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by GCA10 3y ago
The currency section is very nicely done. My own reactions split into the three obvious buckets. 1) Oh, I don't make that mistake! That's an obvious oversimplification. 2) Yeah, having read your counter-example at the end, I'
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by GCA10 3y ago
There's a lot more going on here than the initial story reports. For more than a few academics, making big $$$ as an expert witness is a magnificent source of side income. (Fees of $1,000/hour, including lots of open-ended prep ti
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by GCA10 3y ago
Stretching the topic slightly -- so as to include other high-school coincidences -- Nobel laureate Richard Axel has a delightful passage in his 2004 acceptance speech (medicine & physiology), recalling a moment in the 1960s when he was
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A Kingdom of Little Animals(theamericanscholar.org)
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by GCA10 3y ago
thesmokinggun.com already does provide a fine repository of current and past court filings of interest. They've been around for years, and some journalists do link to them. Intriguingly, the one ad on their site at the moment is for di
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by GCA10 3y ago
Amen on the value of imperfect tutors. I'd say that the best moments of early adolescence come when you dispute something with an adult -- and are able to establish they they're wrong and you're right. Later on, we have to le
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by GCA10 3y ago
Oh, it does matter. I've made a living at times from non-fiction storytelling, and if you don't get in the habit of sticking to the facts, it's shamefully easy to slide ever closer to George Santos territory. But there's
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by GCA10 3y ago
The IRS has been signaling hard the past few years -- to all employers, big and small -- that the "contractor" category only works if you meet a bunch of tests. Anyone with a Gusto account, or a working HR department, knows this.
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by GCA10 3y ago
As the guy who started the thread, I'm just glad to have provided an (accidental) portal into a whole new subdomain of HN community expertise. We've ended up with the perfect mix of helpful insights, provocative theories, well-doc
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by GCA10 3y ago
Just started testing Brave Search, and it scored a rare 100 on the first test: If you type in the name of a favorite boutique hotel, will you get that hotel's true website -- or the usual hairball of third-party intermediaries? (For an
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by GCA10 4y ago
I think the article actually says something slightly different -- which changes the math a lot. Yes, they placed these "neighbors" bets, but it sounds as if they had several of them in motion on each spin. If they're covering
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by GCA10 4y ago
Slightly off topic, but the profusion of weird prop bets on sports is a path toward quiet match fixing that we may never be able to roll back. I'm seeing this in e-sports already, where players can still try hard to win but also "
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Do accidental encounters lead to patent filings?(anderson-review.ucla.edu)
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"Writing doesn’t just clarify your existing ideas; it generates more of them." So true! Redrafting and self-editing involves so much more than just getting the commas in the right places. This is how we see new linkages that were
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by GCA10 4y ago
This essay becomes more fun -- and more useful -- if we apply OP's standards to other areas of trust and risk. For example: - Are there no absolute red flags in online dating? (Some ex-convicts with teardrop tattoos may be fully reform
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by GCA10 4y ago
So I pulled up what seems to be the original source for the Soviet car-envy reference. It's an April 13, 1955 bylined piece by C.L. Sulzberger in The New York Times, datelined Hollywood. His article is really a wide-ranging essay about
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by GCA10 4y ago
Agree with earlier commenters. OP uses lots of words to suggest what's really a one-word tweak: "Work-life alignment" covers the key concepts in a way that "work-life balance" does not. My best years have been ingen
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by GCA10 4y ago
Directionally right. I saw older family members switch out of stocks at 65, only to discover that their ultra-safe fixed-income investments failed to keep pace with the next 25 years' relentless increases in medical and care expenses.
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by GCA10 4y ago
We've probably made it easier for people to have "half a career" in music -- getting paid a modest amount of money on weekends, evenings, etc. to do what they love. In my own circle, I've got friends who earn $5,000 to $
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by GCA10 4y ago
And then you're just one more letter glitch away from reading it as NFTs. Which would be marvelous, because then bored apes would be researching Bored Apes.
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by GCA10 4y ago
I'll offer a companion scale that speaks to when/how we declare stuff done and ship it. A. Levels 1 and 2. I ship stuff when it's as excellent and finished as I can possibly make it. B. Levels 3 and 4. I'm too busy to ge
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by GCA10 4y ago
There's a classic Tim O'Reilly line about the importance of "creating more value than you capture." Early Facebook was very good at this! I used their ads platform a lot in 2009-10 to raise engagement for a small non-pro
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by GCA10 4y ago
"This is how large companies operate once they surpass the innovation phase" So true. Family members have seen it in pharma. It's endemic in retail banking. Large parts of media/entertainment have gone this way, too. The
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by GCA10 4y ago
Actually, back in the day, that's exactly what the top encyclopedias aspired to do. It's worth looking up who wrote the main entries in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. Future Nobel laureate Ernest Rutherford did the entry on rad
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by GCA10 4y ago
Fair question -- here are a few examples: On Wikipedia's entry for Facebook, there's no discussion in the 2006-12 section about Facebook's steps to monetize the site around targeted ads. That has had gigantic global impact an
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by GCA10 4y ago
Exactly so. It's a rule meant to prevent one type of problem (people injecting unvetted nonsense or personal vanity/grudges into articles) that ends up creating a different and rather over-arching problem. On the longer articles,
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by GCA10 4y ago
Well said. It's especially frustrating to come across what I'll call "Mudslide Pages" for prominent entities. These consist of a decade or more of minor news items, piled atop one another. No effort to distill key elemen
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by GCA10 4y ago
Very true of hot-water heaters, too. We had the misfortune of recently needing to replace the "original" one that came with our house when we bought in in 1997. The installer told us that all current models, including some quite e
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by GCA10 4y ago
Long-time writer here. Couple of thoughts. Yes, conjuring up the right words can be a b*tch, and it's so tempting to step away from the keyboard in favor of something that's simpler or more lucrative. But the magnet that keeps pul
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by GCA10 4y ago
Broadly yes. It's why deserts have such extreme temperature fluctuations between day and night. No clouds are part of the reason, as well as very little humidity to serve the same heat-retaining/heat-reflecting role. On my first t

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