mblevin

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by mblevin 12y ago
This is a great move and incredibly employee-friendly. We'll see if this is the beginning of other companies following suit, but I doubt it. As has been discussed before it's not the mechanics that matter here, but rather the psyc
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Think Millennials Prefer the City? Think Again(fivethirtyeight.com)
9 points by mblevin 12y ago|2 comments
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The Odds That You’ll Have a Perfect March Madness Bracket(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by mblevin 12y ago|0 comments
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Why No. 5 Seeds Are Jinxed(fivethirtyeight.com)
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Are Pro Wrestlers Dying at an Unusual Rate?(fivethirtyeight.com)
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by mblevin 12y ago
It certainly is a form of nepotism, but since when do we regulate nepotism?
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by mblevin 12y ago
The edge case of a VC launching a company themselves is so rare that we're talking about a single instance of when it happened. Let's not forget every day some entrepreneur goes in to pitch an idea, and a VC picks up the phone and
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“We Don’t Sell Saddles Here”(medium.com)
3 points by mblevin 12y ago|0 comments
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by mblevin 12y ago
In my experience it's neither greed nor obfuscation, but rather along the spectrum of ignorance, cash conservation paranoia, and and/or a misplaced sense of justice. Ignorance in the case of not knowing it can be done - many &quot
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Zappos: Either the future of management or a social experiment gone awry(qz.com)
2 points by mblevin 12y ago|0 comments
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Which Movies Make Grown Men Cry?(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by mblevin 12y ago|0 comments
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Why You Need to Leave Academia in 2015(cheekyscientist.com)
3 points by mblevin 12y ago|1 comments
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The Bitcoin Boy: 16-Year-Old Prodigy Erik Finman(nymag.com)
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by mblevin 12y ago
I don't think treatment is unnecessary at all - I assume if he was on medication he'd be gainfully employed writing code somewhere, and potentially producing even more interesting things. Rather I was highlighting that individuals
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by mblevin 12y ago
Throughout the span of modern history, we've had gifted creators whose talent is at a minimum intertwined if not completely predicated on their mental illness. Whether it was Van Gogh or Kurt Kobain, we've seen it consistently. Te
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by mblevin 12y ago
What data are you ingesting to build similarity and how are you creating your index? All the searches I did are way off. For example, when I put in my company - Indicative - you identify us correctly, but I don't see any other web&#x2
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ClassDojo Adopts Deletion Policy for Student Data(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by mblevin 12y ago|0 comments
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The Worst College Football Game in the Worst College Football Town(fivethirtyeight.com)
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Here’s Proof Some Pollsters Are Putting A Thumb On The Scale(fivethirtyeight.com)
5 points by mblevin 12y ago|1 comments
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Funding drug development for rare cancers can hurt patients(nautil.us)
3 points by mblevin 12y ago|0 comments
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A 40-Year Hunt for a Bully(newyorker.com)
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Every Company Will Be a Software Company(queue.acm.org)
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by mblevin 12y ago
You're talking about two different dimensions. Enterprise and consumer run along one axis (B2C vs B2B), self-serve vs custom deployment on the other axis (low friction vs high friction) Much of the innovation we've seen in B2B has
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by mblevin 12y ago
It's breathless reporter-speak, and it's often not actually intentional or conscious. Many reporters truly believe they are uncovering Woodward and Bernstein level stuff every time they hit "publish".
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by mblevin 12y ago
This is less about THE future of FB rather than a bet on ONE possible outcome - transaction monetization on a many-to-many network, vs continued growth of their highly targeted advertising product. On the internet just like in real life, so
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by mblevin 12y ago
Moving comments down completely can break the threading - e.g. you could have a highly upvoted parent comment with a single child comment that was heavily downvoted. You can't move the child any further down the tree. You CAN indicati
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World War II Is Full of Plot Holes (2010)(squid314.livejournal.com)
151 points by mblevin 12y ago|60 comments
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Baby No. 2 Is Harder on Mom Than Dad(fivethirtyeight.com)
1 points by mblevin 12y ago|0 comments
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by mblevin 12y ago
Interesting development for a lot of the in-database visualization players (Chart.io, Looker, RJMetrics etc) - a lot of the older and weaker players have depended on lock-in and inertia to keep them around; this squarely puts them in a bake
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by mblevin 12y ago
This is an interesting and unusual (but not unprecedented) move that actually aligns interests. 99% of founders have a goal (it may not be the primary or secondary, but trust me it's there) to be "F you" rich. Maybe 99.9%. Th

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