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by takinola 6y ago
This analysis is incomplete. Assume I am the best (objectively) at "managing internal coordination and external strategy" but I don't want to live in the worst house and I am allergic to hair shirts. Then I won't sign
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by takinola 6y ago
It has happened twice now that I order something off Amazon and it arrives packaged from Walmart.com. How the turn tables! I figure that some people have identified arbitrage opportunities in pricing differences between the two sites and a
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by takinola 6y ago
Try to be truthful to others. Always be truthful to yourself. Recognizing reality is a surprisingly difficult thing. Our perceptions are clouded by bias, wishful thinking and outright deception. The truth is the only foundation from which
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by takinola 6y ago
I once met a bunch of guys at Graceland that had just flown in a jet for delivery for Fedex. They fly in the plane and then fly commercial back home.
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by takinola 6y ago
This is quite literally the case of it being better to be lucky than good!
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by takinola 6y ago
These may not even be "flying" objects. My understanding is the US military has the capability to generate radar "ghosts" ie objects show up on your radar that do not exist. This, as you can imagine, would be advantage
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by takinola 7y ago
The intuition of Fourier Transforms is that any continuous, repeating waveform can be recreated by the addition of harmonics of a sine waveform eg a square wave, IIRC, is the addition of the odd harmonics. The cool thing about this insight
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by takinola 7y ago
The reason wells are hard to shut in has nothing to do with the actual turning off the tap. All wells are designed to turned off with BOPs (blow out preventers, etc). The problem is that if you shut in a well for an extended period of tim
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by takinola 7y ago
So what exactly is the problem? I see a lot of talk about dependency hell and node_modules bloat but I don't really hear much about what the actual downside is. Is it performance (I haven't experienced it)? Is it taking up disk
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by takinola 7y ago
Company announces bad news and then the stock price goes UP. WTF? This often seems counter-intuitive but is pretty simple to understand if you keep in mind that markets are always forward looking. For instance, if Company A typically makes
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by takinola 7y ago
This is such an important point. However, sticking to the "panic only as much as needed" idea is difficult because, sometimes, incentives are skewed to reward panic. Think about all the laws that are passed without regard to the
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by takinola 7y ago
Consider using nGrok as well. It allows you to replay calls with a single click.
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by takinola 7y ago
While it may be that the uptick is caused by the lockdown straining relationships, it may also be a case that the lockdown artificially depressed demand and then easing of the lockdown enabled people, who would have otherwise filed earlier,
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by takinola 7y ago
I don't know about the efficacy of Chloroquine in treating COVID-19 but I would imagine that we already know a lot about the safety of dosing people with the drug. Any one growing up in the tropics during the 70s or 80s took regular d
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Post YC Depression(bmaho.com)
412 points by takinola 7y ago|157 comments
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by takinola 7y ago
Poker is a great example where players can be playing very different "meta" levels. You can play the math ("given my cards, what is the probability I have the best hand on the table?"), play your cash ("are the oth
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by takinola 7y ago
Given that nothing we put into orbit or on another planet is going to be self-sustaining, you don’t need weapons to exert control on any residents of such infrastructure. A simple blockade will suffice
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by takinola 7y ago
To paraphrase (fictional) Mark Zuckerburg - "If you had invented the iPhone, you would have invented the iPhone" Every human that has ever lived has lived on the same Earth. We have all had access to the same resources. However,
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by takinola 7y ago
I have a Trello board for each project. On each board, there are five lists - Backlog, Bugs, Staging, Completed and Won't Do. Everything starts on the Backlog (or Bugs) list and migrates to either Completed or Won't Fix over time
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by takinola 7y ago
| And heck, why not implement a process by which all private contracts are approved by a company-wide vote? Wait, what? How would this work? Who would take a Google bid seriously if, after awarding them the contract, they turn around and
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by takinola 7y ago
"half of all mergers destroy value" I keep hearing this and it is from a widely misunderstood study. It did not find that half of all mergers destroyed value, instead, it found that only half of mergers created value. The propor
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The ghosts of technology in today’s language (2018)(medium.com)
99 points by takinola 7y ago|56 comments
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by takinola 7y ago
Nothing comes for free. You're digging for jobs with the hope that it turns up a diamond sometime along the way. It's tasking but the only question is if the possible payout is worth it to you.
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by takinola 7y ago
It's counter-intuitive but the best time to get a new job is when you are happy at your current job. Most people think "well, things are going great. Why should I look for another job?". It's pretty simple. Ask yours
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by takinola 7y ago
I once worked for a bank and I recall they had a policy not to bother chasing after any fraud below a (surprisingly high to me) dollar figure, except if it was suspected that an employee was involved. If there was suspicion that an employe
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by takinola 7y ago
It is lying but not fraud. Fraud is you pay me to do X but I take your money with no intention of actually doing X. If I take your money and tell you my 6 partner and I are going to do X for you (for values of X that do not depend on the
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The lines of code that changed everything(slate.com)
3 points by takinola 7y ago|0 comments
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by takinola 7y ago
Lots of comments seem to miss the point of this article. The point being made is to put the concerns of the customer first before yours. I see the opposite happen all the time in software development. You have two systems that somehow do
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SEC Charges Airline Baggage Handler Cum Investment Adviser with Fraud(sec.gov)
2 points by takinola 7y ago|0 comments
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How to Network Your Way Through Stanford University(nymag.com)
2 points by takinola 7y ago|0 comments

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