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by pesenti 13y ago
You are right. I should have written "Part of the UK system". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_grammar_schools_in_Engl... . But the point remains.
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by pesenti 13y ago
I wonder if this could be applied to rich countries: give $500/month to each adult citizen. No questions asked. Unlike many existing programs for the very poor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenu_minimum_d'in
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by pesenti 13y ago
The UK system is unique for selecting kids at a very early age. At 11, kids take a test to enter super selective public schools: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar_school . In some parts of UK only 2% of the 11 year o
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by pesenti 13y ago
This is part of scheme to avoid paying taxes on foreign income altogether: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-22/google-joins-apple-...
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by pesenti 13y ago
If everybody died, money would have no value. So yes, it's always worse than losing an unlimited amount of money.
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by pesenti 13y ago
Yes you are right, the effect is limited: you die. That's true of every black swan - the worst that can happen is everybody dies. But I don't think that anybody would consider that a "mediocre" outcome. And at the end, y
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by pesenti 13y ago
No rigorous formulation? The black swan has a very simple mathematical model: an unlikely event with an effect so great that it will affect the expected value. For example, a greater risk of dying after 20 or 30 years of use - which has not
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by pesenti 13y ago
And how do you claim to calculate expected value here? You are making the same error he is by ignoring the possible "black swan", which, with every drug, can have dramatic consequences. A positive but cautious conclusion like htt
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by pesenti 13y ago
Melatonin is a clear-cut Good Thing. The gains I have laid out are large enough I consider it irrational for someone not to use it. I consider it irrational for someone to believe that a limited number of hand-selected studies can give yo
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by pesenti 13y ago
Reading on YC about investing through a YC company into YC companies.
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Elon Musk Waves His Hand and Designs Rocket Parts Out of Thin Air(motherboard.vice.com)
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The Benefits of Cash Without Conditions(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by pesenti 13y ago
Interesting that Facebook succeeded at a design that Twitter claimed failed miserably for them (read fan-out instead of write fan out: http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-tw... ).
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by pesenti 13y ago
Does anybody know how that compares to Facebook? I believe they do not use write fanout but instead rely on the search federation model (the model claimed not to have worked for Twitter).
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Bitcoin Sees the Grim Reaper(nymag.com)
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Tumblr founder criticises rivals' publishing of performance stats(guardian.co.uk)
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George Packer's Change the World is now freely accessible(newyorker.com)
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by pesenti 13y ago
Article signed by 80 scientists: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2013/jun/05/trust-in-... ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5868406 )
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Trust in science would be improved by study pre-registration(guardian.co.uk)
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by pesenti 13y ago
Interesting subject. I just wish the author had done a deeper study. One user, one product bought = one article written. Wow, the standard for internet writing is really low...
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The One Big Secret to Successful Haggling(science.time.com)
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by pesenti 13y ago
Good point. I hope he won't mind. I think it makes his story the more remarkable (and an example to follow for many other people).
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by pesenti 13y ago
I hired Marco for his first job (at Vivisimo which I co-founded). He didn't do particularly well (I don't think being a regular employee fits him) but he did work on some things that he ended up leveraging later on at Tumblr and for Instapa
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by pesenti 13y ago
And in case you wondered, the company - Vivisimo - where Marco worked for his first job (before Tumblr) and where he owned stocks was also sold a year ago... So Marco made money from 4 different businesses in one year.
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Siri makes fun of iPad in Microsoft ad(youtube.com)
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Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap(simonsfoundation.org)
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by pesenti 13y ago
These four points illustrate the fact that making a large acquisition to try to transform/redeem yourself has not worked well in the past. Think AOL and Time Warner or HP buying autonomy.
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by pesenti 13y ago
My bet is that your model is no better than (weighted) chance to predict the next game. Just run the model on the years before 2012 and you'll see what I mean.
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The TV Networks are Becoming Irrelevant(nytimes.com)
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by pesenti 13y ago
Most companies today are already using scaled up servers to host their medium size warehouses (think Teradata or Exadata). That approach is very expensive (> millions of dollars), only works well with well-defined data, and does not sca

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