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by numair 5y ago
I’ve lived in a few places for several years at a time. Based on my (still limited, but real) experiences, I think Jante Law isn’t unique to Scandinavia, but it’s definitely real, and it definitely isn’t a universal phenomenon.
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Don’t you think it describes a true feeling, though? I read the laws long after my time living on-off in Scandinavia ( way before the weird “cool Scandinavia,” “let’s all be hygge ” trend started) and was amazed at how it captured the sil
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I completely agree that the flatter, more egalitarian system is more of a feature than a bug. However, at the same time, one of the big problems is that there is an entire layer of people above “the people” who exist in a political-multinat
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I think you haven’t added the municipal tax and the Earthquake Reconstruction Tax. And remember, it’s a lot harder to pull the sort of tricks that are possible in the US and EU, and the shared sense of suffering means people get in a lot
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I think that, in a past era in which humans were largely immobile and thus everyone who shared in certain situations looked the same way and was from the same place, this was absolutely true. It’s interesting to ponder what will happen in t
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by numair 5y ago
I don’t think most foreigners are willing to do the work that it takes to “make Tokyo work,” which I have seen first-hand. First, there is the tax rate, which is super-high and the vast majority of Japanese pay without complaint. I am prett
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by numair 5y ago
Continuing on my last comment regarding this pile of plutocratic insanity[1], I ask Munger’s supporters to please cite references to support their implicit assertion that humans don’t need natural light in their living spaces. I really wa
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by numair 5y ago
I can't believe people are resorting to blatant whattaboutism to defend this nonsense without getting called out on it. Depriving humans of natural light for "economic" reasons is insane. Every study we've ever done
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The End of the Dark Age of Unproductive Insecurity(numair.medium.com)
4 points by numair 5y ago|1 comments
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People who invested in the insane attempt to trademark-troll the term "magic link," which drove this person out of business: * Tiger Global * Northzone * Lightspeed Ventures * SV Angel * Social Capital * Balaji Srinivasan * Ryan H
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by numair 5y ago
Mobile is the default interface through which non-technical people interact with the digital world. It’s the prerequisite for building products and services. If OP can master that and create stuff that fits the character of their local mark
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by numair 5y ago
> When I was in college I really loved working on the console, I built great apps using the console, and I quite enjoyed what I was doing! We were learning C++ at the time, and working on the console made me think about my logic, my code
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by numair 5y ago
If you’re into this sort of thing — a few years back, a little-known artist named Grimes posted a really great tutorial on using Ableton to make music. https://web.archive.org/web/20150831081620/http://ac
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by numair 5y ago
I appreciate this reply. The sentiment you’ve shared is the same that a lot of current/former Facebook employees have privately emailed / called / etc and told me. The interesting thing is, it’s a lot of the seriously talen
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by numair 5y ago
This is your friendly reminder that NY Magazine, previously owned by the late great Bruce Wasserstein, is now a Vox publication. I don’t think I need to say much more about that... https://nymag.com/press/2019/09&#
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by numair 5y ago
> I was there a few years ago > Imagine if such amazing tools could be used at actually ethical companies. Congratulations. How long did it take you to realize things are, in fact, as bad as the "haters" (to use a favorite t
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by numair 5y ago
I’ve met him. I know the people who made him. I know the people who went to his wedding. I vouch for the parent commenter’s statement.
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by numair 5y ago
1. Kill the insane Opportunity Zone tax dodge. 2. Kill GRATs. I personally know of at least one person who has been passed a gain of over a billion dollars through that nonsense. And that was a decade ago. Oh, but wait, both of those things
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by numair 5y ago
> what happens at Facebook sets the standards for the rest of the internet and beyond. That used to be the case. But at this point, you’re really just watching the ghosts of the past emerge in the present. Facebook doesn’t own the future
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What a bunch of hyperbole. Sequoia, like the rest of the industry, is playing catch-up to the model that SoftBank mastered. That record profit earlier this year was insane . Masa-son is a lot smarter than the press makes him out to be; you
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There’s no honor among thieves. What this guy, and the whistleblower, and Mark Zuckerberg, and Roger McNamee, and everyone else are doing is simple — they’re all turning on each other. Don’t try to figure out who is “right” or “wrong” or wh
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Mike wasted a ton of my time, and squandered the opportunity to use the brain trust of Facebook insiders, including the guy who designed Facebook , who I assembled to jump ship and build a new future on top of BBM. A few months later he s
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by numair 5y ago
I’m having one of those “why can’t there be 36 hours in a day” moments in life, but I’ve got to publish more about this very soon, so, it’s on the way. When you combine the story of WhatsApp’s small team / high impact development with
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Post-FAANG digital infrastructure. This is that moment, when the cycle starts all over again.
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It’s comical that all of the replies to what you’ve written claim you’re wrong, because you’re actually 100% right. And this is even more true when you remember that the company had fewer than 20 people for a long time, and that there was o
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Look beyond the politics to see the real power of what Haugen has done: she’s provided conclusive evidence that these people knew their products were bad for kids. Some of you will say “okay but there’s also a large percentage on the other
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You’re correct to remember that there were people within FB who were shocked and surprised that Hilary lost. But you seem to have forgotten that there were also people within FB, including board members within Zuckerberg’s inner circle, w
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No, try again. This has nothing to do with being on the left or the right or the center or upside-down. This is about a capability , not its particular use. You’re obsessing over the surface-level details, rather than asking the deeper que
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I helped Facebook build the Platform, even going so far as convincing Dave Morin to leave Apple and work on it, because I was worried about evils of Murdoch. So trust me, I know all about exactly what you cited. Facebook is a very different
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There’s a giant conversation here about whether Facebook should be the “judge” or whatever. You guys don’t get it, do you? The senior execs and inner circle at that company are actively engaged in swaying political discourse, the way laws

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