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neipfjin239··on End of Golden Era for Investors Spells Troubles
That would only make sense if McKinsey's main business was investing in the stock market. Actually their main business is selling management consulting, which as a source of profit is only weakly correlated to investment returns.

Also note that they didn't say you should expect a negative return from investing in the stock market. In fact, they said that you should expect a 4-6% return over the next 20 years, rather than the 7-8% return that has been experienced over the previous 30 years.

neipfjin239··on Who Was Ramanujan?
The (sadly all too predictable) comments about Wolfram's self-promotion and product placement give me an idea.

Someone should create a blog called "Wolfram minus Wolfram" (in the vein of the excellent "Garfield minus Garfield") which exists solely to republish Wolfram's (often very interesting) writings, minus the references to his own products and his own past achievements. I think it would be popular.

neipfjin239··on Mathematicians mapped “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character
This is a popular fan theory (Jon's parentage is very ambiguous, and it can be argued that Tyrion's parentage is not completely clear, leading to speculation that they both have Targaryen blood).