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by IsaacL 11y ago
What's the reasoning behind why this should be the case? Something to do with the curvature of the Earth?
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by IsaacL 11y ago
I'm in Chiang Mai, Thailand right now, and $12k would also go a lot further here. Maybe I'll look at Nepal next, and it would be interesting both for personal adventure and to help the local economy recover... but what puts me off
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by IsaacL 11y ago
"It would be spread over 82,000 square miles, about the size of Kansas, and hold a population larger than a third of the United States. And unlike metro areas that have grown up organically, Jing-Jin-Ji would be a very deliberate creat
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by IsaacL 11y ago
6 years for me -- the mix of articles is indeed similar, though the titles show how the vibe of the community has changed. Back then it really felt like a gathering of plucky upstarts and misfits. We were into a lot of things which are main
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by IsaacL 11y ago
Heh, I'll simply quote my own comment from 6 years ago, when AirBnB was first featured on HN: > I'm a couchsurfing afficionado as well, but this site appeals to me, partially because it ISN'T free. I always feel too oblige
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by IsaacL 11y ago
I actually opened this thread just to ctrl-F "michaelochurch". I find him consistently interesting, and I strongly agree with him that Silicon Valley culture has weakened, though I strongly disagree with him on the root cause. (He
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by IsaacL 12y ago
This is a really insightful article. A shame it hasn't garnered any discussion, but maybe people feel they don't have much to add. I think the next big wave of economic growth is not 3d printing, or AI, or anything like that; it&#
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by IsaacL 12y ago
A few ideas below. You mention startups trying "to make as much money as possible as quickly as possible" - I personally quite strongly believe that companies that focus on long-term profitability also happen to do a lot of good
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by IsaacL 12y ago
Check out https://nomadlist.com/ for a list of the best places to go to do this kind of thing. If I was in your position I'd book a flight to somewhere like Chiang Mai in Thailand (cheap, traveller-friendly, lots of En
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by IsaacL 12y ago
I've been in an on-and-off existential funk for most of the last two years. At times I've seriously wondered if I was capital-D Depressed. I don't think I was though - as in, my problem was caused by a specific frustration wi
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by IsaacL 12y ago
You've successfully completed steps A and B: A. Notice that someone could improve their behaviour. B. Notice that you could give them useful advice to improve their behaviour. Now, on to step C! C. Don't be a condescending dick wh
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by IsaacL 12y ago
"The equity stuff isn't important because all of them take so little that an early-stage company shouldn't be worrying about it. The mindset that "we're gonna be a $1B company, so 1% is worth $10M to me" is com
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by IsaacL 12y ago
Sorry. As my sibling poster pointed out, I think I mixed you up with other pro-bootstrap/anti-VC writers.
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by IsaacL 12y ago
So this is the third counterintuitive thing to remember about startups: starting a startup is where gaming the system stops working. Gaming the system may continue to work if you go to work for a big company. Depending on how broken the co
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by IsaacL 12y ago
Luke Watcholz' 'The Way' series is, in my opinion, not only the best RPG Maker game, but one of the best RPGs out there, period. And I played a lot of the SNES classics a teenager. http://www.crestfallen.us/do
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by IsaacL 12y ago
I agree - 'intelligence', defined most broadly as 'ability to sense the environment, build a mental model of it, and use said model to achieve one's goals'^, seems like a very common adaptation. ^ This isn't ju
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by IsaacL 12y ago
Something I learned from a friend with several years experience consulting at McKinsey (i.e., experience with a lot of companies) is that as you go higher up the corporate ladder, you surprisingly tend to find more introverts. So see you
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by IsaacL 12y ago
I agree with you, and I don't think you deserve the downvotes. (Especially as people shouldn't downvote you just because they disagree). She sounds like a competent founder but one who started out with almost no knowledge of mana
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by IsaacL 13y ago
I've explored similar ideas in the past. One possibility I explored was breaking down claims like 'Guantanamo Bay should close' into moral claims plus factual claims, eg 'Guantanamo Bay practices torture' plus &#x27
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by IsaacL 13y ago
London, UK - Board Intelligence hiring Rails and Javascipt (ideally Angular.js) developers. Remote a possibility. ============== Our goal is to improve decision-making at the boards of the world's largest companies. Most corporate boar
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Cultural technology and the making of K-Pop(newyorker.com)
1 points by IsaacL 13y ago|0 comments
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by IsaacL 13y ago
I have to admit that I'm not a huge fan of Ray Kurzweil - he's one of a large group of people who believe that accelerating change will almost certainly be good. I think the singularity could be good, but it could also be really b
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by IsaacL 13y ago
There is some logic to this. I think it was Plato who commented that a democracy was doomed once its citizens realised they could vote themselves largesse out of the treasury. Which is pretty much what is happening these days in every moder
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If you really want to save the elephants, farm them(theguardian.com)
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This decade: 1. Growing sovereign debt - it's not something democratic states seem to be able to solve. 2. Weakened/collapsing states in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, etc. The Arab Spring showed that revolutions rarely lead to
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by IsaacL 13y ago
Sam Biddle of Valleywag, of course. Who else? http://valleywag.gawker.com/prominent-venture-capitalist-dis...
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by IsaacL 13y ago
Yep, the way I see it is that both backend and frontend development have their bad parts: you either faff around with broken config files, or faff around with broken stylesheets. (Obviously both have their good sides too). It comes down to
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by IsaacL 13y ago
Here's a question: for a decent frontend developer who's still far away from the "master" level he describes here, is it worth chasing mastery or might it be better to branch out to other skills, like management? I think
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The Next Ten Billion Years(thearchdruidreport.blogspot.co.uk)
85 points by IsaacL 13y ago|87 comments
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by IsaacL 13y ago
I have a long blog post planned covering 5 future scenarios. This thread would be a good place to test-drive an MVP... Scenario 1 is exponential progress - the Singularity which Ray Kurzweil thinks is inevitable and which Eliezer Yudkowsky

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