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Felix Salmon
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Felix Salmon's personal blog at felixsalmon.com covers economics, business and data. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Comments cite his posts as data or background on finance, wine tasting, Zipcar fees and millennial incomes. None of them judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I have almost 10 years in the finance industry, both buyside and sellside and my take is that, while there are some fundamental principles at play, the world of finance is too messy and complicated for any one book to describe it. An even stronger statement I am willing to make is that no one person correctly and fully understands the financial system. So, once you accept that there is no "correct" answer to how the…
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on “Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?”Submitted The secret to success in the arts as a story · 49 points
HN discussionA few thoughts (I'm a ZipCar member btw) : I don't pay an annual fee because I used a company code I found on a discount site that gave me no annual fee (use Google to find one). They wrote and said that he was several weeks overdue paying for his annual subscription but I wonder if he'd tried to book a car whether they'd have let him without a valid credit card on file? Point is, if they wouldn't have let him rent…
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on “Using Zipcar may damage your credit”Submitted Chart of the day, Apple vs Microsoft edition (Market Cap v P/E Ratio) as a story · 6 points
HN discussionMore data for you: http://www.felixsalmon.com/2009/01/wine-tasting-datapoint-of... http://www.felixsalmon.com/2007/11/pinot-contest/ My own personal experience is that wine + food is most interesting. Both the wine and the food can change their taste substantially when paired well. But it's very rare that I can find a wine that I can stand in quantities to drink without food.
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on “'You Are Not So Smart': Why We Can't Tell Good Wine From Bad”Ah, the HENRYs. I remember laughing my head off at this crew working at a bank in the middle of the financial crisis, waiting for the world to end. http://www.felixsalmon.com/2008/10/unsympathetic-demographic...
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on “Millennial men with different incomes”
