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by padobson 9y ago
Yeah, proving it is not going to be much of a game changer. Most everyone already assumes it's true. But if someone were to prove the opposite, the entire technology world would shift dramatically, so it will certainly help to have a p
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by padobson 9y ago
Or big companies. If you wanted a chance to profit from Snap, Square, Twitter or (coming soon) Pinterest, you had to be a high level investor. I believe most regulations that block this kind of investment are done in the name of protecting
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by padobson 9y ago
Seems like there's an opportunity for a publishing platform that can pull up answers to rudimentary questions like these and include them in sidebar to breaking new like this.
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I agree, but I don't think there's a difference whether the initial idea is consumed as fiction or non-fiction. And it's certainly true that writers of hard-to-grasp ideas often use both - fictional examples in non-fiction bo
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by padobson 9y ago
> and that hatespeech is a form of assault Are there any legal precedents upholding this? Being the inciting ring-leader of a violent mob is one thing, but if someone called me a mick for spilling their Guinness, I wouldn't call tha
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by padobson 9y ago
Fiction is a petri dish for all of those ideas you're consuming in non-fiction books. Have you ever had an idea that you thought could change the world? Write a short story about it. When you are really forced to create different viewp
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by padobson 9y ago
When I first got out of college in '08, it didn't take this kind of effort to get hired. At my previous job, it was also fairly easy - but hiring has changed quite a bit in the last 3-5 years. I had a company demand I do two phone
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by padobson 9y ago
I have all those things, two cars in fact! At the time I was living in north east Ohio, where cost of living is fairly low. It would certainly be harder in high cost of living areas.
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by padobson 9y ago
Sure, here's an approximate breakdown: Morning: 1-2 hours: Study a chapter of CLRS Algos book 1-2 hours: HackerRank 1-2 hours: Studying trivia of technology X Afternoon was all about sales - updating social networks, filli
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by padobson 9y ago
When did you last switch jobs? I recently went through a round of employment where I quit my job at the beginning. Between updating my resume/social networks, brushing up on academic CS, finding leads, scheduling interviews and follow-
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It's true that a company would not be able to gain a "feel" for working with a candidate, but those feelings probably help contribute to noise as much allowing interviewers to ask their pet questions. Surely a company could o
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by padobson 9y ago
Spending a week working beside an engineer (or seeing how they complete a substantial project) almost certainly provides a better measure of their abilities than watching them solve interview problems for 1 hour Trial employment is expen
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by padobson 9y ago
This leads me to two questions: Has there ever been a situation where temporary conditions in some country (like Country Y) led them to satisfying worldwide demand? It seems that even in a year where foreign competition was strong, domestic
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by padobson 9y ago
I think all of your points are valid. It IS a complex subject, and we should be open to many view points. There are certainly a number of lines of attack on my ideas that are valid and reasonable. I bristled at the idea that my statement is
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by padobson 9y ago
Your argument against the mixing of politics and economics seems reasonable to me, and I am definitely going to read your suggestions and reach out for further discussion. I'd like to see a separation of politics and economics too, I j
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by padobson 9y ago
I agree with the revolving door. The way I see it, the Fed is inflating bubbles by pumping cheap money into the financial sector, and then the US Gov is bailing out the financial sector when the bubbles burst. It's hard to distinguish
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by padobson 9y ago
Ahistorical. As in not backed up by history? You'll have to cite with examples. Here's some of mine: Amsterdam opens the precursor to central bank in 1609[0]. Less than thirty years later, one of the earliest speculative financial
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by padobson 9y ago
It's fine to call me and Rothbard and other proponents of Austrian economics kooks, if that does it for you. But where's your counter example? What book should I read to become enlightened? If I was curious enough to read Rothbard
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by padobson 9y ago
>For price rises to be the case, the economy must be both at full capacity and full employment. Who's using intuition now? Stagflation in the 70's is a pretty jarring counter-example. We're living in an interesting economi
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by padobson 9y ago
It's not new at all. It's actually fairly easy to demonstrate. I recommend Murray Rothbard's America's Great Depression[0] from 1963. The quick hit is this: A. US Monetary policy provides large banks with extremely cheap
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Legalization benefits addicts in other ways - like safer environments for consumption[0]. Addicts that are presently shooting up in basements and bathroom stalls and under bridges can go to a place where they can receive an injection of a k
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by padobson 9y ago
My profile[0] has a quote about Marx and Smith hitting on the same idea, and this piece is a good illustration of that. We have two competing sentiments - that workers are exploited by capitalists for the value they provide via their labor,
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by padobson 9y ago
I don't hate this idea. Leave the minimum wage alone, let inflation make it meaningless, and beef up the EITC.
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You're asking most of the right questions. But the real question you should be asking is this: what's the solution? Slavery. Jim Crow. Subsidized discrimination. The war on drugs. Several generations of government coercion used fo
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by padobson 9y ago
This is where I stopped reading: He writes that the upper class of FTE workers, who make up just one-fifth of the population, has strategically pushed for policies—such as relatively low minimum wages and business-friendly deregulation—to
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by padobson 9y ago
tldr - compulsive gambler who won the Twitter lottery vows to quit playing the lottery and move on to making podcasts and buying political influence
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by padobson 9y ago
The organization of the profiled church reminds me of soccer leagues in apartheid South Africa[0]. The people running these complex organizations are effectively learning how lead and organize - how to govern. [0] http://foreignpo
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A Look Inside China's Unregistered Churches(theatlantic.com)
1 points by padobson 9y ago|1 comments
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by padobson 9y ago
This is interesting to me because it suggests that the future of work is in the hands of those who can hustle, rather than in sharing-economy fiefdoms like Airbnb and Uber. I've been adamant for a long time that the best path to a grow
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AngelList is Down(status.angel.co)
1 points by padobson 10y ago|0 comments

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