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by GCA10 6y ago
We already have extensive experience in the U.S. with a particular type of wealth tax -- called property taxes. I've been paying them in California for 23 years, and they haven't ruined me yet. (The nominal rate on those tends to
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by GCA10 6y ago
OP sounds like someone who's unhappy working on big software projects. That's understandable. But once you're on a big project, you can't keep it all in your head. You can't make your own clever adjustments when pro
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by GCA10 6y ago
I wish these sorts of insta-surveys would disclose more about how the polling was done. The cheapest way to do polling is via a pop-up notifcation on a heavily trafficked digital property, with online button-clicking to follow. But then you
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by GCA10 6y ago
It's worth taking a moment to identify what's so bad about micromanaging -- which turns out to be a serious fail for multiple reasons. First is the obvious day-to-day impact on the subordinate, who finds it exasperating to be seco
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by GCA10 6y ago
Lots of great ideas here -- but in keeping with all top-vintage Paul Graham essays, he takes his best points to about 130% of their validity. So I'd like to weigh in on this assertion: "To be a successful scientist, for example, i
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by GCA10 6y ago
There's a Burning Man analogy in the Twitter comments that struck me as quite apt. In fact, it holds for everything from vacation destinations to multi-decade music acts. People who were there at the beginning feel that something magic
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Media guy here. Lots of NYC readers/viewers either live in luxury condos or have a point of view about people who do. For people who do live in such places, the $$$ that they've paid to be there is meant to create a safe and elega
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by GCA10 6y ago
Fascinating! Just to keep the conversation going, I'll argue that HN's current format works much better for me. I appreciate newspaper formats when dozens of stories have roughly equal appeal to me, and I get value out of lingerin
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by GCA10 6y ago
Lots of great discussion here about the Segway's severe problems with product-market fit. It's all true, and it's all quite poignant. But in the spirit of completeness, let's take a moment to think about the messed-up pe
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by GCA10 6y ago
Sample of 1, but driving alongside a Cruise car in San Francisco last year was absolutely terrifying. It was coming up on bicyclists going the same direction, ahead of it, and kept swerving back and forth by four feet or so, depending on wh
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Why I'm joining Lambda School as COO(linkedin.com)
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The article hits its stride at paragraph 14, where they talk about the importance of "value-based pricing" rather than "cost-based pricing." My wake-up moment came in 2013 or so, when I was pricing the digital version of
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by GCA10 6y ago
Cheerful people regroup faster and are still going strong on the 3rd/4th attempt to solve a problem. The higher-IQ person is more likely to get it right the first time. But there won't be much conviction on try No. 2, and after th
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by GCA10 7y ago
The early 1980s were the heyday of management consultants peddling wild diversification strategies to stodgy companies. Other examples: - Owens-Illinois (glass bottles; no growth) was told to buy nursing homes (people get older; lots of gro
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by GCA10 7y ago
Thanks for the very thoughtful reply. I like your option of semi-offering a couple days grace period but also letting the departing employee say: "Nope, I'm out of here." From the employee side, there's a primal desire t
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by GCA10 7y ago
Most of this is good advice, but I'd disagree with declaring "Today is your last day." I've been on both sides of the layoff conversation, and usually there are some loose ends relating to work-in-progress that can be ti
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by GCA10 7y ago
Stocks were overvalued two months ago, based on super-rosy projections. The move from tech stocks' price-earnings ratios of 50 to 30 will greatly reduce valuations. But it doesn't mean that the economy is falling apart forever. It
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by GCA10 7y ago
A supporting example from another field: Back in the days of 20th century ambitious, well-funded journalism, it was common to see specialized writers do their boldest, most imaginative work in their first year on the beat. They also made so
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by GCA10 7y ago
It's the cognitive dissonance of your Point 1 that makes this so fascinating. I think we're all at peace with the idea that a $100m venture fund will periodically write a $375,000 check to a couple crazy dreamers -- just to see if
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by GCA10 7y ago
There was a spoof book in 2008 called "Manifold Destiny," which consisted of dinner recipes that could be wrapped in aluminum foil and placed under your car hood, near some hot part of the engine -- to be nimbly cooked in the cour
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by GCA10 7y ago
This is a surprisingly informative article, given that it was published by McClatchy itself. Nice to see that journalistic standards stay high, even in the middle of what must be a harrowing time for everyone there.
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Continuing the analogy, Michael Jordan doesn't get to display his full Jordan-ness on the court unless he's got a teammate like Pippen who creates opportunities and solves problems that will be huge energy drains on Jordan if only
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by GCA10 7y ago
Jack London's rather pulpy novels of Alaskan adventure found a huge following in the Soviet Union. Here's a citation saying that more than 10 million copies of his words circulated in the USSR between the 1920s and the 1940s. htt
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by GCA10 7y ago
Thanks, Karen Morenz, for providing a unified, panoramic view of the ways that the standard academic career progression short-changes many female scientists, even if each step along the way seems to make sense. It's worth taking a look
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by GCA10 7y ago
Anyone who worked at Zynga in 2013-14 could share some fine stories about what it's like to bet everything on the prospect of lots of good Facebook traffic for the indefinite future. All or nothing partnerships between startups and gia
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by GCA10 7y ago
We don't know the full extent of Ghosn's passport collection. I briefly had two working U.S. passports a while ago because of a processing glitch. It wouldn't surprise me if a real Player like Ghosn had double French passpor
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by GCA10 7y ago
The Big Four accounting firms pay huge attention to college grades and it works well for them. Ditto law firms. And in those fields, the mechanical pursuit of grades -- independent of actual knowledge -- models the actual demands of the job
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Add air resistance into the mix, and denser materials do fall faster. Coins vs. napkins. Plums vs. crumpled balls of paper I'd actually take the lesson the other way. It's hilariously tough for model-makers to acknowledge real-wor
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by GCA10 7y ago
Paul Graham is so very, very right when he highlights the limitations of managers' view that "one hour" is an important increment of time. For me, the most important interval is a decade. Get your big goals right, and that hu
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by GCA10 7y ago
The memories come flooding back. Southern Illinois University (Carbondale) was the most persistent in my day. They sent a 45 rpm record extolling all of their fine programs. In a moment of weakness, I put it on the turntable and was serenad

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