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by andreilys 4y ago
IANAL but I don’t think the blackout window applies if you’re no longer an employee.
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by andreilys 4y ago
When you have to handle someone with kid gloves that requires more time & effort than someone has. There’s a reason most execs write curt emails, b/c they have 1001 things to handle and your feelings rank low. Toughening up is abou
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by andreilys 4y ago
Except when it does matter, say for example you become a politican or work in a corporation that has valuable IP. All of the sudden, private details about you can be weaponized and used as blackmail in order to carry out the will of a state
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by andreilys 4y ago
The trick is not working 40 hours :-)
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by andreilys 4y ago
This makes sense to me. The literature on status indicates that high status individuals/animals experience all kinds of positive effects on their health (especially when benchmarked against low status peers).
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by andreilys 4y ago
Well they seemed to have done it, I know plenty of startup founders that have bootstrapped with less than that. The stamp of approval from Thiel and his network help of course, and is likely more valuable than the $100k but for a lot of the
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by andreilys 4y ago
You don’t need to go to college to do any of that. The same can be accomplished with a year of travel and a year of internships/apprenticeships. Also I think at this point it’s safe to say that a college environment does not in any way
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by andreilys 4y ago
Plenty of thiel fellows have started billion/multi million dollar companies (figma, ethereum, luminar, upstart, etc.), so it seems that $100k had been enough for them.
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by andreilys 4y ago
Elon owns 54% of the outstanding stock of SpaceX and has voting control of 78% of the outstanding stock of SpaceX [1] So yes, for all intent purposes he is their employer. [1] https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-SpaceX-
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by andreilys 4y ago
Reselling != scalping The system would work fine if there weren’t rent-seeking parasites who offer no service other than taking tickets off of the market that would go to regular people.
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by andreilys 4y ago
“All Happy families/founders resemble one another, but each unhappy family/founder is unhappy in its own way.”
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by andreilys 4y ago
Scalpers buy with the intention of flipping tickets for higher prices. They are effectively rent seeking parasites that distort the market and make things worst for regular people. There’s nothing wrong with reselling tickets if something c
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by andreilys 4y ago
If this is considered a publishable paper then the bar for that publication must be quite low.
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by andreilys 4y ago
All those metrics are down post covid because the era of cheap and easy money is over.
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by andreilys 4y ago
America has been running large debts forever but has only become bigger and more successful post Covid Citation needed, not clear how America has become more successful post covid.
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by andreilys 4y ago
Education as a prestige/status signaler is zero sum. If everybody had a Harvard degree, then it would lose its value. Which is why they’re so adamant about not counting online degrees earned through EDX as “real degrees” because it wou
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by andreilys 4y ago
Yes but how about your cognitive performance? Surprisingly, the children who were given the soup containing meat each day seemed to have a significant edge. By the end of the study, they outperformed all the other children on a test for no
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by andreilys 4y ago
it would lack the novelty and playfulness of a good human creative work, and it likely would be very shallow in its themes. Simply tune the parameters associated with novelty and playfulness and you’ll get the desired result. There’s noth
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by andreilys 4y ago
not worry about $ as much AFAIK the wages PhD stipends are pittances and make it very difficult for someone without money to survive, especially for non-STEM programs. If anything doing a PhD makes you worry more about money because you c
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by andreilys 4y ago
From a geopolitical competitive lens, no. All that would mean is a replacement of the world order and an even further degradation of quality of life.
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by andreilys 4y ago
The difference between a car right now and a car 30 years ago is that you can now play angry birds on a tablet Except we now have cars with self-driving (however limited, it's a massive improvement over a car from 30 years). Another
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by andreilys 4y ago
Even without VC funding you still have debt based funding which is a lot easier to get when interest rates are at all time low.
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by andreilys 4y ago
Serious question, what are you learning between kindergarten and 2nd grade that's so important? I remember my time there being effectively day-care, I learned more outside of class than inside it. The only real benefit was socializing
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by andreilys 4y ago
A PhD arguably gives you the opportunity to run very fast into one particular direction. Much longer than you would be allowed to run in any commercial setting. It seems like most cutting edge research (and the ability to run fast) in mac
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by andreilys 4y ago
another good thing about a PhD is that people who have advanced degrees earn on average 50% more than (1.5x) people without advanced degrees This is bad statistics 101. The confounding variable in a lot of these cases is wealth (or social
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by andreilys 4y ago
The US government works for the Bezoses, Gates, Buffetts and Musks of the world. Yes they definitely work for three new-money tech billionaires and not the old money generational wealth families that nobody talks about.
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by andreilys 4y ago
Sounds like you're describing the Visa/Mastercard duopoly that charges high interchange fees to merchants so they can bankroll their own rewards programs.
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by andreilys 4y ago
Economists cause more harm than good, id rather they be not in charge of anything important and left to play in an Academic sandbox and publishing papers nobody will read.
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by andreilys 4y ago
Most economists have no idea how monetary policy or macroeconomics works.
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by andreilys 4y ago
There are different incentives and dynamics at play for a public vs. private company. A privately owned twitter will behave very different from a public one. Great example is that the bot problem contributes to MAU's, which impact Twit

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