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by GCA10 2y ago
Some very nice writing here by author Anne Matthews. I especially liked her closing paragraph: A shy girl in London loved these stories once. So did a boy from South Africa, and one in Belfast, and another in California. When their own narr
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The Rise and Fall of the German Stock Market, 1870-1938 [pdf](econsoc.hist.cam.ac.uk)
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by GCA10 2y ago
Atherton residents include the NBA's Stephen Curry, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, venture capitalists Marc Andreessen, Bill Gurley, Doug Leone etc. A fuller list is toward the end of this Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikip
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by GCA10 2y ago
It never hurts to take a moment to figure out the real game that's being played when someone asks an especially trite interview question. (Like this one.) Here's what I've been told by HR executives in candid moments about &q
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The nonprofits leading the AI Revolution(philanthropy.com)
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by GCA10 3y ago
Ironically, Boeing's stock price was at about $140 at the start of 2014 -- and rose pretty steadily to a peak of $422 in March 2019. So in addition to pushing out whatever sorts of financial results that Wall Street wanted, Boeing&#x27
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by GCA10 3y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/04/three-hours-were-all-the-jur...
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by GCA10 3y ago
It's worth noting that a huge amount of the government's case involved evidence that SBF and team were buying lavish oceanfront condos, paying superstar athletes for weird TV commercials, etc. This was actually a tiny slice of the
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by GCA10 3y ago
Thanks for the extra context on Rhodes in South Africa, which is an accurate and valuable addition to the conversation. I'd still nominate him as an example of a rapacious colonist, based on the skirmishes, one-sided "treaties&quo
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by GCA10 3y ago
Even after an asteroid impact (or major nuclear war), planet Earth would still be a much more welcoming place for human life. Air quality on Earth would go down a bit, but there would still be air. Food supplies would be chaotic, but some c
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by GCA10 3y ago
This wouldn't be a classic Paul Graham essay without his two great hallmarks -- many passages of provocative valuable insights -- paired with periodic, bewildering attempts to sabotage his own argument. I'll add some fan mail late
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[upper class folks would likely get worse care] I agree that upper-class folks' experience would change in ways that would generate loud protests. But the biggest anger points likely wouldn't involve quality of care. Instead, we&#
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Experiments that are both difficult and expensive on earth may be happening quite easily -- and free of charge -- during neutron-star mergers or supernovae events quite far away. We can't see them happening, but astronomers can detect
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by GCA10 3y ago
Amazon's founding principle of "customer obsession" has been turned inside out -- at least when it comes to thinking of us consumers as the cherished customers. Those days are over. The new "customers" at the center
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by GCA10 3y ago
I had the same question. The "source" of this information, StreetLight Data, does have a functioning website and an impressive customer list, though it mostly invokes "big data" to explain what it does. Poking a little f
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by GCA10 3y ago
The analysis of maintenance budgets is depressingly accurate. Especially as tech companies get older (and they age surprisingly fast), it's quite startling to see how most of them become organizationally indifferent to various small to
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by GCA10 3y ago
I've seen variants of this in finance, where the strategy is called "outrunning your mistakes." There's an art to building a rapid growth trajectory, cutting all kinds of corners to ramp up your customers/assets&#x2
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by GCA10 3y ago
New to me -- but a very welcome tip. Thanks!
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So there's a larger issue here -- predating even the Internet -- which I'll call "The Machu Picchu effect." In essence, it's the way that amazing first time experiences can be debased by having constantly been expos
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by GCA10 3y ago
Very true, up till about age 12 or so. At that point, kids start yearning to build their own identities. At least some of the time. They want to make their own friends; find their own obsessions and solve (or create) their own problems. The
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by GCA10 3y ago
Truth. I got years of use out of a second-hand Brother 2350 printer and then eventually some of the electronics failed. I needed a new printer and I still owned a couple unused Brother toner cartridges. Imagine my joy when I discovered that
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by GCA10 3y ago
Bad things can happen to mentally ill people.
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by GCA10 3y ago
The only appropriate target for Microsoft's anger would be its own deal negotiators. OpenAI's dual identity as a nonprofit/for-profit business was very well known. And the concentration of power in the nonprofit side was also
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by GCA10 3y ago
Leaving aside feature bloat, who decided that reviving Yahoo Purple as a big new part of the color palette was a good idea? I'm sorry, but to me that just radiates "arrogant and clueless."
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by GCA10 3y ago
It's worth reading Judge Kaplan's earlier rulings related to the "advice of counsel" defense. As the judge writes, you can only invoke this if you "made a complete disclosure to counsel," right at the beginning
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by GCA10 3y ago
And of course boards justify the fully promised natures of such bonuses as being the only way to get a failing CEO to give up his/her big title and pay in the interests of doing what's right for shareholders. Nice hustle if you ca
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by GCA10 3y ago
There's a theory that the second-level, C-suite employees all are entered into a gladiator contest to get the giant extra bump in pay that comes with being chosen to be CEO. So they work with great energy and ingenuity to make things h
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by GCA10 3y ago
Ah, your closing question could be a thread in itself. This is tricky territory! Be wary of the treadmill where as your income rises, your sense of what's an acceptable restaurant, vacation, car, home, etc. escalates just as fast. Then
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A tech person can get funding for a book(beverlyhillsspy.substack.com)
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by GCA10 3y ago
Extra bonus for writing about your learning journey . . . Even for potential readers have been in the field for a long time, these posts can be supremely informative. It's great to hear about newcomers' shortcuts, some of which ar

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