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by stanrivers 6y ago
China perfected this all for us and now the U.S. government can piggyback off of their practices... great. Serious note - the below is such a scary concept. There is a line somewhere and this feels like you are starting to cross it... both
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How Did Being Happy Become a Matter of Relentless Competitive Work?(aeon.co)
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by stanrivers 6y ago
"Based on their data, a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. And perhaps more interestingly, only 4% produce a return of 10x or more and only 10% produce a return of 5x or more."
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Venture Outcomes Are Even More Skewed Than You Think(sethlevine.com)
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by stanrivers 6y ago
This is an interesting point that people miss sometimes - so thank you for bringing it up. I guess a comparison would be a utility that both owns the transmission lines and power plants? However, the transmission line rates are set by regul
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by stanrivers 6y ago
Always blows my mind what some people are capable of when they put their mind to it. The physical preparation matters, but the mental fortitude of special forces team members is approaching beyond human. "And as you think through how i
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Perseverance Is Great, but Don’t Forget to Prepare(medium.com)
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by stanrivers 6y ago
A large industry is setup, with how many [thousands] of people employed and expected to execute on their jobs related to this market, and they just lost a whole day of doing their job. So you have the opportunity costs for those people bein
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by stanrivers 6y ago
Fair point! I was talking about monetary damages - excluding any kind of loss of life or personal injury. I could have picked a better metaphor!
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by stanrivers 6y ago
"A data device critical to the Tokyo Stock Exchange’s trading system had malfunctioned, and the automatic backup had failed to kick in. It was less than an hour before the system, called Arrowhead, was due to start processing orders in
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by stanrivers 6y ago
100% agree with everything you said. Excel itself is never the problem. It user error, and sometimes even "boss of the user error," that leads to both situations you describe - analysis paralysis and overreliance. I call out the &
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by stanrivers 6y ago
You know, being controversial here and coming from a finance perspective, I've wondered if Excel has done more harm than good to the finance / M&A / investing industries. Endless iterations, countless different scenarios,
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by stanrivers 6y ago
How does the idea that while the user of the extension might agree, the friend group that is sharing the information that is being scraped has not consented? That seems to be an important difference, no?
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by stanrivers 6y ago
This is interesting - instead of suing under the idea that scraping itself is wrong (courts have ruled that public information that you can get on websites can be scraped... I think it is something like 50%+ of web traffic in the U.S. is bo
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by stanrivers 6y ago
Like, there is no doubt that humans probably noticed that hot water in the ground cooked things that fell into them. But, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that it was probably someone with boiled water from that whole fire th
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Using His Bike as an Ambulance, Man Saves 5k Lives(myindiamyglory.com)
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by stanrivers 6y ago
"Back in my cell, after the guard locked the door, I sat on my toilet bucket-where I could stealthily jettison the note if the peephole cover moved and unfolded Hatcher's sheet of low-grade paper toweling on which he had printed w
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Master of My Fate – Stoicism from a Vietnam Prisoner of War [pdf](usna.edu)
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by stanrivers 6y ago
Yes indeed - impressive man and Alzheimer’s Disease is what got him. Life is the opposite of fair more often than not it seems.
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by stanrivers 6y ago
As promised: https://www.usna.edu/Ethics/_files/documents/Stoicism2.pdf He has a couple other books and collections of writings. If you are looking for real world applications of Stoicism, there isn’t much of
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by stanrivers 6y ago
Good quote and just want to say that his philosophies are some of the most difficult sounding topics, but with he himself appearing to live a life that is true. I would also say look up James Bond Stockdale (yes that is really his name) - w
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by stanrivers 6y ago
I would second Mike Duncan’s podcasts on Rome as being well worth your time. And that is how I recall that period of time. It’s one of those situations where you let the reality of the situation deviate you from your ideals, I think. @throw
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by stanrivers 6y ago
So this is where I also struggle with Cicero. He was overly political, very worried about his own image, flip-flopped sides as suited him and was easily persuaded with gifts of status. But we remember him for his philosophies and writings (
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On Old Age(butwhatfor.substack.com)
131 points by stanrivers 6y ago|88 comments
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David McCullough – Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are(medium.com)
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by stanrivers 6y ago
I think the most important part here is for those who learn a language and wish to maintain it. I failed here. Don't fail like I did. Make sure, once you have learned a language, to turn part of your life into a world operating in that
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by stanrivers 6y ago
"Writing a book is an activity that creates more value than it captures. What I mean with this is that the benefits that readers get from it are greater than the price they paid for the book. To back this up, let’s try roughly estimati
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Knowing History and Knowing Who We Are(butwhatfor.substack.com)
1 points by stanrivers 6y ago|0 comments