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by huangm 17y ago
He's assuming YC has 6% equity in the companies. 2.6 * 15k = 0.06 * 650k.
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by huangm 17y ago
It's going on now and for the next ~50 hours. The brain belongs to H.M., the guy that the movie Memento is 'based on'. When he was alive, he could not create new short-term memories. He's been the subject of study for years until he passed
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Live now: Human brain cut into thin slices(thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu)
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by huangm 17y ago
You hire a design firm because you like their portfolio work. As a client, you shouldn't have to ask if the same people responsible for the portfolio work are going to work on your project. My guess is that this is an assumption that most c
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by huangm 17y ago
This seems like one of those hypothetical microeconomics questions... you know, the ones that are never really supposed to happen. "It also reported instances of wealthy people from cities rushing to rural areas on Monday in hopes of buying
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Investing in Pirates(reuters.com)
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37s Podcast: Making people pay(37signals.com)
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Tested in the field: Will monkeys type shakespeare?(bakadesuyo.com)
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Device for splitting restaurant checks(yankodesign.com)
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Contrarian Excuses(overcomingbias.com)
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by huangm 17y ago
Just out of curiosity, where do you get your data?
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by huangm 17y ago
Why is this a bad thing? Seems like developers should jump at the chance for honest feedback.
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by huangm 17y ago
Your problem is that you're taking job postings personally. Dropbox isn't posting a job posting to make an objective statement about what makes someone good. They're posting it to fill a position in their company. Your bachelors degree inst
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by huangm 17y ago
Seems like a great idea, especially since a lot of higher-end dresses that are worn for special occasions are typically only worn a couple times. Their average rental period is ~4 days for approximately 10% of retail price, and they send 2
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by huangm 17y ago
There's a difference between a 'TV-pro', the type of 'pro' that appears on the WSOP, and a real pro poker player, someone that makes their living off profits at the table. These aren't mutually exclusive (Phil Ivey, for example), but it see
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by huangm 17y ago
Most of the big-name 'TV-pros' have endorsements because they did well in a few large tournaments, and/or have interesting personalities. Skill plays some role, but tournaments are mostly luck.
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Ask HN: What are your favorite brain teasers?
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by huangm 17y ago
Another annoying snag is that if you search for "A B", google will also search for "AB" (eliminating the space). This affects a lot of searches with acronyms and technical terms. For example, if you're looking for info on MIT's RAs, the top
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MIT Startup Bootcamp (live @ justin.tv)(justin.tv)
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by huangm 17y ago
Theoretical breakthroughs in physics often have an immediate impact on the theory community, or are solving already 'big' problems (QED, QCD, etc). These tend to be recognized very quickly. Engineering breakthroughs tend to take a bit longe
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by huangm 17y ago
If the US replaced all of its welfare and re-distributional programs with a negative income tax (sales/estate/corporate/etc taxes would be scrapped as well), the US would be far less socialist than it is today. There seems to be reasonable
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by huangm 17y ago
re: roulette What the author is describing is a 'Martingale' strategy, and it is indeed a surefire way of making a profit (with one critical caveat: you need an unlimited bankroll). After each win, you always earn a profit of X (where X is
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by huangm 17y ago
Can you please provide an argument for why choice ought to be the principal factor for some attribute to be taxable? The justification is in no way clear to me.
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by huangm 17y ago
All of this also assumes that government can do its job well. That breaking up a monopoly (and how do you define one, anyway?) is good is not obvious (economies of scale, etc). But even taking this as given, that sometimes monopolies are ba
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by huangm 17y ago
While the argument presented in this article is obviously nonsense, it is definitely not obvious that regulation is desirable. Have any of you touting regulation to 'correctly align incentives' considered how much regulation has existed alr
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by huangm 17y ago
Saw this film at Sundance 09 - really quite good, and not what you might expect.