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by padobson 4y ago
John Carmack disagrees with your rationale: "As long as people are buying it, it means they’re enjoying it" [0] [0] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/07/id-softwares-john-car...
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by padobson 4y ago
As my philosophy of funding has evolved, I've come to see venture capital as fuel for growth first, and then a relationship with a VC second. So if you don't have a tested company/product that seems poised to grow quickly if
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by padobson 4y ago
>Also assuming that my fingers aren’t removed in a thresher accident. This wouldn't happen with a $5 pitchfork and a stone threshing floor
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by padobson 4y ago
We're not too far off right now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_and_water_hemispheres
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by padobson 4y ago
like voting to restrict gay marriage so God will bless our country Do we know how this is going to play out, though? Has matrimony between same sex couples ever been widely available in any civilization? Rome, Greece, China and Egypt all
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by padobson 4y ago
Don't forget to try the beer! https://www.greatlakesbrewing.com/edmund-fitzgerald
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by padobson 4y ago
Another one I've seen quite often is management wants "it", and then they hire someone who can do "it", but the company/product isn't nearly ready for "it". Think hiring a DBA before you have 100
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by padobson 4y ago
"Keep doing 'It' but at our company" is not even slightly motivating. That's true, but what about "Keep doing 'It' but at our company for half the hours and double the salary"? Then you could t
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by padobson 4y ago
This is directly related to the teacher-student ratio, regardless of whether it's online or not. One of Malcolm Gladwell's books made a convincing argument that reducing class size quickly runs into the issue of diminishing retu
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by padobson 4y ago
This seems like it would happen a lot at corporations that deal in propaganda. Once you abandon truth as a value, how do you stop the culture in your content creation from infecting your business decisions? I guess Fox News has figured it o
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by padobson 4y ago
There's also a compounding effect. A vow of poverty founder is going to try to get his first ten employees to take a similar vow, just out of principle and (maybe) spite. So the VCs are essentially trying to create a culture of financi
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by padobson 4y ago
Yeah, fair enough. Musk could either "rent" Twitter and pay the money back with profits or "live in" Twitter and direct it toward some other purpose and use his other activities to pay back the debt. So my mineral rights
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by padobson 4y ago
"I think it would be fun to run a newspaper." - Citizen Kane
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by padobson 4y ago
This is a good analogy, but for it to apply to this situation, the house would have to be on property that has oil or lithium deposits. Once you have the property, it pays for itself, like the profits from Twitter would in this case. If it
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by padobson 4y ago
Vicarious hobby tunneler, more likely. Eccentric aristocrats get trapped by the social norms of their classmates. There's even lore around this. For example, people who don't think Shakespeare actually wrote anything[0] also tend
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by padobson 4y ago
I'd like to see a study that correlates use of Twitter's "report" button with political persuasion. My hypothesis is that lefties are more likely to appeal to authority and hit the "report" button when they se
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by padobson 4y ago
You should also add the survivorship bias caveat. If the bursting bubble wipes out the company you're invested in, you never get your money back.
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by padobson 4y ago
more conservative that hates the direction the GOP is going I've heard other people say this, but I've never heard Saagar say anything I thought was conservative. He's not paleocon or libertarian because he's comfortab
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by padobson 5y ago
Can someone explain to me why insulin, essentially a commodity, can fetch any significant price over cost? Why isn't there more competition? Is barrier to entry for low-cost competitors the difficult of manufacture? Or is it patent enf
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by padobson 5y ago
I thought the concept of Epistemic Spot Checks was a great idea, so I was hoping that there might be some on the blog checking materials I had previously read so I could compare my intuitions with the author's hobby, but I didn't
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by padobson 5y ago
This looks pretty good. As you pointed out, it's a crowded marketplace, but none of the incumbents seem all that invincible. If you focus on executing in your niche, I think you could do really well. Have you thought about how you&#x27
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by padobson 5y ago
I tried to analyze the running app with the Firefox dev console, but the GitHub hosted page said there were no sources! Browsing the Sokol Github, it looks like it's compiling to web assembly. I'm not very familiar with web assemb
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by padobson 5y ago
I was looking for a way to celebrate, so I opened by Bible and counted how many books had 22nd chapters... and there were 22! I geeked out a bit. So this morning at 2:22:22am I did a tweet thread where I posted the 22nd verse of each chapte
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by padobson 5y ago
This is a good list. 2) Unfuck building codes. I think it could be greatly simplified by holding the building owner/manager criminally liable for defects that lead to major injury or death, and civilly liable for smaller defects. The
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by padobson 5y ago
It's also worth mentioning that every developed nation has a heavy interest in the value of the dollar, because of trade with the US, petrodollars, etc.
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by padobson 5y ago
A version of this happened to me too, but luckily the reason I was trying to login is my account was being shut down because my credit card had expired. I was able to get through to tech support, but their mechanism for unlocking my account
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by padobson 5y ago
How many people do you think it took to build that yacht?
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by padobson 5y ago
I feel like the author has used his games published numbers to hide the fact that the number of gamers is large and growing much larger all the time. There are 8 billion people in this world, and the Playstation 2 is the highest selling con
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by padobson 5y ago
If you call a steady 1-2%/year "massive". The real effect has been to stabilize the economy. I guess people who like gold standards don't know their economic history. The 19th century, which is arguably a recognizable m
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by padobson 5y ago
If you limit yourself to Supreme Court opinions and memoirs, it can be pretty good. I recently read the takes on the subprime lending financial crisis in Obama's memoir [0] and McCain's memoir [1], and I found they agreed on the f

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