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by nfw2 5y ago
If you want to be precise, what I meant was that there is no level of exposure in the first n samples so great that the geoemetric mean of n+1 samples is certain to be over any arbitrary value X This is not true of arithmetic mean. If you
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by nfw2 5y ago
In 2014 I consulted my father, a lawyer, in writing an amicus brief to a lawsuit relating to lead exposure in baby food. Basically, lead exposure testing in food can have highly-variable results because of how the particles adhere to the fo
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by nfw2 5y ago
Maybe you could go with "Caltic" ($8k). Then you could go with a Celtic theme, like use a 4-leaf-clover as the icon and a tagline like "Make your own luck" or something like that Or if you don't mind spending some
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by nfw2 5y ago
Calen doesn't really violate #6 (it's short for calendar), but definitely violates #1 and #2. I took me a while to see the calendar connection because it looked like "Kay-len" to me. Also, 40k seems a bit steep for an ea
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by nfw2 5y ago
Yeah, I see the point. My only good argument against trying to optimize relative outcomes is that it isn't practical to try to do so. To talk about the difficulties of implementing true socialism would be beating a dead horse, I think
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what is the difference? isn't a complaint essentially just stating that you have a problem
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What I mean is a regression of wealth and income relative to the cost of living for most young people (ie pretty much anyone who doesn't work in tech or other STEM field). I don't mean relative to the most wealthy. Here is some d
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by nfw2 5y ago
A lot of (most?) innovation is driven by problems that need solving. It's a lot easier to start a company if there is already a large audience that really wants a problem solved and are willing to pay for the solution. Having an amazi
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by nfw2 5y ago
That's fair, but I think focusing on one region over a limited time period can lead to incorrect conclusions. A single country is not a closed system. The working class in the US has certainly suffered a regression over the past sever
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by nfw2 5y ago
I generally agree with this essay, but I think the listed problems with society misses the mark. "Everyone seems to increasingly be in it for themselves, not for society." Is this really changing? I don't buy that people to
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France didn’t invent social contracts like Newton didn’t invent gravity. All societies have had implicit social contracts
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by nfw2 5y ago
He wasn't suggesting Zulip is comparable to those companies or that the world is holding its breath on the issue. But it's reasonable that some people who use and/or develop Zulip (ie the typical readership of the blog) may
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by nfw2 5y ago
The fact that there are only two backend developers seems like a big asterisk to me. It's admirable how productive their backend team has been, but tiny teams are often surprisingly productive. Communication costs and distributed dec
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by nfw2 5y ago
I also expect, just from my own experience, that starting a writing routine can actually cause the obsessive motivation to write, rather than vice-versa. I started writing a musical last year while stuck in my NYC apartment during the COVID
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by nfw2 5y ago
I agree that writers need to be motivated by something other than their own ego. But I disagree that routines aren't tremendously helpful, even for those uniquely inspired to write. People suited to write face the same challenges wit
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by nfw2 5y ago
Although it seems contradictory, I expect many writers would say writing is often painful, but they still feel compelled to do it because keeping their ideas inside is more painful. Pain and motivation aren't mutually exclusive.
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by nfw2 5y ago
Entertainment and inspiration surely play a large part of MasterClass's success. However, I strongly disagree with the bailey in this article's motte-and-bailey -- that the platform isn't really about education. At the highe
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by nfw2 5y ago
Fwiw, AirTags convinced me to get my first iphone
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by nfw2 5y ago
Wear OS is not defunct. If Wear OS is not in the category the Apple Watch is leading, what is?
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by nfw2 5y ago
My last manager would frequently message me "Ack!" after I would bring up some work concern, and until just now I thought he was making the exasperated sound from the Cathy comic strip.
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by nfw2 5y ago
Here are the data points: - giving Hitler authority caused WWII and Holocaust, killing millions of innocent people (bad) - giving Patton authority could have ended WWII early, saving millions of innocent people (good, hypothetically) The fi
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by nfw2 5y ago
Apparently this is what Einstein has been documented saying: "...the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a sin
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by nfw2 5y ago
I didn't say the categorization was flawless; I said it reduced the complexity of the information. Categories can be useful without being flawless.
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by nfw2 5y ago
Good abstractions don't just exist to reduce code reuse; they help people reason about software. They turn logical operations into higher order concepts that are easy to think about. If this weren't true we would write all our p
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by nfw2 5y ago
"The epitome of genius in my mind is finding the solution that solves the problem without introducing anything at all." Agreed. Albert Einstein once said "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.&quot
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by nfw2 5y ago
That's like saying Microsoft shouldn't be allowed to tell people they should update Windows. Pfizer created the vaccine. Who would know better than them whether a booster is necessary?
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My claim wasn't that the net outcome is positive. I was countering the claim that there weren't any arguments in favor of minimum wage. I don't think a strong argument can be made about the net outcome without real data.
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I'm sure there are a lot of really great companies, led by great people, that are backed by YC. But I wouldn't assume anything about the caliber or maturity of a company just because it was accepted into YC. I spent a couple mont
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by nfw2 5y ago
The positive effect is that some workers will earn higher wages. One obviously wouldn't expect it to affect unemployment in a positive way. It also wouldn't affect poverty in a positive way if the affected workers weren't b
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by nfw2 5y ago
> My reading of a lot is always more than 50% So if I said there were a lot of homicides in NYC last year, you would think that over 4 million people were killed?

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