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by a_d 8y ago
Oh hey Elad! You are welcome. You should know that everyone I know who has interacted with you, speaks incredibly highly of your wisdom —- I am amazed by the breadth you cover —- as these people work on things ranging from Longevity to SaaS
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by a_d 8y ago
I consider sama to be an extraordinary investor and thinker (I know this is the most consensus thing one could say on HN). The personal bets on Boom, Helion Energy, Cruise and many others are really phenomenal (even the re- bet on Reddit)
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by a_d 8y ago
Whenever someone says that AI and IoT would automate insurance underwriting, I start to fret — because it very quickly starts to imply more and more data collection. This is like pre-crime but for your health. Meaning, you start paying high
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by a_d 8y ago
Tokenized securities are like a record of ownership, written and maintained on a ledger. They are like normal shares, governed by securities laws of the land. They could have dividends and could trade between two parties. Not sure what exac
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by a_d 8y ago
I can also imagine startup equity being tokenized. Where an exchange like Coinbase acts like SecondMarket (now called Nasdaq Private Market). This might be a great way for early employees and founders to get liquidity before the company IPO
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by a_d 8y ago
Tokenized securities are private securities that comply with securities laws using Reg D, specifically Rule 506(c). In some cases they are Reg A+ (that come with JOBS act provisions used for crowdfunding). They are very important for the ec
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by a_d 8y ago
Products from www.literatureandlatte.com deserve a mention on this list - they are called Scrivener and Scapple. I realize they might not be for everyone (both are paid), but I find them delightful.
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by a_d 8y ago
I have a sort of meta-question, Specifically about non-fiction work: if one gets the central idea contained in the book (say, from a blog or Podcasts or YouTube video of author explaining the ideas) - Is it still useful to read the entire b
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by a_d 8y ago
Adding more “micro army” pods would exponentially increase the coordination costs / communication overhead. If communication is the main challenge then decentralizing power would lead to more org ineffectiveness (centralized/comma
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by a_d 8y ago
“Although the island is predator free, and the birds are safe from predation, there are still large threats facing this small population. Sand dunes are particularly vulnerable to erosion and turbulent seas have cut away much of their habit
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by a_d 8y ago
The authors don’t do enough to sell the basic org design framework well. Then they use this (somewhat weak) framework to analyze Napolean’s org design. Makes it a v confusing paper. (Also, the hero worship throughout the paper makes it seem
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by a_d 8y ago
“Namibian hunter-gatherers deride those who stand out.“ It depends on what the goal is. If the goal is to produce abnormal outsized returns: they likely come from standing out. Being somewhat contrarian against the tribe helps with finding
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by a_d 8y ago
Such a great comment. I will use this hamburger example from now on to make the point I was trying to make! :)
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by a_d 8y ago
Coinbase’s app is an investment/trading app. In a full-blown bear market, it is natural for this to happen.
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by a_d 8y ago
I could probably generalize: the value of every model is in its ability to make predictions. This includes, and not limited to: * mental models: if your mental model doesn't predict reality, then it probably needs to change * financi
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by a_d 8y ago
There is a hi-res version of starry night, if you admire that painting here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_-_Starry_Night_-... It is 30,000 × 23,756 pixels (file size: 205.1 MB) . While incomparable to se
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by a_d 8y ago
I wonder why so much of the business writing suffers from survivorship bias type writing - what wrong lessons are we all drawing every day because of that. The esp dangerous ones are probably the ones that sound right but are wrong. I am
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by a_d 8y ago
I am not using the phrase ‘fake news’ in the way Trump uses it (to seed doubt and cast aspersions). I mean to say: “sometimes, I know the details (inside story) of a story/situation. When I read an article about it - I can always tell
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by a_d 8y ago
This approach could save journalism from the scourge of fake news. The specific issues are: 1) opinions masquerading as news. 2) misinterpretation of facts/data. 3) misrepresenting the facts. 4) cherry picking (not showing full pict
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Startups Front Cash to Homebuyers in Bidding Wars(bloomberg.com)
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by a_d 8y ago
a simple blogging site — i never found anything more minimal than this. http://adombic.appspot.com/ I don’t expect anyone to use it, just wanted to show for fun since we are talking about simplicity :)
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2018 Warren Buffett Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting (Full Video)(youtube.com)
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by a_d 8y ago
Small tribute to Jan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14249880
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by a_d 8y ago
If true, and still a big if, since the journalist seems to be conjecturing -- this might have implications for Facebook's future acquisitions. Acquiring social networks that get to scale is an integral part of Zuck's strategy. It
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by a_d 8y ago
I love that book. Short anecdote: back in 2006 I was lucky to get an early copy through a high-flying management consultant. The book basically rips into everything that is wrong with management consulting — but for some reason this person
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by a_d 8y ago
Business writing suffers from an epidemic of post-fact rationalization. Looking back, it is trivially easy to parse out whether something someone said was “insightful wisdom” or “useless”. I am continually amazed by the scope and depth of t
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by a_d 8y ago
You are right. One of PG's main contribution is to provide a path for engineers to come into money (makers make money; as opposed to professional managers). Today engineers are (re) inventing money itself, thus "owning" the u
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by a_d 8y ago
"A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution." - Abstract from https://bitcoin.org/bitcoi
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by a_d 8y ago
+1 Is this from Zero to One?
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by a_d 8y ago
I am from Kota - the city mentioned in this article as the epicenter of this crisis. India's annual suicide rate is 10.5 per 100,000 people, while the suicide rate for the world as a whole is 11.6 per 100,000 [1]. Kota has seen an extr

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