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by Spellman 7y ago
The first issue that pops into my mind is "community of parents curating content" doesn't scale. Or at least is hard to protect from bad actors injecting into the stream. The best way a group could maintain control would be t
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by Spellman 7y ago
Technically you can still get loans and credit. It's just a lot harder and requires more underwriting and proof instead of having a single, handy Credit Score number attached to you from various agencies.
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by Spellman 7y ago
Not exactly the same, but here's the advice for if you win the lottery: https://www.forbes.com/sites/deborahljacobs/2012/02/11/10-th... Much of it involves don't make big lifestyle changes
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by Spellman 7y ago
Which then means why redo the work when you can call the expert and get things pre-digested for you.
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SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack(gist.github.com)
379 points by Spellman 7y ago|189 comments
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by Spellman 7y ago
And that's just the thing. Many, many people don't have time to shop around gathering a variety of high-quality news sources. Many will just run Fox, or CNN, or whatever as their primary news source. And that implicitly shapes the
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by Spellman 7y ago
But this was temporary pain for future gain. Imagine doing that for your whole life.
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by Spellman 8y ago
Perfectly reasonable. Thanks
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by Spellman 8y ago
While that's true for the possibility of conflict of interests, do you have any proof/data showing they've actually flexed that conflict for their own gain? Undermining the trust in the authority of the aggregate values is a
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by Spellman 8y ago
Even more specifically, a graduate degree of some kind. Because most employers don't want to put in the effort to justify a BS visa hire whereas justifying a MS or PhD visa under H1B is much easier.
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Humble Book Bundle: Leadership Now by Berrett-Koehler(humblebundle.com)
2 points by Spellman 8y ago|0 comments
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Talking About Money(kalzumeus.com)
2 points by Spellman 8y ago|0 comments
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by Spellman 8y ago
In journalism, the argument is as follows: If the answer to the question is "yes," it is a stronger/more authoritative headline to simply assert instead of pose a question. Therefore, any headline that poses a question will r
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by Spellman 8y ago
re: red vs white wine, Nope! Not exaggerating! Several studies have shown wine is crazy subjective, and both novices and experts have been fooled before by changing the colors (dye) and bottles. Most people also have trouble blindfolded unl
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by Spellman 8y ago
I think it depends on your comparison point. A good value bottle of Whiskey sits around $30-$50, and you can easily spread that single bottle over at minimum 20 servings. For a few dollars, if you enjoy it, that's a pretty good value.
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The Long-Run Effects of Teacher Collective Bargaining(nber.org)
2 points by Spellman 8y ago|0 comments
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How Futures Trading Changed Bitcoin Prices(frbsf.org)
99 points by Spellman 8y ago|76 comments
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by Spellman 8y ago
Nope. rummaging through the trash doesn't require a warrant.
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by Spellman 8y ago
Go back even further and pretty much every news source was a propaganda machine. Most of the major "trusted" new sources today started primarily in yellow journalism and political attack ads. Pulitzer was not a particularly nice m
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A college professor gives her students extra credit for going on dates(washingtonpost.com)
66 points by Spellman 8y ago|39 comments
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by Spellman 9y ago
OK, fair enough. Hope you guys figure out an appropriate intervention plan then. Is going to a therapist on the table? Sounds like there's something deeper going on and just cutting off the porn doesn't usually solve it in my expe
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by Spellman 9y ago
First, how are you sure it's correlation and not causation? Perhaps he's being driven to porn/developing the habit as self-medication? Also, as to your previous point that it will lead to "harder" stuff, a recent st
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Japan Wants Immigrants. The Feeling Isn't Mutual(bloomberg.com)
1 points by Spellman 9y ago|0 comments
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Moana, Complacency, and the Enduring Appeal of Steady-State Economics(anotherpanacea.com)
1 points by Spellman 9y ago|0 comments
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Bussed out: How America moves its homeless(theguardian.com)
12 points by Spellman 9y ago|0 comments
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by Spellman 9y ago
Thinking back to the Gore-Bush election and issues of ambiguous paper ballots during the very tight recount. Everyone remember hanging chads? Or double voted ballots? There's an argument to be had that digital systems are more robust a
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by Spellman 9y ago
Saying cryptocurrencies have technical/economic value and that they are in a bubble of inflated value can both be true. I've seen it likened to the Dot com bubble. Sure several groundbreaking titans of the Internet were founded du
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Monopoly Without a Monopolist: An Economic Analysis of the Bitcoin System [pdf](columbia.edu)
118 points by Spellman 9y ago|61 comments
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by Spellman 9y ago
Any particularly major recommendations for a reader?
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by Spellman 9y ago
Probably my favorite Yale Course to date!

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