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by pitt1980 8y ago
I suspect you're correct, One implication of you being correct though is how we should react to things that subtly move the culture one way or the other, The behavior of culture warriors of all stripes makes a lot more sense if you are
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by pitt1980 8y ago
interesting idea will the general public get to see submissions in the tournament? The bottlenecks around finding 'Lost Einsteins' (LEs) is an interesting problem You have to make yourself known to potential LEs (NYTs & HN see
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by pitt1980 8y ago
except that it doesn't apply to the something larger the way he's trying to apply it
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by pitt1980 8y ago
fwiw - 'In Dana’s view, what I saw as an earnest desire to get to the bottom of things, came across to grizzled cops only as evasiveness and guilt. She says it would’ve been far better if I’d categorically denied: “no, I did not steal
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by pitt1980 8y ago
"in a liberal democracy, as long you know you did nothing wrong, even if you got arrested, frisked, detained, there’d probably be no real need to panic. All you’d need to do is calmly clear up the misunderstanding and be back on your
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by pitt1980 8y ago
text recognition is a better tool, in this age, physical location isn't that important text recognition, lets the oppressor know who is thinking what, and who they're trying to communicate it with or makes nearly all communication
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by pitt1980 8y ago
every once in a while you find that a book you bought for <$10 is selling for several multiples of that https://www.amazon.com/Coaching-Run-Shoot-Football-Black/dp/... I have a copy of that on my shelf at home,
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by pitt1980 8y ago
I'm going to try hard to keep this in "Why are charter schools demonized?" territory and out of "Should charter be schools demonized?" territory -------- short answer, is that a lot of them tend to be run by scammer
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by pitt1980 8y ago
This assumes that the space at Harvard is currently constricted by the budget rather than other factors. That doesn't appear to be a good assumption given Harvard's current budget situation. And really begs the question, given Har
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by pitt1980 8y ago
book recommendations on topics with lots of noise competition are really helpful, thanks
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I was curious about Charlotte as well, best I could find: ----- The streets of most newer American cities follow very clear East-West and North-South grid patterns, but not here. The streets of Charlotte have some of the most unusual patter
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by pitt1980 8y ago
for the sake of adding data points, I prefer not being alone in an office as well I kind of think being in a group of 4-6 cubicles is pretty ideal
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Seems like any dynamic system that studies itself and copies or imitates past success, roughly has this problem. just to pick two, I think sports and politics both have this problem. where someone finds a new method and has success, everyon
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by pitt1980 8y ago
Since I've thought the same thing 'I've followed these people but never see their tweets' I googled around as to whether I could change the feed filter/ algorithm Looks like if you go Settings/ Content Preferen
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by pitt1980 8y ago
If your moral worldview doesn't equate those effected by abortion as valueless clumps of cells, The moral scale of legalized abortion dwarfs that of modern wars -------- Between 1945 and 1992, there were 149 major wars, killing more th
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by pitt1980 8y ago
What's actually hard is calculating those values with any degree of confidence If there's going to be a hockey stick growth at the end, the net present value looks a lot different, but what's my basis for knowing that it will
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by pitt1980 8y ago
idk, I've always been pretty skeptical of early decision programs what's the demo of kids that can commit to a private college before knowing what potential scholarship/aid packages are actually on the table?
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Thanks for the recommendation!
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More generally than just books, when to quit, is a really hard problem I'm reminded of the Hacker New link from a month or so ago about 'The emotional journey of creating anything great' https://news.ycombinator.co
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I think it's also why there's real value in investing time to explain the rules and why they're important and understanding that even over just 2 layers of bureaucracy its really easy to lose an understanding of the why behin
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by pitt1980 8y ago
This might be overkill for what you're trying to do, but... http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/20/writing-advice/ contains some food for thought
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Paul Tudor Jones and Goldman Sachs launching values-driven investment fund(slate.com)
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Isn't that the point of indexing them? If your thesis is 'I think one of these will win, I'm just not sure which one' and you hope whichever wins, covers the losers Expecting the final distribution of the coins to follow
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by pitt1980 8y ago
Considering the ratio of career gains that go to those working in a few expensive cities, even if this is largely selection effects, I'm not sure this paints a very rosy picture of the society we're creating. I'm reminded of
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I suspect 'All of the money and fame in the world' presents its own unique set of challenges to deal with, and those challenges are usually poorly understood
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Depends on the terms of the sale, maybe 'if you want to tell the buyer what to do with it, get that in writing, and expect the sale price to reflect term you've added, and to maybe kill the deal altogether'
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"This, I suspect, is one of those truths so horrible that you can't talk about it in public. This is something that reporters must not write about, when they visit gatherings of the power elite. Because the last news your readers
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by pitt1980 8y ago
Whole article seems like a bunch of koans, that would be interesting to see fleshed out, or argued one way or the other. I'd be interested in reading why those four people strike someone as the most accountable people. But at my curren
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by pitt1980 8y ago
That's a good tip, thanks for sharing.
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Is it a great story? Last GM: The Source Our source, whose identity is still unknown, contacted me via anonymous “egg” accounts on both Instagram and Twitter, claiming that they had a scoop. The source explained that they worked in artifici

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