General Politics Discussion (III) [ARCHIVED] • Page 610

China will make the argument they're the only grownup global superpower time and time again the next four years

 

Did the guy from Train scat a little bit and do a medley of "Drops of Jupiter"?

 

He has half a million followers. Only 29 RTs? Less than 150 likes? Get that CNN money you hack.

 

I think it's about 3/4ths of how they make policy now

 

Ok that is pretty bad ass

 

WTF

 

He wrote that book with a friend of mine's professor at American University (Peter Kuznick). Went to a party at Kuznicks house before the book came out & he was telling us about working on it...definitely has some interesting theories

#humblebrag

 

The Fate of the Fast against the Slow

Sometimes I think about doing a PhD and going into academia and then I am reminded of the rampant exploitation inherent to the capitalist university.

 

Best other reply I saw to the original tweet:

 

Anxious to hear the new spin now that the 90 days have come and gone

 

I cannot wait for the Onion to follow up this article hundreds of times

 

Ethics, Quants and Cold-Calling

One of the most incredible feats of marketing of our century is that the internet companies have convinced a lot of people that selling advertisements on web pages is basically the same as curing cancer, while buying stocks and bonds is evil:

“At tech companies, the permeating value is that they’re about trying to make the world a better place, whereas at hedge funds it’s about making more money,” Mr. Epstein said.

That’s from a Wall Street Journal article — in its series on quants — about the talent battle between Wall Street and Silicon Valley. As far as I can tell, the pitch for data scientists from Silicon Valley is: “Come work here, you can build advertising models and pretend that you’re saving the world,” while the pitch for data scientists from Wall Street is: “Come work here, you can build trading models and not have to pretend that you’re saving the world.” I actually think that is a useful sorting metric, and I know which one I would take.

 

Attention liberals: the "we'll always have Paris" jokes are not the slightest bit funny.

 

Conspiracy theories are more fun when I think they're all miserable

 

Holy fuck the world is the worst