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The Big Lie: How a Professor's Scheme to Get Money and Respect Backfired(chronicle.com)
10 points by apo 8y ago|3 comments
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by apo 8y ago
The interesting thing about the marketplace disruption model is how difficult it can be to distinguish disruptive from sustaining innovations in their early phases. Take electric cars, an example that Christensen has talked about in his boo
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Silurian hypothesis(en.wikipedia.org)
19 points by apo 8y ago|7 comments
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In addition to getting money upfront, artists additionally retain ownership of their work and do not have to pay tax on what the IRS considers a loan, since yet-to-be received royalties are re-characterized by the bond agreement as loan in
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Apple executives have never publicly spoken about the company’s self-driving car program, but filings in a criminal court case last month confirmed that the company had at least 5,000 employees working on the project and that it was workin
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Every game with more than one player becomes a game about the interactions between those players. Bill Kerr once said that point of view is worth 80 IQ points. I think the above statement is a good example. It's simple enough to seem
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List of NFL players with chronic traumatic encephalopathy(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by apo 8y ago|0 comments
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Fertility doc inseminated dozens of women with own sperm, DNA sites find(arstechnica.com)
3 points by apo 8y ago|0 comments
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by apo 8y ago
That's a pretty broad brush to be painting with. What were the specifics of your situation?
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I grossly underestimated how much I could learn by working in industry. I believed the falsehood that the best way to always keep learning is to stay in academia, and I didn’t have a good grasp on the opportunity costs of doing a PhD. My u
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by apo 8y ago
There are fields in the sciences (e.g., biology) where the PhD routinely takes 5-6 years on top of a bachelors, and you won't be hirable at the PhD level in academia and some parts of industry until after at least two multi-year postdo
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by apo 8y ago
Good find. It does appear to be copied verbatim. The statement is wrong (in the sense of what it implies) in both the plagiarized article and in Wikipedia.
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by apo 8y ago
Water oxidation is a more complex chemical reaction than proton reduction. ... Without a catalyst (natural or artificial), this reaction is very endothermic, requiring high temperatures (at least 2500 K). Water oxidation may well be end
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by apo 8y ago
I believe that observation was in my original post. I was curious if there were more to the comment than that.
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by apo 8y ago
In what sense?
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Your choices, in no particular order: - real estate - gold - US treasuries - corporate bonds - municipal bonds - bitcoin - cash I'd suggest that the number you should be concerned about isn't a stock market index, but inflation. I
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by apo 8y ago
...As the following chart from Statista shows, the current bull market is now ‘older’ than the previous record holder, the 1990’s bull market and Dot-com Bubble. The boom is just capitalism's way of setting up the next bust. Too few
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No Amount of Alcohol Is Good for Your Health, Global Study Says(npr.org)
6 points by apo 8y ago|1 comments
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I RECEIVED a letter the other day. It was handwritten in crabbed penmanship so that it was very difficult to read. Nevertheless, I tried to make it out just in case it might prove to be important. In the first sentence, the writer told me
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by apo 8y ago
Every Bitcoin market decline brings out stories like this. Here's one from 2013 that's worse than anything in the NYT article: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1r88vl/need_advice...
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Direct evidence of surface exposed water ice in the lunar polar regions(pnas.org)
2 points by apo 8y ago|0 comments
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Reminds me of the Growth Ponzi Scheme: We've done this because, as with any Ponzi scheme, new growth provides the illusion of prosperity. In the near term, revenue grows, while the corresponding maintenance obligations — which are not
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by apo 8y ago
It may also be the case that negative reviews of movies, TV shows, and stand-up specials did more to dissuade potential viewers than positive reviews did them to draw in; ... Netflix's bigger problem is that much of its content looks
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by apo 8y ago
Having done this deliberately in the past and had some fairly wacky side-effects Such as?
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What is K2 weed alternative and how dangerous is the synthetic marijuana?(independent.co.uk)
1 points by apo 8y ago|0 comments
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From the first paragraph: With the U.S. heading into a pivotal midterm election, little progress has been made on ensuring the integrity of voting systems—a concern that retook the spotlight when the 2016 presidential election ushered Dona
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by apo 8y ago
The U.S. game industry lobbied in Washington, D.C. for a smaller $1 coin, closer to the size of a quarter, arguing that inflation (which had reduced the quarter's spending power by a third in the early 1980s) was making it difficult t
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by apo 8y ago
Johnson & Johnson tried more than a decade ago to bring a fructose metabolism inhibitor to market after chemist Bruce Maryanoff, who discovered the blockbuster anti-epilepsy treatment Topamax, developed several of them. However, the dr
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by apo 8y ago
Having been scarred for life from accidental exposure to the drivel of dozens of cryptocurrency "thought leaders," I think the authors may have chosen prosocial behavior as the wrong correlation. Here are some alternatives that mi
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by apo 8y ago
Stuff is cheap. Attention is dear. This trend will continue for a long time.

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