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by montrose 8y ago
His thesis is that changes in government policy are the cause of the increasing economic inequality in America. But a simple thought experiment is enough to disprove this: imagine what Larry Page would have done in 1950 vs 1998. In 1950 he
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by montrose 8y ago
This is an interesting article, but I found I was able to read it, for the most part, by reading the first sentence of every paragraph. That shows how much fat there is in the typical magazine article.
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by montrose 8y ago
The big mistake he makes (and that many other SV haters make) is that he has failed to consider the null hypothesis. There are fakers and wannabees at the fringes of every ambitious undertaking. If you go looking for them, you'll find
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by montrose 8y ago
Whether you should quit or not depends on (a) whether your idea has any potential and (b) whether you're suited to starting a startup. It's hard to tell either of those from your question. The question I'd ask is, why did you
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by montrose 8y ago
I don't think this matters much, because the number of scholarly papers published in any field is determined by the number of people who need to publish papers to advance their careers, not the value of new ideas that need to be expres
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by montrose 8y ago
One of the scariest examples of this phenomenon is the lobbying that police and prison guard unions do: https://theintercept.com/2016/05/18/ca-marijuana-measure/ https://www.nytimes.com/1
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by montrose 8y ago
It's actually quite impressive that NPR will retract a story over what would be standard practice among the bottom half of the media.
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by montrose 8y ago
An employee can get diversification in the sense that they can work for multiple companies. It's not at all unusual for someone in SV to get equity in 5 different companies in their career. E.g. one friend of mine first got equity in G
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by montrose 8y ago
It is from the introduction to On Lisp , and there is a great deal of explicit source code in that. A lot of which is in fact about domain-specific languages. http://paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html
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by montrose 8y ago
I find it's a valuable heuristic simply to try to make your code short (in tokens, of course, not characters). That rule means that it's worth defining a new operator if you use it enough to save more than the amount of code you n
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Infant Deaths Fall Sharply in Africa with Routine Antibiotics(nytimes.com)
161 points by montrose 8y ago|46 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
This is a non-paywalled version of the Washington Post article.
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Boeing and Airbus, the new ‘super duopoly’(sfgate.com)
84 points by montrose 8y ago|67 comments
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A "major breakthrough" in diesel technology significantly reduces emissions(express.co.uk)
31 points by montrose 8y ago|30 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
Surely there are still applications in 2018 that require speed at the expense of all else. Perhaps not as many, but there are bound to be some.
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by montrose 8y ago
Not very false. They're not continuing the trial past the end of this year. Which is exactly what it said in the article I read about it. Frankly, this article seems more misleading than the ones it is complaining about.
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E-Waste Innovator Will Go to Jail for Making Windows Restore Disks(gizmodo.com)
69 points by montrose 8y ago|4 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
You can read it via archive.is.
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by montrose 8y ago
Antitrust enforcement is not sufficient to protect against market consolidation caused by burdensome regulations. A company that can afford to comply with the regulations can squash competitors who can't without being a monopoly. And e
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by montrose 8y ago
“It is paradoxical,” said Bill Simmons, co-founder and chief technology officer of Dataxu , Boston-based company that helps buy targeted ads. “The GDPR is actually consolidating the control of consumer data onto these tech giants.”
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by montrose 8y ago
I upvoted this despite the rewritten title, which I hope the mods will fix.
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by montrose 8y ago
How fast are they growing? The best thing, if you can get it, is a graph of revenue per month for the past year or two. Then you can see whether the trend is hyperlinear. If they balk at telling you their numbers, tell them you'll take
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by montrose 8y ago
It depends how promising your company is. That's the high bit of whether you can get funding, not your immigration status. On the other hand, when investors think your company is unpromising, it's easier to say that the problem is
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Attention, jaywalkers: You'll be sprayed with water in central China city(straitstimes.com)
1 points by montrose 8y ago|0 comments
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by montrose 8y ago
"I was used to coming back to the lab at Apple after dinner, to see if anything interesting was going on and working on various extra-curricular projects."
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by montrose 8y ago
Try archive.is.
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by montrose 8y ago
Thank you, rbanffy, for submitting such consistently interesting stories. When I see your name, it's a recommendation.
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by montrose 8y ago
Historically, most people have built as much of their houses out of wood as they could, because it was easier to work with. Where wood was rare, only roofs were made out of it. Where wood was exceptionally rare, even roofs were vaulted. Woo
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Standing Up at Your Desk Could Make You Smarter(nytimes.com)
3 points by montrose 8y ago|0 comments
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Damage to Great Barrier Reef from Global Warming Is Irreversible, Scientists Say(nytimes.com)
2 points by montrose 8y ago|0 comments

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