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by Top19 9y ago
Look no further! I would bet a year’s worth of pay this is the book you’re looking for: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671739166&#x2
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by Top19 9y ago
Worked for Oracle. They block all downloads, even of the free stuff, from computers in Iran.
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Wanted to comment that I think corporate shame is such a beautifully under-appreciated tool people should be leveraging more, and it absolutely is as much a pillar of the political process as the legislative branch. Bringing back a societal
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Went from a 120,000 person company to a 12 person company and this is so true. If you’ve got great leadership, a small company can be an incredibly fun, almost artistic like experience to work at. A That being said I really enjoyed my time
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I’ve also seen this connected with the rise of individualism that’s been going on since the early 80’s. Allegedly though, according to the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr, societies tend to move in 40 year periods of either community or ind
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by Top19 9y ago
4 hours total of pure undeniable work throughout the whole day (so wake up to sleep). K. Anders Ericsson, a professor on the study of “expertise”, notes that the best violinists in the world top out at 4 hours of practice. So I don’t feel g
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The closest thing I can think of is that Utah has a database of a white-collar crime. Would love to see more systems like that.
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Great title, can’t get article to load.
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There was a recent comment on Reddit that during the first dot-com bubble there were a lot of people who just used start-up money to have fun. That didn’t really happen a lot this time and people now in SF are super famous for their irratio
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Found out today you can only take $10,000 a day out of Coinbase. I guess this could be good, because it’s essentially a “bail-in” that forces people to stay in the market and prevents a run, but still I had no idea of the lack of liquidity
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by Top19 9y ago
Probably the best example is the TANF welfare reform passed in 1996. On the surface it had a very reasonable goal. Require workers on welfare to seek employment. However, this, combined with the shipping of jobs to China (stuff that had bee
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There is an old joke that Wikipedia doesn’t work in theory but it does in reality. In the same way, Church’s don’t make a lot of sense but they’ve worked for thousands of years. I kind of think of it as a thing like the family, which also d
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The larger issue that your getting at is the rise of “individualism” over the last 40 years. The first time I heard that I remember thinking what a ridiculous concept, people have always been interested in success and self-improvement in Am
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There was a full-page ad placed in the Wall Street Journal (those run something like 150k) by a hedge fund manager begging the CBOE to not let Bitcoin on. This was within the last 4 weeks. I wish I could share a picture of the article but t
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by Top19 9y ago
Suggestion: go to church. It’s a built in community of people who are likely there because of ritual and tradition (am Catholic) and do not care about talking about startups or entrepreneurship (a breathtaking relief sometimes). Church and
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by Top19 9y ago
I should have said Democrats you’re correct, I used “liberals” as a tenuous shorthand. Look at Clinton’s approach to Russia vs Trump, although confusingly this is reversed in the case of China.
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Thank you for pointing out the issues behind “priming”. The cult of believers that’s grown up around Daniel Kahneman and others (including many in the Positive Psychology) field is distressing. To Kahneman’s credit, even he recognized issue
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Tim Ferris said a couple of hours ago on Reddit during his AMA that we’re in a tech bubble. Given he did not specifically say Bitcoin, but if we assume tech is a bubble in general then Bitcoin by default is the best expression of this “irra
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by Top19 9y ago
A typical pattern with genius though is an incredible amount of time spent alone (usually before age 30). Later in life you need to open yourself up and communicate regularly, but this is more an extra bonus than the core of innovation. Che
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by Top19 9y ago
GoDaddy has an option to “mute the music” when you call in thank goodness. Nothing worse than being on hold for 10 minutes and can’t do anything because the music destroys any concentration potential you might have.
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450,000 people make the iPhone in Shenzhen, China. This does not include the parts that Foxconn itself can’t make. Although the 450k number is from a couple of years ago, it could conceivably be less now due to robotics and automation. Then
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Steroid Use Among Law Enforcement Officers(utpress.utexas.edu)
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Look into Joseph Stiglitz and the Roosevelt Institute. Stiglitz has heavily influenced, no joke, Steve Bannon, Bernie Sanders, and I believe was chief economic advisor for Hillary Clinton in 2008 campaign. His “rewriting the rules” book cal
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Was a little disappointed with the NY Times for this article. GOP tax plan is shockingly not that bad. They are going to increase the standard deduction, which definitely helps anybody who just graduated and is working to pay off loans. Obv
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The half that isn’t lies is just marketing, so one could say it’s about 100% garbage.
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If you want to find a moral compass, look to the history, rituals, philosophy, and timeless truths of the past. It will be there waiting.
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I hate mergers and think they’re dumb, but maybe this is for the best. Isn’t the problem with internet news is that it comes from everywhere, enforcing a kind of chaos of truth and a race to the bottom? Maybe we should have near monopolies
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Well the good news is housing will crash anyway, unlike anything seen since WWII. First there is nothing that really regulates the housing industry per-se. I mean it’s more similar to Bitcoin than the NYSE which has numerous safeguards buil
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Actually that feeling will only occur when war breaks out with China and Australia is the first US ally to fall :(
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Came into this not knowing what to expect, and recently I’ve had some mixed feelings about Tesla, but wow what an awesome statement. Honestly it was just so...authentic. They described very exactly what happened, what the accusations were,

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