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2 and 3 are probably a consequence of 1 because a human being with fewer information will look irrational to someone with more information.

What we can infer is that people with iphones don't tweet in poor neighborhoods

I don't know if this is a good idea. Jerry Seinfeld is clear, nobody wants to talk anymore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR1ckgXN8G0 :D

I guess you mean: "Would you rather earn $800,000 and live in a neighbourhood of those earning $1,000,000, or would you rather earn $100,000 and live in a neighbourhood of those earning $80,000."

Related course on Coursera https://class.coursera.org/money-001/class It changed my vision about the complexity of the banking system.

If you define luck as the happening of an event that the probability of not happening is greater than the probability of happening. Then all depends on how well you can calculate your probabilities of success and how much risk you want to take.

Of course you can't be 100% sure that you are going to be successful. But you must try to increase your probabilities as much as you can, trying to predict your probabilities as accurate as you can.

As Laplace said: "Life's most important questions are, for the most part, nothing but probability problems".

One thing that I really love about HN is how damn contrarian everyone always tries to be. This is always good when you can keep low the number of trolls.

If you don't like other people opinions then you can always do Mathematics. The paradise where other people opinions don't care.

I'm still trying to figure out something that cannot be linked to the real world

Like everyone is hitting me as hard as they can let me say this: The title is very sensationalist. I'm sorry about that. I just wanted to give some recommendations for improvement. I love the courses, the professors are super great and I'm going to take more courses next year.

Maybe the title is a little sensationalist. I'm sorry about that. I just wanted to give some recommendations for improvement. I love the courses, the professors are great and I'm going to take more courses next year.

You maybe didn't read my post entirely or maybe I wasn't clear. I'm saying that the courses are great and I'm suggesting them to change the way they are paraphrasing the statement of accomplishment or even better to create profile pages.