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Stalin's Funeral – The Manhoff Archives(rferl.org)
1 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|1 comments
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Did the Nazis Make Us Meth Heads?(thedailybeast.com)
1 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Do they, now? From the abstract we only read that (according to the authors) there is some kind of consensus: Consensus is particularly strong for propositions of free international trade and capital flows. But as to what that consen
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
"Green" is not a property of an object but of an observer, But "Green" happens to be a property of other large families of objects -- especially animate objects (foliage, certain insects, birds, and fish) and, more r
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
EDIT: 'get' should have been 'gut'.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The thing to note here is that this response from YC is not a political one, Indeed. It wasn't formulated as political -- but the intrinsically the move does have significant political import (as a form of "voting with one&#x
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Yeah, right. Try living off water like that for a few months (or years). And then report back to us.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Really now? I could think of a few things a lot more "horrific" than not getting your startup funded, dude.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
No need to keep asking. If your get is telling you that something's not quite with this "unlimited vacation" policy -- it's because it's a sham, basically. And everyone at the company knows it -- including and most
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
An interesting arbitrage. Quite likely generalizable, too.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
"in Hot Real Estate Markets" was the implied ending. So with the shorter title they were just trying to simplify - not lead anyone astray.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
So you're at least occasionally getting actual feedback from some of these discussions. That's quite something, actually. BTW, as to some of that "feedback": Honestly, I think the way you communicated your thought pr
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Fair enough, but (very clearly) the article wasn't referring to places like Helsinki. But rather to white-hot, globally active real estate markets like NYC, London, Paris, etc.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
If you're away for a year or two, DON'T give your apartment to let. But the main issue, in the large, with the epidemic of vacant apartments isn't that these people all just happen to be going away for a year or two. It&#x
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
When she said "I have agreed to forgo" it means she was "asked" to forgo her bonus -- presumably on the threat of being fired, otherwise.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Is this what happens when a company gets too large too fast? Not exactly. You need a few more magic ingredients -- like a heavy dose of the standard "Move fast, break things (and rules, and people)" + "Valuations über all
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
No worries; I was responding rhetorically to a rhetorical questions. I wasn't suggestion that it actually be used as a hiring filter.
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The Invisible Fence That Keeps Drones Away from the President(theatlantic.com)
1 points by kafkaesq 10y ago|0 comments
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
That's not what the article you linked to says. If anything, its message is the exact opposite.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
I don't think Sweden is a target. Let's just say they're thinking in the very, very long term. In the short-term, the move is most likely intended as a signal to discourage an invasion of the Baltics, rather than their own
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
I should have known that it would be more chatter about machines making people obsolete. It has the potential to be a very vexing problem, actually. That may condemn literally hundreds of millions of people to poverty, feelings of useles
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
From a neurological point of view -- quite possibly yes. In that, as one becomes fluent in new language, different centers of the brain (perhaps entirely different from those used for developing one's mother tongue) are activity. And
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Yeah, that's the exactly rub, as it were, with most "radical transparency" policies like these. Funny how these things tend to work out in Corporate America.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
EDIT: 'looked' -> 'locked'
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Raising kids is doubtlessly even less relevant. Right. But if done successfully (or even just satisfactorily -- given how difficult of a job it truly is), at least has some correlation with character, and general cognitive fortitude. An
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
I was referring to the practice of raising kids. Not to participation in one side or the other of the insemination process.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Anyone who has 35 bucks can lock themselves in a room for 3 months with a copy of CTCI and a pad of paper and come out with an 80+k salary. If anything, this just tells us what a low bar to entry the CTCI drill is. Say you had a pool of
628.
by kafkaesq 10y ago
If you have one candidate who has seen all of this stuff before and can use it directly from memory, and another candidate who has been busy raising kids and has never seen this stuff before, who do you want to hire, all else being equal?
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
Yup - a huge one. So a good rule of thumb might be: If you have to ask yourself, "Would it be creepy if I..." -- well, yes, it probably would be.
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by kafkaesq 10y ago
The challenge is how to handle that situation. Exactly. Like simply wait for enough (obvious) green lights before making a move. Like, you know, mature, consenting adults. A modicum of tact and subtlety couldn't hurt, either ;) N

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