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by n72 11y ago
Clicking the link got me "Error establishing a database connection." :/
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by n72 11y ago
My father, from whom I'm mostly estranged and who doesn't live in the same country as I, has given over $100K to Nigerian scammers. They hooked him on a Christian dating site. It's incredibly angering to watch all of this.
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by n72 11y ago
You realize that phrase is used in terms of stock picking, not the nature of a free market, right?
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by n72 11y ago
Ugh, my girlfriend believes all this crap and to conciliate her I read a book on naturopathic medicine. It was a load of garbage. Who knows, the conclusions in the book may have been correct, however the author just made unfounded assertion
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by n72 11y ago
FWIW, Jobs was mentioned in the article.
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by n72 11y ago
Selective end points. Dollar cost averaging is a simple way of solving this particular problem.
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by n72 11y ago
I think you are misunderstanding the word confidence in the sense that Kahneman is using it. One can also be over confident in one's notion that the girl wouldn't want to talk to you, the raise is unjustified, the customer doesn&#
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by n72 11y ago
Anyone know why airbnb became so much bigger than flipkey, vrbo, and homeaway? Was it just being lucky to be being based in SF and the associated network effect? I.e. people could have theoretically used the aforementioned companies to rent
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by n72 11y ago
I don't know about California, but increasingly exotic dancers are suing for employment rights. E.g. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/11/nyregion/strippers-are-pro...
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by n72 11y ago
I absolutely agree that there should be more regulation online. My hope is that legislation just needs to be given time to catch up.
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by n72 11y ago
I was simply going by this. I have nothing to do with the company anymore and don't actively follow things in that space so could well be mistaken: http://bgr.com/2015/04/16/top-paid-ios-apps-double-down-
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by n72 11y ago
Perhaps I'm overly sensitive, but the tone seemed a bit over the top. E.g. I could have been something like "Given that you worked in a morally questionable field, does this weigh on your mind, and if not, why not?" Some very
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by n72 11y ago
Where in any of this have I rationalized my behavior? I have made no mention anywhere of what I actually think about the morality of the game or of the morality of developing it. You have no idea whether I'm ashamed of my involvement o
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by n72 11y ago
Thank you for being straight forward with your criticism. I can't say I disagree all that much. There is a legitimate other side which would argue that your stance is too paternalistic. E.g. where do we draw the line as a society to pr
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by n72 11y ago
I'm not sure why I'd discuss this with some random person on the internet. If you'd like to tell me that you think I did something morally wrong, feel free to do so, but have the courtesy of not disingenuously cloaking it as
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by n72 11y ago
I absolutely agree. It's gamification distilled to its essence in a sense. I was only making that point that we didn't even do research on color or sound or anything like that. We just had a very, very simple version of a buggy s
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by n72 11y ago
Perhaps this is simplistic, but one question you might ask yourself is whether you're offering something of value or exploiting a psychological weaknesses inherent to humans.
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by n72 11y ago
It absolutely should be. Also, it would be quite easy to help people self-regulate by creating a blacklist of credit card numbers which one could sign oneself up on and which all online casinos would have to use.
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by n72 11y ago
No, we were originally just a flash app on FB and did mobile later. My point is that even without all the gamification bells and whistles we were very successful. It was the very simple mechanics of a slots game which drew people in — we di
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by n72 11y ago
First employee, pseudo-founder of Doubledown Casino here (now the highest grossing game on the iPad). The interesting thing is that we were absolute crap at the actual gamification stuff. It was simply the slots machine mechanic which drew
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by n72 12y ago
I absolutely agree with you in some respects. I took exception to your initial comment because it was a direct reply to mine, which I think very clearly wasn't "Oh, you are full of shit and no one can know that and, god, my respec
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by n72 12y ago
I read the blog post and I absolutely agree that there are "subtle dangers a woman faces daily in the pursuit of a serious career -- dangers most people do not speak about and often politely go along with, in a sheep-like fashion.&quot
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by n72 12y ago
> Do you call PG out and assume he is full of shit and doesn't know what he is talking about? Absolutely. I think Paul Graham said silly things about hacking and painting. I think Paul Graham is utterly wrong about philosophy being
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by n72 12y ago
I absolutely agree, but that doesn't mean that epistemological rigour can't be brought to bare on the non-analytical side of things. Jessica may in fact have these right brain skills, but that doesn't mean that it's not
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by n72 12y ago
> would you have said the same about say, a (male?) engineer claiming that "I can often tell good software architecture from bad". Which is a similarly subjective, heuristic-based imprecise classification problem. I certainly h
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by n72 12y ago
> Companies with bad cultures try to motivate employees with fear and intimidation, or simply fail to motivate them at all, and everyone wastes their time playing video games or whatever. Not surprisingly, those rarely do well. This seem
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by n72 12y ago
> This is a fair question, but like most things with humans, almost impossible to answer in a definitive way. Which is precisely why you have to be very, very, very careful. The matter-of-fact way it was phrased in the blog post didn&#x2
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by n72 12y ago
""Softer" stuff like values, culture and community is often ignored by the press, and more dangerously it's also sometimes ignored by founders." Really? Seems to me that there are in fact far too many stories about
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by n72 12y ago
"but I can tell things like when people are BSing, how tough they are, if they get along, and surprisingly often, considering I only have 10 minutes to observe them, whether they're good people or not." How do you know you ha
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by n72 12y ago
> Just suggest that because there are some male hackers that are uncomfortable around women that there should be man-only events. Let me know how that goes for you. Either you completely misunderstand the issue and/or this is a stra

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