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The aftermath of the California wildfires will be important for the entire country:
1. Private insurance companies have dropped fire protection from many homeowner’s policies or made the rates so high as to be unreasonable for most. They will fight tooth and nail to not pay. How do we fix the insurance market going... See more
Chamath Palihapitiyax.com
The central point of the post below is that risk is the product of venture capital, and some managers understand that better than others.
Many of the replies talk about the futility of 'financial engineering', and how concepts like portfolio construction are less relevant to early stage VC due to the greater... See more
How Behavioral Economics is Dangerous BS. Very dangerous. https://t.co/nEXvAudTj1
Excellent Advice for Living: Kevin Kelly’s Life-Tested Wisdom He Wished He Knew Earlier
Maria Popovathemarginalian.org
The Straussian Moment
gwern.net
A stunning essay in the FT on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things.
It began or accelerated in the early 2010s.
It's hitting teens AND adults.
Self-report and objective scores.
by @jburnmurdoch... See more
out of raw self-interest; the racist policies necessitate racist ideas to justify them—lingers over the life of racism.