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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
This would hit harder if you mentioned where you work -- i.e., on whose behalf you're deciding not to hire devs with FB on their resumes.
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
Background: I consult extensively in the SaaS space and ask people this question all the time in the course of strategy reassessments, transactional diligence, etc. 1. Physical control over data is still a premium for many professional inve
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
Another interesting angle on this question comes from the Jaynes bicameral mind hypothesis [0]. Given that a major component of PTSD is moral injury -- e.g., I can't believe someone intentionally did that to me / I can't beli
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by leroy_masochist 6y ago
Thiel has by far the strongest relationship with Trump of any prominent tech person, so I'm quite surprised that Palantir hasn't been more front and center to the government's whole COVID response. Especially given that Trump
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
That is true, but I still don't get why this YC announcement wasn't accompanied by an announcement to reduce the class size, which will definitely help in the long run in terms of retaining funds. I do wonder whether this was actu
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Animated Map of US Population Density over Time(twitter.com)
1 points by leroy_masochist 7y ago|0 comments
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
The current CEO, Calhoun, took over a month ago after his predecessor, Muilenberg, was fired for the exact reason you just mentioned
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
Would be cool if the Agency did relatively more of this kind of thing and relatively less of, for example, paying psychotic Afghan pedophile warlords hundreds of millions of dollars for reneged-upon power sharing agreements and HUMINT of du
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
You beat me to it. Virtually every outdoor sports brand makes a big chunk of its revenue and an even bigger chunk of its margin selling "lifestyle merch" -- T-shirts, sunglasses, etc. I fail to see how this is offensive or inapp
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
I wish the author had spent more time dissecting the actual merits of the Sovereign Individual thesis and why SV billionaires find it credible, and less time hurling bilious invective at Thiel. Also, his summary of the whole Gawker affair
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
> There is a profound difficulty at the heart of the science of consciousness: consciousness is unobservable. You can’t look inside an electron to see whether or not it is conscious. But nor can you look inside someone’s head and see the
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
If you have the latest iPhone/Mac, you can still get iMessages delivered to your desktop, easily facilitating a state in which (almost by default, given how eager Google is to remember your passwords) anyone who has access to your unlo
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
Interesting point about adults acquiring language through the left side of the brain vs. children acquiring through both hemispheres. I wonder whether that is nature or nurture -- does it reflect changes in brain structure in adulthood, or
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
No, I'm saying we created a power vacuum in which a lot of score-settling happened, and much of that score-settling was adjudicated by men raping other men.
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
This was perpetually going on within the Shia-Sunni turf war that happened during the US occupation of Iraq. We as a species are capable of some pretty horrible things.
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
fair point, but I still think they did right by their portfolio companies here
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
Wouldn't it be an abandonment of their duty of care to portfolio companies for them to poke the bear, though? I get that if PG tweeted something like, "We're pulling out of China because they're violently repressing pro-
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
> "One of my early assignments was to lay out a printed circuit board. My electrical engineer gave me a schematic and identified each part type, be it a TO5 transistor, carbon resistor, tantalum foil capacitor, et cetera. My task wa
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
This essay, which purports to be telling hard truths about climate change, only mentions nuclear energy in passing, as part of a laundry-list of options it deems not good enough. Some "realist" this guy is.
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
Ross is a good school especially if you want to work in marketing, and has a very strong Chicago network.
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
Fellow top MBA grad here. Strongly agree with the points above, and I'd add: 4) The Recruiting Pipeline: There is a tranche of very desirable jobs out there that are, de facto, restricted to graduates of the top-N (3 or 7 or whatever)
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
If I were him I'd be more worried about being seen on the street in any city where there's a WeWork by a current/former employee who went from planning how they were going to spend their options windfall to wondering how they
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
S__D_ _R_B__ Would you like to buy a vowel?
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
Calling Aramco the "WeWork of energy" is a bit of a stretch. Yes, the company has problems; yes, it's been navigating the capital markets poorly; but at the end of the day, it's an oil company that says it's an oil
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How A Band of Surfer Dudes Pulled Off the Biggest Jewel Heist in N.Y. History(nytimes.com)
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
The interesting thing about the article is that, by the logic it presents, there are at least three parties profiting from inside information: 1. Someone who knows what the IGRC is about to do 2. Someone who knows what the Hong Kong governm
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
> Studies have shown that just one week of sleep deprivation—less than five hours per night—dropped young male’s testosterone levels by a whopping 10 to 15 percent. For comparison, a healthy individual’s testosterone will naturally decli
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
One thing that mystifies me is why the general population thinks that uniformed PsyOps people are like a real-life version of Kilgrave from Jessica Jones. They're basically the military's version of PR reps; most of their time is
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
> Folks in D.C.--on both sides of the aisle--tend to be predisposed to believing in the superiority of the educated upper middle class, seeing government as the solution to various problems, etc. This is spot-on. They also tend to think
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by leroy_masochist 7y ago
I don't really understand how this is news -- not because of the date of publication, but because this is basically just a gimmicky HR stunt being pulled by the Army to increase retention. They're telling PsyOps soldiers, hey you&

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