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by avyfain 4y ago
FWIW, it seems like the ranks are an inverse scale where lower means more notable - Jesus is more notable than Natalie Portman according to the index.
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by avyfain 5y ago
Just finished reading Bonfire of the Vanities. I tend to read multiple things at once, and am currently working through The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier and Inside Out (A personal history of Pink Floyd) by Nick Mason. More info and re
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Modern Monetary Theory Got a Pandemic Tryout. Inflation Is Now Testing It.(nytimes.com)
2 points by avyfain 5y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 5y ago
Vouch | Various Engineering Roles | US Remote, or San Francisco/Chicago | FTE, Interns | Visa ok Vouch is building an insurance company that can keep up with the rapid change that characterizes the startup lifecycle. We're doing t
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The New Normal – How the Covid-19 pandemic is shaping our shopping searches(thenewnormal.is)
3 points by avyfain 5y ago|0 comments
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The Whole World is your Antilibrary(faingezicht.com)
5 points by avyfain 5y ago|2 comments
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Clean Streets: People taking San Francisco’s trash into their own hands(missionlocal.org)
91 points by avyfain 5y ago|125 comments
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The next big challenge for data is organizational(locallyoptimistic.com)
2 points by avyfain 5y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 5y ago
With the caveat that you don't need the full cap table - a company not disclosing outstanding shares, last preferred price and 409a/strike price are giving you a signal to run away. Agreed that liquidation preference would be help
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by avyfain 5y ago
Author here, that's exactly the case :) Left FAANG knowing that money would be better there. My new opportunity is (so far) a lot more fun, a I'm learning a lot more about the things I want to learn.
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by avyfain 5y ago
Author here - happy to answer any questions! I'm planning to write a more advanced version of this article in a few months, discussing tax implications, the "should I exercise my options" question, etc.
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by avyfain 5y ago
Author here, thanks for the thoughts! > could be more helpful if it included more realistic numbers. Any ideas on where to find these? While there's a lot of info out there on valuations most datasets have the problem of hindsight b
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How to Evaluate Startup Offers – A Beginner's Guide(faingezicht.com)
1 points by avyfain 5y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 5y ago
Hi! I head the data team at Vouch. The TC piece highlights some of what we are building. Got any questions about what our day to day is like, what we are working on, or our team's technical vision? We're growing our data and engin
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The People taking San Francisco’s trash into their own hands(missionlocal.org)
1 points by avyfain 5y ago|0 comments
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Flask 2.0(flask.palletsprojects.com)
202 points by avyfain 5y ago|49 comments
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Tech Hubs Held on to Technology Jobs During Pandemic(hiringlab.org)
1 points by avyfain 5y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 5y ago
Interestingly, Roberts is one of the people who reviewed drafts of pg's essay, according to the notes.
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Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets(research.stlouisfed.org)
146 points by avyfain 6y ago|107 comments
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by avyfain 6y ago
I did "The Modern and the Postmodern" last year, and really enjoyed it without doing the essays/peer review. Curiously I'm now working through Mehrling's course, too. Another one I'd recommend if you enjoyed th
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Improving Equality and Productivity with AI-Driven Tax Policies(blog.einstein.ai)
8 points by avyfain 6y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 7y ago
+1 on DFW's book. It's odd, and really it's more a discussion on the history of modern mathematics than an in depth explanation of the concepts themselves, but it is a great read. I wrote a short review after reading it, whic
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Series (A)ggregate(techcrunch.com)
1 points by avyfain 7y ago|0 comments
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Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition instead(economist.com)
1 points by avyfain 7y ago|0 comments
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Bank of England: Opening the Machine Learning Black Box(bankunderground.co.uk)
1 points by avyfain 7y ago|0 comments
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Facebook, Dynamite, Uber, Bombs, and You(lanabrindley.com)
1 points by avyfain 8y ago|0 comments
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The Social Responsibility of Business(nytimes.com)
2 points by avyfain 8y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 8y ago
The seminal paper on this topic seems to be Anticompetitive Effects of Common Ownership[0] by Azar et al, and there's a whole chapter on this topic in Radical Markets[1], a recent book by Eric Posner and Glen Weyl. Both are worth readi
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Silicon Valley should stop ostracizing the military(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by avyfain 8y ago|0 comments
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by avyfain 8y ago
Associated blog post: http://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2018/08/opening...

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