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by cowpig 4y ago
I've had a less extreme version of this but similar arc: I have ADHD, I've always underachieved at normal jobs, founded my own company and now run a successful business (though it's certainly been a bumpy ride).
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by cowpig 4y ago
What's being produced and who are the market actors here?
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by cowpig 4y ago
Has Ben Thompson ever taken a position for government intervention in any situation ever? In general I find his articles take the perspective of those running large corporations, not the perspective of public interest.
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by cowpig 4y ago
I find myself oscillating between bargaining, depression, and acceptance on this topic. Something will happen in the world, like Bolsonaro losing his election and Lula making some promises, and I will gain hope. Then I'll look at the I
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by cowpig 4y ago
I may be naive, but I think that Elon was able to run SpaceX and Tesla this way because they both were companies with optimistic visions and by far the best (if not only) option for people who wanted to effect change in those respective ind
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by cowpig 4y ago
> Look for Scala dev jobs, they are only needed in Sunnyvale. [citation needed] In my experience Scala devs are in extremely high demand as it's a language of choice for a lot of high-performance server-side software like data pipel
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by cowpig 4y ago
Missing context here is that humans bring goats to islands and the goats wreak havoc on the ecosystem there, and then they are very hard to find and remove. Goats are inherently social, and so a lone goat will find a new group to interact w
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by cowpig 4y ago
Showing up late to an all-hands meeting of thousands of employees is wasting thousands of hours of peoples' time. I don't care how important you think his time is that's not going to add up to a rational choice
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by cowpig 4y ago
> the market is too efficient for your 'unique insight' to really benefit you all that much beyond your Seed or Series A pitch It feels like the HN community combines a poor understanding of economics with a religious-like capi
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by cowpig 4y ago
I wonder how much of this can be explained by social media? Feels like a feeling of impending doom with climate change could also be a factor. Also, I'd really like to see this trend in a broader context. How much did these kinds of in
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by cowpig 4y ago
Like anything in the real world, an absolute rule like this is inappropriate, but I agree that we need a much higher bar of scrutiny on these kinds of mergers before they are approved.
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by cowpig 4y ago
In a related question, I've always wondered how Mosquitoes survive winters. Where I live the winters are very cold, with entire months deep in the negatives. All water freezes. Would entering a state of torpor be a sufficient explanati
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by cowpig 4y ago
I wish I could upvote this 100 times. Seems short-sighted to the point of company malpractice. Introducing a massive conflict of interest into their business model cannot possibly work out well in the long-term.
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by cowpig 4y ago
I don't think the fact that the CEO of a company made a claim is sufficient justification for putting that claim in the title of a news article, especially without a "CEO claims" qualification of some kind.
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by cowpig 4y ago
same in French (also no accent)
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by cowpig 4y ago
"News and reports are always"
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by cowpig 4y ago
Trying to add more different kinds of propaganda to your "feed" in attempt to find truth is like adding an additional incompetent PM to a project that's behind schedule in hopes that it will help move things along.
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by cowpig 4y ago
The Glicko[0] rating system is different from Elo[1], and it's what Lichess and Chess.com use In Elo, the rating gain for one player equals the rating loss for another, because each player's rating is the only independent variable
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by cowpig 4y ago
> Need to remove red tape, stop controlling prices, de-regulate business, establish free trade agreements, and do all manner of things to increase real productivity and not the government-pretend kind of productivity. Is there any histor
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by cowpig 4y ago
> Nope. Resale value is way too forward thinking for a corporation these days, it's all about short term profit. This kind of blanket statement is almost always wrong about anything in the messy real world. But it's especially
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by cowpig 4y ago
Interested to hear this community's thoughts on GDPR so far. Has it served its intended purpose? What ideas, if any, should be imported to the US?
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by cowpig 4y ago
> The most simple explanation is that he lied through his teeth and that he had no intention of stopping it. This doesn't really fit anything I understand about Obama or about the world. Much more likely is that upon taking the resp
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by cowpig 4y ago
There are many other taxes. There are tariffs, capital gains, or estate taxes, for example. Additionally, not all consumption taxes are across-the-board sales taxes. Across-the-board sales taxes are highly regressive taxes, because basic co
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by cowpig 4y ago
> Many of the most reviled monopolies throughout American history got there in no small measure because of government protection in the form of "regulation". This is simply not true. The common reviled monopoly strategies inclu
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by cowpig 4y ago
> Unless the law allowed "between $x and $y depending on your local tax rate" (where X and Y are based on the lowest and highest tax rate for the advertising area). What's wrong with this solution? Getting rid of sales tax
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by cowpig 4y ago
Why doesn't the article address the question of why emission standards are looser for larger vehicles? Isn't that the supposed problem?
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by cowpig 4y ago
According to Wikipedia, AppLovin has 6.16Bn in total assets and 2.5Bn revenue. How can a company this size bid 17.54Bn to acquire Unity?
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by cowpig 4y ago
This argument could make some sense if we were talking about designing a sustainable system in the abstract, but the climate issue is an emergency leading to catastrophic outcomes in the present, and so decreasing emissions by any means nec
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by cowpig 4y ago
I think this video by Wendover Productions does a much better job than the article of both highlighting specific examples and laying out the perverse incentive structures that carbon offsetting creates: https://www.youtube.com&#x
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by cowpig 4y ago
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