DaniFong

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by DaniFong 17y ago
What, specifically, are you calling out as untrue? Are you saying that the earth isn't warming up? Even most of the listed skeptics would disagree with you. The only skeptic, I'm aware, to have a decent criticisms of the temperature rise (a
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This is actually quite a good article, thank you. It does a very good job of separating out the varied concerns of climate skeptics from each other: from those with a specific issue within climate science from those who primarily have a pol
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I wouldn't say that scientists are uncorrupted or incorruptible, but it happens in degrees! Actually, I think that the climate science indicates more that we're likely to move out of a regime of the easily predictable, based on empirical da
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by DaniFong 17y ago
How can you be so sure that your understanding of science has not been corrupted by special interests? It seems to me that if one were to pick a population to corrupt, one would pick the intellectually lazy majority...
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So far, the best market that I've come up with is that the influence and attention of intelligent and powerful people is a much scarcer resource than money. So if you develop games for influence rather than wealth, you can have higher ideal
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Here's the paper. It was interesting translating journalese back into physicsish. http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v81/i4/e045206
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This is pretty awesome, Hang. It might be cool to have you as an honored guest at one of the dinner parties I run/attend fairly regularly: either here in Berkeley with a collection of East Bay scientists, artists and entrepreneurs, or in SF
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by DaniFong 17y ago
In my experience people who've never been in a startup don't know what it's like. Therefore their decisions are based on prejudice. And since most men, as most women, also refrain from trying to start their own company or follow their passi
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by DaniFong 17y ago
You cannot avoid playing in derivatives. Do you have a bank account? Do you own U.S. currency? Is all of your wealth in gold? In any of these cases the price is set by the market and strongly effected by derivative trades. You need to under
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That's a good point. Almost everyone will play the leverage game once it gets popular: this means that opportunities for the kind of statistical arbitrage people like mellow out, and what's more the whole stock market will be so highly inte
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As I would frame it for free market economists: There are firms and projects which have benefits which cannot be easily turned into a return for investors (either directly or indirectly) but whose benefit far exceeds the investment of dolla
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'When I was living in Italy, I was once trying to tell someone that I hadn't had much success in doing something, but I couldn't think of the Italian word for success. I spent some time trying to describe the word I meant. Finally she said
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by DaniFong 17y ago
Whole Foods is just one case. But it sounds as if nothing will convince you that businesses can be run in accordance with humanistic ideals, holding profit making as important and excluding everything else. What makes you think that we beco
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There are probably public services which would not be reasonable profit making entities but are very helpful for the society as a whole, and whose benefit is so widespread that it can only be repaid in collective good, goodwill, and/or taxe
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by DaniFong 17y ago
How do you suppose their motives? Do you claim to have some sort of window into the minds of those working at Whole Foods? Maybe the people of Whole Foods, the entrepreneurs, the investors, the daily stakeholders, are in fact working toward
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Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business(reason.com)
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That's true in a practical sense today for most scientists, but it need not always be so. Multivariate linear regression is currently the swiss army knife of the statistical sciences. Even now there isn't much appreciation of its merits, fl
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I don't know very much about traditional chinese medicine: like western medicine it's probably that they have certain things very wrong. However, I will say that the analytical side of western medicine is over reliant on tools which render
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This highlights one of the problems with the current patent system that I illustrate in my recent essay: How Law Shapes the Business Landscape, and a Patent Puzzle. http://daniellefong.com/2010/02/11/how-law-shapes-the-busine... Corporati
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Literally millions of cleantech startups? Space based solar power? What are you talking about?
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And so any labeling system needs to emphasize that it is incomplete, and that vitamins/minerals that we've located might simply be the markers of good food: not the sole constituents. It's like correlations versus causality.
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It takes time, effort, practice, and purpose. Figure out what you really want to do. That's your first challenge.
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There might be a lot you're missing. Nutrition is hideously complex, but since we're evolved to eat whole foods and there are a lot of bioactive enzymes and or compounds that aren't well known or in vitamin pills you could be missing out on
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This reminds me of a conversation I recently had with some Berkeley graduates, who were mystified at how much I had accomplished, and how quickly, and by the fact that I might stay up into the wee hours of the morning working or blasting ou
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Yeah I think the ANDI system is fundamentally flawed and there's a much better way to do things.
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I have a startup idea surrounding this that I think could be killer. I'm working full-time (on another startup) but I'm applying to YC anyway because I think it would be an easy hack with huge benefits and the possibility of making a lot of
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This is one reason large tech companies do spin outs, though I am not sure of any companies that have become overwhelmingly effective at it.
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All of the scientists I know know how to hack. A philosophy grad student I know built a neat little philosophy bot. http://webscript.princeton.edu/~amendelo/skeptic/ Hacking is starting to be a new literacy. What's more, the most importan
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by DaniFong 17y ago
The founders of LightSail were 20, 54 and 52. We've mad ea ton of progress and raised VC funding. We all work our butts off. We're going to fix the electrical grid, and we're going to make it green. If there are hard limits I haven't seen t
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Thanks. I'll think about this.

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