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Measuring the value-add of hedge funds(rick.bookstaber.com)
1 points by bokonist 18y ago|1 comments
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by bokonist 18y ago
I agree. I put the word nice in quotes, because I meant a specific type of "nice" guy - the nice, weak guy who wonders why the girls do not like him.
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by bokonist 18y ago
I agree, my use of the term "leader of the pack" was imprecise. Women are attracted to a mix of strength, status, command, and dominance. If you are a leader of a low-status pack, or a pack that appears desperate and trying to hard, it's
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by bokonist 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivalry_(economics)
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by bokonist 18y ago
Government control of the post office was more about controlling the flow of information. Recently I was reading a biography of Ben Franklin, and the reason the Postmaster position was so important back then was that you could use it to co
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by bokonist 18y ago
They’re not sure how to do their jobs anymore when nothing can go public and acquisitions are few and far between. Dividends.
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by bokonist 18y ago
The generally chaste girls are the same way, they still go for the strong guy over the "nice" guy. Girls that have been taught all their life to go for the nice guy, still find themselves attracted to the bad boy. The evolutionary/genetic
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by bokonist 18y ago
Woman did not evolve to find smart guys or "nice" guys attractive. Woman are programmed to find the leader of the pack attractive, even if said leader is an a hole. Fortunately, most well raised woman were taught with their rational mind
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by bokonist 18y ago
I'm surprised this comment has so many up votes. Money helps a bit, but trying to earn more money just to get laid is ridiculous. There are many easy and fun techniques that are far more effective. Examples: carry yourself with confidenc
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by bokonist 18y ago
I haven't read the books you've mentioned, although I'm pretty familiar with the debate, and the latest arguments. I think it's interesting to make an analogy with a sport like running. If you measure running ability in a group where every
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by bokonist 18y ago
If the Flynn effect was true, then our great-grand parents must have had average IQs that would have categorized them as mentally disabled today. Clearly, this was not the case. My grand parents in their prime were just as smart as my par
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by bokonist 18y ago
(1) that no government will successfully establish a startup hub What about the Pearl Delta and Shanghai's Pudong district? Both seem to be smashing successes. There are two very different types of startup. I don't buy that there is a
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Resume Writing for CEOs(nytimes.com)
17 points by bokonist 18y ago|2 comments
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by bokonist 18y ago
That's a tough call. Take any advice here with a grain of salt, because I don't know you or the people involved. But if I was in that situation, I might ask nicely for a greater stake, and then if they refused, and I thought I was getting
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by bokonist 18y ago
That's usually not necessary, but I don't know enough about your situation to comment.
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by bokonist 18y ago
I come out as about a 10% contributor, but they obviously can't give me 10%, since there need to be points for the option pool...I was offered 2%, which seemed really low, but I was told that this was because the CEO wanted to conserve poi
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by bokonist 18y ago
No it's not premature to figure out what your fair share is. The proper time to negotiate is immediately, it only gets harder the longer you wait. You should negotiate your share relative to the current other members of the startup, and t
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by bokonist 18y ago
Accreditation for less established and less lucrative professions is much easier. The grip tightens over time, within a profession. It's hard to think of any really good educational institutions that can't seem to get accredited for polit
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by bokonist 18y ago
Gatekeeper laws cost Americans hundreds of billions a year in tuition and lost wages. It's also condemnable from a personal liberty perspective. The burden of proof is entirely on the schools to show that the costs in money and liberty ar
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by bokonist 18y ago
I agree that the immediate effects of the policy would be beneficial. But you have also created a government sponsored body that is now deciding what is a startup and what is not. That is very, very, very dangerous. This organization ove
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by bokonist 18y ago
Visas are issued by the government. All my criticisms still apply, even if the government delegates the decision to the investors. And no, it works terribly for universities ( or rather, it works great for the universities, terribly for th
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by bokonist 18y ago
The point is you don't get to control the algorithm. When I interned in the Massachusetts State House, I sat through a meeting discussing the algorithm that decides how much state money each local school district receives. Now I'm sure yo
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by bokonist 18y ago
How would the government decide who's a startup investor? The same way they decide what counts as a university for student visas. We'll establish our own accreditation procedure. This part scares me. Accreditation boards are a bug, not
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by bokonist 18y ago
the pre-1992 version of usenet
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by bokonist 18y ago
So what are your favorite sources of information about global affairs? War Nerd has been consistently more right than sources such as the NYTimes or CNN. But if there are sources much better than War Nerd, I'd love to know about them.
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by bokonist 18y ago
War Nerd certainly has a shtick that can be off putting. But in terms of providing no BS commentary on military and war issues, he is one of the best sources out there. The vulnerability of the American fleet is a very real issue.
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by bokonist 18y ago
The comments to the article are excellent and very informative. Whether or not the new Chinese missile exposes a single point of failure, I suspect that the Gary Brecher is still right, and that the U.S. Carriers are completely obsolete. B
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Why the U.S. carrier group is scrap metal(exiledonline.com)
35 points by bokonist 18y ago|78 comments
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Venture Capital - Thoughts On The Asset Class(avc.com)
4 points by bokonist 18y ago|0 comments
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by bokonist 18y ago
That's the hardest I've ever laughed reading hacker news. Wow.

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