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The Unbundling of Excel(tomtunguz.com)
6 points by pdog 9y ago|2 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
Tulip mania[1] and crowd psychology[2]. It's not only Bitcoin. Every cryptocurrency is surging[3] for the exact same reason. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by pdog 9y ago
Nah, the title's fine. They're two questions.
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by pdog 9y ago
Alternative hypothesis: you can be very successful in your field without knowing about some celebrity.
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Ask HN: Will Bootstrap 4 be released in our lifetime?
39 points by pdog 9y ago|15 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
The combined effect from multiple genes is either linear (assuming no interaction) or superlinear (assuming some interaction) because other nonlinear effects are difficult for natural selection to operate on. Natural selection is the only p
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by pdog 9y ago
The effect is usually compounding because of how evolution by natural selection works. For example, if gene A gives a tiny 0.1% boost and gene B gives a tiny 0.1% boost, the combined effect is a 0.2001% boost (slightly greater than the sum)
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by pdog 9y ago
What uniquely distinguishes our species, more than anything else, is our ability to tell stories. From hunting a mammoth to constructing an atomic device, everything depends on our ability to believe in a common story.
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by pdog 9y ago
Blockchain and cryptocoin markets will probably grow the most in the next five years. The total market cap for cryptocoins will grow from $50 billion today to $1+ trillion in the future.
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Uber's "Route-Based Pricing" Predicts How Much You're Willing to Pay(bloomberg.com)
62 points by pdog 9y ago|55 comments
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Data Middleware: A Response to the Explosion of SaaS Apps(tomtunguz.com)
2 points by pdog 9y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
React and Vue.js are actually used in production for many real projects. Who uses Web Components? (Besides, apparently, the YouTube rewrite in 2017.)
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The Coming SaaS App Explosion(hackernoon.com)
1 points by pdog 9y ago|0 comments
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Recent Graduates Are Most Likely to Work in Sales, Making around $40K(bloomberg.com)
59 points by pdog 9y ago|57 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
This is a garbage review.
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The growing dissonance between SaaS and VC-funded business models(christophjanz.blogspot.com)
1 points by pdog 9y ago|0 comments
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Wolfram: A New Kind of Science, Now Online(wolframscience.com)
2 points by pdog 9y ago|3 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
Twitter's market cap moved up $200 million on the news that Biz is back.
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by pdog 9y ago
Makes sense. India has just 32 vehicles for every 1,000 people (compared to the 800 vehicles per 1,000 people in the United States and 140 vehicles per 1,000 people in China)[1]. If you're going to mobilize 1 billion people, you may as
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China's $1T Plan to Shake Up the Economic Order(nytimes.com)
189 points by pdog 9y ago|186 comments
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China Will Spend $500B to Reshape the World in Its Image(bloomberg.com)
2 points by pdog 9y ago|0 comments
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Harvard Releases Earliest, 1937 Recording of John F. Kennedy(nytimes.com)
2 points by pdog 9y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
> By using the Keybase app you agree to the following terms: you'll be a nice Internet person. Unfortunately, Keybase cannot be considered free software because of this clause.
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by pdog 9y ago
If you want to get a head start on the future of Ubuntu, check out Ubuntu GNOME[1]. It's an official distribution of Ubuntu and where it's heading. [1]: https://ubuntugnome.org/
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by pdog 9y ago
Wordpress is effectively the operating system of the web. It's much more than a run-of-the-mill CMS.
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by pdog 9y ago
Why hire nearly a million temporary census takers[1] every ten years? Even private companies have databases with far more detailed and more frequent demographic and psychographic information on every person in the United States. [1]: https
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Why some digital companies should delay profitability for as long as possible(hbr.org)
2 points by pdog 9y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 9y ago
Without getting into banal arguments about corporate personhood, there should be a "death sentence" for companies. Fines and regulations aren't always enough to punish the most egregious corporate abuses.
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by pdog 9y ago
Alternative title: there's nothing Apple's CEO cares about more than saving $50 billion for Apple and its shareholders.
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by pdog 9y ago
They're interface designers. If everyone was trying to be disruptive, we'd have a mess of interfaces and no usability standards.

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