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When a Unicorn Startup Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt(nytimes.com)
344 points by igonvalue 11y ago|267 comments
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The Talented Mr. Khater(texasmonthly.com)
1 points by igonvalue 11y ago|0 comments
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by igonvalue 11y ago
Adjusted for inflation, that's over $26K in 2015 dollars [0]. But of course the punch line is that price increases since then have significantly outpaced inflation. This phenomenon is known as Baumol's cost disease. [0] http:&#x2
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Simple techniques to improve your health in 2015(lemire.me)
3 points by igonvalue 11y ago|2 comments
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by igonvalue 11y ago
What would actually happen in the pictured Dark Knight scenario where a relatively small part of the middle of the the bridge disappears? It seems like if the road deck is sufficiently rigid the vertical suspenders near the middle would rea
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by igonvalue 11y ago
I think this is actually pretty common for graduate students of mathematics. > students are required to demonstrate the ability to read mathematics in French, German, or Russian by passing a two-hour, written language examination. http:
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by igonvalue 11y ago
Would you recommend reading it? This review claims it's too rambling and confused to make it worthwhile[0]. [0] http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/book-review-de...
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Bill Gates at Harvard (2013)(news.harvard.edu)
27 points by igonvalue 11y ago|7 comments
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Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix(coglib.com)
3 points by igonvalue 11y ago|1 comments
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by igonvalue 11y ago
It's since been dressed up with some mathiness, but this idea was originally proposed in the comment threads of pg's original article. [0] See the responses there for a few reasons why it just won't work. To be concrete, assu
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Why We Hate Cheap Things(thebookoflife.org)
1 points by igonvalue 11y ago|0 comments
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by igonvalue 11y ago
Assuming that the distributions are exactly equal, the test would still give misleading results in situations in which the bias does not manifest as a different cutoff. For example, if a VC funds all male founders but flips a coin to de
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by igonvalue 11y ago
> A beta prior is equivalent to assigning “pretend votes” to each new item. Instead of starting out with 0 upvotes and 0 downvotes, we start out with a upvotes and b downvotes. If we expect that most items are bad, we could start with 3
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NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks(nytimes.com)
254 points by igonvalue 11y ago|63 comments
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Andrew Ng on Life, Creativity, and Failure(huffingtonpost.com.au)
209 points by igonvalue 11y ago|28 comments
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Feynman's Nobel Year(caltech.edu)
2 points by igonvalue 11y ago|0 comments
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What You Can Learn from Hunter-Gatherers' Sleeping Patterns(theatlantic.com)
3 points by igonvalue 11y ago|0 comments
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DHS Watch List Outage Causes Nationwide Airport Delays(time.com)
2 points by igonvalue 11y ago|0 comments
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by igonvalue 11y ago
See also http://www.idlewords.com/2009/06/transnistria.htm
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Inside Japan’s Disposable Housing Market(psmag.com)
66 points by igonvalue 11y ago|41 comments
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The New American Businessmen Keeping America Rich (2000)(gq.com)
1 points by igonvalue 11y ago|0 comments
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by igonvalue 11y ago
I'm not sure how common it is, but the linked site actually has an interesting discussion of this phenomenon, which Wikipedia calls "affirmative racial gerrymandering"[0], and how it would interact with the proposed scheme:
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A Non-Conformist's Guide to Success in a Conformist World (2014)(econlog.econlib.org)
80 points by igonvalue 11y ago|54 comments
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by igonvalue 11y ago
Um, has anyone taken a look at the other stories on this domain? http://www.ewao.com/a/1-scientists-prove-our-dna-has-telepat... http://www.ewao.com/a/1-11-reasons-why-the-hollow-earth-actu...
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by igonvalue 11y ago
> value as a latent hiring marketplace StackOverflow has been trying to monetize this aspect of its user base for a few years now [0], but has not made much headway as far as I can tell. [0] http://careers.stackoverflow.com&#x
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How Many Times Has Your Personal Information Been Exposed to Hackers?(nytimes.com)
106 points by igonvalue 11y ago|33 comments
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by igonvalue 11y ago
> Commodities without an alternative (e.g. water) and natural monopolies (e.g. networks) should be owned by the public. Why do you think there's a water shortage in California right now?
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by igonvalue 11y ago
> This is a crazy story, one that seems like it must be a conspiracy theory. Well, it is a conspiracy theory, isn't it? Just because it's true doesn't make it not a conspiracy theory.
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by igonvalue 11y ago
It's a funny article, but I was actually disappointed that the sincere question of how to "moneyball" college admissions was not explored. I don't think there exists much evidence that college admissions officers at plac
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A Fearless Culture Fuels U.S. Tech Giants(nytimes.com)
14 points by igonvalue 11y ago|3 comments

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