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by balsam 4y ago
I am glad that Van Gogh didnt have a user feedback mechanism? Or maybe God was his only User?
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by balsam 4y ago
Feel like the fresh take is really that you can’t just synthesize new ideas by rearranging the ideas that you suck up from the inter-nets, no matter how much offline fermentation you put them through. Similar to how “publish or perish” mere
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by balsam 4y ago
You might have just stumbled upon the Ozic secret of the Silicon Valley. Most of the guys who have made it rich so far did so on the ideas of others (while those who had grand ideas didn’t ship them). When a core tenet is making things othe
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by balsam 4y ago
Rian Johnson based the central character on Elon (amongst other billionaires), but admits that the portrayal turned out to be closer to Musk than he intended: https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2022/12&#x2
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by balsam 4y ago
Nope. From TFA: “But just as chip production bloomed, demand withered, thanks to falling sales of pcs and smartphones.” The narrative is apparently backed by data. Where’s the data for your counternarrative
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by balsam 4y ago
Fittingly, the article’s main photo is now the old man’s wikipedia profile pic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Kirsch "Without the man in the photo, the photo of this man wouldn’t exist."
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by balsam 4y ago
I think postdocs would be the best population to trial a basic income program. That might mean taking money from every one else. Oddly, I used to have the opinion that science should be a positive sum endeavour. Non-disclosure: If there wer
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by balsam 4y ago
Erm, no. Applications are needed (or, more charitably to TFA, useful) precisely because qualifications can be hard to quantify. That’s why they are called Applications and not Forms. And Qualifications not Quantifications. Hence RCTs are no
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by balsam 4y ago
It’s clear by the ratings that The Peripheral, based on Gibson, but also an AmazonVideo product, has Rings of Power beat by a significant margin. And “The P” was the underdog here. So theres a chance that AppleTV+ (as well as AV) will lear
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by balsam 4y ago
The worldviews of the originators of HN and YC are probably built on cheap debt. Airbnb may have revenue, but I would say its their stock sales to speculators, also burgeoned by cheap debt, that resulted in these VCs thinking they are smart
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by balsam 4y ago
Nope, according to the wikipedia linked, the only time Lafargue came close to being an owner (i.e. petit bourgeois) was when he tried running that photolithography workshop.
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by balsam 4y ago
Lafargue totally reminds me of the arch-contrarian Oscar Wilde —- who was not bourgeois in any sense of the word, but also a (“lifestyle”) anarcho-socialist
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by balsam 4y ago
That’s still paywalled. The full draft appears to be here: https://netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/PAPERS/not-so-sim...
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by balsam 4y ago
May want to add Do Kwon (Stanford) and 3AC (Columbia) to further solidify your case.
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by balsam 4y ago
He might have meant instead, either the Nanjing, or Xi’an libtard schools. Two colleges known for the recent protests are the Xi’An Fine Arts School and also the Nanjing Media School. These two majors are coindicated with libtardation in th
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by balsam 4y ago
https://archive.ph/IwjZN
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by balsam 4y ago
Seems similar to Jane Jacob’s vision for Greenwich Village(at least, haha). Anyone knows if parts of NYC (besides academia —-grant-drenched NYU, Columbia,&c) had that organic dynamism, at certain points in time, maybe?
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by balsam 4y ago
GP is saying that the slow part of pharmaceutical development (synthesis,trials,etc) takes so many orders of magnitude longer than the software part (candidate generation) that any speed improvement is moot. In fact having lower quality sof
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by balsam 4y ago
https://archive.ph/cO4kU
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Matt Levine: Crypto, Clearing, and Credit(bloomberg.com)
1 points by balsam 4y ago|1 comments
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by balsam 4y ago
The current title is not informative. Perhaps an exception should be made for the “no editorializing” rule? It used to have “SBF” for context. That said, here is Matt Levine’s article on why tradfi’s approach to clearing and settlement is d
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by balsam 4y ago
Good thing SBF left out the moustache—- he might have set off the Bachmann lidars otherwise.. Still, SBf had more finesse— his rudeness hit the VCs right in their IQ self-esteem, whereas Bachmann was all over the place: artistic pretensions
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by balsam 4y ago
The Binance response: updated proof of reserves can be found at https://www.binance.com/en/collateral-btokens
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by balsam 4y ago
Oops too late too edit, should be “late the CEO”
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by balsam 4y ago
There is something to the “not the right kind of white” take, though it isn’t so much white as a cultural elite which happens to be 99.99% white. Consider that Nouriel Roubini, who is the right kind of white by Hayes def (academic, child o
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by balsam 4y ago
The situation is probably less racially charged these days thanks to the diversity movement but — one man’s politically incorrect accuracy is another’s insane framing? I have no rat in the race race but where I went to school (a R1 uni) tri
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by balsam 4y ago
Author is Arthur Hayes, founder of the late crypto exchange BitMEX. The essay is less inflammatory than the title suggests, and I read it for the finance insights—- after all BitMEX was accused of frontrunning customers (too?) https:/
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by balsam 4y ago
For a well thought-out piece of ad hominem covering all that breadth and depth, have a look at David Gerard’s take on the philosophy of SV special smart boys. It’s worth a reread from time to time,— till the OpenSeas evaporate and the Black
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by balsam 4y ago
I would make an exception for biotech VCs— these guys tend to have domain expertise (another indictment DG makes of the nonbio tech VC scene)
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by balsam 4y ago
David Gerard’s take on the “SV smart boys” is worth a reread from time to time, till the OpenSeas evaporate and the BlackRocks laid bare. He blames the Berkeley-based EA (Effective Altruism) community too (which inspired SBF). https:/

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