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by gohrt 11y ago
By far the most important thing she learned at HBS was the phone numbers of her classmates.
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by gohrt 11y ago
> patriarchs >> women after 40 > not taking care of your parents is a jailable crime in China. Nothing about "wisdom" in there.
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by gohrt 11y ago
What I saw in the article is that Ms Garner doesn't care much for respect, she just doesn't want to be looked at as weak because she is old are a woman. Her stories demonstrate consistent pride in the contempt with which she treat
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by gohrt 11y ago
You are assuming that the greedy Wall Street folks are actually contributing some of their smarts to improve the product of the industry in some way, and not just sneaking in and extracting value from the medical industry as Shkreli does.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Shkreli aside, it's ridiculous that the FDA would require such tests but not require that all approved drugs provide samples for further testing.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Why bother? social security, medicare, and medicaid generate quality of life improvements. Money redistributed isn't hurting anything, and a future govt can inflate away that debt
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by gohrt 11y ago
Balancing the budget is not important. Increasing utility per dollar spent (the dollar is conjured by the govt, it isn't a real resource) can easily be achieving by cutting back on all the productivity wasted by paying people to blow s
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by gohrt 11y ago
Be aware: Right wing thinkers don't believe food deserts exist.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Form the linked article: > allocates benefits as higher earnings nearly evenly across the income distribution OK by me. Note that it doesn't allocate benefit to idle owners f investment income. > Even after taxes, 27.6 percent of
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by gohrt 11y ago
Does it matter though? 21st Century, everyone with savings can open a Vanguard mutual fund account with the risk/reward profile of their choosing, that's almost as convenient wrt withdrawals.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Generating value for shareholders is different from generating value . Yahoo may be a fantastic charitable enterprise, making products users like well enough.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Effects in the range of 0.5-1.0% of pregnancies (and higher for certain high risk groups) are worth paying attention to.
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by gohrt 11y ago
The complaints are largely that he is talking about doing benevolent dictatorial stuff in the future , not that he is *doing saint like stuff now".
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by gohrt 11y ago
The military invested in diving rods to detect mines in Iraq. The military is a great place to sell worthless junk at high prices, if you have connections.
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by gohrt 11y ago
The term "homeopathic" has been diluted. It used to mean "a lie dissolved in water", but now, because (ugh) it got popular in some circles, or to try to steal some of the relative legitimacy of natural non-water suppleme
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by gohrt 11y ago
Whoa, such a meritocracy, where all it takes to make it big is to have rich parents and rich friends, and an big idea (good/correct idea optional)
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by gohrt 11y ago
You are misreading anger where there is slightly ascerbic honesty: > "set up only for those who wish to become theoretical physicists, not just ordinary ones" -> -- use of 'ordinary' instead of 'experimental&#
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by gohrt 11y ago
H&S's book is an intro text. This page is a listing of many texts.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Or privacy fail in the applicatio design/UI
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by gohrt 11y ago
post-mortem actions are for the future, not the past.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Would an employee feel honest telling their boss their 5-year goals? What if it isn't "leading a larger team at this company" ?
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by gohrt 11y ago
Because TEAM is an adverisement for their value proposition, and subtly increases good feelings.
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by gohrt 11y ago
On the one hand, it's great to see a company do so well making solid basic development tools. On the other hand, I recall that everybody hated using JIRA. It was sooo slooow and so many little input boxes in the UI. Has it improved in
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by gohrt 11y ago
http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computing-since-Democritus-ebo... also free online
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by gohrt 11y ago
AirBnB hired a designer who plagiarized designs from AirBnB customers: https://customspaces.com/office/ZewNn5vLy4/airbnb-office-san... I don't know how copyright works for interior design, but if it were a bo
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by gohrt 11y ago
I'd hesitate to blame Facebook because people in need use it to reach out to their community for support. If Facebook hate stems from rich healthy safe people being bothered by the presence of human suffering, Facebook is not the villa
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by gohrt 11y ago
> > Yahoo’s shift in strategy comes as Ms. Mayer and her husband, Zachary Bogue, are expecting the birth of twin daughters this month > I hope she takes a full year off, if not more. The past 4 years couldn't have been easy on
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by gohrt 11y ago
Cargo cult, copying what? Go is the evolution of a design that was started before any of those other languages were dreamed up.
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by gohrt 11y ago
operator overloading is just overriding a base class (interface), plus a special and aribtrary limited syntax, plus compiler optimizations.
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by gohrt 11y ago
Then good that it stopped years ago: https://golang.org/doc/ >>> The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its

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