Gargoyle

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by Gargoyle 9y ago
When there's an HN thread on IQ, you can count on two things: 1. There will be a number of comments saying IQ is outright meaningless. 2. There will be a comment saying Feynman only had an IQ of whatever it was. Never fails. Anyway, as
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I wish birds would eat astronomical numbers of spiders, or at least black widows. For whatever reason, black widows are a plague in my micro-area. I could walk around the outside of my house tonight and find 8 or 10 easy. Big ones too. Al
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Change "disneyland" to "empire state building" and it works decently. Change it to "wall street" and it fails. Still, not bad at all.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I keep the business cards of a couple of lawyers in my wallet. One I've dealt with on business matters (but certainly isn't on retainer) and one I know socially who does criminal defense. As you say, I figure if they can't he
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I was given one at around age 12 in school to see if I qualified for an accelerated program, and then another one around age 28 as part of a university research study (on user interface related topics) I volunteered for. I'm not surpri
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
It won't really be people who are personally rich as much at it will be people who can expense it to their rich employer or bill it to their rich client.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I agreed with your first sentence, but then was confused by sentences 2 and 3. That's exactly the scene I recognize from 2011 until now.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Hmm. Maybe try to contact someone at KUSC, the Los Angeles classical station. Particularly someone like Jim Svejda, who knows classical and film soundtracks inside and out. Maybe donate the reward to the station if they can id it. :-)
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Try r/classicalmusic and mention the reward. Lots of students and professionals there.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Yeah. Housing is high. Crazy high, especially in San Francisco itself. But the pay far, far outweighs that factor.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
The author said most of the scams in his book come from real life, so it's possible someone did it in the past. James Swain is the author, the series is his "Tony Valentine" books. Not fantastic writing, but packed full of sc
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
This is the plot device for an actual novel about a detective hired to solve a casino scam. Don't want to completely spoil it, but it's the main plotline.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
So get rid of the state. If automation can take over every other job, there's no reason for a state that employs humans either.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Interesting. I've thought for a while now that this is the only long-term solution that works at all. But getting there is going to be a huge mess, with the establishment fighting every inch of the way. So it's nice to see someone
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Daily fantasy baseball is a killer due to variation. Even the best can go 0-for-5 on an off night. Winning at the bottom levels of dollar amounts is easy just by taking into account a few extra factors, but the upper levels are more difficu
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
As with many other areas, the best money might well be in selling the shovels instead of mining the gold claims. Develop a good system with decent results, sell the recommendations. I've watched this play out in daily fantasy sports ov
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Why do you feel that's an extraordinary claim?
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Similar to what seems to constantly happen on AV Club with their TV reviews. A reviewer who has no interest in the material is assigned and their reviews are awful. The saving grace, though, is that the comment threads on those shows are of
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
My take is that Thiel has realized most of the gains he expects to get from Facebook and has much better opportunities for capital gains available to him. Which says pretty much nothing about Facebook's continuing health.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
The U-2 is so difficult to fly that it requires external sensors to land. AKA another pilot racing down the runway in a chase car radioing instructions to the pilot in the plane. https://jalopnik.com/5537629/the-140-mph
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
In the general sense, this is the wrong place to ask. It's a self-selecting group in that most people over 40 here will be among the group that lasted in the career. It won't give a sense of how large that group is in the wider wo
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
This is something people want. With the right approach you could actually improve the happiness of hundreds of millions of people. The existing market is tremendously huge.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
If you have $400 million in funds whose origin you can't account for, you move it into some opaque account to buy the painting for that $400 million. The buyer (you) remains "unknown" but now you have $400 million that you c
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
A version of it was also the main theme in Shutter Island.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I'd rather see someone work on the Universal part first. Get distributions, however small, into the hands of every individual. Scaling up the distributions isn't a difficult problem to solve, the universal part is.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I'd be completely fine working with Alice. Bob would be a net negative to the team, though.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
If the airlines offering decent seats don't have a competitive advantage, that's either because A) they're not marketing it very well, or B) people don't really care.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
If you're getting options and RSUs, you're going to be upper middle class at least, and thus wealthy by the definitions of most Americans.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
Downtown LA has a fantastic parking situation compared to almost any other major city. Tons and tons of cheap parking. Parking is not DTLA's problem.
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by Gargoyle 9y ago
I'm mostly curious what you imagine happens now in your scenarios with owner-driven cars and taxis. It's not like they now lead to better outcomes.

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