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by gdudeman 6y ago
I've certainly seen less qualified people called Chief of Staff. Andreesen's assistant of 20 years is probably more qualified than 99% of the Chief of Staffs in the Bay Area.
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On Making Decisions(medium.com)
2 points by gdudeman 6y ago|0 comments
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by gdudeman 7y ago
More like their wealth. If you look at the article I linked to, it shows relatively flat beef consumption until the mid 2000s. I’m not saying beef will kill you, but picking two or three rich countries that eat a lot of meat — and have a hu
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by gdudeman 7y ago
These are highly confounding statistics. Meat consumption grows with wealth and lifespan also grows with wealth. To say lifespan grows with wealth because of meat consumption doesn’t make sense. Hong Kong’s beef consumption doubled since 20
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by gdudeman 7y ago
If you’d like to learn more about the racism black farmers endure today, the 1619 podcast had a good story called the land of our fathers. Farmers live and die by credit and bankers and banks can be racist. https://www.nytimes.co
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by gdudeman 7y ago
This isn’t how it works for the rich. If you donate appreciated assets, you don’t pay taxes on the appreciation, so in the best case scenario (e.g. you bought bitcoin at a penny) you donate $100, but it is the equivalent of $80 after tax. A
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Startup Off-sites – Why They Matter And How I Run Them(marcbarros.com)
18 points by gdudeman 8y ago|3 comments
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by gdudeman 8y ago
I agree on your critique of the growth mindset. It's hard to teach. I meant more that we're looking at small differences in innate ability and deciding that we've accomplished as much as we can. I strongly disagree with that.
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by gdudeman 8y ago
There is an amazing amount of fixed mindset thinking amongst the armchair geneticists on hacker news. Two hundred years ago, the median person could not read. They could not do algebra. There is no doubt that some people are born smarter th
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by gdudeman 9y ago
I have in fact had many rational discussions with people I disagree with in SF. Around guns, libertarianism, and unlimited freedom on the right and huge taxes on the rich, free healthcare for all, and socialism on the left. This isn't
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by gdudeman 9y ago
I'd like to challenge this. If you go into a startup and say "I'm a communist," many of them are going to be pretty skeptical of your ideas. You will find yourself in a lot of awkward conversations if you make this a thi
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by gdudeman 9y ago
I think the author explicitly states we need to be okay with name calling later on? "This is uncomfortable, but it’s possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people..."
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by gdudeman 9y ago
This is incorrect. In one case, Trump won the election by very narrowly winning more popular votes in key states. Those votes could have been influenced by the news. What the DNC leaks show is also the messiness underbelly of virtually an
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by gdudeman 9y ago
I think it's a crypto-utopian view that election fraud can be fixed with a better record. Election fraud is a fairly small problem in countries like the US and the problems are around voters not voting in the right place, having a new
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by gdudeman 9y ago
Not to mention that anyone can create a new bitcoin-fork. Animats-coin could be created and supported by 2 machines. Is Coinbase obligated to support it just because you have a couple graphics cards and forked code? If so, there are many ne
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by gdudeman 9y ago
"Let's assume for the sake of argument that women and men are equally likely to "harass" someone, and let's say that likelihood is 10%." You've done good math (I think?) on a false premise. People harass o
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by gdudeman 9y ago
I plug my car into a normal outlet and drag a cord across the sidewalk (my neighborhood is single family), so it depends. If there is an outlet near where you park your car, you may have everything you need for a charging station.
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by gdudeman 9y ago
This will shorten the battery life, however (at least on the Nissan Leaf).
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by gdudeman 9y ago
The human mind is tuned to story. Stories help us make sense of facts and give them meaning. That's probably different from person to person - possibly you believe you're on the fact end of the spectrum. This is a small part of th
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by gdudeman 9y ago
Is this dissimilar to a helicopter though?
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by gdudeman 9y ago
Additionally, the Senate gives minority population states a vastly outsized vote. North Dakota and California get equal say. 50 Senators do not come close to representing 50% of the US population.
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by gdudeman 10y ago
Assange may have said that, but Podesta was hacked by a sloppy organization that used Bitly to attempt a hack on thousands of other accounts worldwide. Assange has no reason to implicate Russia. It would also be very, very easy to give a di
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by gdudeman 10y ago
An addendum to this: Many of the greatest unconventional thinkers of our time are similar to Newton in that they are right about one non-consensus thing and wrong about lots of others. Some of those people become fantastically rich as a res
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by gdudeman 10y ago
I'd suggest we are evolving, but you are both mis-using "evolve." Evolution does not mean better, it just means change to fit the current environment. Humanity and intelligence is not the logical outcome of evolution. This fe
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by gdudeman 10y ago
Short positions are part of an efficient allocation of capital and efficient pricing. They also effectively bring down the price of this company - so you can buy more if you think it should be higher. Some people think Tesla is a mess. Shor
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by gdudeman 10y ago
I to have seen plenty of companies flail and get bogged down because of technical debt and a just get it done culture. It's really hard to begin with a "yes it's a mess, but it works" culture and transition to anything e
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by gdudeman 10y ago
This article mistakes how we talk about AI with potential outcomes. It presupposes that AI will only do what we ask it, not that we'll program AI to, for instance, "protect us from enemy nations." It also seems to presuppose
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by gdudeman 10y ago
That's one way of looking at it, but you don't just happen to have those skills. You get them from experience and practice - or doing well at the 99% that doesn't feel important. This arguement reminds me of people who focus
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by gdudeman 10y ago
I think you're right. Fines have to be higher than the direct cost to society and they have to be higher by the chance they're caught. In this case, it was very hard to detect, it was fully intentional on the part of the company,
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by gdudeman 10y ago
Return can be two things: profit now or future profit. A traditional business with $166m in revenue has few places to invest extra cash that turn $1 into $4 in < 24 months. Twilio has this. What would be crazy is not investing in growt

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