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by entangld 16y ago
what you get out of it depends on what you put into it If the average quality varies that much, we should be paying a lot less for it. High prices (in general) imply a level of quality. They don't necessarily indicate quality, but you're
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by entangld 16y ago
I could care less who said what. I have thousands of quotes. The quotes help me learn whose books I should read. I copied and pasted that quote because I had it. The words are more important than where they came from. I don't have much resp
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by entangld 16y ago
Intellectual humility is a beautiful thing. Education usually blasts away many natural preconceived notions about the world. It makes engineers run tests and scientists run experiments. What better way is there to get people to question the
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by entangld 16y ago
Your generalization applies to just about everyone. Most people don't have higher educations at all. And only a percentage of those get through the classes that weed weaker students out. But are those classes actually teaching or just cutti
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by entangld 16y ago
Are you attempting to attack her credibility or can you address her point? Steve Jobs never graduated college. I would still take his opinion on education. This is an argument that can be logically debated without having to go to credential
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Ask HN: Would anyone else like a recommended reading section?
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by entangld 16y ago
I know you said it's pretty simple, but where does finding users come up in your equation? I think that's also on the business side.
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by entangld 16y ago
"Vision without execution" is getting old too. What exactly are we calling execution? Is it the fleshing out of the idea into focused executable parts? Because we could also call that part of the idea or the vision. When I think of executio
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by entangld 16y ago
What I'm saying is, on top, the speculator is playing with numbers. He wins some and loses some. But at the bottom, very high prices could squeeze workers into homelessness and poverty. Living check to check (business or person) leaves litt
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by entangld 16y ago
Agreed. It's hard to see Facebook's vision for the future. Is it their notion that privacy is overrated? Google is organizing the world's information like it said it would. Most of the draw of Facebook is their 500mil users. I see popularit
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by entangld 16y ago
People questioned Page's decision to base bonuses on 25% social. Ben makes a clear argument that wartime CEO isn't about making people happy, it's about getting people focused.
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by entangld 16y ago
I'm not against speculators. They are a useful part of the market. But let's not pretend they can't have a negative effect on society. People are anticipating water moving onto the commodities market. If water somehow surges, that's not goo
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by entangld 16y ago
>Usually when you see people blaming speculators it's someone trying to cover up ineptitude or corruption by picking an easy target.< I lived through the California energy crisis and there was no crisis. It was a gigantic manipulati
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by entangld 16y ago
Every boom (90's internet, 2000's housing, oil, eventually China) always seems to be wrought with fraud and held together by matchsticks and glue. People thought oil prices were purely demand driven until we found out they were being bid up
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by entangld 16y ago
It seems people who don't want points displayed are trying to evoke a feeling. I want points for one reason and one reason only. So I can tell which piece of advice people agree with.
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by entangld 16y ago
HN isn't only opinions. It also gives advice. How would you HNers who don't like points get advice in an area you know nothing about? What indicators would you use? Whatever sounds the best? Seeing a cumulative score of the opinions of inte
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by entangld 16y ago
I just mentioned this in the "Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs" post. I know they're experimenting, but something very useful is lost when we can't see what we all agree on. I'm using all loosely, but it makes a big difference when yo
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by entangld 16y ago
That study was about the presence of a neural template (and perhaps a linguistic one). Before the study people thought it might be possible for any singing bird to sing any other bird's songs. An abstracted view of the point of the study is
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by entangld 16y ago
There are similar analogies to bird songs. In bird studies, one bird species can be raised completely around a foreign bird species until they learn the foreign songs, yet the native fledgling will sing the new notes in their own species sp
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by entangld 16y ago
I need the upvote numbers back. How am I supposed to distinguish between when someone says something that sounds good but isn't necessarily true and a point that many HNers agree with? This thread is a perfect example. I'm trying to learn s
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by entangld 16y ago
I'm sure if they legalize it, people will grow it outdoors.
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by entangld 16y ago
I could argue subway ads are blanket ads that target huge numbers of diverse people in NY. While daytime television ads during low-brow tv shows target a certain socioeconomic area of society (specifically low income, poorly educated and wi
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by entangld 16y ago
I pointed out for profit colleges because that's who I see advertising the most heavily (ever watch day time TV). Ads during Maury Povich show, multiple judge shows, etc... Those ads aren't for state schools. How many non-profit schools d
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by entangld 16y ago
Seems like people don't understand it so I'll give try to give some useful advice. Listening to the call, the first thing I think of is women in offices. Probably some of the most marginalized and unappreciated people in the workforce. Cons
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by entangld 16y ago
I disagree with this "providing access to everyone for something by nature devalues it" It's not just that everyone has access. It's also that bubbles create huge numbers of over-valued objects. If these for-profit colleges were cranking ou
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by entangld 16y ago
I think the housing bubble analogy is a good one. Prices for the highest quality houses rose and that tide also lifted housing prices in poor areas. But when the market crashed everything went down. For profit colleges are selling garbage d
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by entangld 16y ago
>"Let me start by saying that the standard of living has increased for everyone, but yet being poor still sucks."< I'd argue people are going to school to get higher wages. Wages have stagnated for the last 20+ years. High cost univ
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by entangld 16y ago
I'd still settle for meeting up with a group of intelligent and determined entrepreneurs who I can bounce ideas off of and perhaps get a little advice.
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by entangld 16y ago
I have a name for it (I love naming things): ReCombinated
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by entangld 16y ago
If Facebook really is a serious threat to Google, he needs everyone in the company to realize that and fight against it. >"What happens to the really good algorithmic search people at Google? Do they bust their ass of doing what they do

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