jacoblyles

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by jacoblyles 13y ago
I am elitist against people who judge ideas on the scale of which one is most politically correct. I don't understand how they get anything done in life without giving their brain room to think . For example, a founder having trouble
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Anyone who accuses anyone of being X-phobic is laughable. Rational people ought to be able to debate - sparring through facts, hypotheses, and argument - without walking on eggshells. Dispassionate debate is a far better mechanism to find t
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
The Soviet Union was based on equality too. The problem is that some bureaucracies produce an equally shitty product for everyone.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
A tax on corporate profits?
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
It's far less economically distorting to top up a family's income with an EITC than by mandating higher wages. For one thing, it avoids giving employers incentive to cut back on labor costs.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Can a city with a 12am last train and a 1:30am last call really claim to have a "good night life"?
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
SF is the place to be because of the glorification of the young engineer. If you're hiring people around 25 y.o., SF is the place to be to win the talent war. But engineers with kids can't live there. If you're hiring enginee
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
It does seem that YC companies have moved away from the "give some service away on the internet for free" model that used to predominate. Most of these seem like they are filling real needs.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
In the political world price is a feature, not a bug. You will not pass any proposal through congress that significantly lowers the price of a quality education, say through technology. If the government is giving out $800 billion/yr,
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
You're a very special case, going to one of the best schools in the country at a good price. 3/4 of American college students are not traditional college students going full time to a four-year university. And only 30% of American
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Balaji S. Srinivasan - Regulation, Disruption, and the Technologies of 2013(d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net)
1 points by jacoblyles 13y ago|0 comments
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SpaceX Grasshopper completes highest leap to date(spacex.com)
24 points by jacoblyles 13y ago|7 comments
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Even in the Northeast, Amtrak's improvement plans are incredibly wasteful: http://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2012/07/10/north...
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
My bet is that Elon could build the Hyperloop closer to budget than the state of California could build a traditional train. Leadership matters.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Jaded libertarian here - I'm pretty sure the Supreme Court interprets the Constitution with the help of a Ouija board, a fifth of whisky, an intern dressed as lady liberty, cryptic signs hidden in the music of Katy Perry, and Alito&#x2
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Coursera ( https://www.coursera.org/ ) is hiring in Mountain View, CA Coursera's mission is to make a college-level education available to everybody in the world. We currently offer over 400 classes from 80+ of the world
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
My understanding of historical fascism is that it includes a strong sense of national identity combined with a muscular state and usually some sort of narrative of national superiority. When's the last time someone flew an American fla
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Both of California's senators sponsored PIPA. Tech is a weak force compared to Hollywood, mostly because it is apathetic.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
In practice, this seems to be a large part of what Western governments do. There's nothing the West loves to do so much as meddling in other people's affairs and bringing the blessings of democracy to people that never wanted it.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
California, and especially SF bay area.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
It's my experience with young silicon valley engineers that cultural liberalism is more important that taxes, regulatory burden, budget deficits, business climate, crime, education, and transportation put together.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Texas seems much better managed than California, judging by the news. And it does it without an income tax. Sounds pretty good to me. I'm not bothered by a governor with an accent, as long as he keeps the books balanced, the crime down
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Families are socialist. So are some small native tribes. Large scale socialism by force tends to be a bit dystopian, though. They don't build walls to keep people out of socialist states.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
I've been reading over-the-top warnings about this kind of thing for more than a decade. Hasn't happened yet. People have an overactive imagination for the apocalyptic.
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Communities are built by people that are in for the long haul. How many renters show up at city council meetings? The age of renting is the age of "bowling alone".
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
I can't understand the historical perspective that trashes the founders because of slavery. After fighting a long guerrilla rebellion and forming a new nation with a novel form of government, were they supposed to immediately turn on s
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
99.999% of government officials aren't close to being touched by elections. Do you honestly believe you can change government significantly while leaving 99.999% of the government unchanged? See my previous comment on the issue: https
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
That's a headline from Sunday May 12th, which I believe is the first story on it in the Times. The information first came to light at a press conference by Lois Lerner on May 10th and I don't see another NY Times article sandwiche
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Do you think that's an appropriate headline for the breaking front-page story about the scandal for an ostensibly objective news organization?
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
The Times puts plenty of opinion on the front page. It just does so obliquely. I can't forget their headline for the IRS scandal: "I.R.S. Scandal Gives G.O.P. Issue to Seize On", as if the politicization of the government&#x2

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