GDC7

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by GDC7 5y ago
> Interestingly survivorship/success is an unbiased estimator of merit imo If that is the case, can you fail on purpose?
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by GDC7 5y ago
> what would be the indicator, this wasn't just survivorship? "From now on can you please fail on purpose?" 6 months later: "Okay, back to pursuing success" 3 months later: "Please could you start failing on
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by GDC7 5y ago
The Paypal mafia run paypal into the ground. Peter Thiel was the only sane person on that boat, as soon as he was put at the helm he did the only sensible thing: Clear the deck and offload the ship to a bigger fool. Not exactly an heroic mo
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by GDC7 5y ago
> have been very successful at bringing their vision of the future to life So did Hugh Hefner and Donald Trump but they are considered "small potato"
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by GDC7 5y ago
> There are of course situations where the barriers to entry are so prohibitive that natural monopolies occur. How can it be a monopoly? There are millions of them!
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by GDC7 5y ago
> The one thing Econ 101 firmly implanted in my brain is that the only way to make sustainable profits in a free market is to build and defend a monopoly, otherwise you're always struggling to keep up with competitors That's so
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by GDC7 5y ago
Sometimes I feel like the only cure for perfectionism is to sabotage or rewire the part of our brain which catalogues, sorts and is able to pick one thing as being better/worse than some other thing. Perfectionism comes from the abilit
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by GDC7 5y ago
Well if they are so great why are they dead? /s If you are not there to take your bows, then it's kinda pointless anyway...isn't it? Nobody does the work for the sake of doing the work. People do the work because they want to
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by GDC7 5y ago
Math is the foundation of sciences which gets the real Nobel, it would be redundant to have it in there.
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Even inaction is a policy Inaction is the only policy. All the other actions are stuff that these people do to justify their existence . With all due respect for Jerome Powell, Bernanke etc. these people are kind of frauds. They are th
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by GDC7 5y ago
If you have decent money you go with the best, no need to spread: Below the list of the world's top 50 safest banks https://d2tyltutevw8th.cloudfront.net/media/document/press-r...
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by GDC7 5y ago
Classic Shell please come back!
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by GDC7 5y ago
Perfect scenario for a divorce then. People want and need to go back to travel. Especially between US-China-EU If it was for me I'd allow everybody, but given that majority rules and the majority is made up of vaccinated people , and t
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by GDC7 5y ago
> People simply want to listen to music created by people People also want a chunk of that Bob Dylan/Beatles fame without necessarily having the talent or the luck to compose songs like they did. Let the AI do the work and then only
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by GDC7 5y ago
It's the same everywhere. There is a 40-10% in every country which won't get the vaccine. It's not their fault, there is some mechanism inside their brains which makes them highly skeptical of everything. And there are so man
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by GDC7 5y ago
12.5 or 15 is not that big of a difference Ireland should focus on building a strong fiscal regime for foundations and LLCs. They'll be the new tool used globally when the 15% thing comes into operation
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by GDC7 5y ago
Big breaks happen when the proponent of some new idea or concept has extreme confidence in themselves, some would say extreme behavior from the proponents of the theory. These days there is a lack of arrogance, lack of belief in one's
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by GDC7 5y ago
I always find myself looking at the uber successful and thinking: "society is discounting the possibility of them being frauds" In the end only them know if they broke the laws or not, but for sure it's not the 0% which socie
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by GDC7 5y ago
Of course you do. For fundraising purposes. And for sale purposes. Nobody wants to say it but a bold founder would raise money as blockchain project, would sell to clients as a blockchain project but would operate it via a common database.
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Right-wingers may complain about this, but they have to understand that: 1) historically, subjects/victims of oppressive govts are more likely to be allies of US and other democracies, rather than enemies, and 2) innocent till pro
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by GDC7 5y ago
> but the countries that are able to avoid damage or rebuild first would see economic growth similar to the post WW2 economic boom. Those countries will be even better off by securing a supply large enough to ship to countries which fail
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by GDC7 5y ago
That's right, vaccine doesn't prevent you from getting the virus so if you get it you'd then amount an immune response of some sort which is on top of the one provided by the vaccine. Or that goes to "fill up" again
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Going Down with the Ship? (1997)(washingtonpost.com)
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by GDC7 5y ago
Can a disaster epic about an epic disaster avoid the very fate it dramatizes? "Titanic," director James Cameron's cinematic retelling of the story of the doomed luxury liner, is over budget, behind schedule and plagued by the
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by GDC7 5y ago
When did HN start hating on people like Tim Cook instead of having the arrogance and the self-confidence to think that someday you'd be making that sort of coin?
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Your advice is to be selfish and not care what anybody thinks about you? Well if one wants to be cynical that's how big fortunes and generally big advantages to self happen. That is behaving selfishly and somehow manage to avoid r
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by GDC7 5y ago
> There was no reason to slow down There was. The DOJ is the reason. A huge part of the setback was the morale hit inside the company. Kinda like "what's the purpose of all this work? If we are successful in the way we want to
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by GDC7 5y ago
Well to be fair he had the toughest act to follow, not just at MS but the whole history of corporate America. Nobody had to come after Rockefeller at Standard Oil, but at MS there was Ballmer after Gates. That and also Microsoft was priced
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by GDC7 5y ago
Have you ever considered that in the worst case scenario you could move to Colombia or South Africa or Thailand and have an immediate boost in your social relevancy?
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Microsoft made some leadership changes - game changing. Microsoft was forced to make a leadership change back in 2000 to avoid being broken up. Gates had to step down because he was the reason why the DOJ went after Microsoft. Nadella

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