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by gmarx 11y ago
I would argue that FogCreek's early success was the result of Joel's blog. Around that time he had said most of what he had to say and posting frequency declined. I haven't looked at his site more than a couple times in the p
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by gmarx 11y ago
I'm originally from Chicago and have lived in many American cities including NYC in the 1990s. Can confirm, SF is bizarrely filthy especially given how much money is available and its reputation
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I was with you until the thing about four companies that could wipe out Uber. Which companies and how?
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Didn't finish the article so maybe they eventually mentioned- didn't congress pass a law against using genetic info to set insurance rates?
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Does anyone here agree with me that it's weird that every article about Theranos is actually an article about Elizabeth Holmes? It seems most other high profile startups inspire a mix of articles, some about the founder, some not.
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I have no doubt the author is a good developer. He does seem to undervalue all the hustling Billy is doing. Sounds like he has customers lined up. I would kill for a startup founding partner like that
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by gmarx 11y ago
I've never been to one and was unaware of this rule. If this is true it should have been the focus of the article and made very clear. It wasn't. It also isn't clear to me that Billy gets free code. If the other guys refuse t
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by gmarx 11y ago
I don't understand this. I read the entire thing and even though it is from the authors point of view, to me he come across poorly relative to the business guy. The only thing I can see the business guy is accused of is that he didn&#x
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by gmarx 11y ago
I was doing a medical examiner rotation in the early 1990s and a woman (not a pathologist, some kind of advocate) gave a presentation in which she asserted that this set of findings is always shaken baby. At the time it struck me, how could
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by gmarx 11y ago
One thing these debates ignore is the role of talent in making one enjoy the activity. I think talent helps one achieve early success and so enjoy it more and want to practice more. In fact I wonder if what we think of as talent might be a
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Not just price control, regulation protected them from competitors in multiple ways until the late 1970s. I still think its' a good example. The point is you go through a golden age when everything is easy, competition is minimal to ge
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by gmarx 11y ago
I don't think it is the same odds. The number of startups in which employee 500 gets rich is vanishingly small. The number in which employee 3 gets rich is higher. On the other hand, you'd need 500/3 such startups to counter
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by gmarx 11y ago
In fact if you look at the history of once hot new industries (automobiles, airlines) you tend to see early cutthroat but fun to work for beginnings, followed by periods of fewer competitors, glamour and even more (if different) fun (think
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by gmarx 11y ago
The answer (pains me to say it) is, if anything, government spending. This was actually the answer after the financial crisis too. We have come to depend far too much on monetary stimulus relative to fiscal stimulus.
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That isn't true. People expect a correction when there has been a long run up in prices and when those prices are high relative to, for example, earnings. This has been the case for quite some time. On the other hand when the S&P h
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by gmarx 11y ago
Funny, if you look at news and popular media from the 1970s you get the impression is was an awful time economically and pretty much everyone agreed we were doomed. Rents were cheap in NYC in the 1970s? I don't doubt it; ever seen &quo
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Airlines don't own planes (generally). They lease them
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presumable the drone pilot would see the guy with the broomstick and then go higher.
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The technology is already there to create movies and and distribute them digitally. You could probably, as an outsider, even send your movie to a theater as long as they have digital projection. A talented, hardworking team of outsiders cou
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I agree they tend to have insignificant impact but they definitely exist and try. Look for a late 1990s article (I think it was in Wired, maybe rolling stone) about the founding of Healtheon. In it James Clark (My memory anyway) explains th
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by gmarx 11y ago
You do realize that one of the classic signs of a bubble is people explaining "...this time it's different".
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No need to shoot on location? This is how it was done in the studio system from the early days through about the 1970s. The studios were more dominant then. I agree some aspects of film are ripe for disruption but many aspects have already
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She's a good writer
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by gmarx 11y ago
If you want to join an existing group with an existing culture, you don't get to say "here I am; now change your culture to suit me". As an older gentleman(?) it's bizarre to see how traditional nerd hideaways such as pr
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it might be fairer to say that before we even get to the complexity problem we have to solve the raw data problem.
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I disagree. Online posts express tone poorly. It's much less dangerous to discuss controversial topics in person.
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volume
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yes
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Considering how rare prions are I don't consider it likely that an escaped artificial DNA organism would accidentally produce one
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Not sure. The behavior you posit sounds like a virus, but the regular cells would lack the machinery to translate the artificial genes. Defenses against bacteria are mostly directed against surface proteins and these proposed organisms woul

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