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by spyckie2 8y ago
Agree. The title hurts discussion and I think it could be less clickbaity and a bit more accurate to topic. The topic is more about attributes of people who do large scale endeavors. Success should not be used in this context.
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I'm from the US but currently living in Asia. I observe that in many places outside the US, the cultural context of many stories, themes, and values is scarcity, whereas in the US it is opportunity. For example, in many Asian novels, p
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Communication is nuanced, not my fault that words have a commonly accepted definition even if it has unexpected connotations attached. Understand the frustration though.
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SF is not going to implode any time soon though, which is why I say it can 'afford' it. China is a different story.
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"developing country" is a term used in economic discourse to mean something rather specific -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country . It has pretty specific criteria what qualifies, and America
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Articles about ghost cities are a fascinating read - sometimes exploring un-intuitive facts, like having 50m empty homes in China, yields a surprising discovery of the underlying systems. In this case, I think the system perfectly justifies
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There's a couple opinions I have on this. The first is if you really want to pursue this ideal, you can look for arbitrage opportunities. This means spending a lot of time taking multiple opportunities and selecting the ones that have
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Tried to create a mapping that mimics positioning or spacial makeup of letters so you can "guess" more instead of looking up the letters all the time: http://dotsies.org/design-your-own/#iaeouvxnsfrcbqlzkjwygp
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires Interesting to see the deltas (YoY) increase in wealth of these billionaires. The top 5 have a growth of $8-15bn a year in wealth in the past few years. This inc
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Going away from ads is solely a business model question. Ads (and micro payments) allow services to collect value much closer to the actual utility curve of a user. The issue with other models, (like charging a flat fee - ie, 1$ per article
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"Google One" suffers from designer in a box syndrome. It's probably a great internal name - hey, we've been providing storage for photos, email, docs, drive, and more, for over a decade, and we've finally integrated
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I attribute the titles being a mess because of the 'newness' of the web/tech era and the specific design challenges. There is a design pyramid which unfortunately build on top of each other for the majority of business use ca
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The detail that the author goes into not just typeface, but finding all the references for the visual style of Wall-E (diving into the creators, corporations, logos, art, propaganda, events in history, iconic products, architecture, movie r
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Agree with the concerns but disagree that there's a causal relationship in the examples that you've stated. For instance 7 year olds develop at different paces, there's definitely a lot of 7 year olds without phones who don&#
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My core argument is that using technology to help curb CO2 emissions is a way to solve the problem that is something we can do, and that ideological solutions - let's rework our society or kill half the population - aren't as easy
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Wow, this is really skewed towards the 1%, even if you meant it the other way. You do know that the global middle class yearly income is 1-3k a year, right? That's probably less than a typical American food budget. It's fine if yo
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What theories of economics tell us is that favoring one party over the other for reasons that aren't utility or value derived is being inefficient with your allocation of resources, compared to a market only allocates based on how much
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revisiting the thought, it may not have to deal with skillset as much as opportunity availability. There are more opportunities for American citizens that are equivalent to a PhD, whereas that may not be the case for non-Americans.
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I find it helpful to remove cultural origins and model it purely based on opportunity, and it makes a lot of sense. In this instance, take away Chinese / American from the article and reanalyze it with the kind of education they receiv
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Terminal 1 | Senior Engineers, Head of HR, Management Associates, Legal | Hong Kong | Full Time | Onsite | Visa We're a fast growing team in Hong Kong looking to build the recruiting firm of the future where technology empowers recruit
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by spyckie2 8y ago
Why are stupid things like politics being proclaimed as the universal influencer behind behavioral decisions? If this is a side effect of putting fairness on a pedestal, then I don't think optimizing for fairness is the right way for s
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I also want to comment that I miss Rails while working in Node. The node ecosystem feels like a giant hash table. It's really hard to figure out where things belong except to memorize it.
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Getting good at communication (not just eloquence or debate, but being effective at engagement and transferring information) is studying yourself in relation to other people at a deep level. People say being a good listener is the key to co
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Not praise, just a noticable difference in investment. If you are climbing out of poverty you focus on yourself and your family rather than integrating yourself in your community. For example, representing your school by being on a sports t
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this stuff is fascinating to me too, thanks for sharing.
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Really flattered by all the responses, did not expect it. I currently live in Hong Kong. You can reach me here - spencer @ terminal1.co For blogging, I prefer interjecting my thoughts into existing conversations rather than starting them,
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Thanks for sharing this, I have seen the same loosening in my own parents as well.
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When Asian parents says, don't get a literature degree, become a doctor, they have a good reason to say it. It's not necessarily this bad in terms of standard of living (the above description would be subsistence levels, maybe les
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The harsh reality of 1st or 2nd generation Chinese is that while many of us went to the top universities and grew up with a modern, 1st world mindset, we can't escape the fact that our financial and family background is from the develo
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This is good advice, especially on the communication part. It's always tempting to use the word "rewrite" but most of the time you just want some assurance that your code doesn't break things, and a rewrite is usually ov

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