Thread on eminent people supporting farm laws:

Dr. Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist at IMF says "Farm bills are in right

Dr. Surjit Bhalla, executive director at IMF support farm bills

https://t.co/Re7hA6Yln9
Godrej Agrovet Chairman Nadir Godrej tells Bloomberg that agriculture reforms are important for India.
https://t.co/OrdEshBqQh
Prof Ashok Gulati supports new farm laws
https://t.co/9d9cZVs52C
Vice-Chairman of Bharti Enterprises Rajan Bharti Mittal supports the new farm laws

https://t.co/dCmZW3yrxh
Prof Shamika Ravi supports the news farm bills
https://t.co/vRQMjpW1e1
Amul Chief supports new laws
https://t.co/bB6NInxNt7
Academicians From IITs, IIM-B And TIFR Write To PM Modi In Support Of New Farm Laws
https://t.co/nTiOXj4OLB
Dr. KV Subramanian supports the new farm bills
https://t.co/7hYrLuGGa2
Dr. Arvind Pangariya supports new farm bills
https://t.co/tagj3da2XK
Swaminathan Aiyar supports new farm bills
Sukhpal Singh, Professor at IIM-A supports new farm bills

https://t.co/6oEMHcENua
Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia suggests the exact same reforms implemented by the government
https://t.co/NSj5MgtVQ5
Sanjeev Sanyal supports the new farm laws
https://t.co/94nhm51y7c
Gurcharan Das supports the new farm bills
https://t.co/9dyefSuanU
Amiyatosh Purnanandam (Professor of Finance, Ross School of Business) supports the new farm laws
https://t.co/dNRycRn92f

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1/ Trend Factor: Any Economic Gains from Using Information over Investment Horizons? (Han, Zhou, Zhu)

"A trend factor using multiple time lengths outperforms ST reversal, momentum, and LT reversal, which are based on the three price trends separately."

https://t.co/udkvsdw2Lz


2/ This resembles combining multiple measures of ST reversal, momentum, and LT reversal (forecasts determined by walking forward rather than using signs from the full sample).

Unlike normal moving average signals, these are *cross-sectional.* More below:
https://t.co/wkIFLg9jtK


3/ Unsurprisingly, the Trend factor formed by this approach outperforms benchmarks in terms of both Sharpe ratio and tail metrics. It's combining momentum with two factors that are negatively correlated to it AND using multiple specifications.

More here:
https://t.co/x8Tloz3iyL


4/ "Average return and volatility of the trend factor are both higher in recession periods. However, the Sharpe ratio is virtually the same.

"Interestingly, all of the factors still have positive average returns.

"Momentum experiences the greatest increase in volatility."


5/ "In terms of maximum drawdown and the Calmar ratio, the trend factor performs the best.

"The trend factor is correlated with the short-term reversal factor (35%), long-term reversal factor (14%), and the market (20%) but is virtually uncorrelated with the momentum factor."
Let's discuss how little you actually understand about economics and energy.

The first thing to understand is that energy is not globally fungible. Electricity decays as it leaves its point of origin; it’s expensive to transport. There is a huge excess (hydro) in many areas.


In other words, it can also be variable. It's estimated that in Sichuan there is twice as much electricity produced as is needed during the rainy season. Indeed, there is seasonality to how Bitcoin mining works. You can see here:

Bitcoin EXPORTS energy in this scenario. Fun fact, most industrial nations would steer this excess capacity towards refining aluminum by melting bauxite ore, which is very energy intensive.

You wouldn't argue that we are producing *too much* electricity from renewables, right?

"But what about the carbon footprint! ITS HUGE!"

Many previous estimates have quite faulty methods and don't take into account the actual energy sources. Is it fair to put a GHG equivalent on hydro or solar power? That would seem a bit disingenuous, no?

Well that's exactly what some have done.

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"I really want to break into Product Management"

make products.

"If only someone would tell me how I can get a startup to notice me."

Make Products.

"I guess it's impossible and I'll never break into the industry."

MAKE PRODUCTS.

Courtesy of @edbrisson's wonderful thread on breaking into comics –
https://t.co/TgNblNSCBj – here is why the same applies to Product Management, too.


There is no better way of learning the craft of product, or proving your potential to employers, than just doing it.

You do not need anybody's permission. We don't have diplomas, nor doctorates. We can barely agree on a single standard of what a Product Manager is supposed to do.

But – there is at least one blindingly obvious industry consensus – a Product Manager makes Products.

And they don't need to be kept at the exact right temperature, given endless resource, or carefully protected in order to do this.

They find their own way.