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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Every single word in this article burns clear and bright and true. Every word. Every paragraph. Every penny paid for every hard lesson learned. If you want to get into the angel game in 2017, and you want to do it to make money, then I&#x27
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but pre-announcing that three unfortunate souls will be summarily booted from the plane seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen. I'm guessing they go through the whole song and dance partially to minimize the payo
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Your experience differs from mine, is all I can say. What I wouldn't give for 5-minute auction games.
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
I'm a heavy business traveler, though not a business commuter per se. In my experience with oversold flights, there are a few people who will eventually cave and take the buyout -- but I want to place sharp emphasis on the word eventu
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
This is a great primer and a great read for any and all who have the time. It's also very well written, and I am paying public admiration to the author! Have some prestige, good sir, you've earned it for writing a really compellin
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
It's "directionally" true, but it's a simplification. Our spines have evolved slightly to accomodate an upright posture. The human spine is curved to accomodate weight bearing while upright, and this particular curvature
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
I know more than a few quants at banks in the City of London making well north of 100k. Finance is where the payscales jump well above the average.
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
The keto diet, and low-carb diets in general, already are under heavy fire from the mainstream media. Said media often cites government studies funded by said Big Agra / Big Pharma lobbies. Big Corn is infinitely more powerful than B
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Totally. I would actually be surprised if it's not the case. I'd also expect a decent amount of what is essentially wire fraud from "startups" who never intend to ship anything. The blockchain is a revolutionary concept,
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Cetaceans are thought to have evolved from semi-aquatic land mammals. (Prehistoric hippos, more or less.) It seems reasonable to assume that traits like larger lung capacity and higher CO2 tolerance were gradual, incremental gains that allo
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Rent is traditionally seen not so much as a cause of inefficiency, but the effect of inefficiency. Rent can almost be seen as wasted efficiency. It's the efficiency (or surplus) taken off the table by the monopolist. But your point abo
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
It was going for $1,500 at the time, making it a particularly expensive thing to have bought as a conversation piece. The price was a serious flaw in Google's rollout strategy, perhaps more than anything else. They were trying to do a
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Tesla's taking a very long view. They are thinking about what the world will look like when autonomous cars are ubiquitous , and then working backwards from some of the pretty gnarly realizations that sink in when you do that sort of
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Jesus, there is one Popeye's location that is apparently, just, like, going out of its way to add acrylamide to its french fry oil or something. This whole data set is oddly fascinating.
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Publishers have a strong grip on content. Writers, as a class, are wildly underpaid and usually struggling. Publishers have no trouble hiring, firing, retaining, and generally replacing journalists. Rockstar journalists with big followings
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
It's easy to knock them in retrospect, but around the time MSFT was making the decision to produce original shows, the Xbox platform was accounting for a healthy proportion of total Netflix watch time. MSFT believed that this was a key
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
The local-produce movement has some surprisingly harsh downsides, and I'd guess that Whole Foods reassessed its strategy after battling them for years. The first big problem is that the macroeconomics of local tend to suck. The opportu
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
This is why we have the Fourth Estate. Politicians won't vote to reform our prison system until that system's flaws and abuses and inefficiencies are made into a big public issue. We need more reporters and more columnists publish
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Seeing as how they owned a condo and a townhouse, then they bought this place, then they bought a lake cottage and a vacation property in Mexico -- all on impulse, sight unseen, resulting in similar lessons completely unlearned -- I'
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
"Zerg swarms" of smaller, less expensive, easily replaceable ships have trounced our carrier battle groups in at least one high-profile war game we conducted a few years ago. At the time, I think we assumed these were little more
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
While this is an interesting read, it's pretty much a textbook case of what happens when you don't perform your diligence. At every turn the couple seems to make monumentally reckless decisions -- from spending more than they can
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
"Many animals can rival or exceed the intelligence of the average human" Huh? The only animal on Earth known to be capable of exceeding the intelligence of the average human is the above-average human. Octopuses, dolphins, chimp
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
To get a little meta for a second, do we have a universally accepted, value-neutral, standard idea of exactly what we mean when we say cognition? Individual tests might set different parameters and pay attention to different mechanics. Or d
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Respectfully, I think a lot of comments on this topic are missing the point of the author's advice. Whether there is or is not a bubble, and if there is, how big that bubble might get, are irrelevant here. That's not what this art
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
Totally fair, but to play devil's advocate for a split second, let's not forget that the Census Dept has to make people aware of itself and get people to give their info willingly and within timelines, given no real incentive to d
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
He needs to rebillionize, pronto. He'll be a laughingstock at Davos without that third comma in his net worth. Next thing you know, he'll have to buy a car with doors that open side to side, like a non-billionaire.
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
I storm through the seas like Poseidon himself, a conquering champion, grafted to the back of a 24-foot baby blue whale. Next time around, though, I'll ask the doc to position me in front of the blow hole. Rookie mistake.
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
What could be worse than the Holocaust? From a moral standpoint, little that I can imagine. From a human-cost standpoint, howabout unchecked and cascading climate change? If the world's powers retrench into regional hegemonies, and tru
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
I have a 2007 17" MBP, fully loaded for its time, that was still giving me great service as a classic gaming machine (via Bootcamp) as recently as six months ago. In its prime it was essentially a true desktop replacement for most work
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by jonnathanson 9y ago
As consumers we also have to acknowledge some complicity here. In most categories of products, time and again, American consumers have chosen price and convenience over quality.

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