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by loeber 10y ago
I think you're spot-on. FYI, the principle that you're working with is called economies of scale -- here it just applies in an unusual context. You usually see economies of scale in most economic feedback-loop situations. https
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by loeber 10y ago
Yep -- this one puzzled me so much that I assumed I was in the wrong, because surely there's no way that a writer for the New Yorker would make a mistake that egregious. I must have read that sentence twenty times.
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by loeber 10y ago
This was a pretty good article -- certainly one of the better portraits I've read of SA. However, I usually see better writing in the New Yorker. Take "as a result, the once nerdy Y Combinator is now aggressively geeky." What
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by loeber 10y ago
I think you mean ft^2, not sq^2. A square squared is a tesseract, a four-dimensional object that is rather low on the priority list for most homebuilders.
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by loeber 10y ago
> You know the Rothschild? Rockefeller? In what period they made most of their money?. In those with the higher "rich taxes". No, that's not true. The highest marginal tax rates were between 1940 and 1963. Source: http:&#
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by loeber 10y ago
> Cubr is a project I completed in three weeks at the end of my introductory computer science class at CMU This guy wrote a 7,900 line Python tool for his intro CS class . Call me impressed.
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by loeber 10y ago
Most people don't understand log-log graphs. Also, taking the log-log is so powerful that even distributions that don't strictly follow a power law can look as if they're approximately following a straight line.
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by loeber 10y ago
Debt: the First 5,000 Years by David Graeber is a controversial but rather important recent publication. I haven't seen it mentioned yet, so I wanted to recommend it.
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by loeber 10y ago
Unless you're interviewing at a three-person startup, the company doesn't need your business experience, sales knowledge, or whatever else . That's what managers are hired for. $BIGCO gives you a whiteboarding interview beca
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by loeber 10y ago
To add to the list of suggestions, the pattern I use is contact@<myname>.com. I've never received any questions with that address, though I don't use it particularly often.
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by loeber 10y ago
I would suspect that part-time work has shot up because traditional full-time roles have evaporated in many sectors, so people are trying to make ends meet by hustling several part-time gigs at once, or in short succession.
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by loeber 10y ago
I agree with you. Penn's material (even when he's right) is all about calling other people wrong , to boost his own ego and that of his similarly-opinionated viewers. It's crack for the "smarter-than-you" contraria
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by loeber 10y ago
No, it is famous people in general. Scott Adams, the Dilbert cartoonist, has openly written about being paid well over 100k per speech, several times a year. You can Google this. George W. Bush charges, on average, 150k per speech. A-List
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by loeber 10y ago
Skin color tones so you look as if you have tumors dangling out of your ears? I don't think so. A stark white is perfect: high-contrast, but not flashy.
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by loeber 10y ago
Very cool! This reminds me of Amit P's polygonal map generation project, which you should look at if you're interested in this kind of stuff. http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/..
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by loeber 11y ago
Oof, didn't catch that, sorry. I normally expect definitions etc. at the very start.
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by loeber 11y ago
Result: nobody ever goes to class.
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by loeber 11y ago
Parts of this study seem dubious. Neither 'city' nor 'millionaire' is defined. The authors allege that rising religious tensions and a lack of opportunities are to blame for the French millionaire outflow. Is that the wh
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by loeber 11y ago
What this article didn't mention: Donald Trump's website is designed by Parscale (www.parscale.com). They don't list that site in their design portfolio.
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by loeber 11y ago
I'm somewhat dismayed to find Huxley's work not mentioned at all in the article.
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by loeber 11y ago
Suppose a 250g drone fails mid-air, hypothetically at a height of 100m, and falls freely. At terminal velocity, it's a lethal projectile. Have no illusions about the damage that can be done by small things falling from a great height,
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by loeber 11y ago
Something rarely mentioned: Ballmer could've been a first-rate mathematician. He graduated magna cum laude with an AB in math, and beat Bill Gates on the Putnam exam, finishing well within the top 100 contestants that year.
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by loeber 11y ago
On a whole, I found this article somewhat condescending. It starts out declaring that it will try to create an "impossibly pure" mathematician in order to display paradoxical & problematic aspects of his role, but it really do