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by PakG1 9y ago
Heh. Talk about timing. Timely article. http://www.businessinsider.com/steven-bregman-etfs-passive-i...
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by PakG1 9y ago
Startups are draft picks. Existing companies are free agents. Both can pan out, both can be busts. Draft picks can be first round draft picks or fourth round draft picks. Free agents can be expensive or cheap. It is what it is.
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by PakG1 9y ago
Yeah, but let's not punish customers for choosing a vendor that sucks more than they already get punished. Bad decisions have their own consequences, that should be punishment enough. Also, who knows how many good vendors are out the
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by PakG1 9y ago
While that's true, there is a flip side that there were likely a lot of custom-made or proprietary systems that only worked on XP. Even worse, there were likely various medical hardware that only had drivers for XP. So upgrading from
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by PakG1 9y ago
Anytime Civ 2 is mentioned, I just remember this. Just so amazing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4100032
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by PakG1 9y ago
I want to thank you for posting this. It's a bit inspiring to see how everyone else works, especially what time everyone gets up. My girlfriend has been trying really hard to get me to wake up early every day, and I've been slow
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by PakG1 9y ago
I think gp is saying that the first action legitimizes the second by setting precedent, so it's difficult to call the second action illegitimate.
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by PakG1 10y ago
I'm being pedantic, but what to do with the knowledge seems to be a policy and political question, not a science question.
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by PakG1 10y ago
If there is a less worthwhile thing for us to be doing with potable water, I can't think of it. China recently is cracking down on golf courses in order to preserve water. I imagine the game of golf is not actually worth the cultural
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by PakG1 10y ago
Let's be honest. Climate science also needs to decide if it will be anthropocentric or not. As harsh as it sounds, if science is not supposed to be anthropocentric, then it doesn't matter to science if humanity becomes extinct or
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by PakG1 10y ago
We need to make jets that run on biofuels or synthetic fuels. That's an issue of sustainability, not climate change. Those subjects are related but not interchangeable. I don't have the latest data, but I do recall various biofu
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by PakG1 10y ago
I think you're missing the point that he's now a full-fledged investor and is now more biased than before. https://a16z.com/author/chris-dixon/
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by PakG1 10y ago
See healthcare. :D
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by PakG1 10y ago
Perhaps the egos are what enable what OP is describing though.
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by PakG1 10y ago
Only they would have the data to be able to determine that, if anyone would have that data at all.
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by PakG1 10y ago
Touche.....
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by PakG1 10y ago
Yes, but are voice memos indexable and searchable? Maybe they can be, but don't know what enterprising startup would find it profitable to create the machine learning algorithms necessary to do this successfully. As a well-funded nonpr
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by PakG1 10y ago
Yes, you're correct. But it's best to walk away from companies who try to own you to that level. If a good company respects and wants you, they are completely OK with giving up some of their leverage in order to gain your trust
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by PakG1 10y ago
Seeing Eye Test. I go and volunteer regularly in remote poor villages in multiple provinces to help run little camps for kids, including orphans, in my spare time. I talk with these people. I listen to what they tell me. I see how they live
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by PakG1 10y ago
What do I have to do to get you to understand that I give respect to today's Chinese government, not Mao's Chinese government? Even inside China, all the Chinese people I know acknowledge that Mao had crazy and stupid ideas, espec
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by PakG1 10y ago
People there have no way of knowing if for anybody they see progressing in life there isn't a dozen other having their life ruined, because those later dozen are invisible. If you want to make claims, you better have evidence to back
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by PakG1 10y ago
Yeah, South Korea is doing REALLY well right now. Speaking as someone who has South Korean roots. @@ Yes, they are starting from huge self-inflicted wounds, which you accurately quantify. My own personal view is that China is not fixable
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by PakG1 10y ago
Why do you assume they are my countrymen? I said I'm Canadian. Furthermore, I point to where fake news and alternative facts have led the US. Freedom of the press is a double-edged sword that is only wielded properly in the hands of
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by PakG1 10y ago
I'd say the question is what does "well-run" mean? Does it mean infrastructure is getting built at a high-quality level, GDP per capita is rising, life expectancy is increasing, quality of life is increasing, and so on? All
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by PakG1 10y ago
They'd just see a black pot calling out the kettle. Not they would. They DO. But honestly, despite its evident corruption that even their own leader admits is the biggest threat to the viability of their government, their government
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by PakG1 10y ago
I imagine this is how a lot of previously unthinkable things that required aging were made. Cheese, wine, etc.
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by PakG1 10y ago
Here's the question I want answered. How does this type of thinking affect the future of Snapchat. The future of Signal is easy to predict. Back door. Snapchat? This type of thinking seems like an existential threat to Snapchat.
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by PakG1 10y ago
I work in China these days for the past few years. Have Canadian citizenship. During the holidays, visited friends in New York and went to Seattle. Both times, I was pulled aside for second inspection. New York got a total douche. He w
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by PakG1 10y ago
That's interesting. I ran from Safari to Chrome because Safari was choking on a ton of tabs for me.
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by PakG1 10y ago
At the same time, I would not restrict what a grown rational and self-aware human (emphasize rational and self-aware) is and isn't allowed to do with themselves. See biohackers, attempts at cyborg conversion, and Dallas Buyers Club. I

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