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by pitt1980 9y ago
Yeah, exactly
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by pitt1980 9y ago
I'm not able to watch the video at my current computer but its actually really typical that when something becomes an advantage for being selected to a certain pool the success of the those in the pool after the selection will negative
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by pitt1980 9y ago
increasingly this isn't true it used to be the case that what ESPN offered was a deeper niche of games ie, if the team you wanted to follow was Ohio State, you're probably ok with just the OTA stuff if you wanted to follow, say No
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Alma Mater Blotter(takimag.com)
2 points by pitt1980 9y ago|0 comments
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by pitt1980 9y ago
all scientist were non-scientists first though, correct? Look, I get that there's some natural professional context and lingo that goes into these things, but for all the angst that goes into what esteem that population at large holds
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by pitt1980 9y ago
What's odd to me, is that lots of professors have blogs in which they write quite a bit in plain language that doesn't require an instruction manual in order to be read
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by pitt1980 9y ago
Seems like there's an interesting analogy between keeping a startup in stealth mode and keeping your ideas in stealth mode I see it pretty often here, the start up idea in stealth mode mocked (reasonably I think) the advantage of getti
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by pitt1980 9y ago
seems like 2 different aspects of the brand the perception here seems to be that Wal Mart only sells stuff that 'people of Wal Mart' want to buy there's is probably plenty of room in Wal Marts brand to get at - 'we sell
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by pitt1980 9y ago
reading between the lines, it looks like that's what's being attempted I'm guessing getting it adopted, you need to acquire large corporate clients who want to demand this sort of accountability from law firms they hire, more
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by pitt1980 9y ago
fwiw, starslatecodex did a review of Red Plenty http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/book-review-red-plenty/ I'm sure reading the whole thing would be a useful exercise as well
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by pitt1980 9y ago
Is fake news that's created in Eastern Europe or somewhere actually that tricky? who does it actually fool? There are obviously some people this stuff fools, as a class though, are the people who fall for this stuff high trust nodes in
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by pitt1980 9y ago
Carnegie Mellon
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by pitt1980 9y ago
I wonder what really going on inside the mind here My sister tells a story- when she was in college, a hypnotist came to her school to do a show, she was the one of the people called up on stage and hypnotized anyway... she did what the hyp
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$11 mil in Bitcoins Winklevoss brothers bought now worth $32 mil (2013, now 90)(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by pitt1980 9y ago|0 comments
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by pitt1980 9y ago
My mother in law suggested that we get one to see if our daughter will do that instead of sucking her thumb when tired Other night she had thumb in her mouth, fidget spinner in the other hand, so I'm chalking that up as a fail They&#x2
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by pitt1980 9y ago
"For plenty of reasons, Craigslist’s sustained success on nothing more than a basic HTML website has been particularly maddening to Silicon Valley. A recent Forbes feature on startups looking to disrupt online classifieds described Cra
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The Case for “Bad” Design(theringer.com)
3 points by pitt1980 9y ago|2 comments
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by pitt1980 10y ago
you might enjoy: https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/2484147-lessons-... from Ed Weissman (who's #6 in overall karma on HN)
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by pitt1980 10y ago
what's a good hedge against this?
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by pitt1980 10y ago
out of curiosity " previously made flashcards " are you taking the time to make them yourself, or are you using source that made them for you?
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by pitt1980 10y ago
I'm reminded of Tyler Cowen's (and many other people's) advice about reading difficult books plow through it fast the first time, with the expectation that you'll come back and read it again later http://margi
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by pitt1980 10y ago
I mean, obviously there are tradeoffs here your office RE costs are more your talent costs are more seems like a function of how price sensitive you are about the talent that exists at your headquarter, and the degree to which the headquart
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by pitt1980 10y ago
Tokyo is a pretty distinct place while turning our largest cities into Tokyo would have some advantages I'm a little hesitant to want all cities to resemble it
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by pitt1980 10y ago
" it's also a failure of policies that have led to the majority of job growth being in the biggest cities in the country" do you have ideas as to policies that would spread growth around the county? I heard the idea of decent
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by pitt1980 10y ago
yeah, it was an expensive lesson in the downsides of uncritically accepting large scale social narratives
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by pitt1980 10y ago
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/30/contra-nyt-on-economist... http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/03/one... Neither probably constitutes an outright lie, bu
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by pitt1980 10y ago
Actually I'm not sure the exact opposite isn't what's more common I see a lot of people basically caught up in the narrative soap opera of 'who gets to be in charge', and who the perceive good guys and bad guys are
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by pitt1980 10y ago
an idea to consider time might not be a very good dimension to compete along because it has a firm upper cap
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by pitt1980 10y ago
In Richard Branson's book he makes a big deal about keeping detailed notes of meetings, and how useful he's found the practice to be over his career its really probably a very underrated habit, especially as a new, low on the tote
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by pitt1980 10y ago
what does it take to become a congressional candidate? Do you need party approval? How wide is the Overton Window that a candidate can exist in?

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