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by grosjona 8y ago
Everyone would have survived and they would have gained a great deal of wisdom from this experience. Rich people would have learned humility and everyone else would have learned that the system actually works. Instead, rich people learned c
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by grosjona 8y ago
I guess that this test is useful for managers who don't understand the details of the work that is required to accomplish the task. If you actually know what it takes to get the job done then you don't need an orange juice test; y
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by grosjona 8y ago
The problem is that people with power are getting more power and they are getting fewer in numbers so they have limited bandwidth for dealing with issues efficiently. So they delegate everything to people who are on their payroll and who th
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> The alternative is for banks to give out easy money again like in the leadup to 2008 and that didn't work out well It could have worked out well if the Obama administration had just allowed the financial system to collapse ins
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by grosjona 8y ago
How does one measure that? With fiat currency? By the total number of goods produced? How does the quality of output fit into this model? If you get more of something but quality is lower then it's not necessarily progress. You might n
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by grosjona 8y ago
As someone who has worked for several corporations and startups over the past decade, the problem of corporate monopolies is very obvious to me so I don't need to see any third party academic references; I've seen first hand how i
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by grosjona 8y ago
That's why I also hate the typical CEO/entrepreneur mindset; a lot of them think that they're helping to grow the pie and taking a small slice for themselves as a reward - In reality, the pie doesn't actually grow and ea
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by grosjona 8y ago
I hate how decent people in this society just keep playing by the rules even when those rules are obviously not working for them.
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by grosjona 8y ago
Current policies will give more opportunities for Americans. Trump understands something that technology elites don't; the wealth pie is limited and you have to be deliberate in how you slice it and who you give those slices to.
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by grosjona 8y ago
I think fast when it comes to language and logic but my mathematical thinking is very slow. In math exams at university, I usually only managed to get about half way through most exam papers. Amazingly, I still managed to pass most math cou
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by grosjona 8y ago
It's because people now see each other mostly as competitors; socializing is a tool for manipulation; the purpose of which is the acquisition of material resources and procreation. Only fools think it serves any other purpose.
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by grosjona 8y ago
I don't think that being disagreeable necessarily helps. What society really needs is for rich people to be better at filtering out opportunists from people who actually care about their craft. Right now, most wealthy individuals are g
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by grosjona 8y ago
That's the problem with corporations getting bigger; because executives make huge deals all the time, they forget the true value of money (from the perspective of the majority of the population) and they become inefficient in how they
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by grosjona 8y ago
Maybe there is some meat behind these allegations; it seems that Musk has been losing his cool recently; like with the Thai cave incident when he called one of the rescuers a pedophile. Could be a sign that things are not going well.
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by grosjona 8y ago
If you're talking about a small/trivial/low-complexity open source library then that is probably the whole story but if you're talking about something more ambitious and opinionated (like a framework or platform) then th
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by grosjona 8y ago
Why would a carpenter ask an interior designer to buy a chisel? I'm pretty sure that the interior designer just wants the furniture and trusts the carpenter to have the right tools to make it.
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by grosjona 8y ago
This checklist is a petty distraction from the most pertinent truth; it's all about trust. Reputable people and companies don't trust your project because neither you nor your project have connections to famous people or companies
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> Almost everyone talking about it is excited about getting rich from trading currencies Maybe, but why is it a bad thing? This can create powerful network effects. Facebook benefited from network effects derived from the fact that p
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by grosjona 8y ago
I'm confident that there is significant real value to be gained from blockchain technology but at least 99% of projects today are just empty buzzwords. Most wealthy people in the blockchain space are well-meaning but they don't kn
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> Jeremy Stoppelman: They will make you disappear. They will bury you. I love hearing rich people whine about the monopolies held by even richer people. So much hypocrisy. Without the Silicon Valley tech oligopoly, Jeremy Stoppelman
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by grosjona 8y ago
I think that Google's dominance has almost nothing to do with technology and almost everything to do with customer lock-in. For me, duckduckgo.com is as good as Google but I still use Google because it's the default search engine
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by grosjona 8y ago
Also, the typical startup journey of "Incubator -> VC funding -> Corporate acquisition" is mostly rent seeking. Corporations use rent seeking (lobbying) to extract huge amounts of money from the government then startups use
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by grosjona 8y ago
Too many people in the world appreciate this. The world would be a much better place if fraudsters never got second chances. Look at who is running the world now.
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by grosjona 8y ago
Our economic system happily churns through people like a factory production line. The question is; would you rather give this guy a second chance or give that chance to someone else who hasn't yet had any opportunity to prove themselve
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by grosjona 8y ago
I think that it's better to be guided by passion and personal principles than some cheesy list of goals that you tick off one at a time. Maybe they just have a single unachievable goal that they work towards endlessly; I think that&#x2
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by grosjona 8y ago
I only have a single personal goal in life and it changes slightly over time as I learn more about life so it wouldn't make sense for me to write it down. I just think about it and work towards it every minute of every day so I don&#x2
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> That’s our fault as journalists: We’ve been too slow to spot how things have changed and to cover the sector as the corporate behemoth it is Journalists were very happy to help Facebook while it was profitable for them and now that
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by grosjona 8y ago
From my experience, police officers generally don't like rich people. Also, I don't think that members of the police force or the military are as obedient or loyal as they used to be in the past.
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> Amazon and Netflix barely turn a profit, even though they could Could they? That is speculative. Nobody knows what would happen if these companies started increasing their profit margins. It definitely would affect consumer behavio
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> THALER: So my toast began by saying that my fellow winners had discovered things like gravitational waves, and circadian rhythms. And I discovered the existence of humans in the economy. Funny quote. It's a testament to how co

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