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by bluekeybox 13y ago
> You, like a real rich person, start to attribute success to your own individual skills and talents, and you become less attuned to all of the other things that contributed to you being in the position that you're in. Now let'
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
I'm very impressed by your brother's ability, and I believe that if he exercised it to its full extent, he would not be "just a welder" as you describe.
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
Wrong analogy. Your analogy compares demands of a specialized non-intellectual profession (plumbing) that does not value general problem solving with abilities of someone who is purportedly good in general problem-solving in addition to pos
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
Given that the author uses the cui bono argument quite extensively (see, for example, "unfortunately, the “disruptions” pursued by Silicon Valley giants ... often have little to do with challenging the biggest power centers in society.
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
Given that the author of this article is "Schering-Plough Professor in Health Care Regulation and Enforcement", it should be obvious why disruption rhetoric may appear threatening to him.
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
Here is a good exposition of one of Coase's main breakthroughs: http://www.thebigquestions.com/2013/09/03/rip-ronald-coase/
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
Listen to audio books. Problem solved.
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
Ever been to Brussels? I hear it's worse than SF in some aspects.
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
I moved to SF from Boston. The taxes in California are sky-high compared to most other states. Yet the environment (other than the weather, that is) is significantly worse. One has to wonder where all the public money is going.
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
In a different context, I can easily see a thread here on HN talking about how most start-ups fail because their founders are simply not smart enough. Not in this context, though.
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
I'm late to the party, but we are based in the Silicon Valley and we are looking for a great hacker to be one of the founding members of a consumer-facing health startup. We have seed funding. We will be solving a range of interesting
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
Hey, we still haven't heard anything. Have you guys gotten an email yet?
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by bluekeybox 13y ago
Still nothing. Does anybody know at all if they send out the rejections in waves or all at once? Any YC Alum help here would be greatly appreciated. Also, do they lump late applications in with the rest of the group or am I going to be sick
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
Highly likely that Martian "DNA" would be different in several fundamental aspects (for starters, the triplet codons would have entirely different "dictionary" meanings in terms of amino acids, or perhaps there would be no triplets but quar
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
It's always a combination of universality and exclusivity. The latter creates a "gradient" which causes a particular design to spread. Watch the documentary "Helvetica". At it's peak in the 1960s, Helvetica had high-end "international" aura
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
> Good Design will and always strives to be universal Good Design doesn't sell. Great Design does. Great design will achieve exclusivity by iteratively attempting (and failing) to become universal. > It's funny that the recent Flat-
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
Personally I think this takedown notice is questionable to say the least (it looks to be a case of inspiration rather than blatant copying), but here is my devil's advocate opinion on design: When you say that designers seek "pointless excl
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
Something I've been wondering about myself... Can't answer your question, but can only point out that you are a bit mistaken to treat Europe and ex-Soviet territories (especially their European part) as two completely separate worlds, since
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
Or earlier: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/02/seeking-meanin...
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
Completely concur with your observation, except your analogy with gay people (something beyond one's power of choice) is somewhat uncalled for.
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." -- Machieavelli
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
So the question revolves about whether being born to the right set of parents is a privilege or a result of hard work. One could say that it's almost certainly a privilege -- however what about the parents ? What about the work they did
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
> Runkeeper won’t make an athlete out of someone with no desire to run And yet today, while driving and using the Navigon North America app on my phone, I got a nice spoken warning saying "CAUTION!" when my speed accidentally exceeded 7
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
As someone who left biomedical field and moved into tech, one of the biggest reasons for my move is that I have a distaste towards relying on guilt in order affect things (this probably goes back all the way to my childhood and my parents'
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
Someone's been playing with 53/Paper's circular color mixer...
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
With extractive governments like Assad's, you could hardly expect something different.
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
> Unfortunately compressed air is very hot and difficult to store. Not OP but a few comments on what you just said. If you ever tried to manually compress air in a metal pump (say when inflating a bicycle tire), you probably noticed tha
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
The story was also big on Reddit which has a large audience, and a few wrote a letter to Jeff Bezos. It is a speculation of course that Amazon had reversed their decision in response to negative PR, but I wouldn't yet call that speculation
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
Just read some article which talks about the "fear" that consumers may be getting smarter and increasingly relying on direct searches and mobile apps (aka Amazon website, Amazon mobile app) instead of going through Google. If that is correc
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by bluekeybox 14y ago
Haha, the 7% historic rate of satellites that failed to launch is not very far from my experience with the USPS' failed deliveries of postal packages to Australia.

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