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by devinhelton 10y ago
> This is the inevitable fate of all communities. I've seen it happen so many times and I've seen so many discussions about it over and over again that I've begun to consolidate my thoughts and relevant links about it on t
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by devinhelton 10y ago
It's not a conspiracy, it's a prospiracy -- http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=67 The prestige media -- NY Times, Vox, NPR -- all see themselves as being on the same team. They seem themselves as having a public responsibi
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by devinhelton 10y ago
" One of the solutions to classism is to have people mix more. Live together, school together, work together, marry together. " There are two problems with this. One, mixing people together often results in the two groups fighting
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by devinhelton 10y ago
To add to this -- whenever one does analysis based on very broad correlations, and where there is much potential for confounding variables that can never be perfectly controlled for, it is very easy to cut the data in a way that results in
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Counter Search: A search engine of high-quality, counter-zeitgeist sources(countersearch.net)
5 points by devinhelton 10y ago|0 comments
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by devinhelton 10y ago
I agree, but I think the comment should be a private message, seen by only the commenter (and perhaps the mods). I don't like seeing a comment thread cluttered up by debates about whether a comment deserves down votes.
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by devinhelton 10y ago
I spend most of my time in small, private, invite-only forums these days. As I get older, the problem with most forums is not so much lack of civility, but rather tediousness. Eventually, I have heard all the arguments, and if new comers to
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by devinhelton 10y ago
Thanks -- that is interesting to hear.
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by devinhelton 10y ago
Curious question -- when you or someone else does the peer review, is it standard practice to actually double-check the math behind the paper, or audit any of the data?
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by devinhelton 10y ago
The principal agent problem works in the opposite direction from how you describe. Companies are incentivized to offer buybacks when they, with their inside information, believe the stock price is undervalued. This is how buybacks are rat
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by devinhelton 10y ago
Problem with moving startups is that they are more fragile, and need every edge to beat out their peers. So if two startups are competing, and startup A is in the middle of nowhere, and startup B is connected to a pool of talent, advice, po
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by devinhelton 10y ago
The list of high-level questions is missing the most important question: how do you bootstrap the economy? There are plenty of awesome locations in the United States that have cheap land with great geography, but that have no jobs. The reas
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by devinhelton 10y ago
But if you're a rich person and not an idiot, you should be glad to see public companies offer buybacks. No, because there is a principle-agent problem. As a non-professional, long-term investor, I want the interests of the executive
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Inequality, Bargaining Power, and Startups(devinhelton.com)
1 points by devinhelton 10y ago|1 comments
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Prognostication and the failure of the Web(briankardell.wordpress.com)
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Liberia is outsourcing primary schools to a startup backed by Mark Zuckerberg(vox.com)
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by devinhelton 11y ago
You could try to design the tax code to try to distinguish people who were getting rich from zero-sum games, versus those who were getting rich from taking risks and creating wealth. In practice, there is a lot of subjectivity in doing so,
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by devinhelton 11y ago
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11066875
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by devinhelton 11y ago
It is completely unrealistic to claim that people won't start businesses because any personal profits they make over $10mil/year will be taxed too highly. It is completely out of touch with the financial position that most normal
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Even the 73% optimal tax rate proposed by Saez and Diamond is based on bogus analysis. The point of taxation is not to maximize government revenue -- if the government wants to maximize revenue it could just print dollar bills. The point is
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Can someone explain to me what claim Professor Dweck has demonstrated that is both novel and true? I've heard a lot about growth mindset but I still don't know what claim she has proven that is not already pretty obvious.
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by devinhelton 11y ago
I was responding to fizzbizz, not the original article.
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by devinhelton 11y ago
I don't think your anger is a result of loss aversion, but rather the fact that someone committed predation upon you. Civilization depends on an equilibrium where I don't steal your property, and you do not steal mine. Civilizatio
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Can someone explain to me what claim Dr. Dweck has demonstrated that is both novel and true? I have read a bunch of articles about her work, but it all seems to me like she has framed "growth mindset" against a strawman. It seems
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Let's remember what's being fought for: a democracy versus an autocracy based on raw power...replaced a democratic government that responded to its constituents with the rule of one man. Except that is an unbelievably naive way
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Your knowledge of my knowledge of history is quite terrible. I am quite well read, and could defend any of my sentences above. In government, it is quite often that the reality of power does not match the official language used to describe
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by devinhelton 11y ago
It is not a republic either. At least it is not a republic in a way that the Greeks, Romans, or American Founders would have understood it. It was meant to be a republic, but it is no longer. The US is actually one-half mandarinate (rule by
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by devinhelton 11y ago
Was it this article by Nick Szabo on Unpredictable Elections? He talks a bit about the Venetian method: http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2008/03/unpredictable-elect...
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by devinhelton 11y ago
" It might of course just be such a bad idea that everybody smart enough to give high quality contributions on the topic does not want to waste their time with the idea. But if this is the case it is totally non obvious to me, and most
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by devinhelton 11y ago
PG is on to something here, which is that when most people try to make their prose better, they do it the wrong way. They make the language stilted, they add silly descriptions (such as "the mercurial Spaniard"). But, writing is d

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