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by dstorrs 16y ago
Yep, many economists do work for those institutions. And yep, all of them have /some/ particular axe to grind (everyone does -- I do, you do, etc). That doesn't mean that what they're saying isn't correct. - Businesses are, in fact, what
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by dstorrs 16y ago
An aircraft carrier would be extremely expensive, and as other commenters point out, has logistical issues. For your money, you might do better to build a pontoon raft out of some of the Ghost Fleet freighter ships: http://tinyurl.com/lof
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by dstorrs 16y ago
What interested me in this was the mixture of the traditional and the modern: - Traditional: You are the breadwinner, your wife has the primary housecare / childcare duties. - Modern: You do your breadwinning from home and are self-employed
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by dstorrs 16y ago
I think there's a "baby and bathwater" issue here, on both sides. IMO, the basic principle of TDD is solid: write the tests, then write the code. Like most ideologies, this takes an acorn of wisdom and grows it into an oak tree of folly (
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Here's a variant on this that is actually true: I took Professor DiCenzo's "History of Japan" course at Oberlin College, in we he assigned several 5-page papers. There were a variety of topics to choose from (or make up your own); one of
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by dstorrs 16y ago
...would you favor denying the vote to people unable to make correct judgements, deal with political rhetoric or form opinions about highly technical issues? It seems that filtering the noise is far cheaper than increasing the signal, in t
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Up until recently, I lived a few blocks from Union Square (I've since moved to San Francisco). I used to see Joe out there all the time, especially when the farmer's market was there. He was always bright, chipper, theatrical...he had a s
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by dstorrs 16y ago
He makes a huge deal about how he killed MySpaceSupport.com by rewiring the URLs, etc and how this eliminated all his revenue, permanently, so that he sold it off in 2008. I'm sure it was a major factor, but I think the changes in the econ
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by dstorrs 16y ago
====QUOTE How come I can still have syntax errors? How come it is ever possible to have a syntax error in a program? Shouldn’t the IDE at least be helping me to have a valid program all the time? Finale doesn’t let you write a measure wi
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Agreed on Dalton's speech. It was also really good to hear from someone whose company had failed, and to see how he dealt with it afterwards. I'm glad to see that he's so upbeat about it now, and that he still seems to think it was worth
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by dstorrs 16y ago
To all the Y-Combinator folks, and all the speakers: Thank you for a fantastic event. I had a great time today. Also, thank you for all the free and tasty food. I guess you really do understand what motivates founders!
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Someone actually asked him that specific question. His answer (paraphrased): "Find a small company that you think is going to be big and join it. At small companies, you learn a lot about many different things. As they grow larger, you
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by dstorrs 16y ago
"Strong AI" isn't really a meaningful term anymore, because we keep moving the goalposts: ) "A computer will be intelligent when it can beat a human at chess. Oh, Deep Blue did that? Umm, ok, then...." ) "A computer will be intelligent
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Your dentist wouldn't happen to be in the Bay Area, would he? Edit: ninja'd
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by dstorrs 16y ago
If we're discussing (arche|stereo)types, then women like to talk more then men (i.e., face-to-face interaction). Therefore, they aren't as likely to spend time on a glorified Internet chat board like HN.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
That is really cool. Thank you for the correction, and for the article.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
IANAP, but it seems pretty unlikely that this would be possible, at least in any way short of living in underground bunkers. I would expect that either the atmosphere would boil off from the hot side (if there wasn't enough gravity to reta
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by dstorrs 16y ago
There are various ways to cut (in the "Scarne cut" you pull cards out of the middle and put them on top, then repeat several time) but the short answer is that if you're playing cards against a professional cheat or magician in anything les
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Exactly. The term comes from the way you spot the switch -- cards that have been being handled a lot warm up in the players' hands. If you touch the deck and it feels cool (i.e., it is room temperature), that means it just got introduced
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Actually, the 2 player deck is pretty much what you're looking for. Just for kicks, I went through the first 20 hands, putting myself in the position of the small blind and thinking how many rounds of betting I would go through on that hand
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by dstorrs 16y ago
I think you're confused by the word "reasonable." GP post is using it in the sense of "a plausible hypothesis", which it is -- it is plausible that people who care about their careers to the exclusion of all else (e.g., ideals) will advanc
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Only tangentially related, but should be of interest to most HNers: If you haven't read _Money Ball_ ( http://tinyurl.com/28ryy4b ) you really should. It's the story of how a coach and a stats guy hacked major league baseball; they took on
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by dstorrs 16y ago
I'm not sure that "older founder" necessarily means "first let's buy aeron chairs", or that "let's do more with less" means "younger founder, but ok.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Thanks for satisfying my curiosity. And yeah, sorry about the 'wall of text' -- I was trying to be very clear about why I was asking, and the fact that this was a request for information, not an accusation of age discrimination.
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Ask YC: Why do you disproportionately invest in younger founders?
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by dstorrs 16y ago
You do realize that the two of you are in violent agreement, right? You're both saying that the owner of the McD's will earn more money than the programmer, and that this is absolutely fair and reasonable.
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by dstorrs 16y ago
I was six blocks north of the Towers when they fell. The reason it was hard to get the word out had nothing to do with the presence or absence of Twitter / FB / etc. The reason it was hard was because all the cell towers were down (litera
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by dstorrs 16y ago
The part that made me smile was when he said "In all, between one and TERAbytes of data would generated!!!!" [exaggerated emphasis mine] I've got 3-4 terabytes of storage within a dozen feet of me as I type this; it really drives home the
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by dstorrs 16y ago
You're absolutely right -- things are much better now than any time in history, for a majority of the world's population. But "better" really means "more choices are available." We should try to make sure that we make the best choices, and
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by dstorrs 16y ago
Personally, I have a BA in English with a minor in CS. Except for my first year out of college (performance analyst at a pension consulting firm -- I had applied to their computer department!), I've spent my entire career in computers. I'

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