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by kolbe 8y ago
That's fair. The seed industry itself has been really tough, and that's exacerbated since much of the growth since then has been in China. YC certainly has had a hand in a few of the companies that have done well, but it doesn&#x2
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by kolbe 8y ago
I know it's not his fault per se, but YC has had a horrible track record since he joined, too.
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by kolbe 8y ago
It probably gets favorable weighting, but I've learned tolerating Sam's writing and seeing a few too many plugs for YC alum companies is a very small price to pay for this place to exist.
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by kolbe 8y ago
My thoughts: when there is a completely new industry being built (like transistors in the 60s or social networking in the 00's), no one has an advantage with respect to experience. Young brains seem to work better at adapting to new en
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by kolbe 8y ago
That was just a fictional movie, man. I wouldn't read too much into that.
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by kolbe 8y ago
What about the pragmatists?
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by kolbe 8y ago
That's not really fasting in a metabolic sense, though. More like time restricted eating.
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by kolbe 8y ago
I'm not sure that qualifies as a fast by metabolic standards. Most people fast for 8+ hours every day. By the paper's definition, it's more like time restricted eating.
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by kolbe 8y ago
>Who comes up with the training? That's beside the point. So long as it's not a fully-informed individual (which I assume you were not alluding to), then we should no more cast blame on their ignorance than we should someone wh
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by kolbe 8y ago
> Let's not conflate human worth with value to society. I hope we can all agree that all human lives are of equal worth. Reminds me of this passage from Sapeins: "a human being who belongs to any particular culture must hold co
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by kolbe 8y ago
That may be the perception, but it's pretty ridiculous to think that perception is consistent with reality. Minds only think what they've been trained to think, and those inputs vary widely across humanity.
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by kolbe 8y ago
>And you can see why everyone’s diving in. As we’ve covered before: According to Nielsen research, “in the year ended 2017, in-store meal kits generated $154.6 million in sales, posting growth of more than 26% year-over-year. For context
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by kolbe 8y ago
>Placing investable assets of at least $25 million with a wealth manager—and clients with that amount or more tend to work with a few firms—can bring access to initial public offerings, and having at least $5 million in investments moves
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by kolbe 8y ago
That actually made me realize how wasteful this system is by business standards. We should expect a income stream of at least 8% of the investment on something like this. So, this decision needs to add 500 million rides per year at $2.75, a
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by kolbe 8y ago
Should we multiply that number by six to be consistent with other infrastructure cost overruns? https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/03/letter-bay-bridge-cos...
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by kolbe 8y ago
I honestly do not see how the 4th amendment's text obviously applies to surveillance, especially as it pertains to being identified in public. I don't even think it matters whether or not someone is a suspected criminal. It's
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by kolbe 8y ago
I can't figure out why the number of employees a company has is a benchmark of its success. Employees are just an easy expense that anyone can incur if investors give them the money to do so. It seems like every year or so startups inv
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by kolbe 8y ago
>Perhaps a military metaphor is best Perhaps an actual argument that supports your claim would be better. You haven't even established for a fact that the US likes violent entertainment more than other nations. So start there before
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by kolbe 8y ago
Football enriches most universities, giving them extra funds to do things like provide scholarships.
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by kolbe 8y ago
>By the way, you criticize the previous commenter's assertion, but you haven't provided any rationale on why they might be mistaken. Fine. John Rockefeller, Henry Clay Frick, Steve Cohen, Bill Gross, LBJ, Larry Ellison, Pablo E
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by kolbe 8y ago
Why is anything you just asserted any more valid than someone claiming that being a jerk is useful trait in becoming successful in business? Just because you used 'orthogonal' in a fun context doesn't mean you've given e
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by kolbe 8y ago
If the US Treasury did that, it would be illegal. The coin thing is a hack that would probably be challenged in court, because it's illegal for the Treasury to arbitrarily print money, except when it's silver. So, you're not
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by kolbe 8y ago
Well, it is just a few hundred words. If he were taking it seriously, the topic would need to be addressed in length with more justifications than a bunch of "I thinks." But it seems everything Sam writes outside of business are j
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by kolbe 8y ago
Remember how you responded to someone who was talking about the biggest polluters, and you couldn't attack that statement, so you changed it to biggest polluters per capita ? That's where your logic failed.
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by kolbe 8y ago
>US the biggest CO2 polluter per capita Your statement, while true, did not refute his, FYI.
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by kolbe 8y ago
I'm thinking about all the homes in the Sierras that are covered by snow 6 months out of the year. I used to live in a place that gets 500 inches of snow per year. I can't imagine which other edge cases this fails to consider.
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by kolbe 8y ago
Motor vehicles deaths in 2016: 37,461 Additionally, high school aged men driving insanely powerful sports cars probably have a higher risk of death. I'm not sure why this should be anything more than local news.
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by kolbe 8y ago
I understand why he doesn't invest in them. I mentioned that in my original post. I want to know why he is so extremely bearish. Not why it fails to meet his investment criteria. Statements like "rat poison squared" are not t
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by kolbe 8y ago
Well, my point is that Buffett usually just uses some sound byte to bash it, like 'rat poison squared'. Give us an actual argument. Or convince us that he's done significant research into BTC to come to this conclusion. It&#x
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by kolbe 8y ago
It's fine that you have that definition. And certainly I can understand why you want the words to mean that. But that's just not what a 'productive asset' is. You can have your own language, and that's cool, but cre

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