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by gringoDan 6y ago
> Print was completely unbundled and commoditized by the Google and Facebook Super Aggregators. Interesting to see some Substack authors countering this trend by re-bundling their products. Notably: https://everything.substack
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by gringoDan 6y ago
You could make that argument, and in doing so you are implicitly stating either: (a) I believe that the government will use its money to impact the world in a better way than billionaires do, or (b) I concede that (a) is false, but I don&#x
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by gringoDan 6y ago
> we must remind ourselves that this is unimpressive compared to the poor person who donates $25 to others while starving herself Is it? This is a very Christian way of looking at donations: personal sacrifice / self-deprivation is
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Enjoyed this - a lot resonated. I’ve become interested in chess in the past few months (nothing crazy - just going from “knowing the rules and not being 4-move checkmated” to “above the 50th percentile on Lichess”). A good move in chess is
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by gringoDan 6y ago
If this is the case, not a bad strategy for Trump. In general, I assume that any move by a politician is made entirely out of self-interest.
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America's Invisible Pot Addicts (2018)(theatlantic.com)
2 points by gringoDan 6y ago|1 comments
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You Shouldn't Go to College (Right Now)(paranoidenough.com)
1 points by gringoDan 6y ago|0 comments
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Universities are hurting for revenue and will be remote for the near future. A benefit to this: right now presents a unique opportunity to get a Masters or a post-bacc. You can take classes without needing to move/commute to campus. Fu
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Interesting perspective here. For further reading, I highly recommend Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius. They show the thoughts and practical advice of someone who took very seriously the responsibility of being a Roman Emperor.
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by gringoDan 6y ago
N = 299. Not sure how meaningful those results are.
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You Can't Have It All(paranoidenough.com)
2 points by gringoDan 6y ago|0 comments
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by gringoDan 6y ago
> It's safe for them to express their opinions, because the source of their opinions is whatever it's currently acceptable to believe. So it seems to them that it must be safe for everyone. They literally can't imagine a t
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Original commenter, I endorse this reply :)
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by gringoDan 6y ago
It doesn't have higher expected value and I wouldn't necessarily advise going down this path in normal times. But calculating the expected value only takes into account the diploma and learning subject matter, none of the other be
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by gringoDan 6y ago
I left college for a semester, then re-enrolled and graduated. It's incredibly easy to do. If I were a current Harvard student, I'd drop out for the next year. Take some community college courses, work, travel (in a COVID-responsi
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by gringoDan 6y ago
This would benefit a subset of founders - those who are young and single. What if you have a partner? A family? YC is actively moving away from its roots as an alternative to a summer internship for college students to premier seed / S
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by gringoDan 6y ago
The graph is not just people, but specifically inventors. The US has a giant net influx of inventors (some of whom arrive on a H1B), which presumably creates wealth, jobs, etc.
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Patrick Collison tweeted a powerful graph that quantifies this: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1275288642022289410
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by gringoDan 6y ago
He updated the title of the blog post after this link was posted to HN. The title of the HN post is reflective of the original title of the blog post.
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by gringoDan 6y ago
The point I was trying to make is tangential, but related to the post. Scott has created one of the most thoughtful, level-headed, and interesting places on the internet. And yet he's shutting it down because it has led to a huge downs
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Reading this made me think of two essays I've recently revisited. 1. The Sound of Silence, by Jessica Livingston Three years ago she argued that the smartest people are silencing themselves because the downside risk of being attacked f
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Cities aren't dead. And a majority of people don't have the luxury of being able to work remote or move away from their jobs. There was never going to be a "mass exodus" from cities. Rather, a subset of the people who co
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Part of the problem is that as human beings, we are awful at assigning credit and blame for hypothetical scenarios. When in the best-case scenario nothing happens, politicians aren't incentivized to take strong action at the expense of
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by gringoDan 6y ago
Remote work. 20 years of progress were consolidated into the last 3 months. Previously, you saw people living in hubs like SF and NYC for the high salary and high prestige jobs. But when those jobs are available from anywhere, all of a sudd
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by gringoDan 7y ago
Apparently school closures work very well because it also forces adults to stay home from work to take care of their children. Source: https://samharris.org/podcasts/190-respond-coronavirus/
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Outbreak – playable simulations of a disease outbreak(meltingasphalt.com)
355 points by gringoDan 7y ago|66 comments
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Coronavirus – Report from NYC(paranoidenough.com)
1 points by gringoDan 7y ago|0 comments
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by gringoDan 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if we hit another circuit breaker by the end of the day. This will get worse before it gets better.
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by gringoDan 7y ago
Here is the original animation linked in the post: https://twitter.com/alxrdk/status/1237021885239635969 And the gif to maximize sharing: https://giphy.com/gifs/delay-covid19-containment-dWCcp
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by gringoDan 7y ago
People need medical care for emergencies in the middle of the night. People don't have the same need to trade 24/7. Matt Levine and others argue that shorter trading hours would actually increase market liquidity. Synthesize mar

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