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From what I have seen it's probably more "keep doing the old things + add the name of and a part of some new thing." Then like evolution, it's survival of the fittest with the entrenched old idea having the heavyweight a
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What's a word or phrase to describe this idea/principle? It feels like the Bruce Lee idea of "take what is useful and leave the rest" but either the opposite or a bastardized version. Like, take what is easy and leave th
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Amazon doesn't own the trucks. These are branded partners they contract with. https://logistics.amazon.com/marketing/opportunity https://logistics.amazon.com/ https://dfw.cbslocal.com&#
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> Feudalism: the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants were obliged to live on the
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I hope you do! I think simulations can be a powerful way to teach/learn and I would like to see this one. I put a reminder to check back with you about this in a few months. Is Keybase your preferred contact method? I know it in name o
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Softbank has over $10 billion of its $100 billion Vision Fund invested in WeWork. That's a hell of a big bet. It's not hard to imagine Softbank will do whatever it can, rational or not, to try to get WeWork to a point where they c
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OLPC is One Laptop Per Child for those unaware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child#Criticism
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> that Epstein is a huge outlier and not that he had lots of willing accomplices, co-conspirators, and legitimizers I hear you on this and it is basically what I'd like to believe. What I value so much about Anand is that he is pu
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The Media Lab that Joi Ito is in charge of. Ethan Zuckerman is another name people might know around here who was at the Media Lab. He resigned. Zuckerman by all accounts was totally clean in all of this. Ito, looks dirtier by the day, and
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Epstein created a virtuous cycle of social capital for himself by MIT accepting his donation. While it was anonymous to outsiders, the insiders all knew. For the tech crowd here familiar with venture capital, it would be like one of the top
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Which he then backpedaled on after this blew up on social media. The authors of the article went back to him for clarification and he walked it back. The people in attendance for his original remarks called BS on him walking it back.
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Pair this New Yorker article with Anand Ghiridaradas' thread from today about his experience with the Media Lab. [0] Ghiridaradas is author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [1]. He was also on the panel for
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> “The house was burning and nobody was paying attention,” Etsy board member and Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson told the New York Times.) This feels like asking the wolf what happened after he bought access to the hen hou
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> when they failed to police non-handmade goods They never failed at this. Moving beyond handmade goods was a deliberate move. FTA > But the growth — and yet another round of VC funding — put even more pressure on Etsy. Chief techn
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Good question. There's a body of literature on 'employee silence' in the workplace. Off the top of my head, silence is almost entirely fear based. Those in lesser positions are worried about a number of bad individual outcome
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Since the freedom in question is economic mobility, it's kind of a moot point for the huge proportion of the U.S. population with limited incomes and little to no wealth to move around.
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> “The house was burning and nobody was paying attention,” Etsy board member and Union Square Ventures co-founder Fred Wilson told the New York Times.) This feels like asking the wolf what happened after he bought access to the hen hou
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This is a good question and one that should be applied to the OPs comment that kicked off this thread.
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Uber drivers don't have a $300,000+ salary to look forward to after surgical residency.
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There is a recent US Military study that shows that under a severe caloric deficit and with increased energy expenditure that yes, you still preserve lean body mass. [0] Granted this was not fasting, but it's interesting nonetheless. D
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I thought/wondered the same regarding wish.com. Although this 2019 Forbes article makes it sound like it's not a death knell. > Shipping is cheap thanks in part to an agreement between China Post and the U.S. Postal Service th
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Bananas and jeans are inexpensive consumables. Homes comprise over a quarter of non-financial assets in the US while being responsible for 68% of household liabilities [0]. Regulations have undeniably caused harm in California. Yet, an elep
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Ms. McLean has a way of seeing clearly what is right in front of others yet not acknowledged. Then bringing that to our general attention. I heard her doing the podcast rounds last year shining light on the unsustainable business model for
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14.4 Kbps modem...sneak downstairs after bed, hold pillows over computer to muffle the modem's screeching, set one (1!) picture to download over night, set alarm to wake up before everyone else, find connection died and only downloaded
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So that's a stark contrast. Host Hotels (Marriott) is sitting on an appreciable asset while WeWork has off-balance sheet operating leases. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/operatinglease.asp
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Does the Marriott REIT actually own its properties or lease on long-time lines like WeWork?
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Good question, and my next one would be "at what cost?" What are the externalities of services like NextDoor, local FB groups, etc keeping this in people's conscious all the time? If I had to come up with a hypothesis and tes
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Excel_Wizard, you are conflating neutrality with objective reporting. There is no objectivity. Every line and word written has a bias. Equating two sides when they are starkly different is not neutral and reporting the facts. < If Beiji
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Contrast this language with the HK protestors 5 demands. NYT looks even worse. - a full withdrawal of a proposed bill that would allow Hong Kong people to be extradited to mainland China - a retraction of any characterization of the movemen
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> in a lot of detail You aren't kidding. It's a 5-parter! Thanks for linking this. It's in my Pocket queue to dig into.

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