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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
Lately I’ve been listening to the back catalog of Balaji Srinivasan interviews, which is spread across multiple feeds but which is available on https://balajis.com/content-archive/
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I’m not in SV (Midwest -> NYC) so I can’t verify based on my experience, but this is a really interesting theory. VC Twitter likes suggesting that SF has practically surrendered to criminality and that the city is among the world’s worst
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I’m going to bookmark this as an example of how to clearly and specifically point out a bunch of issues with a source while maintaining a constructive tone. This type of comment makes HN the best forum for discussion on the Internet.
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
You built hacker news?
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I wonder if this isn’t the differentiation though. No other company is willing to sink anywhere near as much into paying engineering salaries as Tesla. I remember choosing majors and realizing that as a computer science major I could do pol
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I appreciate the tone, and I don’t think you’re being uncharitable. While it may be true that my claim is tautological (especially if we understand a tautology as a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form), that
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I initially agreed, but after some thought I've changed my mind; it is appropriate. If you want an example of Apple not doing something quietly, consider how they stopped carrying Fortnite on the App Store, or the policy they tried t
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I'm making the broader point. If the concern is that middle-school kids don't self-select into harder classes, I get the concern a bit better. The implication, which I leave unstated, is that everything becomes an arms race to see
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
Here’s the problem with GPA: it penalizes the chemical engineering and economics double major who finished in four years and rewards the peace studies major who finished in five, but with a higher GPA. A standardized test has the feature of
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
BuildTheRobots is right. If we're really feeling that callous, we might as well calculate the value to her of a life-year (disability-adjusted for old age, naturally) for an elderly pet and show that the expected disutility to failing
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
The “way” is technology. Malthus famously saw exponential population growth outstripping linear growth in food production. Earth had an estimated carrying capacity of about two billion people as I recall, and it turns out that their estimat
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
A closer reading will reveal that I'm not talking about superficial appearances, but the interface. That's an important distinction. When I start talking about the Ritz and high-end consultants, I'm discussing the interface,
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I think the obsolescence issue is complicated. I recently saw a criticism of Palantir which went: "The company has largely succeeded, they say, not because of its technological wizardry but because its interface is slicker and more use
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
>> "The company has largely succeeded, they say, not because of its technological wizardry but because its interface is slicker and more user friendly than the alternatives created by defense contractors." A lot of the most
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
Although I think we differ in terms of our sentiment, I'm really glad to see a plausible hypothesis about the proximate motivation for Brian's decision posted. Erica's theory that this is a way of trimming payroll while elim
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I agree. Real artists ship. Musk ships.
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
I really like the cargo cult note. There are a lot of people building runways in the jungle hoping planes will land and bring cargo, so to speak, in tech. These people can and do make it into public markets (see Nikola) but it’s even more p
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
Yeah USC never belonged in the top 25 US Colleges, but their current leadership seems hell-bent on correcting any misconceptions.
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by ghgdynb1 6y ago
What do you mean he quite “literally” lives in an ivory tower?
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by ghgdynb1 7y ago
What a deceptive headline
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by ghgdynb1 8y ago
It’s called YouTube for any market with GDP per capita below 10,000 USD