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... and a similar experiment in predominantly Han Chinese China likely results in the same thing biased towards Han Chinese, In Thailand towards Thais, and in Cambodia towards Khmer people. My GF lived in China half a decade, and she had tr
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Hmmm... Aren;t the two separate? Carbon neutral is going to be almost impossible with flight. Why don't we split the two (carbon output and input) into two fields?
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Propaganda exists not to convince. Propaganda exists to define what the rules are, so they can spot people who deviate. If "dogs" was an illegal word, then anyone that says "dogs" becomes an way to spot people prone to i
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It is hard enough to get staff to use DropBox at all, let alone optimise the spend. Most of the world is not HN readers, it is McDonalds workers (gross generalisation for affect, not accuracy). Dropbox is the greatest tool ever when dealing
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So really, you asking why non adjectives or adverbs?
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> But from about 9 months you could both work say 3 days a week if you wanted. TERRIBLE advice. In all things gender and money, Penelope Trunk is a goto: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2013/01/07/how-to-pick
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Because they care. In the USA, (non-resident) I find that almost every bad thing usually has a really nice, positive flipside. SF spends so much on the homeless that, ironically, it attracts them. In fact, Las Vegas has sent homeless there:
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> How can you compromise your own citizens for the sake of other countries You don't! Not collectively, not en masse, and not universally. MANY citizens win. And even the people this hurts, they likely are better off because things
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So I assume everyone downloaded the PDF AND the excel? Good, so lets get to the numbers: My problems: 1. Percentages: the article talks in percentages, as if something tangible was lost from 50-45%. Here is the table of wealth by year in to
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Explain China? Or Japan? Or Vietnam? The world is not the USA. The world is 7 billion people, in countries and cities of varying economic outcomes. While income inequality is rising between inhabitants of the first world, global income ineq
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Assuming one wants to tread into challenging waters, do you think it is possible to write a bulletproof, beyond-criticism essay? I think it's impossible to write a bulletproof article, even something longer form, unless it says somethi
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And what of their loses? VCs don't make just returns - they make loses as well. "Person X doesn't deserve their amount" does not equal "taking away person X's return would help reduce poverty".
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> Attending formal education at a higher level is, itself, an outcome. See, there it is again - SHOWING UP. You didn't say "getting a degree" or "graduating to a high paying job" or even "putting themselves
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As a non-american, your obsession with race confuses me for one very specific reason: it is all about involvement, and never about achievement. I wonder if this is a consequence of the "every kid gets a trophy" phenomenon, where m
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I think a lot of this is hypothesis not supported by statistics. The "men don't talk about their problems" idea seems like an explanation in search of a problem. The real issue, that is not mentioned in the article, is that t
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Correlation != causation, and even if the correlation reveals something, with no explanatory theory, we are still at step one. This essay was based on these two lines from here: http://10years.firstround.com/#one > That’
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> We yearn to be with others like ourselves and to fit in. The idea is that this is what "keeps people out". Surely, the flip side is true, and people are defined / made happy by the same notions. People in the west are so
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Ask HN: Big Companies built by founders that had already failed
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That makes no sense. It is an unfree market, therefore there is no check or balance.
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Twitter's problem is simpler: it is great for power users, shite for everyone else. Twitter needs to curate the content I see better - especially for newer users. Twitter is boring as sin until you follow a few interesting people, then
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Without stating where / how, can you give us an indication of dilution in a "YC Never invests again, company does series A, B & C" scenario? It is complicated, I am sure, but YC participation in subsequent rounds, but jus
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AirBnB: $24 Billion. DropBox: $10 Billion. Zenefits: $4.5 Billion Stripe: $3.5 Billion. Instacart: $2 Billion Twitch: $1 Billion Total: $45 Billion. Source: http://graphics.wsj.com/billion-dollar-club/ So they value th
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You mean at the series A? Their original idea was really different.
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The problem is simpler: the cost of disintermediating their service, e.g. to go ahead and build your own feed, is just too high. And maintenance is just a pain. It is far better to view tweets other's tell you to, than use your own fee
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I understand those arguments, but it doesn't addresses the issue for a very specific reason. What if the problem is the way internally the team works? When measuring end-to-end, any part of that may influence the final outcome. If, and
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The grammar one worries me. I wonder if that was corrected for country of birth, e.g. if this is an apples for apples comparison of native English speakers (USA, Canada, UK, Australia etc) or if it includes non-native speakers. If there are
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Which might make sense. Perhaps more broadly, they see the advertising entities as a whole that is complete, e.g. the value of these is strong, and not likely to be anything more than incremental (in the case of Youtube, that increment is s
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I don't even know where to start with this.
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And that's a big deal. But if the cost of an employee is > their value, you get massive off-shoring. That's the danger, and as an Australian the opportunity, of Bay Area pricing being so crazy. If the Bay Area wants to keep its
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Serious question: why are women so harsh to EACH OTHER? From the article: > both men and women were significantly more likely to hire a male applicant than a female applicant with an identical record. And from the linked studies: "M

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