maehwasu

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by maehwasu 8y ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. The flaws in social science studies have been demonstrated repeatedly. The existence of one study should barely move the probability (in either direction) of meritorcracy being legitimate.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
I doubt their parents care enough to pay for cheating at that point. The school name is what really matters. (source: used to work in the seedy underbelly of Asian US college admissions consulting)
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Decentralized systems can still have owners of property who allow and disallow certain uses. “Human bias” and “censorship” are completely irrelevant here.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
This entire issue is a product of US health care costs. No one would give a shit about the classification of workers, if it weren’t for the fact that health care is insanely expensive and brutal to manage without insurance. The US needs to
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Also has really, really beautiful nature in the outskirts. And the weather is great outside of 3 months/year.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
The answer is that you’re right. I did the money first, and since then working on moonshot stuff has been a lot more enjoyable that what I typically see here. The challenge and stress of the moonshot never goes away, but the stress is more
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by maehwasu 8y ago
This would be a lot more interesting if the user data were verified in some way, such that you could filter for X universities, or income level, or even SAT score type stuff. People are a lot more open to random encounters when the pool is
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Out of all possible choices, you can be sure FB will choose the worst one. I was a user since 2004, deleted last year, and never looked back.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Can’t have Bezos Prime intimdating others at the bridge table.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Heuristic: if your premise contains the phrase "Ricardo proved mathematically", your conclusion is likely fucked.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Narrator: He hadn’t. And back at the model home, Michael was dealing with a physics problem of his own.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
+1 I've had success selling corporations "blockchain," but really what I'm selling is products/systems to improve badly outdated infrastructure. "Blockchain" is just what they need to tell their bosses in
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by maehwasu 8y ago
This is true, and, in some ways admirable. The problem is that, for a lot of companies, the endgame is continued midsize existence; it’s death when you stop getting new customers and old ones phase out. The low marginal cost of software doe
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Because the United States is a very, very large country, and Amazon has lots of options as to where it takes its headquarters? Put another way--why should Amazon go to NYC? Do New Yorkers have a god-given right to the benefits of large tech
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by maehwasu 8y ago
It's also important to name and shame law firms that represent patent troll clients.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
That "catch" is such a big difference in practice that it makes TMO a totally different (worse) thing.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Coral Health (in ios and play stores) lets you do this already for lots of hospitals.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
You are correct. It's also quite easy to claim.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Why the hell would he be dumb enough to buy all this stuff in the US? At least go to a country where your assets won't get easily frozen, and where it's hard to extradite. What an utter moron.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
I'm not sure that knee-jerkingly smearing him (by association) as a racist eugenicist quite disproves the point that tenure is not protection from misguided attacks.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Marginal demand matters greatly in real estate pricing. Reducing all analysis to "spot the racist" is a fun game to play to score points with your buddies, but not so useful for solving problems in the real world.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Read as: "free work requirement"
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Growth stage private equity buying out companies for multiples of EBITDA. Whenever you're investing in early-stage companies with low marginal costs, that deal primarily in bits, not atoms, you're likely to end up with power law o
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Bingo: seems political, and not a pressing business concern.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
The incentive structure in "science" is completely fucked, and it's a well-known dirty secret. Of course there is great research being done. The problem is that the cognitive load of evaluating which research is useful has be
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Because nothing beats "volume of papers produced" for measuring scientific contributions. Time to call this what it is: utter shit journalism.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
"Smoked a cigarette in the last 12 months" is an incredibly low bar, to the point where I'd guess the study had a desired outcome. The important question isn't "were vapers more likely to smoke 1+ times"--it&#x
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by maehwasu 8y ago
If the VC has another investment on its radar that it can't make due to capital being locked up in a stable but not explosive company like buffer, it would be fine taking the money back with some interest. If it doesn't have that,
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by maehwasu 8y ago
Relations between the US and Saudi Arabia are good enough right now that this actually might make the deal more likely, rather than less.
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by maehwasu 8y ago
It will be truly glorious when the light of social justice shines in Tokyo, transforming it into the paradise of that progressive city on a hill, San Francisco!

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