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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
Me first, indeed. That's what I did; it works. That's also a completely different argument from the one I was addressing. It sounds like your version is that 18 to 22-year-olds are too dangerous to be unleashed on society (the person gettin
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
I'll take the other side of that bet! What kind of odds would you give me that a group of people in the 10th percentile will have a higher average income than a group of people from the 90th percentile? If all IQ measures is your ability to
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
It's a rare search that takes me to a page that mentions what I'm searching for exactly once. Search result pages and destination pages serve completely different purposes, and you can't apply the same UI to both. If you ran a restaurant, y
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
It was almost certainly a joke. Avoid sarcasm when talking to journalists; some quotes, out of context, are too good to pass up.
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
Reddit does "ninja bans" where a banned user can see his submissions, but others can't. Could you do that with arguments and long threads in general? If there's a lag of 10*2^n minutes before seeing replies in a thread n messages long, argu
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1055153 r/K selection is a nice addition to the mental toolbox. (I learned about it while in high school, because I cut class to hang out in the library.) There is a difference between liking an outcome
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
Civilization has gotten more complex in some ways. But the modern world shields us from a lot of other complexity: how many poisonous plants and dangerous animals do you need to identify? How many social/religious rituals do you need to per
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
Does Khan Academy also provide an atmosphere where students can study, party, hook up, make mistakes, and otherwise learn how to become members of society? You know what provides that atmosphere? New York. Or SF. Or Boston, Seattle, Austi
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
This is just silly. I started reading this article with a couple biases in mind: I can't ever remember reading anything by Wadhwa and thinking anything other than "That is the conventional wisdom, yes," and Thiel is correct that college is
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
The tables have turned: this Reuters story is just rehashing Business Insider, which broke the story earlier: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-move-2011-10 BI's version actually has more background and analysis, in addition to being
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Tom Wolfe's 1983 Esquare profile of Robert Noyce(stanford.edu)
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Steve Jobs has died(marketwatch.com)
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
This is a very limited apology. He was in the news for pretending to be a journalist while researching a startup, sure, but that was merely weird (you might even call it "scrappy," like some of the stories you hear about other startups doin
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Secondmarket Insiders Sell Shares--On SecondMarket(blog.secondmarket.com)
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
In a good interview, the interviewer cleans it up by dropping the awkward bits: take a one hour conversation, remove the "Ahhs," "Ummms," the "Unfortunately I can't discuss that"s, and the stuff parroted from press releases. You're left wit
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
People entering the workforce forty years ago could reasonably guess when they'd retire and what they'd be doing at the time. I know very few people who think they'll have the same job five years from now. It seems very likely that the argu
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
The point about gold is not accurate. Arbitrage means going long and short equivalent amounts of equivalent assets. So it's arbitrage if you borrow at 0%, and invest in a CD at, say, 1%. It's not arbitrage if you borrow on your card and inv
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
It's lifepath.me with features! Not necessarily an improvement.
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Ask HN: Are comments on recent posts allowed?
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U.S. Alleges Full Tilt Poker Was Ponzi Scheme (businessinsider.com)
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
This article is based on a false premise. The effect of LBOs on job creation is ambiguous: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1034178 Silver Lake, in particular, is more of a growth equity firm that happens to use debt. (I
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The Dark Side of the Placebo Effect: When Intense Belief Kills (2011)(theatlantic.com)
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
I just reread a bunch of the essays. There is very little that needs updating (and later essays address this). I get the sense that PG wrote the essays and that book so they could be read many years in the future. Call it a decade for the t
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Was there ever a Ruling Class? 1,000 years of Social Mobility(tuvalu.santafe.edu)
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
suddenly unpopular with both users and investors... The first rule of bad journalism is to confuse the first and second derivatives. Groupon is enormously popular with users and investors--it's just not the most popular it's ever been. Yi
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
The first time I'd heard of him was when Paul Graham called him a de facto cofounder: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1045781
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
Companies pay top dollar for CFOs who can, among other things, engage in such sleazy behavior. Working capital management is critical to a company that wants to grow fast--it's conceivable that Amazon could have gone under if they hadn't op
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Maybe There Really Will Only Be Five Computers...(battellemedia.com)
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Why Apple Should License Typo Data to Bing(digital-dd.com)
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by byrneseyeview 15y ago
One way to frame that is "This is abusable. All you risk is the NYT writing an article trashing your behavior." The 500-shareholder rule is fairly obscure among laypeople, and pretty much only popular among people who litigate the cases it

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