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Ugh. I while back I switched all my gcal events which emailed me to reminders. Now I have to change them all back again.

Check about:support and look for a number higher than 0 in the "Multiprocess Windows" entry. Old extensions or something may be keeping you from running multi-process.

Multiprocessing did nothing for me, since I apparently hadn't configured it to use more than one process. Some extensions I had were keeping it from doing so. Once I got all that sorted out, it flew. If you're still on a slowish FF, make sure you're actually multiprocess.

Yup, this doesn't contain any quotes from well placed sources or anything like that nor delivers any new information about, say, Meg Whitman's candidacy. Totally devoid of merit.

I guess you just must have been momentarily distracted when you reached the part in the article in which she explicitly states why: "While gender of a leader should not matter to dispatching such appalling behaviors, the symbolism over the appointment of a female CEO at Silicon Valley’s most toxic-bro startup is unquestionable."

You should maybe check out who @zeynep is before you suggest she knows nothing about this subject.

Don't know why you're being down voted. I immediately thought the same thing. I'm all for CEO's being held accountable for these types of things, but it doesn't seem to happen very often. So, asking whether gender plays a role is absolutely fair game. Could also be, of course, that she's embattled, so it's easy to do.

It's about time. I'm not willing to put in the time to attempt to enlighten some guy on the internet who's claims imply that he considers himself considerably more intelligent than the great thinkers of history who have struggled with issues in philosophy.

Pick one:

1. There's something you missed along the way and thus you fail to appreciate the complexity of the issues.

2. You're considerably more intelligent than the hundreds of thousands of very intelligent people who struggle with the issues.

This is one of those moments when you sigh and don't bother. If you've done an undergrad in philosophy and still don't think there are parts which aren't very sophisticated and difficult, we'll... Sigh.

You know how, when your opinionated uncle reads a very high level description of some tech thing you know a lot about and then tells you how it will or won't work, you kind of sigh and don't even bother to try to explain just how much he doesn't know about the subject? Engineers who've taken a few philosophy undergrad courses should keep that in mind when drawing broad conclusions about philosophy. I'm not saying you shouldn't opine, but I'd suggest doing so with the appropriate amount of humility.

If you think Plato is cool with the 'but that's just you're opinion' defense, I'd suggest a reread.

Controlling a community very rarely works. Best thing, IMHO, is to embrace the market, as it were, and assume something will come along to fill the space once occupied by the thing you loved before it morphed. In other words, try lobster.rs.

You seriously can't dustinguish between his writing and that of in the New Yorker?

Yeah, so presumptuous of the architect to assume he'd want a kitchen. I'll bet this architect also dared to assume he'd want a toilet.

The founder of Soylent clearly believes he's an expert in many, many fields: http://robrhinehart.com/?p=1331

BTW, anyone know a good word for this attitude? I wouldn't call it hybris, though it's closely related. It's a mix of arrogance, over confidence, ignorance, plus more and very prevalent in SV.

You don't understand the concept of sample size.

You can do better by diversifying more. By picking asset classes with a low correlation, you can reduce risk while increasing return. Hence, you can eek our more from a simple mix of say:

60% US 30% Int'l 6% REITs 4% Gold

All of this can be bought with low cost mutual funds.

http://thismatter.com/money/investments/portfolios.htm

Right, which is why for people who are comfortable working out asset allocation, rebalancing, and TLH for themselves I recommend they do it themselves with low cost index funds.

Oh, and I tax loss harvest at the end of the year if any funds are down for the year by the end of December. Again, this is maybe 10 minutes per fund. 5 minutes for selling a fund, 5 minutes for buying a similar fund (and making sure I don't get into a wash sale situation.) So, that's at most, say, 20 minutes a year.

I don't know for sure, but I'm pretty sure Schwab and Vanguard don't tax loss harvest.

It's a thought experiment.

Really the only thing you have to do is rebalance. I do it every half year, but some people even do it every two years. And it takes all of, maybe, 20 minutes. Of course, you need to grasp the principles, which takes reading a book or two, so that's, say, 10 more hours. With compounding over the next forty of fifty years, saving those 25 basis points or whatever it is that betterment charges over Vanguard's fees is not insignificant. It's not a ton, but totally worth an hour a year to me.

Yup, I've written a brief primer to accompany my will: https://github.com/nickgieschen/investingguidelines

There are companies which will fairly obviously perform well in the future. However, because of active investing, this projected performance gets priced in, so they aren't a bargain. If the whole world except one active investor invested in indexes, then the active investor would have a very easy time, since that projected performance wouldn't be priced in and the stock would be a bargain.

I recommend Weathfront and Betterment to all my less mathematically inclined friends. However, if you spend only a few hours getting acquainted with asset allocation and rebalancing principles, you can do pretty everything that these services do without their fees.

As some of those stocks grow and some shrink, you'll end up overweighted in certain categories and no longer diversified.

Point is, could you have identified Renaissance Technologies in 1994 as one of the few companies to beat the market? If not, then your odds are better going with an index fund.

At this point, because of Renaissance Technologies' success, their fees will likely offset the gains they'll net you.

Rebalancing, tax loss harvesting, and asset allocation as you grow older (i.e. more weight in fixed income as you approach or are in retirement.)

Also, to illustrate how hard it is to sway their minds, my brother impersonated a lonely person on Christian mingle and got the scammer to start working on him. He showed my father their correspondence and my father was somehow able to explain it away.