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by lextuto 2y ago
Here's a potentially relevant quote from "The Man Who Solved the Market" by Gregory Zuckerman[0]. "One day, a data-entry error caused the fund to purchase five times as many wheat-futures contracts as it intended, pushin
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by lextuto 3y ago
Here is what Buffett says about value investing (in his 1992 BRK shareholder letter):"In addition, we think the very term “value investing” is redundant. What is “investing” if it is not the act of seeking value at least sufficient to
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by lextuto 3y ago
Here's a link[0] to my (non-monetized, WIP) blog about Renaissance Technologies[1] who were one of the first ones to use statistical arbitrage. Others were D.E. Shaw[2] and Pete Mueller at Morgan Stanley (later PDT Partners[3].) [0] h
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by lextuto 3y ago
This comment made me think of the tax advantage of buy-and-hold versus lots of small bets. Buffett also talks about this in his Berkshire shareholder letters.[0] [0]: Link to my (non-monetized and WIP) blog where I keep a collection of exce
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by lextuto 3y ago
Munger was referring to Li Lu[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Lu
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by lextuto 4y ago
I collected some info on Rentec in my blog[0] because I wanted to find out more after reading Zuckerman's "The Man Who Solved the Market." I hope you find it useful. [0]: https://sileret.com/blog/renaissa
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by lextuto 4y ago
Full disclosure: I have no medical training whatsoever. Exercise (a combination of cardio and resistance training) seems to be a very, if not the most important thing. That's the takeaway from two podcasts I listened too recently. In t
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by lextuto 4y ago
I also enjoyed the book and tried to find out more which I wrote about here (in my non-monetized blog): https://sileret.com/blog/renaissance_technologies/
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by lextuto 4y ago
Have you tried Tridactyl [0] as a replacement? [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tridactyl-vim...
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by lextuto 5y ago
Maybe Min [0] works for you. [0] https://minbrowser.org/
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by lextuto 5y ago
Do you know about Cog[0]? It's available via homebrew [1]. I found it to be a suitable replacement for foobar2000 on the Mac. YMMV, of course. [0] https://cog.losno.co/ [1] brew install --cask cog Edit: I'm not af
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by lextuto 5y ago
I use SingleFile [0] in the browser: "SingleFile is a Web Extension (and a CLI tool) compatible with Chrome, Firefox (Desktop and Mobile), Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, Yandex browser, and Opera. It helps you to save a comp
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by lextuto 5y ago
The article mentions December 2019, I found another article [1] showing SARS-CoV-2 as early as September 2019 in Italy. From the article: "A further SARS-CoV-2 antibodies test was carried out by the University of Siena for the same res