spoonjim

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by spoonjim 4y ago
People are not working collaboratively in libraries. Offices exist for people to work collaboratively, otherwise they could work at home.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It's good that the laboring wealthy are higher status these days than the idle aristocracy but we may have taken it too far
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It still boosts investor interest 100x. Whether it should or not is a different story.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Why would they? They are buying into these companies at a $2m valuation which is absurd. It's a no-brainer move and almost nobody can rationally say no since YC is so powerful
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Fact is, the story has better legs when it's MIT, which is one of the reasons why the top universities have a "rich gets richer" pattern. Media loves to carry stories about "MIT nerds invent something" or "Harv
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Survival is a precondition for growth. YC companies will run out of their $500K in under a year and will need to raise money in the VC markets. If they can't, there's no 10-year horizon to worry about.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The public markets are fucking stupid. A good company is managed for the next 25 years while a public company has to be managed for the next quarter. This is why private equity investing, including angel investing, beats the socks off of pu
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The auto manufacturers themselves lobbied for these laws ~100 years ago. Cars were very new and they wanted to encourage the construction of single-brand dealerships all over the country. They knew that local businessmen would not invest in
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I can tell you that I have information indicating that RIGHT NOW major American retailers are losing LARGE amounts of money in stores where they don't have electronic tags. There is simply not enough labor to keep pace with price tag c
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It’s just written like… someone was a little drunk or very tired when writing it.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Did anyone else get the sense that this felt a lot like GPT-3 generated text?
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Most people think that their values come from some immanent "Self" but in reality our values mostly come from our surroundings. The same baby with the same genetics raised in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma vs. Upper West Side New York wil
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by spoonjim 4y ago
You don't know that you could make one until you do make one.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
If you're going to hold AAPL longer than a quarter, then the tick vs. 1/8 doesn't matter, and if you're not, your trade doesn't need to happen to support the core goal of financial markets which is to finance compan
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The existence of a "movement" makes it much more likely to succeed. If you are working at Goldman Sachs during the day, you need to be talking to Effective Altruism friends at night, or you will almost certainly be washed away in
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I would suspect that almost zero people do this because working in an environment changes who you are as a person. If you spend a lot of time around cancer researchers you will think that cancer research is the most important thing in the w
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Well one of the problems is that you're often hiring a CxO to bring characteristics of a bigger company to your smaller company as it grows. For example, if you have a haphazardly grown sales team doing about $10 million in revenue, yo
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by spoonjim 4y ago
You're preaching to the choir. I believe that 100% of murderers should be executed; I just don't trust any justice system to be 100% accurate in ascertaining who is and who isn't a murderer. Thus I am opposed to capital punis
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by spoonjim 4y ago
What? This is one of the two main arguments against capital punishment (1: it's wrong even for the guilty, 2: it's irreversible for those later exonerated) and these two arguments together have gotten capital punishment banned in
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Major source of income for Mormons, who run the state
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by spoonjim 4y ago
LOL
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by spoonjim 4y ago
The way that this course and many others in certain Harvard departments (CS, Math, Physics) work is that it designed to feel like a boot holding you under the water while you struggle to breathe, but when the semester is over you feel like
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yeah of course they don't make it harder to finger. They make the song harder to compose in the first place.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I don't think it's contemptuous to say that someone is behaving in a shocking way. If you stick your finger into a burning candle I will be shocked but not contemptuous of you.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Support for Trump, even from the people who did support him, was objectively shocking. He insulted prisoners of war during his campaign which was a bridge that I don’t think any Republican or Democratic candidate thought could be crossed.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
It's incredibly easy to learn the four guitar chords and a few plucking techniques to play some pop music, like 3 days for strumming chords and a month or two for something like Green Day's "Good Riddance." Playing at Jo
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by spoonjim 4y ago
I just like solitude. I don’t like people or insects or loud noises or flashing lights in my space.
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by spoonjim 4y ago
What’s interesting is that as a total misanthrope I have learned to conceal my scorn of pretty much fucking everyone and it’s earned me a reputation in my professional circles as a very warm and inclusive person. I guess I overdo it because
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Yes. Every company will be the direct or proximate cause of carbon emissions (products they buy in the course of operations, employees commuting, etc.)
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by spoonjim 4y ago
Another one of these is "diverse teams outperform non-diverse teams." Sure, maybe this is true in some abstract way, but given the race and gender makeup of the early founding teams at Silicon Valley's most storied successes,

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