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by lkrubner 5y ago
Not exactly. We began as a 50/50 partnership. I had spent 3 years developing some CMs software, and, to create the partnership, I was donating the software, and he was putting up some money. As time went on, his money certainly gave hi
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by lkrubner 5y ago
" The accredited investor rules in USA seem draconian " Think carefully about what the word "draconian" means. There is no organization that is responsible for tracking or allowing membership in the club of "accredi
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A roman à clef is protected legally. It's why a movie like Citizen Kane was protected, despite the fact everyone knew it was about Hearst.
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The dates here are far too late for the title to be accurate. Especially when they are talking about the 1st century BC. This after the end of the Warring States period in China, in 221 BC. One reason that the Chin were able to win the War
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Well, hopefully I'm fair to him, and note his strengths as well as his weaknesses. And as I point out at the end of the book, my version of events is not the only version of events that could be told. If he also wrote a book, a fuller
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by lkrubner 5y ago
That's just it though, he can be interesting. I worked with him for 6 years. I wouldn't have stayed that long if he lacked all merit. He has an obvious natural intelligence, and some creative ideas. Especially in the early days, h
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by lkrubner 5y ago
My ex-business partner inherited $2 million, then burned through all of it on various startup ideas, and when he was almost bankrupt, he dealt with the stress by smoking more and more marijuana. He also promoted himself as a visionary, some
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by lkrubner 5y ago
You can start with the references that are listed at the bottom of the Wikipedia page, listed above. I’ll try to post more when I’m back at my regular computer.
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These explanations fail to explain the Avalon Explosion, which was the immediate precursor to the Cambrian Explosion, starting 575 million years ago, roughly 34 million years before the Cambrian: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by lkrubner 5y ago
About this part: "Maybe Some Lies Are Necessary?" In his book "10% Less Democracy" the economist Garret Jones pointed out that politicians make terrible decisions during election years, therefore, if we had longer terms
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by lkrubner 5y ago
While the numbers might bounce around from year to year, we should look at the long-term trend, which is that the military has been the most trusted institution in the USA at least since 1992: https://www.forbes.com/sites&#x
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by lkrubner 5y ago
While the numbers might bounce around from year to year, we should look at the long-term trend, which is that the military has been the most trusted institution in the USA at least since 1992: https://www.forbes.com/sites&#x
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Poll after poll shows that the military is the most respected institution in American life. Crucially for this conversation, it has an excellent esprit de corp. The kind of self-pity that we now see among the police is something that would
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by lkrubner 5y ago
If an organization has bad morale then it needs to change. It doesn't matter if the bad morale had some initial justification -- bad morale tends to be self-reinforcing. Even if the public now said very nice things about the police, it
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Are people capable of learning? If not, then why read Hacker News at all? Here is a technique that clearly is powerful when done well, so why not read the anecdotes and try to internalize the lessons? If you are in a leadership position, ho
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by lkrubner 5y ago
You are assuming that they meant to write “with” when they accidentally wrote “without”? Artificial wombs don’t currently exist, so the sentence has no meaning as written. But even if we re-write the sentence so it obeys the normal rules of
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by lkrubner 5y ago
" Human reproduction would eventually cease to function without artificial wombs as selective pressure for natural reproductive fitness disappears " I don't mean to be rude. I'm guessing English is not your first languag
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Assuming that at some point in the next 100 years we are able to develop an artificial womb, so women won't have to damage their bodies by giving birth, not only will birth become easier for everyone but it will also be easier to do su
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Tesla, the stock, is currently priced as if it will never face competition. Even with the big correction of recent weeks, it is still priced at more than several of its competitors combined. This is not a rational price. The fact is that th
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Hexapolis: Can You Gerrymander Your Party to Power? (The Game)(nytimes.com)
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by lkrubner 5y ago
The book banning, especially of books by black authors, makes for an interesting contrast: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/book-bans-schools-are-ca... The USA is currently a country where, if you want to sprea
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by lkrubner 5y ago
> How would it be decided? Who would decide it? In this case, it is up to Substack to decide. The reason for bringing pressure against Substack is exactly so that they remove the disinformation that is harmful to the public.
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Anti-vaxxers making ‘at least $2.5m’ a year from publishing on Substack(theguardian.com)
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Your comment only makes sense if the telegram was run by a government monopoly, since fiat currency is a government monopoly, and then if people were advocating for the government to close its telegram monopoly, then yes, those people could
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by lkrubner 5y ago
"no evidence of this" is too strong of a claim. The folks who argue that fiat currency is dead, or should be dead, are implying they want a world where fiat currency disappears and then cryptocurrency emerges as the replacement. I
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by lkrubner 5y ago
I suggest this is the wrong conversation to have. I'd put it this way: I love Paris, with its buildings of 5 or 6 stories, and I love New York City (where I live) with its taller buildings. But both cites suffer the same problem, which
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by lkrubner 5y ago
The best counter-argument was given by Alfred North Whitehead back in 1912: "By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental powe
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by lkrubner 5y ago
Exactly. This has been my experience with several AWS technologies. Like with their ElasticSearch service, where I had to constantly fine-tune various parameters, such as memory. I was curious why they couldn't auto-scale the memory, w
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by lkrubner 5y ago
In Clojure, I tend to put pre and post assertions on most of my functions, which is useful for checking errors in the schema of runtime data (very useful when dealing with 3rd party APIs) but it also offers the documentation that you are se
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by lkrubner 5y ago
There is no automation in this paragraph: “For example, the way business mail used to work was that the bureaucrat in question would record their message onto a tape, and then send that tape off to a special department full of typists to ac

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