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by davi 17y ago
I really, really hate the fact that you upvoted him too.
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Buffett said ... that railroad operators cannot do well unless American businesses are producing goods and customers are buying them. "It’s an all-in wager on the economic future of the United States," he said in a written statement. "I
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Berkshire Hathaway buys Burlington Northern Santa Fe (a U.S. railroad) for $44B(dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com)
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there shouldn't be 73 in the pool to start with This is my point, actually. I'm not expert enough in the issue to believe strongly that I'm right -- but this is my intuition. I don't really care if the extra funding goes toward projects
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Isn't this winnowing process necessary to identify those capable of starting a successful lab? Sure, some winnowing is necessary -- but do you (or the devil you're advocating for) think only one out of every 73 newly minted Ph.D.s is capa
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Whoops, you're right, I missed the username change while monitoring via the 'threads' link.
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Upmodded despite disagreeing with you. At least now we get some idea about what your problem with the article is.
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Better criticism (or link thereto) please.
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As a grad student in neuroscience I think there's some validity to the argument, though. Academic research in my field can be tightly circumscribed by 5 year grant cycles, competition for tenure track positions, etc. I wrote about numerol
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Look at tptacek's other posts. He is making a joke here. It is a funny one.
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College students in their final year have about 16 years of experience doing short projects and leaving everything until the last minute. interesting deficit of mainstream educational systems; I wonder what an educational system based on
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comments on the article at the author's blog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/10/21/why-cant-i-che...
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To put the API to the test, HeyZap built a game called Balloon Boy Game (in honor of last week’s horror story-turned-scandal) To the extent that the Balloon Boy story was entertainment spun as news -- a meme parasitizing the sense of virt
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Anybody else annoyed by what a blatant advertisement this is for a self-help program? "My research revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four basic principles. ... After graduating from "luck school", she has passed her drivi
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http://nonhackernews.com/ looks like it expired & got scooped up by a squatter. See also this post on Matt Maroon's blog about what it was like to run it: http://mattmaroon.com/2008/10/10/nhn/ I wonder if it ended because it was to
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by davi 17y ago
Interesting to think how these rules would work applied to other formats, like pitching a startup, or giving a scientific talk. Their applicability indicates a possible truth: people want a narrative, everywhere, all the time.
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They do not own the company; they run it at the pleasure of (yes) a bureaucracy.
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Leopard behind you(judson.blogs.nytimes.com)
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"C++ is like that, a lot of things seem easy until you combine them with other things and then they get hard." Could've been said, usefully, of Drupal in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=860049 , and of many another things as well.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/0808.3996
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Corollary: You can't get better at what you want to do by doing something else.
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Suicide is one of those things that I don't think we can ever reconcile in our minds. ... You do learn to find a quiet place for the feelings I second this. A close friend killed herself 15 years ago, and I still think of her, probably a
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by davi 17y ago
It's amazing how much money rich organizations can waste, and how much time they can spend on the wasting. They can get tempted to reinvent a better wheel for $$$, rather than reusing existing wheels for cheap; then they get sucked into a t
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No -- given equal profit margins, a small volume retailer will usually lose out to a large volume retailer, since the larger company can buy in bulk and sell at a lower price. Assuming that Amazon's volume is greater than Newegg's, if they
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by davi 17y ago
Article raises a good question. IPO --> pressure from shareholders to increase short term profits --> raise prices to increase margins --> slower growth + customers migrate to Amazon --> company plateaus, stock tanks (no lon
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Relatedly, suburban fears of swimming in natural pond water -- residents want to replace town pond with man-made swimming pool: "Surveys ... showed that too many people view Graydon as unsafe and unclean. Younger residents in particular wan
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National Affairs -- new journal of long form essays (nationalaffairs.com)
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Glass microbiology(lukejerram.com)
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We're special in that we can decide what effects we want to have.
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Posterous put a lot of energy into detecting & discarding fake emails. I remember this TechCrunch contest, challenging people to forge email headers to get onto Michael Arrington's Posterous: http://techcrunch.posterous.com/lots-of-fa

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