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by montrose 9y ago
What Venezuela has in common with the late Empire is that economic controls are pervasive, without the sort of punitive completeness you'd find in the USSR, or China under Mao. While few controls works, and being a police state sort of
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by montrose 9y ago
This must have been what it was like in the late Roman Empire, when successive emperors tried to stave off decline by decreeing how the economy would work.
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Price Fixing in Ancient Rome(mises.org)
6 points by montrose 9y ago|0 comments
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The Blindness of Social Wealth(nytimes.com)
106 points by montrose 9y ago|73 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
Counterintuitive as it may seem, this startup may be doing things right. If user growth is causing load issues, that means users like the product, and that the company is growing fast, which is the high bit of predicting whether a startup w
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San Francisco’s Seismic Gamble(nytimes.com)
310 points by montrose 9y ago|202 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
This is copied from another site. The original is at: https://hub.jhu.edu/2018/03/02/adam-riess-cosmic-ladder-univ...
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You Share Everything with Your Friends, Even Brain Waves(nytimes.com)
124 points by montrose 9y ago|45 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
I don't ordinarily upvote articles about politics, but I upvoted this one because (a) it's a fairly dispassionate, thoughtful analysis (b) of what it claims is a turning point (rather than just the everyday back and forth of polit
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Sky Diving Cured My Depression(nytimes.com)
106 points by montrose 9y ago|68 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
It's still a valid question though. And I would in fact pay far more for food with less toxins. Whereas I would pay little or nothing for e.g. a GDPR-compliant Twitter. So, interestingly, it's not only a valid question, but one th
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by montrose 9y ago
Indeed, if you invested 50k at 5% interest at 38 years ago, it would be 319k now. And that is the baseline if you spent zero on taxes and maintenance.
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by montrose 9y ago
Being slow to regulate something you don't yet understand is arguably a laudable thing.
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by montrose 9y ago
I don't know how successful they were at confiscating existing fortunes, but the point is that they were extremely successful at preventing new fortunes from being accumulated.
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by montrose 9y ago
It depends what you mean by successful. The Soviet Union and China were both very successful at taxing the rich. The consequences of doing so were disastrous, however.
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by montrose 9y ago
Luck is a big factor in the success of startups, but it is not the only factor. E.g. Jeff Bezos is lucky, but he's not merely lucky.
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by montrose 9y ago
I believe only about a third of big fortunes are inherited.
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by montrose 9y ago
I agree with you: I don't think it's a problem either. But people who start from the axiom that inequality is bad have the choice of either claiming it's bad that people can start companies that grow fast, or not seeing this
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by montrose 9y ago
Of the ten causes of inequality he lists, zero of them explain why Jeff Bezos or Larry Page or Mark Zuckerberg are so much richer than the rest of us. So here's another cause of inequality: that computers and the internet have made it
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Farmland Birds in France Are in Steep Decline(nytimes.com)
1 points by montrose 9y ago|1 comments
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Mice compensate for extra exercise by reducing other physical activity: study(nytimes.com)
74 points by montrose 9y ago|92 comments
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Iron Age study targets British DNA mystery(bbc.co.uk)
28 points by montrose 9y ago|1 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
Why this pressing need for productivity? Ambition. If you have ambitious things you want to achieve, they're probably going to take more than just ambling along. An athlete who wants to win races is going to run at a faster pace than h
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by montrose 9y ago
If this result is surprising to HN readers, it is probably because this list of the last 100 IPOs is also surprising: https://www.iposcoop.com/last-100-ipos/ Only 19 of the 100 most recent IPOs are classified as "
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by montrose 9y ago
It certainly was.
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The enemy within: Gut bacteria drive autoimmune disease(sciencedaily.com)
232 points by montrose 9y ago|83 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
Sapiens. Someone gave it to me as a gift. I opened it at random and the first thing I read was the old chestnut about agriculture being a bad deal, because hunter-gatherers have an easy life.
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by montrose 9y ago
The deal always takes way more work than the startup expected, and ends up delivering way less benefit. The best solution, when possible, is not to do custom deals at all, but for one of the parties to have an API that the other uses. E.g.
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by montrose 9y ago
In some cowboy movies, the bad guy wore a black hat and the good guy wore a white hat.
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by montrose 9y ago
I think the strangeness may come from the fact that the author is thinking of things that genetic research either has discovered or will discover that would be more controversial, but he's being careful not to actually mention any of t

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