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by FD3SA 12y ago
I enjoy Thiel's incredible optimism, but he does have a tendency to be a little too devout to a fixed set of controversial ideologies [1]. Jeff Bezos famously said that smart people often change their minds [2]. I would encourage Thiel
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The Pitchforks are Coming [video](ted.com)
1 points by FD3SA 12y ago|0 comments
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by FD3SA 12y ago
" De Castro would leave the company in January 2014. For about 15 months of work, he would be paid $109 million." Costly mistakes.
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by FD3SA 12y ago
The SpaceX launch manifest states that their next mission is Dec. 16, and hasn't been updated to reflect their schedule change to Dec. 19th: http://spacexstats.com/mission.php?launch=19 I know I'll be glued to the
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Science, the Endless Frontier(nsf.gov)
1 points by FD3SA 12y ago|0 comments
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by FD3SA 12y ago
This is absolutely fascinating. I want to stop everything I'm doing and contribute to science. I've had this impulse my entire life, yet the economics of doing a PhD are so dystopian that the urge passes after a few minutes of rat
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by FD3SA 12y ago
The surface level analysis you've done seems correct at first glance, and if that were all there was to it, it would indeed be absurd. The reality is that these are manufactured issues (pay-gap, rape epidemic, etc.) in order to create
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Hence my fascination with the human mind and its inherent demons and nuanced machinations. The concept of IQ is fascinating, not least because it causes a fierce ideological firestorm almost instantaneously upon its mentioning. However, men
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by FD3SA 12y ago
A fascinating controversy in all respects. I find it difficult to argue with the conclusions in this article as an empiricist, but it does provoke some very troubling considerations about our future as a global species: http://ww
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by FD3SA 12y ago
This is absurd. Ignoring the ever loosening definition of sexual harassment combined with its increasingly retroactive application, what does the man's academic work have to do with these allegations? Do the excellent lectures he'
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Really, then, a technical person with some valuable technical work should just start their own business. Precisely. You've correctly identified the irrational non-technical prejudice the financial industry may have towards someone su
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Sounds like you'd have been a much better fit for Renaissance Technologies than Goldman.
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by FD3SA 12y ago
None of these have any similarity to brainteasers. In fact, these are all excellent subjects on their own that could be tested directly. For example: "Give me an overview of a numerical method used to solve differential equations.&quot
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Paul, I get a sense that you have a keenly ingrained sense of morality and justice. What you may want to try is looking at fictional or hypothetical scenarios which depicts people's actions from an observer's point of view. Then c
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Mark Pincus and a few hundred million dollars of liquidated post-IPO Zynga stock beg to differ.
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Start here, around the 38 min mark: http://youtu.be/bKGhvKyjgLY?t=37m59s
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by FD3SA 12y ago
This is an interesting implementation of the memristor, but I still think the real breakthrough will be in the two state memristor [1]. Once memristor fabrication technology is mature, we are going to see a massive paradigm shift away from
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Think of Beats headphones like a very expensive fashion accessory. Their performance as headphones pales in comparison to the price. Professional audio engineers use less expensive (and FAR superior) headphones. Price doesn't always tr
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Yours is not an extreme case at all. In fact, this is standard fare in the industry, but nobody wants to admit it happens to them because it's embarrassing. Europe has very strict vacation policy (mandated 5-6 weeks), healthcare benefi
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by FD3SA 12y ago
It also noted that currency conversion is the most sophisticated issue in unification as the exchange rate would be largely conditioned on political negotiations and social consensus. Somehow I doubt that currency conversion is the most
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by FD3SA 12y ago
This takes a very sterile mathematical view of society. Everything here is correct, but makes far more sense in the light of evolutionary biology. Humans are primates which form natural status hierarchies, and will do so in a vacuum absent
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by FD3SA 12y ago
I have high hopes for Thalmic Labs, mainly because it is one of the most promising companies in the Waterloo region. Sadly, most ambitious Canadian startups get acquired (e.g. BufferBox) and shut down. We need a few to stick around if we wa
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by FD3SA 12y ago
> but it is the threat of force to take property from someone against their will. So are laws. Your right to kill me is impeded by the justice system's threat of force to imprison you as a result. This is where most rational people
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Why Sex Differences Matter(edge.org)
2 points by FD3SA 12y ago|1 comments
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by FD3SA 12y ago
This exchange between imanaccount247 and tctapek is incredibly fascinating. One the one hand, we have a female who has a very accurate understanding of evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, genetics, and logic. Her arguments are lo
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by FD3SA 12y ago
This is an excellent post because it focuses on a central topic: mankind's behavioral predispositions. The world today runs on profit and productivity. Morals, ethics and philosophies are irrelevant hindrances, as SV and Wall St. have
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by FD3SA 12y ago
The Attorney General of the U.S., Eric Holder, is now acting as an economic advisor by factoring economic consequences into the justice process [1]. This means that, if a crime is committed and evidence exists to prosecute, the Attorney Gen
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by FD3SA 12y ago
One word: strategy. Both quitting your job and engaging in a startup are absurdly risky if you don't have a very cushy safety net. Steve jobs was a hippie who was fine with living homeless and dumpster diving for food, so there was no
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by FD3SA 12y ago
The TN visa is arbitrary and random. You are at the whim of an uneducated border officer, who gets to unanimously decide on whether you get to work in the US or not. Furthermore, its renewal is also at the whims of said officer. You better
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Empirically speaking, certain groups are underrepresented in hard science. And this is wrong, why? Post-modernism is at the heart of the entire "equalist" movement precisely because it ignores the scientific process of modernism

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