L_Rahman

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by L_Rahman 9y ago
I grew up in Bangladesh and I promise you there will be summer days in NY that will just as sweltering as the warmest, muggiest, air sticks to your body days in South Asia. Might be good to buy an AC before then ;)
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I'll take it back. You're right. It's just that mainstream NYC food criticism is so saturated with Eleven Madison Park, $200 steaks at 4 Charles and $24 dry-aged burgers that I graded Sietsema on a curve.
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Parts of the theory of disruption - specifically that an entity with less entrenched structures, can solve problems in more efficient ways - applies to nation states as well. When 25% of your country has no electricity at all, you get to im
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
Sietsema deserves a bit of a pass here. His Magnolia piece is mostly damning and he admits some guilt in liking the pudding. More importantly, he's is one of the biggest champions of non-conspicuous food consumption in the New York foo
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I'm a child of the 90s so I hope you'll accept my apology for looking at this problem through a rather narrow lens :) Trying to widen it by reading Caro's Power Broker and Jacobs's Life and Death of American Cities.
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New York has always been expensive, but retailers over indexing on physical locations both on Bleecker and uptown on Madison and Fifth Avenues took prices to truly unsustainable levels. I'm looking forward to a cool off in the CRE spac
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It's already changing in statistically significant ways: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/01/the-d...
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From the store that explicitly does not sell non-iron khakis because they have a sheen and texture that many find unappealing.
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Nilay Patel, who's the editor in chief at The Verge, in the comments: I asked Nick to go write this piece myself, after realizing all my nerd friends all carried around Anker battery packs and charging blocks. "Where did this comp
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Product development incentive structures. Imagine you lead the product team at AWS. - The team is reviewing what to build for the next quarter. - You have a long list of revenue-generating features - At the end of the list there's one
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Idyllic. I love the unhurried cadence of this day.
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Do you have a tumblr/twitter/instagram where you share examples of this aesthetic? I'm also a fan.
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Wow, the NIH paper now has me asking if this might also be a public health problem.
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I skimmed the paper you linked to and if I understood it correctly D2 has lower bioavailability than D3. Is that the primary difference?
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The photographer is Christopher Payne who does a lot of work that looks at humans making things. The colors and how they're treated in these photos is a product of his specific aesthetic: http://lenscratch.com/2016&#x2F
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
@eli_gottlieb: You're being downvoted for what reasons that should seem fairly obvious, so here's some support from a fellow native New Yorker :) @sremani: We have really fucked this up. The lack of a direct rail link from any one
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
Tradeoffs: America has a lot of land, and infrastructure to feed, raise and transport animals. Meat prices in America are so cheap relative to cost of living it's staggering. But yes, this means our seafood market choice is pretty bad.
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
Thank you for writing a terrific criticism on how math is taught today. In part because it's one of the oldest taught subjects, I think the field has gotten away with how it teaches. In every other field we have an escalation ladder of
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I think you can safely assume that's the case :)
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Hey Arjun - I'm fascinated by the human processes that underly big projects like building bridges. Any chance we can talk about your work, and perhaps specifically about the room for innovation and automation?
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
Each of these tools has two parts: - the constraints of the tool itself - the culture of the organization that uses the tool One organization could use emails and issue trackers completely asynchronously with scheduled twice daily checkins.
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by L_Rahman 9y ago
This is how I'm starting to understand it as well but it took a lot of reading comments here and in Designer News to get there.
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Are you a Stratechery / Ben Thompson reader by any chance?
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
IANAL but there is no risk that you may have to defend that proposition in court as long as you don't actually exploit the vulnerability and simply point it out. It's public information. Now if someone who works at the bank had to
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
Amazon does this with Kindles. If someone familiar with Amazon's hardware business and Kindle sales numbers could chime in, we could get a sense of whether the transparency approach works.
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by L_Rahman 10y ago
I have actually started doing this. I write a text post, but then include a topical, memey, feed friendly image with it. Engagement is much higher.
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"you have to pick up your life and say goodbye to everyone you know because the market says so" is hardly an outcome we should be promoting Why is this true? Virtually every working class immigrant to the United States made that d
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And it's a recurring topic in Matt Levine's Money Stuff newsletter. The finance community is not only aware but actively thinking about the ramifications of the situation.
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The mistake here is to assume that there's a causal relationship between having worked in the industry and taking a pro-industry role as a regulator. This isn't inherently true. Industry alums can and have taken regulatory actions
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Specifically, regulation and deregulation are not inherently good or bad. They're about managing tradeoffs. Sometimes markets have incumbents with so much entrenched power that regulation can actually make the market more capitalist an

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