It’s not just the developers, but the entire organizations they work within that prioritize shipping new features rather than reliability, because that’s generally what’s most profitable (at least in the short term). It’s hard to change those incentives for an entire organization.
"Nitrate levels in Iowa's major rivers have increased more than threefold since the 1950s, but have stabilized — and even slightly declined — in recent decades, according to an in-depth review of available research."
From what I have read, Universa's clients are institutional investors and super rich people. Not sure how easy this is to reproduce as a less sophisticated investor.
One of my good friends follows a strategy like this by simply buying puts against SPX. He is very bearish on the market in general, and has missed out on a lot of growth in the last decade, but in his case it did “finally pay off” recently.
As with any other strategy, though, it’s not really valid to compare just the recent months, you’d have to evaluate his total return over say the last ten years, and I don’t know how that stacks up.
I think it's very difficult. You're looking at losing significant money 9 years out of 10. (Or 20 years out of 20, who knows? It's black swans baby.) So you can only do this with a very small amount of money. How much time can you afford to spend managing say 3% of your total liquid assets?
