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by alehul 8y ago
Nabokov, to be fair, left Russia before the age of 18 and I don't believe he ever returned [1]. Lolita, his magnum opus (at least by public opinion), was first written in English. Despite his upbringing, I'm not sure he would be b
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by alehul 8y ago
Pretty much all of this research is funded by one side or another— we should always be as scrupulous as possible in examining an argument, and assume there's money behind it. Also, pedantic here but it's Koch, pronounced like &quo
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by alehul 8y ago
Can you cite some knowledge and links for us, beyond "go back through history"? :)
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by alehul 8y ago
Can you share more about your role?
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by alehul 8y ago
> I'm not sure what you mean by "involvement"? He was Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition, and earned an FTC award of meritorious service. > I'm skeptical that anyone in the Trump administration will e
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by alehul 8y ago
I'm aware of this, but was pointing instead to his history of involvement with the FTC. He seems like a perfectly fine choice.
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by alehul 8y ago
> Prior to becoming FTC Chairman, Simons was a partner and co-chair of the Antitrust Group at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Simons has held two previous positions at the Commission. He served as Direct
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by alehul 8y ago
If an investor believes that a recession is coming soon, then they'd be willing to receive a lower interest rate in exchange for a secure 10-year return. The fact that investors are purchasing long-term bonds at these inverted rates
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by alehul 8y ago
If you're a founder and this genuinely does scare you: raise money. Assuming your company stays on the same trajectory, you can raise at much better terms now than when a recession hits, especially if said recession will impact your gr
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by alehul 8y ago
> if you believe that no one cares about X, then you are less likely to begin creating X A great read on that point: http://www.paulgraham.com/cities.html
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by alehul 8y ago
Totally agree– I was responding to "crackpot theory" which sounds more like wild conspiracy theories that people truly believe, rather than arguing in bad faith, but after re-reading, I think that is the point aidenn0 was trying t
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by alehul 8y ago
> Life is too short to critically refute every single crackpot theory out there. In this case, rather than claiming you disagree (which should imply understanding), you can just say you don't know enough about the issue to comment o
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by alehul 8y ago
The above is a debt investment, whereas VCs are generally looking at equity investments. These are fairly different in principle and strategy, and both have history dating back many hundreds of years.
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by alehul 8y ago
You would think so, given the sibling comment about how people would be incentivized to make under $40k, but according to their Launch HN [1]: "The $40,000 threshold is inclusive. So if their income is equal to our greater than $40,000
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by alehul 8y ago
> If you pay someone a $2,000 a month salary for 21 weeks, that's already $42,000 It's $2,000 a month for 5 months, so $10,000 total.
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by alehul 8y ago
Adding onto the complaints of economic inefficiency here: one of the worst things I found living in Boston (not sure how many other major cities this applies to) is that it's completely standard for the renter of a property to pay a br
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by alehul 8y ago
You're generalizing 62,984,828 Americans. When you look at a number like that, combined with all the possible reasons that people voted for Trump (think those who validly wished for a Ross Perot victory in 1992), it just seems rude and
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by alehul 8y ago
Hey there! What is the value of a point? You say '2x points,' but I can't find the value of a point anywhere on your website. Is it one cent = one point? How do we redeem points? That aside, love the design and concept. :)
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by alehul 8y ago
Warning: NSFW ^ (though cool, NSFW)
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by alehul 8y ago
Tangentially related here, but I think it's another interesting dichotomy of children across cultures (and how parents deal with them). I can't remember where from, but I heard a fascinating take on how countries in Europe, with p
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by alehul 8y ago
Telegram moved out of Russia and has since been banned in the country. That aside, as an American, I feel like maybe there's some advantage to it being Russia rather than the US, as it's not your own country or an ally. Probably n
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by alehul 8y ago
If they had a lump sum donation of $100M, they could probably safely expect a return of 5% per year on average (many years could be worse). As long as their costs are less than $5M per year, they can effectively run forever, barring any lon
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by alehul 8y ago
True AI likely wouldn't be able to deduce context much better from the words given (i.e. a clear 'this' or 'that' situation, like Hamilton the musical or Hamilton the individual). It's just impossible to tell s
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by alehul 8y ago
a16z: long and sometimes overwhelming but in a positive way, with great guests from the tech industry FT Alphachat: my favorite finance-focused podcast with the least buzz, covering one topic in-depth each time Global News Podcast: daily fr
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by alehul 8y ago
I think those descriptions are meant to be about Portland rather than SF (where the commenter moved to a couple years ago). Would be perfectly accurate in that case. :)
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by alehul 8y ago
Totally agree! HN has become much more of a loose cannon recently (and rapidly) with downvotes, and you'll often see entire threads of conversation greyed out. I've recently started to just search for older threads and read throug
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by alehul 8y ago
Would highly recommend the YouTube video below [0] from Wendover, which went pretty in-depth on the economics of airline classes a while ago, and how first-class was the least profitable for the airlines. :) [0] https://www.youtu
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by alehul 8y ago
While I love Slate Star Codex, just commenting a link in response to a written comment feels a bit snarky. It'd be a lot nicer if you could provide some preface, maybe a summary given the length of it, and just link to it as a source f
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by alehul 8y ago
The only way seems to be to either to completely outlaw these negotiations, or create a standard rate (i.e. if the project will bring 100 jobs, the cities have the option but not the obligation to offer $10m in various forms of tax breaks—
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by alehul 8y ago
Very much this. Different environments result in, over time, different ideologies— humans follow a typical evolutionary path with this, but the adjustments in this case are mental rather than physical. I love to take risk, but some of my fa

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