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by jonnathanson 9y ago
I don't think he coined the phrase, but his book is a strong read for sure.
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Well sure, but OP used the word "buy," and I felt the need to clarify that full ownership of a private jet is really not a great idea until you've got that precious third comma.
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
"Even if you'd eventually make $50m, your life wouldn't change much from a net worth of $14m to $50m. You could buy a nicer jet?" I know you're kidding around here, but all kidding aside, whether your net worth is
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
There's a difference between theory and praxis that we need to consider here. Most countries "believe" in espionage; the Russians have always invested in it as a sort of national discipline. Russia 'specializes' in
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
The tradition of Russian espionage predates Stalin and, in fact, predates the USSR altogether. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhrana During the Cold War, the USSR stepped up the size and sophistication of its covert
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Team is basically code for what I will call the Three P's: pedigree, pattern, and proof. * Pedigree: Do you have a track record in this domain? Have you been involved in success stories before? If nothing else, do you check the requisi
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
I hope the writers of "Silicon Valley" were paying attention to this saga. There's some juice left to be squeezed from it.
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
I don't think anyone is saying that accepting the DPRK is a good option. I'm saying it may end up being the best worst option available to us at some unspecified point in the next decade or so. Hopefully we can encourage or entice
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
China has been playing a dangerous game in nurturing the Kim regime and allowing it to obtain nuclear weapons. China has benefitted over the years from the presence of a hedge on its border against the US and South Korea, and from the frust
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Yes, and North Korea's continued existence is useful to China. If this pet bites the hand the feeds it, China can euthanize it and select a new pet. Plenty of generals ready to take Kim's place and consolidate power over NK with C
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Indeed, it is hard to overstate the damage NK could wreak on Seoul, even in the opening hours of a full scale conflict. Roughly half of the population of SK lives in the greater Seoul metro area. Artillery barages could claim millions of li
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
China doesn't want this mess getting any messier. At the end of the day, both Trump and Kim are wild cards, and a simple fuckup could blow nuclear fallout and/or waves of refugees over the Chinese border. Meanwhile, China can co
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Because Kim's reign is predicated on maintaining credibility with his generals. He does that by rattling his saber and extracting economic concessions from the global community in general (and the US in particular). Why he needs to go
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Where do we go from here? To the very brink, at least if Trump is left to his own (mobile) devices. My guess is he will reroute a CBG or two towards the Korean peninsula and make a lot of bluster about whatever new line he is prepared to dr
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Personally speaking, I find the lack of relationship between manuscript "pages" and published pages a more solvable problem than it ever has been historically. WYSIWYG visual editors for different ebook and print formats and page
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
They could be testing out a weapon, perhaps not for military applications per se, but for spycraft and special operations. Sure would be convenient to storm a guarded compound if all the guards were suddenly deaf. Similarly, it would be nic
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Disney is the one studio with the brand recognition, loyalty, wide customer base across a variety of demographics, worldwide range, wide variety of content (including sports), and essential franchises to have a shot at pulling this off.
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Again, I'm not taking any issue with your assumptions, but assumptions are not direct or even circumstantial evidence. That's all I'm trying to say.
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
How does a study about affirmative action policies in college admissions offer any specific evidence about Google's policies?
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
There is no evidence that Google "lowers the bar," and this is a common misconception about diversity-focused hiring practices. The idea isn't to lower the bar to hire more candidates for the mere sake of their ethic or gende
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
I'm a little skeptical. Isolated individuals cannot successfully reproduce a population. Furthermore, those who intentionally isolate themselves seem less likely to achieve reproductive success in the event that, say, they stumbled acr
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Right, but Amazon doesn't want to own businesses so much as own the business infrastructure.
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
[Warning: semi-tangential deep dive on your point about Amazon not being a monopoly] Amazon isn't in the retail business. Amazon isn't in the cloud computing business. Amazon isn't in the logistics business. Amazon is in the
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
In my experience at huge companies, getting a 4 or a 5 is largely a paper-trail formality that managers bestow on people they are grooming for promotion. It's a political gift and a retention mechanism. Everyone else always gets a 3, w
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
They probably can't, or it would have happened by now.
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Somewhat common in pitches from seasoned entrepreneurs. It shows they've thought things through, have identified specific individuals they believe they should attempt to onboard post-funding, and are operating as though they actually k
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
You're missing the point of the low-carb theory. It's not claiming that you should eat above a deficit. It's arguing that a pure energy-deficit view of dieting is wildly impractical. Longitudinal evidence of dieters over 2-20
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
My mother simply does not understand what a "carbohydrate" is, let alone the relationship between starch and sugar, or why things like mashed potatoes are not low-carb. ("But I didn't use any butter in them, so they&#x27
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
It's a strange attributional convention used in headlines and links by some publications. I've never understood why, as it reads so confusingly, snd the reverse usage (source: topic) seems readily and intuitively available instead
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
"Most humans are dumb..." Most humans are desperate. I prefer to view things that way, as it casts less summary judgment on the victims of Paltrow's fraud. Because that's what this certainly smells like: fraud, perpetr

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