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by n72 10y ago
Point is, could you have identified Renaissance Technologies in 1994 as one of the few companies to beat the market? If not, then your odds are better going with an index fund. At this point, because of Renaissance Technologies' succes
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by n72 10y ago
Rebalancing, tax loss harvesting, and asset allocation as you grow older (i.e. more weight in fixed income as you approach or are in retirement.)
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by n72 10y ago
Also, to illustrate how hard it is to sway their minds, my brother impersonated a lonely person on Christian mingle and got the scammer to start working on him. He showed my father their correspondence and my father was somehow able to expl
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by n72 10y ago
In my father's case (which sounds similar to micheal_h's), the problem is that the more you give away the more difficult it become to admit it's a scam since you have to admit both that the love you're looking for doesn&
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by n72 10y ago
That's some marvelous empathy.
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by n72 10y ago
The meet solution doesn't always work. My father has met a woman whom his scammer claims to be twice. I'm quite sure it's a man behind the emails and this woman has been coerced into meeting him.
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by n72 10y ago
My father's lost (from my estimates) about $350K from a christianmingle.com scam. It's wrecked his life, both financially. He went from living in a very nice apartment in a very nice part of Munich to living in a crappy place clos
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by n72 10y ago
Ah, the nit pick defense! And a weak one at that.
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by n72 10y ago
Sam believes Trump bears similarities to Hitler ( http://blog.samaltman.com/trump ). So: Trump:Hitler::Thiel:? When you write something like this: In the words of Edmund Burke, "The only thing necessary for the triumph o
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by n72 10y ago
Anyone know the best place to learn more about kind of basic ops that a dev should know? I've done deployments, spun up AWS instances, configured load balancers etc., but my problem is that I don't know what I don't know. For
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by n72 10y ago
The things you list are plans, not accomplishments. And I certainly didn't expect extraordinary accomplishments. I just don't understand what in Sam's history warrants a New Yorker article over, say, that of CEOs who have com
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by n72 10y ago
That's great (though it can be an employment dark pattern, as it were), but that's not what's going on here. Sam isn't saying, hey, I think a healthy startup ecosystem contributes to a healthy economy which contributes t
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by n72 10y ago
I did read the article. I'm sure Sam has done good things. I still don't see anything which warrants a piece in the New Yorker.
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by n72 10y ago
Sam's contention, as far as I can tell, is that YC is hugely important to economic growth. Startups are a small fraction of growth. Of that small fraction, a fraction (20%) require VC funds. Of that fraction, another fraction may not h
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by n72 10y ago
...which makes this statement seem awfully silly: "Democracy only works in a growing economy. Without a return to economic growth, the democratic experiment will fail. And I have to think that YC is hugely important to that growth.&quo
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by n72 10y ago
If I get hellbanned for that, I'd prefer not to hang out here anyway. edit: and thanks for lobste.rs! I've been looking for something similar to HN without all the SV gossip.
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by n72 10y ago
It does seem there's a lot of flailing around. As someone mentioned, this http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/ went from 6 under Graham to 21 under Altman. Altman mentions laser like focus at time when referring to how
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by n72 10y ago
Don't think so. See around 17:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqEo107j-uw
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by n72 10y ago
Even so, wouldn't you use download?
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by n72 10y ago
So, Sam's been at this for 2 years, inherited an extremely well oiled machine, and hasn't, as far as I know, accomplished anything extraordinary. Not sure why there's an entire New Yorker piece on him, instead of, say, I dunn
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by n72 10y ago
"It doesn't resemble the Hacker News I look at, and I look at HN a lot." Given your position, do you think that you can look at HN objectively?
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by n72 10y ago
"The missing circuit in my brain, the circuit that would make me care what people think about me, is a real gift." I think that circuit exists and is functioning quite well. It seems to me there's a lot of glory embedded in Y
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by n72 10y ago
"Altman, who will personally oversee this initiative, believes [Startup School] is the fastest, easiest way to bring ten thousand new founders a year into the network." In the YC scenario, once its network hits a certain size it c
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by n72 10y ago
I do admire all the ambition. But does it really have to be mixed in with views such as "Democracy only works in a growing economy. Without a return to economic growth, the democratic experiment will fail. And I have to think that YC i
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by n72 10y ago
and "upload"? "what intrigues him is their potential effect on the world. To determine that, he’ll upload all he needs to know about, say, urban planning or nuclear fusion."
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by n72 10y ago
Apart from that Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
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by n72 10y ago
Nope!
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by n72 10y ago
Take a long, deep breath. Then take a few steps backwards, so you can take the scene in with a slightly broader perspective. Now hark back to how many times someone has been breathlessly been compared to Steve Jobs and how many times the pe
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by n72 10y ago
No, it's not. BRF has two components: Generic information about the frequency of events and specific information about the case in question. The item in question doesn't contain these. The item in question is a much simpler point.
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by n72 10y ago
The best thing I found to combat this is make distraction difficult. To that end, the best two things I did was write an FF plugin to hide FB's news feed and removed the News feed from my iPhone. Now I actually have to type a URL if I

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