

He didn't keep the site up - excuses don't matter when you're the CEO.

He failed to keep service providers happy with Parler's content moderation. His public statements about moderation (see documents at https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/parler-llc-v-a... ) also made relationships with AWS, Apple, and Google much harder.

The security issues didn't help with their reputation. I agree that other services have had comparable issues.
First, this was news on conspiracy theorist sites. Nobody believed it. Then, it moved to alt-news sites that are typically not well respected. Now, it has moved to the NYT, so if you didn't believe it when the early warning came, you better believe it now.

I myself will probably get vaccinated, I'm no anti-vaxer, I've gotten all my flu shots for years, etc. However, I believe in bodily autonomy; and since we live in a world where decades of social energy has been spent on earning women the right to bodily autonomy for abortion, I would have thought that using the same argument - "I get to control what is put into my body" - would still hold some merit.

This is particularly important in light of the fact that we've been told repeatedly that these vaccines aren't really vaccines in the traditional sense: you can still get infected, you can still spread the virus, you just won't get killed by it. It's not the same as the other kinds of vaccines the article mentions, where you actually just will not get sick, and where you will not spread the virus.

However, check out the only real "objection" this article brings up:

> What are the objections to vaccine passports?

> In a world where more than a billion people aren’t able to prove their identity because they lack passports, birth certificates, driver’s licenses or national identification cards, digital documents that show vaccine status may heighten inequality and risk, leaving many people behind.

Typical. So typical. Focus on how some people might not be able to participate in this mandatory scheme to force people to (in many cases pay for and) accept something into their bodies or else be ostracized from society. Even though it won't actually prevent you from getting or spreading this disease, which probably won't kill you even if you did get it.

Call me paranoid if you want but this seems like an excuse to foist a digital ID system on as many people as possible under the pretext of public health.
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Interesting, didn't know that. What shape are they, then? Round? Or other?
I got convinced to use rust-analyzer instead of RLS by a comment like yours on hacker news ! I can't thank you enough ! It's almost like Rust became a different -much pleasant- language after that !
Hours after that article, the FAA said they had no concerns and let SN9 go ahead as planned. I just want you to see that your assumptions were not correct.
Part of it is that other players in the market have short term investment strategies, yet retail is told to sit on the sidelines and hold for 50 years.

Why can't we all try to play with money the same way these people do?
I find that the only 'drawback' is that it is not sexy. When people have talks about what they are going to buy or how much they have made buying and selling bitcoins last week you can't really take part of the conversation.
Can we just keep it real instead of spouting this garbage. I've worked alongside and gotten close with consultants on the business/management side having been one in software myself.

99% of the consultants who come in are human Powerpoint/Email factories who just happen to have the skill/trait of being extremely insistent. They push exactly what their client wants to hear and are not doing groundbreaking worldchanging work.

In fact in almost every case I worked on, most of the team had literally NEVER done any work in the clients field before, and never performed in the functional role they were being assigned to outside of maybe the partner or project leader assigned to the case who likely had a PHD/MD of some kind in the related field.

As others said, they are there as an insurance policy to throw blame.
Incredible, especially the part about testing asymptomatic patients with a full panel. That's...insane.
Will the US Stock market continue to provide exceptional returns? If you had invested in the German or Russian markets decades ago, you wouldn't have made much gains at all. https://www.bridgewater.com/research-and-insights/geographic...
Another related issue posted today:
https://www.kut.org/covid-19/2021-02-04/covid-19-testing-has...
Why not both?

For the defense of passive investing, I liked "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"[1]. There are like 7 editions of this book because it was true when it was published nearly 50 years ago and still true today. Maybe someday it won't be true, but that hasn't come.

But why not also put money into hot stocks that you like? Did $Company change your life? Buy their stock. Or have fun speculating with a little money.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street-ebook/dp...
"You're never as careful when spending other people's money."

I briefly worked in healthcare at a tech startup. The thing you quickly learn is that the market for healthcare is fundamentally broken. You could invent something that saves a patient $10,000 and they will never know. The hospital and doctors won't care about saving money. And the insurance company has no leverage to make them. And it will never make it onto the patient bill in a way that they understand.

And as much as doctors and hospitals love to paint insurance as the bad guy, the only reason things like prior authorization is a pain in the ass is because doctors don't actually put in any effort into prescribing generics or really learn how much anything costs. This is highly unusual in most professions: Imagine if your roofer grabbed whatever shingles they liked best and billed you for it after they were up. Now imagine every roofer worked the same way.
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I'm rather convinced at this point that all of these people chanting "Can we just go back to traditional approaches!" have never built a web app of reasonable complexity, never used something like React, or have some sort of combination of FOMO and/or comfort in their long-held approach.

I don't have experience with all of these technologies but have been using React since its inception, and let me tell you, there is no amount of (reasonable) money that would make me want to go back to the times when jQuery the big new thing. It was awful! Procedurally manipulating the DOM! I mean, c'mon guys. Talk about a mess... Where are all of the FP evangelists when you need them?

And I know someone out there is bound to downvote me and respond with something like, "B b b but that one site where it downloaded 300kB of JS for a landing page! It's such a bad user experience!". Sure. That's precisely what I'm talking about /s.

The reality is that libraries like React are so popular because they make front-end web development not suck. You can actually reason about the behavior of your UI without first committing to memory a whole of bunch of procedural, ad-hoc `let el = document.getElementById('i-hate-myself')` nonsense.

I get it. It makes web pages a bit slower, and sometimes (maybe more often than that) get abused. That isn't fun for anyone. But level the critique at the idiots downloading a MB of JS to power a single dropdown, not the tool managing that dropdown's state.
Oh, this is from the poica author! Neat!

That Poica can't work on C99 made it a non-starter for me; but all I really wanted was the sum types.
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This isn't about them. This is about a guy who chooses to have his monitor vertical. Don't take things wildly out of context in an effort to make it sound like people have made points which they absolutely have not.
Thank god, the fascist is out of office /s
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