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by mjfl 8y ago
I would say the fact that someone would pay for their company, no matter what the situation is, puts them light years ahead. There's no stronger signal than someone else being willing to part with cash in order to obtain the rights the
902.
by mjfl 8y ago
> Imagine no longer finding value in a person who has started and then sold a company. This is a great point. One could imagine comparing two candidates for a job, one had started and sold a company, the other just coming out of school.
903.
by mjfl 8y ago
If you get significantly better grades than your peers, you can land yourself a high income job, no matter how poor you grow up. Many US immigrants take advantage of this, and have achieved single generation jumps from lower class to upper
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by mjfl 8y ago
"They also gave rise to Martin O’Malley, a city councilman who was elected mayor on an anti-crime platform in 1999. O’Malley set about implementing what was then known as the New York model: zero tolerance for open-air drug markets, da
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by mjfl 8y ago
As an American of Irish heritage - my family until very recently lived in an Irish American community in South Boston for generations - I can't stress enough how little I share these feelings. I know I'm not "Irish", but
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by mjfl 8y ago
He's right. Is there any better way to quantitatively measure one's judgement than to make public bets on future events against people who are willing to put money on the other side? Yeah it comes across as smug, but 19-0 is 19-0.
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by mjfl 8y ago
sounds like a hard problem to me!
908.
by mjfl 8y ago
This is a really hard problem. You do not want to have to register as a bank or hire an expensive compliance team. Use Stripe.
909.
by mjfl 8y ago
If you have a nonlinear interaction of a wave with a media, you might have a quadratic term A^2 cos^2(wt). If you remember your trig identities, you'll remember that two sinusoidal functions multiplied together decomposes into the sum
910.
by mjfl 8y ago
you get extra points if you can dress your scientific story as "speaking out against racism".
911.
by mjfl 8y ago
probably very few, if the old testament or the huge proportion of ancient skeletons that died violent deaths serve as any guide. which is why I think this story by Reich is very tone deaf. It's hard to see how a 90% population replac
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DNA reveals we are all genetic mutts(news.harvard.edu)
51 points by mjfl 8y ago|60 comments
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by mjfl 8y ago
I agree. Probably doesn't help the point get across...
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by mjfl 8y ago
yes.
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by mjfl 8y ago
let's add some critical thinking: why not use it for war? Would it be better for the world if the US military was less well equipped relative to Al-Qaeda, Russia? I sure don't think so. I think it's best that any fight our mi
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by mjfl 8y ago
You're also assuming that the people who will take Amazon's space wouldn't have moved to some other place in NY or built a bigger building.
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by mjfl 8y ago
is this why we have string theory but can't confine plasmas?
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by mjfl 8y ago
I think what's notable is that they can do that and people care - Lebron and Amazon are both desirable enough that people cared. You (and I) are not desirable enough that people care.
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by mjfl 8y ago
It's not as much a correction than it is a response to a general trend of HN commenters making incorrect assertions while remaining unassailably confident in their opinions and their moral superiority on several issues. In general, con
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by mjfl 8y ago
isn't it just gradient descent?
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by mjfl 8y ago
He is a psychiatrist who blogs pretty good long form articles on issues that nerds find interesting.
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by mjfl 8y ago
There are plenty of places in the USA where $200k will get you very far, you just choose not to live there. You have to account for the fact that you're paying for that.
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by mjfl 8y ago
> I feel like only celebrities deleted FB accounts during the whole #DeleteFacebook thing. and after they deleted facebook, they went on their Instagrams.
924.
by mjfl 8y ago
I think this type of calling-out behavior is overly nitpicky. Let the upvotes decide.
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by mjfl 8y ago
What I'm saying is that I'm against the alternative which is to prepare for death like it's this big day or something.
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by mjfl 8y ago
I'm a little bit different - I don't want to prepare for death. I want to die at my desk, completely unconscious of, unready for and ultimately, unburdened by my own mortality. There's nothing you can do about it anyways, and
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by mjfl 8y ago
If you're a 9 year old genius, don't go to college. Take another 9 years, spend your time building cool stuff or publishing papers, and play sports with kids your age. It's important to learn how to socialize, to have a norma
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by mjfl 8y ago
It's okay to fabricate data if you're experiment is to detect whether journal editors and reviewers can pick up on fabricated data.
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by mjfl 8y ago
I don't think the difference for Dwarf Fortress is the learning curve, I think the difference is that Dwarf Fortress is better designed and it is designed in such a way that it's goal is to produce "stories" that Tarn an
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by mjfl 8y ago
I read somewhere that paternal uncertainty is the leading cause of male violence in every culture in the world, from aboriginal Australia to New York. You wonder, if evolution (cultural or biological) has not allowed any variance in this tr

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