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by amsilprotag 10y ago
There was a great Bloomberg Decrypted podcast a couple weeks ago weighing the costs and benefits for a small town in offering a multi-million dollar subsidy for thousands of low-skill Amazon warehouse jobs. Is it really worth subsidizing a
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by amsilprotag 10y ago
Block chain, smart contracts, what about the very basics? What about VCS, DRY documents, standard libraries, pop-up annotations and definitions? It seems like law has no interest in introducing standards to improve productivity and usabil
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by amsilprotag 10y ago
This is a great real-world example of the Nobel Prize winning concept, The Market for Lemons. [0] A buyer wants to spend somewhere between price 4-6, but they aren't able to tell quality 3 from quality 7. Due to fear of getting taken
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by amsilprotag 10y ago
The essay isn't about what matters in the absolute. It's about deciding where to spend a marginal hour, year, or life with imperfect information. And it's obviously true in retrospect that Newton's lifetime was spent i
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by amsilprotag 10y ago
The problem is that two equilibria exist. The equilibrium of a tipping culture is reinforced by high-performing wait staff. If one restaurant or one city adopts a no-tipping policy, the well-tipped will move, the poorly-tipped will stay,
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by amsilprotag 10y ago
Yes, the second link leads to the episode discussing the origin of the form.
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by amsilprotag 10y ago
The Planet Money podcast investigative journalism was some of the most disheartening listening I've encountered all year. The two most glaring abuses, in my mind, were the blackmailing of employees to put their name on a banking indust
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by amsilprotag 10y ago
There is a schism on this site between the entrepreneurs and the technologists. The entrepreneurs will tell you that what Soylent did was hard. They found a population that would enjoy a nutritional supplement, but didn't like the br
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by amsilprotag 10y ago
Malcolm Gladwell's Revisionist History podcast is doing a three-part series critiquing the state of American education and its effect on social mobility. The first part (released last week) gives a personal perspective of a child who
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
I'd love to see more companies with an evil canary cartoon image file. Perhaps when violated, canary.png could direct to a cartoon unicorn sheepishly grinning with one stuffed cheek.
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
citing http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html "What's different about religion is that people don't feel they need to have any particular expertise to have opinions about it. All they need is strongly held b
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
For an earlier perspective, Here's a 1983 Tom Wolfe essay about Noyce and the founding of Intel, briefly mentioning Andy Grove at the end. https://web.stanford.edu/class/e145/2007_fall/materials/noyc
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He's also identified the narrative as a popular excuse among the poorest-performing hedge funds ("We valued the stocks properly, it is the market that is wrong." and "We aren't even trying to beat the market, we are
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
If we are to use this [0] definition, then "Hypergrowth at" can be omitted. It seems like a better title would include "in highly regulated industries." It's interesting to note that the essay only includes discuss
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
I'd recommend popping this into your console. $('.job-text').css({color: 'black'})
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
His position seems to be similar to MIT engineer David Mindell's, who recently wrote Our Robots, Ourselves [1]. It seems to me that the more hours one spends solving real problems with AI, the less likely they are to believe an apoca
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
The following are three of his less partisan articles and their top-voted comment, plucked from Brooks' most recent articles [1] Communities of Character "Pop sociologist Professor Brooks is at it again...." Tales of the Supe
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
I find myself doing the same, despite increasing preference for "she" by academicians and journalists. See the top post in another HN thread for my criticism, copied below. When "she" becomes the default, I find myself
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
I think many of the disagreements in this thread can be attributed to different interpretations of the word. There is the thought-dulling sarcasm common on the internet that is equivalent to preaching to the choir in reverse, "It'
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Does that make the search engine GoOgle?
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
The presenter is making the same argument, as evidenced by pairing the above quote with a quote criticizing the printing press. "Life after MOOCs" is portending the replacement of low-feedback, low-engagement MOOCs with the more s
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
Free Obfuscated Source Satire (FOSS) The JS from https://github.com/benzweig/jankyscroll : <script>var jankyscroll=function(){"use strict";function n(){var n=Math.round(Math.random());return 1==n?-1:1}fu
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
It seems like they chose two lines to make a cleaner SVG animation to the "x" when you click on it.
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
Many times throughout the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders podcast[1], a founder expresses the sentiment, "If I had known how hard it was going to be, I might not have started the company." The difficulty discounting has also been
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by amsilprotag 11y ago
I don't think the research does an adequate job differentiating intellectual activity from agency. Is the learning and exploring their substitute for addiction? Or is it the linking of action and effort to reward? I'd be interes
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I challenge "easily printable." This way of writing sheet music is vastly more space inefficient. Each beat requires an entire row of space, whereas a beat in sheet music might require 3 square inches at most. Having many pages
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There is danger in creating artificial scarcity by cutting off gamblers after a threshold. It will likely result in an increase in desire and addiction. Consider Candy Crush, a game where players are cut off access to the game after a cer