mildbow

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by mildbow 11y ago
Yeah. Nobody with the means to do otherwise wants to live in Russia. And, even if they have extra-ordinarily high means and comfortable life-style (a side-effect of having lots of power in most societies) their children probably want to l
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by mildbow 11y ago
If I had to guess, I would say it's the cultural imperative of the family unit. One of the worst things slavery did, to african americans as a people, is to strip away their cultural meaning of family unit. I think it's on-par wit
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by mildbow 11y ago
"All these Asians look the same..." Another win for casual racism. College admissions could really do with some sort of objective criteria. Because yeah, obviously human foibles always creep in.
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by mildbow 11y ago
I think this is a cop-out. I've met tonnes of asians who are great at social settings. Just like I've met tonnes who aren't. Just like I've met tonnes of (black|white|hispanic|etcs) ... I have noticed that asians engin
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by mildbow 11y ago
This was(is?) definitely my problem. But, after seeing how (corporate?)USA works, I was able to specifically account for it. Here's a few things I did that might help you (list specifically geared towards individual contributors): - ma
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by mildbow 11y ago
No. We have just taken a chance to get off the heroin drip of a constant salary. Yeah, it's scary to go from guaranteed income to $0. But, here's how I, a non-trust fund immigrant with dependents, did it: 1- line up consulting con
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by mildbow 11y ago
It's a crap situation, and victim blaming doesn't help. We just happened to be lucky we like STEM. I know I was lucky enough to find my passion before college, then follow it, which luckily just happened to be a booming field. Sur
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by mildbow 11y ago
Good news: the US is currently at war with ISIS. Bad news: that hasn't helped for a while. I would wager it hasn't helped since the rise of the MIC. Note also: lots of general labor/bagging groceries people has diplomas. But
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by mildbow 11y ago
Yeah, you are right. I was thinking it would put rest to the voting rings theory if anyone had access to everyone else's vote history. But, the cost probably isn't worth the benefit.
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by mildbow 11y ago
Very few things make me stop reading an article. But, this one won with: "This isn't China or India where they have a man-made gender imbalance because of all sorts of horrendous things". What a way to over-generalize 2.5 bil
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by mildbow 11y ago
Awesomeness. I think this is a great idea for the community. I applaud this decision because there are quite a few accelerators, but the special part about YC is HN. Being open enough to give it it's own editorial steering wheel is a g
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by mildbow 11y ago
See what you did there? You called attention to the strategic upvoting. Which means you get downvoted. Welcome to real HN where groupthink is the only think.
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by mildbow 11y ago
I don't think anyone can with say that airbnb is the sole reason prices are up. That's crazy. Moreover, I don't think anyone can actually prove or disprove something like that (there will always be a "but did you consi
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by mildbow 11y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -- Upton Sinclair iirc
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by mildbow 11y ago
They are on it: Sam's post is part of the PR work. Why else would he say the fix to the housing problem is to put more housing on airbnb? A huge part of the problem is that people are renting places just to sub-lease them. Guess what t
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by mildbow 11y ago
Meh. Here's what all these HR sourced "top performer" filters are missing: top performers are a nurture not nature thing i.e they are a function of the environment. What's the incentive for a top performer to work for yo
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by mildbow 11y ago
well, it worked out for Russia :)
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by mildbow 11y ago
The last paragraph is very wrong, or I don't remember high school biology. So please correct me if I'm wrong. Humans aren't evolving in response to their environment: they change the environment to suit them. And anyway, sele
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by mildbow 11y ago
I like it. For myself it's a little like this: "When you're young, you want things you are told you want. When you get(or lose) those things, you want to figure out what you really want. Because you are still(always?) unfulfi
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by mildbow 11y ago
The last line is really true with regards to happiness. Unfortunately, you have to be in the right place, mentally, in order to really appreciate it. You can take it to mean: I'll be happy where I am, or I'm happy making these cha
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by mildbow 11y ago
The government is already taking my money. So, why can't I complain about how I think it should be spent? You are allowed to do the same too. Of course, in an ideal world we all have the means and the inclination to personally do somet
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by mildbow 11y ago
Why do you want an alternative?[0] Afaik, they haven't been shut down. It's actually even free now. [0] not that it's a bad thing, but wondering it's more than just "facebook bought it". Funny as it is, I trust
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by mildbow 11y ago
I didn't take the time to delve in to other tweets, but if you know more about him, can you tell me whether, based on what you know of him, he is saying "black people are niggers"(0) or "I won't be shamed into not u
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by mildbow 11y ago
Everybody loves a cool hacker persona. Except when it's directed against you :) And, facebook, imo, is more of "get shit done", rather than "break shit". This was more of the latter. But really, if you work for a co
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by mildbow 11y ago
Thanks for acknowledging/replying. Regarding your specific complaints: (2)Assuming conclusion and using that to open up discussion is a fairly standard rhetorical practice. Are you saying that that paragraph doesn't move the discu
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by mildbow 11y ago
It's not about blame. Everyone makes mistakes. It's about seeing a recurrent problem, then helping people by fixing it
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by mildbow 11y ago
Isn't the whole article pretty much basis for that ? :( If sam is saying YC founders are using terms wrong, doesn't that imply that YC was fine with those terms? So confused. Anyway, the simple fix would be to just have a 1-3 d
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by mildbow 11y ago
Exactly what I thought too. Why not have a bootcamp for a few basic finance rules/jargon? Assuming they see the same sort of issues crop up, surely a 1-3 day bootcamp is a lot less "fake work" than every founder now needing
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by mildbow 11y ago
You mean maybe the accelerator? It would be awesome if YC/the accelerator had a bootcamp of 1-3 days talking about this stuff. Because, let's face it, this "finance stuff" is complicated and most of us don't have a
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by mildbow 11y ago
No problem: I wasn't trying to insinuate anything like that. My first inclination was to tell you, but then this is the internet: I could easily be Donald Trump or Barack Obama :) So, that made me consider why it would even matter, giv

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