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by montrose 9y ago
TV ad sales fell 7.8% last year. If ad sales continue to decline at that rate, in 10 years this market will be only 44% of its current size.
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by montrose 9y ago
Thank you!
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by montrose 9y ago
That's true; nor are donations a sufficient substitute for taxes.
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by montrose 9y ago
It is a big mistake to think that merely paying taxes is a sufficient substitute for donations. Governments are like the biggest of big companies: they tend to be very conservative about what they'll fund. Individual donors and small f
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by montrose 9y ago
The amp url just stopped working. Do you know an alternative?
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by montrose 9y ago
It is huge that they give unrestricted grants. I've been involved in the nonprofit world a lot in the last few years, and the most surprising thing I've learned is how depressingly common restricted grants are. Restricted grants
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by montrose 9y ago
Me too, and I know lots of other people like this. In fact, I would say that most smart people I know are like this. There are a bunch of solutions to the smalltalk problem. One is to have a stock of prefabricated responses to common situat
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by montrose 9y ago
Talk explicitly about the distinction between a newly founded company and a startup.
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by montrose 9y ago
Thank you, this is very interesting. In what way are Python's lambdas restricted? Do they literally have to fit on one line? Do you have to use a separate version of + to add complex numbers in Python? Do you prefer loop because it&#x2
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by montrose 9y ago
This argument is false in the general case. It can weaken a company to have given away too much stock early on, because then there's not enough left to raise money and hire people with. If horsecaptin owned 80% of the company rather th
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by montrose 9y ago
What do you find is missing?
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by montrose 9y ago
Investors don't like it and often try to pressure companies they want to invest in into "clawing back" such stock. But while 40% might make them say no to a company they liked, I don't think 8% would. The investors will
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by montrose 9y ago
Non-paywall version: http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/columns/4405830-com...
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by montrose 9y ago
"Kirste found that two hours of silence per day prompted cell development in the hippocampus." This was in mice, but if silence turns out to grow neurons in humans too, that will be big news.
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Inside the Russian Troll Factory: Zombies and a Breakneck Pace(nytimes.com)
20 points by montrose 9y ago|2 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
"Absolutely refuse to add any feature or line of code unless you need it right now, and need it badly." As I've gotten older I've seen the value of this rule. Though it sounds merely negative, it can produce effects that
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by montrose 9y ago
Incidentally, thank you for asking, jxub. It must encourage the mods a lot to read stories like the ones I've read here, and being a forum moderator is ordinarily among the most thankless of tasks.
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by montrose 9y ago
It's normal to struggle this way with work you don't love sufficiently, which (unless you're lucky) tends to include the work you do for money. Companies have techniques to motivate employees. E.g. your boss or peers will be
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by montrose 9y ago
Clojure is a Lisp. One of the distinctive things about Lisp is that it has dialects. You wrote your comment using software written in another of them. The youngest of the companies you list was founded in 2007. The first stable Clojure rele
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by montrose 9y ago
Click on this link and search for Clojure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16052538
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by montrose 9y ago
At the end he makes an interesting point: that this worked in the US not because it has a lot of stupid people (which Russia presumably has too) but because it has a lot of stupid people who have not been lied to too much. “Who really rea
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What Made Lisp Different (2002)(paulgraham.com)
184 points by montrose 9y ago|201 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
"In most cases programmers make an error in the last line of similar text blocks." I've noticed something similar in prose. When there's a sentence in a paragraph that should be cut, it's disproportionately often th
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Inside Vancouver's Brock Commons, World's Tallest Mass Timber Building (2017)(archdaily.com)
31 points by montrose 9y ago|15 comments
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by montrose 9y ago
"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Instead, please send it to hn@ycombinator.com." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by montrose 9y ago
I felt this but ignored it because I couldn't imagine an earthquake happening here.
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by montrose 9y ago
"Aging" like the Pythagorean theorem is aging.
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by montrose 9y ago
What do you and your friends want so much that, if someone else built it, you'd start using it immediately?
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by montrose 9y ago
By default, products fail to appeal to users, in the same sense that, by default, ten-digit integers are not perfect squares. Is this something you and your friends eagerly want and constantly use? I.e. that you and your friends would use
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Borneo Lost More Than 100k Orangutans from 1999 to 2015(nytimes.com)
260 points by montrose 9y ago|111 comments

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