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• Unpleasant Facts and Other Musings

  Not really facts... more like loosely postulated theories presented with overconfidence

• Financial links - Unpleasant Facts and Other Musings

  1. An ironically titled blog post from Reuter's Felix Salmon. I think he was thinking about "black swans" in the place of "tail risk." When one of the obvious causes behind a large standard...

• Information Hazards in Career and Life - Unpleasant Facts and Other Musings

  This site was named after the idea that we need to face unpleasant facts. In some ways, it is named after a quote from George Orwell’s Why I Write. “I knew that I had a facility with words and a...

• Assorted Current Events - Unpleasant Facts and Other Musings

  1. The DOJ is finally putting pressure on the Chinese government hackers that have been attacking multinational corporations for the past decade.   It seems like the main difference between the...

• Schemes, Illustrated - Unpleasant Facts and Other Musings

  A lot of people are calling bitcoin and other blockchain tokens* Ponzi schemes or pyramid schemes. This is inaccurate, what is happening in the token economy is a new structure with significantly...

• Some 2020 Predictions - Unpleasant Facts and Other Musings

  It’s 2020, and there were a lot of things that I wanted to write in 2019 that I never finished. Luckily, I can write one post and cover many of them under the guise of writing predictions for the...