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by crdb 11y ago
What is even more impressive (in my view) is that LHL was a Senior Wrangler! How many other Prime Ministers have topped what is (arguably, at that time) the hardest undergraduate course in the world?
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by crdb 11y ago
I believe this is the essay you're looking for: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by crdb 11y ago
I am genuinely curious about why several people downvoted my original post as well.
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by crdb 11y ago
Yes, because there is no choice in the matter. The only durable way to stop mass illegal immigration would be to relieve the enormous incentives for both illegals to come in, and businesses to hire them, which means making it legal for a re
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by crdb 11y ago
I'm guessing there's other factors. For example, Australian prices are high because of labour (it's very hard to illegally immigrate to an island surrounded by oceans) but also because everything has to be transported over va
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by crdb 11y ago
Or they'll just hire more illegals. There's 11.5 million illegals in the US already [1] (edit: vs 3.3m legal workers on or below minimum wage [3]!), a large part of which are probably doing "minimum wage" type jobs for l
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by crdb 11y ago
Neither - my co-founder and I consult over the whole data chain from tracking to recommendation engines and automation, and I write around 10% of the code, usually SQL and scripting; this finances our startup R&D better than taking fund
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by crdb 11y ago
You'd be amazed how money can be wasted in online retail. I know of a 2,000 employee company that took 1.5 years to produce a mobile version of its site and another year for the app. Another (also thousands of employees and over 500 de
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by crdb 11y ago
You raise a point that was already true for DRM - the impediment from the restrictions pushes the law abiding citizen into piracy. For example, Cinavia might limit the devices you can play your legally purchased movie on. So law abiding cit
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by crdb 11y ago
One reason I haven't seen mentioned yet is that countries like India can be overwhelmingly mobile-dominated (as in, few people own desktops). I never had data on India but in places like the Philippines or Indonesia (with similar GDP&#
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by crdb 11y ago
Thanks to you both... that means a lot! Funny thing is I started a few blogs anonymously, and they never really took up, and I stopped all of them within weeks of starting. But I keep coming back here because, well, a man is weak, and those
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by crdb 12y ago
It was December, I was bored to death staring at my four screens and thinking the weather really sucks in Europe in winter, and some guy calls me out of the blue asking me if I want to move to the beach. I had a chat with a few colleagues,
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by crdb 12y ago
As a non-CS grad coming fresh to databases, I found both the entity-relationship, and the object-oriented models confusing. Then I read Date [1] and Codd's [2] books and papers on the relational model, the one from the 1970s that is ba
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by crdb 12y ago
The largest city by funding after Silicon Valley would appear to be London, which raised 2/3 of the around 1/30th as much funding in the whole of the UK as in the US [1]. I suspect that there are more than 1/30 as many startu
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by crdb 12y ago
I'm sorry for making a relatively snarky reply to your (genuine, and partially fair) criticism, but "trust only the qualified" is a particularly noxious part of French culture which is, like graphology as an important criteri
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by crdb 12y ago
That's not what I meant (e.g. Bernanke influencing Yellen), I guess I was not clear enough or the subtleties were lost in translation. The examples are simple, obvious cases of the more subtle fears one could have about public official
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by crdb 12y ago
As a French guy who half grew up in London and spent many years there I heartily disagree with you. I think my opinion is more alongside of "Midnight in Paris" - culture changes and evolves all the time and it's not a good id
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by crdb 12y ago
OK: "Hi Ben, what are your views on rates?" Still OK: "Hi Ben, John Smith is in your old seat, what do you think of him, what does it imply for our strategy?" Less OK (I think, still legal in FICC although not in equitie
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by crdb 12y ago
As an aside/example, here is an entire fortress fortified by Vauban in 1692, a pillar of French royal power for centuries, practically a small village behind the walls, going for only 2.6m EUR: http://www.patrice-besse.com&#
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by crdb 12y ago
As one of the more than 1.6 million French citizen living abroad [1] (2.5% of the French population [2]), I could tell you a lot about the actual effects of attempting to create barriers around the French market. I'm also not sure Fren
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by crdb 12y ago
Reading your comment, I immediately thought of: "Their campaigns find favour in cocktail parties in New York, San Francisco and London but are taken less seriously in Chicago. In the days when I specialized in posh campaigns for the Ne
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by crdb 12y ago
Ah, Tesseron is the nobility... they probably have the largest collection of old vintages of all the Grande Champagne houses! But you pay for the privilege... I once had a vertical tasting in a Swiss supermarket (Manor Geneva) by accident,
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by crdb 12y ago
Yes, exactly! A lot of the newer distilleries have not found their balance yet (including, imh and controversial o, Kavalan and Amrut, whose extraordinary ratings I do not quite understand) and part of the reason I keep coming back to Scotl
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by crdb 12y ago
Absolutely on age. I think the Taketsuru NAS is very good, for example (it's a blend of malts by Nikka, and available everywhere in Japan), for its ridiculously low price locally. Bruichladdich is consistently outputting both solid cla
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by crdb 12y ago
The reason for the industry moving away from age statements (or towards No Age Statement, or NAS bottlings) is popularity. Whisky goes through peaks and troughs, but, like coffee (whose trees take a few years to yield fruit), supply lags de
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by crdb 12y ago
On top of that: - the brand is enormous. All my funding discussions have been warm intros or a network I built myself, slowly (same for client work with one exception). Saying "we're YC" enables cold emails to actually get re
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by crdb 12y ago
We were rejected last year after doing a very late application and probably because we hadn't quit our jobs nor built a prototype, or even lived in the same city (I hired my co-founder on a remote team before, and took him with me when
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by crdb 12y ago
The individualist view of history would argue that the individuals behind the innovations aren't with us anymore, or based in Japan. For example, some argue that Sony has not seen any Walkman-scale consumer innovations/global succ
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by crdb 12y ago
Glad he mentions the macro collapse possibility (which is out of his hands, and therefore irrelevant to his career except as a binary "shall I stay in this business" decision). I think any talk of bubble in tech should mention the
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by crdb 12y ago
Look, again, I don't want to impede your sales effort, but I basically ask "how is your Porsche different from my Ferrari" and you answered "well, it takes 2 minutes to intuitively start the engine, and also, it has whee

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