mikemotherwell

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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
The original tweetstorm and this post aim to show something very specific, namely that IQ misses the mark as a measure of intelligence the further away from IQ 70 one ventures. In other words, stupid is stupid, but smart seems to come in ma
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
The key isn't just higher prices. It is long term revenue from people who are liekly to buy repeatedly. My solution would be $30 for tourists, $6 for anyone with a Portland ID and a loyalty card that you get in three seconds. That solv
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
The problem is we compare the worst of our lives to the best of other people's lives - be it our body, wealth, health, personality, travel, well-readness, intelligence etc etc. No one has every area of their life in order, there's
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
"Technology" could mean silicon, or it could mean rules, or it could mean processes. It could mean lots of things. In this context, I think it means silicon and the internet, as opposed to, say, "melt certain ores". I th
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Why is this the side of the ledger to work on? http://carbon.ycombinator.com/ seems like a much more effective means of mitigating the issues. The worst things that could happen to the environment would actually be whatever
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
If you look at this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_... - the US has quite low homelessness rates. The problem is the USA is a massive country in area and population. The opportunities var
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Twilio.
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
This is why I love HN. This random WikiPedia article is great, and the flow on affects of this one quirk of history are really fascinating. I remember an article in the WSJ by a Pakistani man ~2006, saying "the entire history of my cou
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Net revenue CHANGE might be the one metric that makes sense. The reason to track any metric is to know if you should continue, stop, or go all-in. If you are flatlining - or going down - that's a HUGE sign to quit. If you have steady g
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
I just don't understand this debate, and whenever I try, I'm left extremely frustrated by how little is understood outside of partisan BS. My big fear is that this view that it will have any positive impact is too optimisitic, bec
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
... or call it a hobby. Just because someone does the same thing they make a living from for fun, doesn't mean it isn't also a hobby. It's weird, that because people pay coders for some of the work they do, expecting money ge
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
$7 billion dollar company, $1.5M cost? $7 BILLION. Your order of magnitudes are waaaaayyyyy off. This is the inverse of survivor bias, in that you are retroactively applying "best practice" at the wrong scale. What gets you from $
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
Someone I saw on Twitter (I forget who - apologies) suggested DepOpps - short for "Dependency Opps" - as a job role, which was defined as a person dedicated to keeping a apps dependencies up to date. I doubt anyone would enjoy tha
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
I think there are a lot of conditions and issues with trade and China, and I'm not sure how the US government deal with them all, but I agree one rule for Google is a TERRIBLE idea and precedent. Semi-related, how weird is this https:
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by mikemotherwell 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Rapid_Transit_(Singapore) vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway - not surprising we learned a lot in 80 years of operating subway systems.