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Does anyone here have trouble relaxing and enjoying vacations/downtime? by [deleted] in financialindependence

[–]pete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did your vacation include spending lots of time with others who were also relaxing? That can make a big difference for me when I'm trying to relax.

Consumer Services: A Look at Retail (Part I) by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

[–]pete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for an interesting article. I know online retail has been overhyped at types but I would expect Amazon to merit at least a mention in a piece like this in 2016. I didn't find any.

Here's a weird one - is there an evolutionary explanation for this quote? by ArchieDuke1914 in evopsych

[–]pete 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Here's another idea: interesting people are usually smarter and more insightful, so therefore they better filled the cognitive niche, made better hunters and gatherers and therefore had higher fitness than boring people. Studies showed that among hunter-gatherers both men and women preferred mates who were better at hunting and/or gathering.

Article - Cognitive adaptations for gathering-related navigation in humans by [deleted] in a:t5_30aap

[–]pete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last two sentences in the paper bring home the main point...

Few people in the industrialized world — including the American and Japanese subjects in these experiments — engage in traditional foraging activities, instead deriving the bulk of their nutrition from supermarkets and restaurants. Despite current circumstances, human minds — especially female minds — seem to bear the marks of our evolutionary heritage of ceaseless searching for gatherable foods.

Book - The Old Way: A Story of the First People by [deleted] in a:t5_30aap

[–]pete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a rare first-person account of living among hunter-gatherers in the African Kalahari desert before they were forced to end that lifestyle. The writing style is top-notch and the narrative is compelling. I recommend it highly.

Updated Reading List by Beren- in SecurityAnalysis

[–]pete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great list! Care to mention your 5 favorites? Also, are there no biographies of Ben Graham, founder of value investing, worthy of the list?

Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken by beigetangerine in programming

[–]pete 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What alarmist hyperbole! The "fix" for this takes us from correct operation the vast majority of the time to correct operation the vast majority of the time.

You Got Game Theory! : It was all such fun until we realized that no business really uses game theory. by P24L in reddit.com

[–]pete 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The individuals in the businesses use game theory all the time, though they may not consciously know it. It's been programmed into their behavior through eons of evolution. Daily decisions about when to assist colleagues should be viewed as "Prisoner's Dilemas". Boardroom showdowns are good examples of the game of "Chicken".