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by 40acres 7y ago
Can't wait for the postmortem!
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by 40acres 7y ago
I really resented my parents growing up because they would never let me play outside. I was raised in Central Brooklyn in the 90s and stories like The Central Park Five and Abner Louima were cautionary tales in our neighborhood. We were too
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Ask HN: Why the gig economy is so effective
2 points by 40acres 7y ago|4 comments
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by 40acres 7y ago
MMT going mainstream is valuable because it's charging the conversation about what we really should be worried about in terms of fiscal policy. And the answer is inflation, if you want to know why we are still adding 200,000 jobs a yea
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by 40acres 7y ago
The supply side realized long ago that a college education was a commodity and the consumers haven't, that's how we end up with stories like this and student loans that will last forever. When I was a junior I had no idea what I w
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by 40acres 7y ago
I assume brand advertising to be specific is the real culprit here. As a huge fan of Mad Men some of Don Draper's (main character) quotes are illuminatung here. "Advertising is based on one thing, happiness. And you know what happ
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by 40acres 7y ago
Badly! Some days I have to write off as a loss, I wake up on the wrong side of the bed and cant control my attention. Other days I have great focus and creativity where my mind considers a million options at ever step of cognition. Adderall
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by 40acres 7y ago
Technical Debt becomes really toxic when mission critical customer facing functionality is based on it. Just this morning we received a ticket where cleaning up technical debt caused a major issue for the customer, when we looked even furth
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by 40acres 7y ago
Call me a big city liberal but in my view small states have way too much power and Congressional reform is needed to balance it out. If demographics stay on trend eventually we'll have something like 70% of Senate seats going to 30% of
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by 40acres 7y ago
Religion has the benefit of being a massive (1B+ for the major ones), well established institution for bringing people together, the recurring nature of meet-ups for church and / or prayer help to establish routine. What I've foun
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by 40acres 7y ago
There is an interesting flywheel effect going on in large productive cities, gentrification is pushing out those previously impacted by white flight. NIMBYs prevent dense suburbs, and we don't have adequate transportation for lower inc
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by 40acres 7y ago
In my experience the economy (roughly 80%) and social ties (roughly 20%) seem to be the biggest factors. I work for a large tech company so a majority of the millennial I know are comparatively well off, but even among these folks there is
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The Re-Segregation of Baton Rouge Public Schools(theatlantic.com)
2 points by 40acres 7y ago|0 comments
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by 40acres 7y ago
Don't Uber and Lyft lose on every ride? I wonder if the increased fair caused by this cooperation makes the average ride profitable. Perhaps the price of a ride is more elastic than Uber and Lyft think? Especially at airports.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Publishing is in a similar position to streaming, but I find that I can be satisfied with one publication subscription as opposed to streaming where I have 3-4 subscriptions. You can remain very much in the loop by getting a subscription at
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by 40acres 7y ago
Hard to think of a better case study on the perils of regulatory capture than Boeing.
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by 40acres 7y ago
Spoiler alert: so does everyone else (see subscription numbers). There are a few niche and highly specialized publications which I view (GQ, Men's Health, etc.) but for major news and in depth reporting I'm more likely to frequent
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by 40acres 7y ago
The industrial revolution helped spur the Progressive Era and the modern welfare state, the current technological evolution will likely bring about the next wave of Progressive actions. The US is more conservative than Europe, but sooner ra
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by 40acres 7y ago
Reducing process size is a tough, yet straightforward way to improve the efficiency of a chip. But there are other methods too, modern data centers will be looking for power efficiency, innovation in packaging can improve efficiency and mak
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by 40acres 7y ago
A majority of modern day office workers would really benefit from learning the deadlift. Sitting for hundreds of hours a month, mixed with the standard American diet is really bad for your health. The deadlift is a fantastic compound moveme
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by 40acres 7y ago
Agreed, I live in downtown Portland and 3-5 luxury apartments have been built or are nearing completion within a 10 minute walk of my apartment. These all look like they can hold 100+ apartments, but are marketed towards yuppies and retiree
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by 40acres 7y ago
It's surprising to me that we aren't heavily subsidizing the development of high density apartments. Developers are building luxury housing because low and middle income is not economically viable -- the cost of building materials
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by 40acres 7y ago
I'm exhibit A. I signed up for an HDHP because I didn't want to pay a monthly premium and thought and HSA sounded like a great way to save for health expenses. I had a bout of rhabdomyolysis after pushing myself while at the gym,
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by 40acres 8y ago
Stock is jumping after hours, not surprised as modems really aren't a core competency of Intel.
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by 40acres 8y ago
For sure, Kara has a lot to say and is smart, but opinion writing seems too shallow for her. Tyler Cowen has also fallen into this trap with Bloomberg.
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by 40acres 8y ago
Apple's branding power can really provide solid leverage as they bolster services. I'm a Spotify subscriber but when Apple Music came out I considered getting an iPhone for the first time that year, ultimately I did not get an iPh
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by 40acres 8y ago
Udi Manber's book on algorithms and induction is also a great resource to learn about invariants. Invariants and induction go hand in hand.
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by 40acres 8y ago
Facebook knows regulation in coming and is transitioning from being anti-regulation to regulation on their terms (ie. regulatory capture). Unfortunately, I don't have much faith in our government to properly regulate technology, for on
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by 40acres 8y ago
Technical administrator is a strange title, but also seems kind of accurate. I know folks who are in IT at Intel and a majority of those who were let go seem to be 'systems analysts' and management of systems analysts. Where the s
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The share of Americans not having sex has reached a record high(washingtonpost.com)
54 points by 40acres 8y ago|20 comments

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