natecarroll

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by natecarroll 10y ago
The players they recruited were incentivized by a $8,000 prize pool up for grabs among the 34 of them...average $EV $235. They have to play 3000 hands to get a shot at that money, which is probably around 10 hours of multitabling. So that&#
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by natecarroll 10y ago
The notion of statistical significance as applied to research papers doesn't map well to the poker domain. He keeps repeating that they won 9 big blinds per hundred hands over an 80k sample because anyone familiar with poker at all kno
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by natecarroll 10y ago
I just read a great book called Paradise Now about 5 different Utopian movements in the US, Oneida being one of them. It seems the most successful colonies blended business savvy with a coherent set of values and cultivated familial closene
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by natecarroll 10y ago
Turns out that ignoring all political, legal, and economic frictions makes solving all the world's problems very easy! Why don't we all just produce enough food and then give it to the people that are hungry? Duh...!
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by natecarroll 12y ago
I've seen several other journalists/bloggers/media-people react to this news as if Andrew's decision was clearly driven by structural economic factors rather than a more benign desire to step away from blogging as his pr
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by natecarroll 12y ago
hey, what was your screenname on pokerstars/ftp/2+2? from the timeline, i'm guessing we played together a lot.
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by natecarroll 13y ago
What's so impressive to me about Red Bull is that they've successfully established a tier of beverages seen as more premium than soda in spite of no particular cost differences. Caffeine is not expensive, but Red Bull gets away wi
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by natecarroll 14y ago
Not sure why you are conflating credentialism and vocational training; a big part of the problem is that these two are very different things. That is, students invest 4 years and tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars and end up with a pi