adam419

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by adam419 11y ago
This perspective is in my opinion entirely misguided. The incentive of a private organization is to find ways to profit off you. That desire leads to fairly predictable behavior. On the other hand, a government owns you and has true power o
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Ask HN: Book recommendations for worldly knowledge?
3 points by adam419 11y ago|4 comments
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by adam419 12y ago
I think it's evident of how strong this narrative of the day is that newspapers keep churning this stuff out despite the fact she unanimously lost the case as decided by a jury of her peers. If she had won, how many newspapers do you t
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by adam419 12y ago
Easy to cherry-pick a successful one. As much as I find the idea of crowd funding an interesting, potentially innovative idea that should likely be allowed, I cannot see a situation where it doesn't end up creating literally the exact
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by adam419 12y ago
The hindsight bias of this statement is almost comical.
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by adam419 12y ago
Nassim Taleb once said something interesting on this subject like: "You need skills to get a BMW. You need skills and luck to become Warren Buffet. Journalists later wrote 'Taleb says Buffet has no skills!'"
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by adam419 12y ago
While I agree student loan debt may be unsustainable and start defaulting, I don't think it's as disastrous as the subprime crash because (from my understanding) most of student loan debt is on the books of the Federal government,
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by adam419 12y ago
Everything is connected. If there's a collapse in private equity funding, you could see consequences such as a decrease in advertising on major platforms such as Facebook, which would hurt their earning and market cap. I definitely thi
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Ask HN: Recommended blogs by smart people you read?
8 points by adam419 12y ago|2 comments
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How to think(farnamstreetblog.com)
2 points by adam419 12y ago|0 comments
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by adam419 12y ago
The problem with ebooks is the false ownership. I much prefer ebooks, but as opposed to a physical copy, unless I get my hands on the pdf or epub file when I "buy" a book in iBooks I don't actually own that book.
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by adam419 12y ago
You're missing the point of a black swan. An event is a black swan to the Turkey, not the Butcher.
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by adam419 12y ago
I completely relate. I find myself drawn between so many things I never end up truly immersing myself into one thing for long enough to get the big benefits I've identified at the onset. Something else always comes along that I end up
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by adam419 12y ago
Because a lot of people including institutions like Goldman Sachs and the FX brokers were short-selling the CHF (selling borrowed CHF on the open market hoping to pay it back at a lower price denominated in another currency). Except the tra
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by adam419 12y ago
This is a product of a systemic issue with "journalisms'" current business model and how they're paid. Ryan Holiday sums it up pretty nicely in his book Trust Me I'm Lying. After reading it and having it talk about
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by adam419 12y ago
Someone decided to ban it despite its overwhelming popularity.
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by adam419 12y ago
Sweet! Do you have any recommended books for learning iOS with swift?
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by adam419 12y ago
Looks awesome! Are you experienced with Objective-C or did you just pick up swift? How would you recommend learning swift without covering anything more than the basics of Objective-C?
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by adam419 12y ago
How do you figure?
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Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you check regularly?
34 points by adam419 12y ago|15 comments
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by adam419 12y ago
The funny thing is I had just posted on hear to ask about how others help improve their reading retention, since I've been feeling bad about forgetting thing after I read them.
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Jaron Lanier on Big Data(youtube.com)
5 points by adam419 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What do you do during idle time or between projects?
1 points by adam419 12y ago|0 comments
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by adam419 12y ago
I'm getting really sick of trash articles like this on HN. If these dull journalists had the slightest clue how to create a billion dollar company, they'd be busy building one rather than whoring themselves out for page views like
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by adam419 12y ago
I was thinking Seattle...but not like I'm biased or anything cough cough
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by adam419 12y ago
Mind if I ask what city?
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by adam419 12y ago
Then you would implicitly alter the future by acting on it.
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by adam419 12y ago
This is why click-bait journalism is terrible. You have a headline that makes it seem like an interesting answer will be revealed for tough conflict, only to have a rambling series of anecdotes that doesn't address the headline and rea
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Idea: Online book discussions
4 points by adam419 12y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Apple Watch app ideas
2 points by adam419 12y ago|0 comments

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