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by jchallis 7y ago
Speaking as an American who speaks a handful of languages, very few Americans achieve any proficiency with foreign languages based on school from public school classes. Indeed I'm willing to take to zero those that don't have an a
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Think bigger fool. Like art, if you are willing to have someone invest and take your risk later ... it can make sense until the music stops.
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This is typically framed as "Grow the Pie" vs "Split the Pie" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grow_the_Pie_(phrase)
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Two thoughts. First, most companies will look for a remote person only after exhausting their local labor pool. If someone remote has to devote their initial months to learning with no advantage over someone local learning the same content,
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Pretty flagrant violation of export laws. With all the good behavior reductions, he has a decent shot of getting his sentence halved to 105 years.
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You can learn a lot about who a person is trying to become by the books in their library. My interest, limited though it might be, is primarily who does Patrick Collison want to become ? I use Goodreads for the same principle.
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Livongo S-1(sec.gov)
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Having seen online dating go from distasteful niche ==> new classifieds for the desperate ==> somewhat mainstream among early adopters ==> dominating offline dating channels, I wouldn't be surprised if online cofounder dating
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Sci-Hub removes barriers to accessing scientific information. Their infrastructure is slow and has trouble. If you are looking for real impact, help them scale.
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In the physics PhD version of “it gets better”, after a few years in a career all the past folks will fade away. You are making the right choice.
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An amazing accomplishment. Your entire team should be justifiably proud.
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If “maternity leave” means the 20 years to raise 2 children to adulthood with no pay or benefits, these companies are likely enthusiastic promoters.
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I am willing to bet the OP meant a poor , developing country with a colonial past version of Third-World than member of the Non-Aligned Movement . Most countries in the latter satisfied the former with the exceptions you provided.
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I treasure a photo I had Instapainted of my wife and daughter (this definitely came from Xiamen). Glad to see you bringing joy to more people
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The Madrid train bombings were pretty catastrophic by any measure. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Madrid_train_bombings
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Precommit. When you go to drink tell everyone (including the barkeep) your limit. When you have had a few and your inhibitions drop, come back to your precommitment. Do not keep alcohol in your house - inconvenience is a friend of sobriety.
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Numberphile: A Final Game with Elwyn Berlekamp(youtube.com)
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Most important question: what will minimize your future regrets?
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by jchallis 8y ago
Elwyn was very active in bringing pulmonary fibrosis medications to patients, spending substantial amounts of his own time and money. From that experience, he was interested in how novel clinical trial designs could assess the effectiveness
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There are people who come into your life and change it for the better. Elwyn did that for me as a mentor, an investor and a teacher. We regularly had lunch near his office in Rockridge to discuss math and clinical trials, a particular share
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“We Choose to Go to the Moon”(youtube.com)
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Apollo 11 Goodwill Messages [pdf](history.nasa.gov)
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I think the only thing these workers have in common are area code 650 phones. A consultant for SAP, a cloud architect at Oracle, a fraud analyst at Paypal and a Whole Foods shopper at Instacart have essentially zero overlap in their day to
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by jchallis 8y ago
For Oracle this is a tiny change : <200 laid off of a work force of 140,000 globally. Instacart seems to be a much bigger proportional change, due to the termination of its relationship with Whole Foods.
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Creative destruction in practice. Older firms like Oracle / SAP reducing headcount, while newer firms are adding headcount with a net increase in high quality jobs.
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What is an enterprise Karen?
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Virtually all the women over 25 in my life have a Pinterest board. Among the men in my life, it is a good way to curate porn.
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Tollroads and airports both have gate fees. OSS does not have gate fees. How are these the same?
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Golden headline opportunity: Is Betteridge's Law of Headlines True?
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When I was a baby, my parents used a diaper service to exactly do this - cloth diapers laundered off-site. Here's an idea for a social-local-mobile business : bring back the diaper service.

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