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by blueyes 6y ago
How does this post address network effects in the age of aggregation? Who has sufficient incentive to tie all those disparate blogs and newsletters together? Balaji likes to talk about exit plans. See this speech at YC startup school: http
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NASA-Designed Perfume Brings the Smell of Outer Space to Earth(ndtv.com)
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Farmland Could Absorb an Extra 2B Tonnes of CO2 from the Atmosphere Each Year(scitechdaily.com)
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I don't think "appropriation" is the right way to frame this question. It's really about failures of the imagination. It is possible for an author's imagination to fail whether or not they share a group identity wit
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Scott starts speaking around minute 32.
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Posts like this are published with regularity. And like all things that must be said again and again ("stay off the grass", "we're in this together"), we can assume the opposite somehow true: Most teams do not write
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by blueyes 6y ago
There was a great first-person account published in the New Yorker last year about growing up in Lyman's Family: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/06/my-childhood-i...
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by blueyes 7y ago
Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer High Stakes, No Prisoners - history of the birth of the Internet written by the founder of FrontPage, with a keen critique of Netscape's history - Charles Ferguson Computer Wars -
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by blueyes 7y ago
I'd just like to note that, while we should be conducting many more tests, we should also be aware of the danger of false positives, and the burden that places on individuals and systems. Some of these tests are just not very accurate,
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by blueyes 7y ago
The media have had their knives out for Lambda for quite a while. A reporter's instinct is to view anything that's booming with skepticism; and to lionize the underdogs. There is a certain tension and surprise in both takes (even
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by blueyes 7y ago
The A16Z piece makes all these points quite clearly. This editorial is trying to put a finer point on a sharp knife.
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This is similar to the idea of Beginner's Mind in Zen. Shunryu Suzuki wrote about it in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Zen-Mind-Beginners-Informal-Meditatio... Which influenced Steve Jobs, among others. It's a
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by blueyes 7y ago
In my opinion, the medium is the problem. It's easy to read advice. It's hard to know how to apply general advice to a concrete situation. For that, you need to be in a live conversation with someone wise or knowledgeable.
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by blueyes 7y ago
This decision is a real shame. There is real value to a space like Workshop that provides food and business services in a social space in the Financial District. A decision like this, which does not take into account the consequences to SF&
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by blueyes 7y ago
This post from Alex Danco contains a similar but much more opinionated and falsifiable set of predictions: https://alexdanco.com/2019/12/17/ten-predictions-for-the-202...
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by blueyes 7y ago
I agree with a lot of points that PG makes here. There is also a key component that he didn't really mention, a precondition of having kids, which is finding the right partner to raise them with. While it is difficult to know how someo
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by blueyes 7y ago
This article does feel like an echo of Rumelt's Good Strategy Bad Strategy. One problem that Rumelt raises is that of information. How do you come to know enough that you can reach a diagnosis? If deciding on a strategy is the problem
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Deep Java Library: AWS's Deep Learning Lib for Java(djl.ai)
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Thiel's talk starts around 10m40s, after the throat-clearing intro. This is not his most articulate talk, fwiw. Thiel's smart and sometimes very clear, but not here. This feels off the cuff, where he's falling back on pot sho
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by blueyes 7y ago
Since this is an article about speed and data processing on a Python blog, I'll just point out that the RiseLab team that created Ray and RLlib also has a library called Modin, which is distributed Pandas. You just import modin as pd w
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by blueyes 7y ago
I found the book "When Kale and Coffee Compete" to be helpful when understanding JTBD. http://www.whencoffeeandkalecompete.com While many startup teams take a product first, "if you build it they will come" a
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by blueyes 7y ago
The real inequality to be measured, relative to Switzerland, is that between the bankers and their international clients, on the one hand, and the citizens of the countries that those international clients take money out of. Switzerland&#x2
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by blueyes 7y ago
While the 50 cents per edition that newspapers charged was not enough to cover their costs, it sent a signal to advertisers that they were getting a certain type of eyeball. An eyeball that had 50 disposable cents per day to buy packaged ne
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by blueyes 7y ago
I believe this same dynamic will apply to the oceans as they warm. They're like a can of Coke. Heat it up and the carbonation goes away. It's a horrifying positive feedback loop of global warming.
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Softbank is the Long-Term Capital Management of our decade. https://www.thebalance.com/long-term-capital-crisis-3306240
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by blueyes 7y ago
> The Militia is the people. A bold interpretation. Does that include babies and seniors with dementia? They are part of the people by most definitions. Should we allow them to have arms? Hand a .22 pistol to an eight-month old? If not,
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by blueyes 7y ago
2A mentions neither persons nor society, but only the defense of a free State, notably the one the founders were in the process of creating: > A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the pe
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by blueyes 7y ago
What this highlights, for me, is the deeper reasons why rural and urban Americans disagree on gun control. In the country, it's unlikely that anyone will arrive in time to protect you. So people buy the guns to protect themselves. And
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Here's a primer on the 1980s farm crisis under Reagan, which Nixon teed up in the early 70s. http://www.iptv.org/mtom/classroom/module/13999/farm-crisis
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I think it is much easier to get out of farming with no money, than to get into it. In the US, policy has punished rural communities and farmers for a long time: https://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Rage-Oklahoma-City-Beginning&#x

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