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New comment by richrichie in "I Met Paul Graham Once"

richrichie — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:48:12 +0000

Are you the "ordinary people" he was referring to in a recent tweet @ Musk?

New comment by richrichie in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

richrichie — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 10:35:03 +0000

I have no grand opinion about Trump. He is as good as any other politician, though he might be marginally better from the prior that he is not a career politician and from the posterior conditioned by the fact that the bi-partisan establishment and the corporate media hate him. These are too strong a signal to ignore.

What irks me is the cheap virtue signalling by the laptop class which has been told to hate him since 2016. They had no opinion of the man - who is a literal Hitler and who was 70 years old in 2016 - before that. I despise such fakery.

New comment by richrichie in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

richrichie — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 06:48:31 +0000

It counts as something only if you called out Obama as vigorously. I don’t see any evidence of that in your timeline.

New comment by richrichie in "The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++"

richrichie — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 22:13:16 +0000

> give us some truly excellent code that we really don’t deserve

Why such self flagellation?

New comment by richrichie in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

richrichie — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:15:10 +0000

This is misinformation. There is no evidence that he gave $100 million.

New comment by richrichie in "Kalman Filter Tutorial"

richrichie — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 08:57:20 +0000

Indeed. I always recommend Time Series Analysis by Hamilton for this reason. KF comes up as a natural way to solve linear models.

New comment by richrichie in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

richrichie — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:21:04 +0000

Not one paper cited. Just random recitation of climate change hysteria tropes.

Life on earth had dealt with 120 meters of sea level rise. So please.

New comment by richrichie in "'Homeless people given free lunch' to attend Trump Jr event in Greenland"

richrichie — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:54:59 +0000

Greenland has 50k people. Just give them 1 million per head, passport and ask them them to vote to join the US as a state.

Far better than annexing territories by war.

New comment by richrichie in "The Illustrated Guide to a PhD"

richrichie — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:49:22 +0000

Mendel did not have a PhD.

New comment by richrichie in "The Illustrated Guide to a PhD"

richrichie — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:45:30 +0000

Because i have worked with many math phds who lost their youth to something that they could not make a living on (research positions at universities are few and the competition is intense) and were writing C++ implementations of derivatives pricing models for a (comfortable) living.

I am not trying to discourage you, just a different perspective.

New comment by richrichie in "The Illustrated Guide to a PhD"

richrichie — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:16:24 +0000

I hope you have decent source of secondary income or your family is reasonably well off.

A math PhD might take 6-7 years to complete and I hope that, at the end of it all, you won’t have to come to London to look for C++ or Ocaml jobs at hedge funds or banks.

New comment by richrichie in "The Illustrated Guide to a PhD"

richrichie — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:11:10 +0000

That is the way. Not long ago, most of Science was done by rich people as a hobby. We need to get back to that system.

New comment by richrichie in "The Illustrated Guide to a PhD"

richrichie — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:08:23 +0000

PhD now is an expensive way to signal that you can persevere longer than the average human.

Unfortunately, that is not always a positive as many real life situations require you to make decisions under extreme paucity of information and reverse or change course at short notice. For such professions and roles it is a liability.

New comment by richrichie in "ESG Opponents Get Novel Win in American Airlines 401(k) Suit"

richrichie — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 18:01:27 +0000

This is a big deal.

New comment by richrichie in "When Europe Falters, America Gains [video]"

richrichie — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:55:44 +0000

I will never forget this:

https://youtu.be/eKEycjREgPE

It is sad to watch Germany commit harakiri.

New comment by richrichie in "ESG Opponents Get Novel Win in American Airlines 401(k) Suit"

richrichie — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:46:17 +0000

https://archive.is/EAHOP

ESG Opponents Get Novel Win in American Airlines 401(k) Suit

richrichie — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:44:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-10/esg-opponents-get-novel-win-in-american-airlines-401-k-suit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42667495

Points: 3

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New comment by richrichie in "Predictions Scorecard, 2025 January 01"

richrichie — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 05:03:15 +0000

> It distorts where VC money goes, always to something that promises impossibly large payoffs–it seems it is better to have an untested idea that would have an enormous payoff than a tested idea which can get to a sustainable business

But this is the whole point of VC investing. It is not normal distribution investing.

New comment by richrichie in "Scientists uncover how the brain washes itself during sleep"

richrichie — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:20:59 +0000

This is especially true in climate science. There is a huge chasm between the public and private (post couple of drinks) sides.

New comment by richrichie in "Writing as Transformation"

richrichie — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 19:15:04 +0000

Thank God, i have company. I used to think I had early onset dementia.