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by FD3SA 12y ago
Zynga is a perfect case study for everything that is wrong with the modern VC funded, Wall Street bailed-out pyramid scheme known as a "startup". The smart folks have realized that going public is where the money is at. And you do
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He now has all the time he needs to enjoy the half a billion he liquidated upon the Zynga IPO. Gotta hand it to a determined Machiavellian who is a master of his craft. Just goes to show folks, its not what you know, but who you can exploit
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Listen to this man. Going to a top school has a massive effect on your luck surface area. Given that the best course materials can increasingly be found online, the only benefit of a school is its social network, in which the elite schools
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They are both extremely difficult to accomplish with current technology. The issue with Mars is that it has no magnetosphere [1], and as such, all habitats will have to be underground and/or shielded with very thick layers of lead, dir
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Many of these pictures are based on designs described in one of my favorite books of all time, The High Frontier , by Gerard K. O'Neil. In it, O'Neil, a Princeton physicist and founder of the Space Studies Institute, goes on to d
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I agree with this. I find that a lot of enthusiasts get caught up in learning to use tools, instead of understanding fundamentals. Vim, git and Linux are great, but they are tools for getting a job done. Once the fundamentals of computer sc
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This is an interesting problem to have. I myself have a romanticized notion of PhDs, as I consider pushing the frontier of scientific knowledge to be the most important of human endeavors. However, the nature of technological progress has t
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As an extremely vigorous opponent of personality cults, it makes me incredibly happy to see these two embrace such an excellent philosophy. Homo sapiens are primates, and we tend to form status hierarchies regardless of which era or environ
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Agreed, it appears I was unnecessarily pessimistic. Seems like SpaceX has pulled it off [1]: "Data upload from tracking plane shows landing in Atlantic was good! Several boats enroute through heavy seas." Congrats to the SpaceX te
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Update from Elon [1]: "Last known state for rocket boost stage is 360 m/s, Mach 1.1, 8.5 km altitude and roll rate close to zero (v important!)" So it appears it may be a failure, we'll find out soon what went wrong this
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Sometimes. Other times[1], you've been so successful that you lose touch with reality and think you're invincible. The truth is, the laws of physics don't care about your age. You can make a product people want at any point i
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Elon has just confirmed [1] that they will be attempting to recover the first stage. This is the first flight with the landing leg module attached to the first stage. The landing legs will be deployed over sea for a soft landing in preparat
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Not to mention the font. I manage to ignore the wonky color themes (I picture a kid with a box of crayons having designed it), but the font is something that I desperately need consistency and beauty in, as I'm constantly reading and w
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The worst part about this set up is that increasing the number of doctors won't actually reduce healthcare costs, but paradoxically, increase them. This is because doctors in the USA make money through ordering tests and exams, rather
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I'm sure Darwin, aged 50 when he finished Origin of Species , would agree. Perhaps it takes a slow mind for man to think more deeply about problems, in order to arrive at an elegant solution. Hopefuly a few decades after retiring from
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by FD3SA 12y ago
Another reason to work for an employer as a consultant, so that you control your own IP and time. I'll keep saying this until one day talented programmers get the message. If you're creating open source frameworks, you're tal
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Wow, do a lot of luxury yachts have sails? I was under the impression the term "yacht" wasn't really applicable, but this thing seems like a real sail boat. All that luxury glassware wouldn't hold up too well if you catc
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The programmer types were different from the trader types. The trader types were far more alive to the bigger picture, to their context. They knew their worth in the marketplace down to the last penny. They understood the connection betwee
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That, in combination with the ~50% tax rate on income and capital gains. Turns out, when you redistribute wealth, consumption increases so rapidly that the economy takes off. That no longer is much of an option, as wealthy individuals have
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> How exactly can you build a company that lasts for longer than a relative eyeblink when every person is looking out for #1, and expects to be stabbed in the ass by everyone around them? Exactly, but I believe you have the causal chain
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Oh, and for our friendly HN militants, who are coming out in droves to support the Iraq war: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/sep/17/iraq.oil Occam's razor is your friend.
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This is a very small symptom of a much more dire malady: scientific illiteracy at all levels of society. The scope of science covers all existence, and yet, it has increasingly been confined to academia and research. The applications of sci
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> I am seen as a failure because I do not spend my time after hours (unpaid) working, while the rest of my team does. Alas, your only failure was that you didn't manage to get your team to join you. Sadly, I know how hard it can be
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> Also, my impression based on things like twin studies is that rich parents's ability give their kids unfair advantages is much weaker than you think. But that's a whole other discussion. We're not saying kids like Spiege
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"It's not about working harder; it's about working the system." - Evan Spiegel Yes indeed, and when it comes to working the system, wealthy elite families have achieved quite a formidable monopoly. This is an incredibl
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Exactly. Here's some data to support your assertion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7512799
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Very well said. In addition, due to our evolutionary origins, humans tend to be inherently far more prone to malevolent behavior. Human history demonstrates the severity of this tendency quite dramatically. A an impartial system of rules ma
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The Rise of the Drones(qz.com)
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I am very interested in the future consequences of robotics in warfare. Throughout history, the wealthy have always needed mercenaries and laborers, and often used the former to enforce the obedience of the latter. What happens, when techno
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The trouble with software is that, of all industries, it has the lowest barrier to entry and the lowest capital costs. Crucially, the marginal cost of deploying software across the globe is next to nothing. This is why the Microsoft stack i

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