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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Not sure what to make of Wilson's post, but I can say that the Hedera news is much ado about nothing. Hedera raised $100M from investors in 2018. They are now down to $30M in the bank and the market value of their HBAR token continues
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Couldn't one tell a bit of a different story? Namely, that there is a difference between the pure software industry and the utilization of software in old and entirely new industries that have yet been built. In this story, it's t
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I'll bite. The argument is that what is really meant when "[insert particular group] lives matter" is stated, is something like "we all agree [insert groups in general] lives matter, but [insert particular group] lives d
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I've not infrequently found nihilism intellectually attractive. Usually, something like political nihilism. One problem that I think has long been overlooked is the foundation of human rights. Only in the past roughly five years has th
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
It's also semi-unnerving for what it portends regarding the possibility of deep rot in our political economy. Yes, we've seen treatments like this before. Yes, the author is probably missing the mark a bit (or missing it even more
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I agree that that explains some of the difference. Not sure it means that he isn't the most impressive. I'd also add that in his stints at different firms pre-Amazon he was quite clearly an outlier among high-achievers.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
This. Say what you will about Bezos, but he seems to be the most impressive tech founder out of any of FANG and any of the large unicorns founded after Facebook. Such an impressive list of deft moves that he made (in a range of different ar
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Amazon was strongly cash flow positive as of 2002. Moreover, their operations were throwing off cash the year they went public (1997). Everyone should be considering this a bit more because it says somethin
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
> If by value you mean political value, yes. If by value you mean return to the company for the compensation, that has nothing to do with anything. I experienced this reality check in grad school when I summered as an associate project m
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
"Let's see Paul Allen's card. Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh, my God. It even has a watermark."
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
This comment should be at the top of the thread.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I used to be a fairly strong supporter of our military. Not blanket support (since there are always exceptions to anything), and I wasn't super enthusiastic/patriotic like some are, but in general I had a pretty positive view. My
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I am aware of the highly controversial views on homosexuality of the author (Scruton), but am unaware of anything controversial about race. Regardless, a person can say many deeply true things across a number of domains, yet be quite wrong
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
"The chains of nature... are called reason, freedom, morality and choice. The human chains foretold by Huxley are of a quite different composition: they are made entirely of flesh and the pleasures of the flesh. They bind so tightly th
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I love this insight/observation.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Merry Christmas to you too!
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
It really is quite incredible. I took a tax law class in grad school, taught by an expert's expert. The class is taught in such a way that you end up with a good feel for the conceptual topology of tax law. I've done my own taxes
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I bet with more exposure it would become more intuitive. I also think there is simply an immense benefit in the type of epistemological mindset it inculcates, regardless of how fast or adept you are at the mechanics.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Reputation is usually something that affects you regardless when you are on a board. Plenty of board members invest little time or commitment, though.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
This looks great!
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
A graduate of my high school (from a couple classes above mine) served as a member of Marine Force Recon. The opportunity to go through their training opened up after basic, but he sprained his ankle a couple days beforehand. They told him
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
It's sad that Ramsey died so young. It's also sad that it has taken nearly a century for the wider culture/society to begin embracing the concept of 'degrees of belief' in any significant way (I could definitely be
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I realize you are probably saying that in jest, but I once worked in a cubicle for a Fortune 50 firm. Loved it. The firm itself had average management, but the people on my team were a lot fun to work with.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Are having trouble getting interviews, getting offers, or both?
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I've always considered that a fair objection. If there is a bottleneck at scale, though, it'd be nice to know what exactly it is. This also doesn't detract from my broader point that U.S. healthcare seems to intentionally exi
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Most of the movies were ones you could rent off of Amazon Prime here in the states.
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
The fact that other countries have effective health care systems run by the government suggests that the conclusion we should draw from the VA fiasco is that either the U.S. government is particularly incompetent or the incompetence is loca
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
I just got back from vacationing in Greece and Croatia. Though I can't say whether the number of movies was higher or lower than in the states, I can say that the quality of films was much higher. Both my girlfriend and I complained mu
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
Benedict Evans, though he lives in SV, would not have voted for Corbyn if he lived in the UK. Does Benedict Evans not know which political ideology is good for his own self-interest? How do you explain away people who didn't vote for C
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by anongraddebt 7y ago
There is an argument that is sometimes made in this debate, and it concerns the gradual nature of the change to our privacy rights (or just privacy). It is an old argument. It took a number of years for me to convince myself that it was rig

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