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by heymijo 7y ago
> because they think that past growth was paid for with past success, when the reality is that it was paid for with current success. Wow, great contribution. I appreciate so much when anyone can pull a nugget out of my ramblings and ex
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I like how you phrased that and take it to the system level to think about it. It reminds me of Indianapolis, Cleveland, and their metropolitan areas. In 1969 Indianapolis created a "Unigov" merging with its surrounding county, an
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I've been following the guy that created this since before it was a site. He was on Reddit just doing the work to synthesize research and share it with everyone. It naturally grew in to this and from what I have seen over the past 8-is
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I don't know how well this generalizes, but I've seen this as well. Venice even during the day when loaded with tourists is a maze of places unencumbered by tourists. I had loads of fun wandering around there, getting lost, discov
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I wish everyone had the knowledge of The Power Broker by Robert Caro in their heads. It's a mammoth book, mainly talks about early 20th century NYC development, but my god is it enlightening into how infrastructure got built.
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I think infrastructure in some places in the U.S. ends up looking a bit like a ponzi scheme. Example city--Charlotte, NC. Down south in Charlotte there is an area called Ballantyne. Ballantyne has good schools, new everything, etc. Ballanty
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Not just organized labor. > This didn’t stop President Truman from considering and promoting a national health care system in 1945. This idea had a fair amount of public support, but business, in the form of the Chamber of Commerce, opp
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An investing analogy. Warren Buffett doesn't read analyst reports. He reads each company's own reports (primary sources) instead to make up his own mind. Summary here = analyst report Article from author = primary source
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The injustice, is that this very much appears to be a situation where "everyone knew" but no one did anything. So okay, maybe Minsky, Clinton, Trump, or whoever didn't actually rape an underage girl or engage in sex trafficki
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These headlines... "Financier" Everything I have read since this came out states no one has any idea how/where Epstein made his money. And yet, the headlines read "Financier." Not convicted criminal. Suspected sex t
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You, Bluegill, and pmiller make good points about the complexity of humans and surgery.
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An ophthalmologist I know is an attending physician, which means she teachers new resident physicians. She described a few surgeries to me and her role in the room as the resident performs the surgery. Her brain is the checklist for the sur
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Free food, laundry, gym, haircuts, recreation, a swim-in place swimming pool with a lifeguard...it's almost like Google sets it up to blur those work/private life lines.
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There was an article linked to here in 2016 about an inventor who developed a process that reduces the need for brine disposal by nearly 100 percent . [0] Not sure what progress has been made since [0] https://www.scientificamer
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Doesn't look like doing it in the forest is the best idea. From your link... > Ecological impact The amount of salt that goes to the region's soil and rivers is enormous. The Werra river has become so salty (up to 2.5 g/L
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> Various doctor associations (AMA et al) have strangled supply side of healthcare To add more details to this here's something I recently read about the supply constraint and its origins. > Then as now, Medicare reimbursed ho
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Very true and let me add a note. "Positive feedback" in everyday terms seems like a good thing. In systems speak: > A positive feedback loop speeds up a process. [0] So in this context, that is highly undesirable. https:&#x2
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I was curious about the markets you described--mortgage and payday. You're right about mortgages being a huge market($10.3 trillion in mortgage debt). [0] Payday loans: > In fact, U.S. consumers borrow almost $90 billion every year
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Thank you. That was it. Senesence > cancer Edit: Can't believe I forgot the third option, cell death. Here's some info from Dr. Rhonda Patrick and Dr. Judith Campisi when they got together for an interview. > As our cells a
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Excellent line of inquiry. I'll have to dig but I know I've read that senesence has an important function. Like most things in the body, it happens for a reason but there are often downsides. It was probably something Dr. Judith
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The gist is that putting too much pressure on your perineum is bad for sexual function in males. The Bad - Cycling, especially with certain seats and handlebar arrangements, can cause a lot of pressure in the perineum The Good - Certain sea
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No, you can't, but the vast literature contradicts the claims of these lawsuits. Please see my comment and feel free to do a pubmed search. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20534351
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> There is a strange phenomenon online where in every discussion of propecia, someone will show up and claim they had terrible sexual side effects. But in the original clinical trials, the rate of such side effects was nearly the same a
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Firefox user checking in. No problems scrolling here.
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Oh I dunno antibiotics, vaccines, and water treatment plants sure beat cholera pandemics and polio. A/C is pretty nice too
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> Ford has had 4 CEOs in the last four years... I count two. Jim Hackett: May 22, 2017 to present (CEO) Mark Fields: July 1, 2014 to May 22, 2017 (CEO)
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I followed these guys pretty closely back then and this is close to my recollection as well. One addition I had to check on, which confused me at the tilt was how Balaji was so closely involved in 21 yet also a partner at Andreesen Horowitz
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Interesting. I see that Amazon does not have an ebook of it yet there appears to be an epub on library Genesis so depending on your scruples...
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Your ideas pair well with what Austhrow743 said above. Self driving as a complementary endeavor so Lyft's core isn't jeopardized by releasing the data.
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Excellent. Thank you

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