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by alehul 8y ago
Comments like this are really unhelpful if you can't even provide a link. There's probably thousands of arguments on Google for how "income disparity hurts", and most can likely be successfully argued against rather si
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Looking at the first row, I'd just point out that some of these are repeat founders at the ages listed: Elon founded Zip2 right out of undergrad, Garrett Camp founded StumbleUpon while in grad school, and Kalanick left UCLA undergrad t
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> Advertising worked fine before internet tracking was a thing. Everything from Coca-Cola and the New York Times down to Fred's Corner Dry Cleaner and The Podunk Tribune survived and thrived on the old, low-tracking model. Completel
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For anyone interested in the story of lighthouses and their keepers (focused on the Americas with a few scattered stories of elsewhere), I'd highly recommend Brilliant Beacons by Eric Jay Dolin ( https://www.amazon.com/B
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> Ah yes, Bloomberg, well-known for protectionist rhetoric and support for Trump. To be fair, many of Bloomberg's sources were government, so the government could easily have said "we'll leak this to Bloomberg." It do
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While that's true, and I personally am leaning towards believing Ford, there's also these premises we must accept: (1) There will be millions of people against any Supreme Court nominee (2) The bar for dismissal of a Supreme Court
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I remember Mercedes and particularly Volvo started on self-driving very early. In addition, Google has probably passed 10 million self-driving miles. What makes you think Tesla is the most advanced, rather than simply the most willing to to
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Half my family grew up in the Soviet Union and tend to love Putin, so, though not the above commenter, I can definitely answer this if you're willing to take an analogy. Yes, a leader can be corrupt and dictatorial, and yes, they can s
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He absolutely has one in Shotwell on the SpaceX side. Maybe that's part of the reason that Tesla is the company causing him all the issues.
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It's also essentially game theory; the first defectors (those entering the Chinese market) will seize most of the reward.
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Fair point! From an ethical perspective I would still choose to shame it, but that equivalence can definitely be justified; it's no different than the Nigerian scammer but on a country-wide level. I like it. Another question would be w
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By the same logic, I'm aware there likely isn't a prince in Nigeria who will send me a boatload of money if I send them .1% of that money over the internet. We nonetheless, as a society, choose to shame and fight the action of the
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Would have to search to find the exact studies, but it's been found that a hamburger menu will lower engagement and result in shorter user sessions (particularly, the user will visit less pages). The intuitive answer as to why is that
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Well put. Finance has seen its fair share of this. As an example, I was ashamed to see the difference in reactions between when it was Knight Capital [0] vs Goldman Sachs [1]. For Knight Capital, the entire company floundered after a tradin
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Throughout tech, women are a minority in the workplace, even if not a minority in the overall population, which is one potential meaning of "minorities in the workplace." At least that's what I gathered.
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Completely agree with that. I just threw you into that category for the purpose of my comment as I believed it was a perceived defense of Wikileaks that you were being downvoted for, rather than something else regarding the content of your
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Edit: Seems the parent comment has now reached net positive votes It's a really sad thing you're being downvoted, as I made a similar comment about a year ago [1] in defense of WikiLeaks to over 30 upvotes. HN seems to be getting
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I think the simpler form of that question is "what's wrong with globalism?", to which there's many answers. One of the foremost would be that an American company should support the livelihoods of the American people, esp
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> Why invest in your company if you don't have the conviction that it will be worth more 3-6 months from now. On the contrary, investing in a newly listed company that still involves a lot of employees locked up in the company'
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Not only does private industry spend more on R&D, but I'd personally argue that their $400 billion is required to be more effective at a per-dollar level, given the inherent competitiveness and need to create something profitable.
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Do you believe that, without IP law, we'd still have companies invest the amounts they do into creating new technology (particularly in high R&D areas like pharma)?
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No, but it similarly could've been used to increase the company in question's market share.
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Seconding this. I've met some people who have had a lot of interaction (only over text) with Satoshi back in the early Bitcoin days, and they believe he's looking to escape publicity as much as possible. The only reason Satoshi wo
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A Positive Feedback Loop for Humanity(medium.com)
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I think the above poster could've phrased it more clearly. While European countries would've been racist as well, it was uniquely American to have, in the country, such a large number of the people they were racist towards. If the
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I agree. This wouldn't expose hyperbole and bias, but merely be able to advocate for whether the event is being widely reported to protect against completely false news (think celebrity death as an example)
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Thank you for changing the title, as I really cannot believe how deeply they buried that admission. > Given these developments, we've decided not to design or build our own aircraft any longer, and to close our facility in Bridgwate
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That seems like it would be very trivial to game, and additionally while facts are hard to confirm, a consensus of users who are biased and relatively uneducated on the topic would do a particularly bad job anyway. The best similar use case
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Interesting. Maybe you should consider 'diluting' similar to Tide, to present a more accurate comparison? Most of us just look at ounces. Additionally, I'd find using a new detergent to be an easier experience if I was suppos
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While it requires having a service worth staying on once you're familiarized to be successful, paying users is a valid strategy when a network effect is important. PayPal, as an example, is the result of a merger between Confinity (Thi

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