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by temphn 14y ago
Strongly disagree. photon137 is just copy-pasting the conventional wisdom into a comments thread and calling it a grand insight. Yet the deference afforded these "experts" is vastly disproportionate to the rate at which economics produces t
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This is the mainstream view. The alternative view is that FDR made the Great Depression great, with arbitrary orders like NIRA and attacks on business. He ruled for four terms and the Depression coincidentally lifted after his death. Out of
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> in order to become founders for real The first 1000 people at Facebook are millionaires. http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/facebook-1... Any early Facebook employee has both the money and the name brand to be a cred
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Does this work for sites that are behind logins? Didn't see anything related to authentication but may have missed it.
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This gives new meaning to winner-take-all. Either a billion dollar acquisition or bust! You have to wonder whether someone else might be interested in acquiring a competent company in the space for something short of $1 billion, though.
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This is a good comment. Google Glass is technologically amazing, but the demo video was incredibly distracting. You only want augmented reality when you want it . You don't want random notifications and messages from other people cropping
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> even if you think the top employees are doing the work of 2 people each, or even 3 people (which is a lot to expect of anyone) Claim: in software or engineering, your top employees are doing the work of a thousand people, or an infini
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> Drug dealers and gangbangers aren't stupid. Dispute the premise. The head capos might have some smarts, in a cunning sort of way. But the footsoldiers and unaffiliated who get into gunfights on public streets? Not so smart. Disorganiz
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Yes, I know this. The solution is to either repeal those tax breaks or provide the same ones to individuals, to put all purchasers on the same playing field. Can't possible be more dislocating than the health care reform bill itself.
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After a government project just fails spectacularly...the response is yet more spending of taxpayer money? Why not just free the health insurance market to operate like the auto insurance market, such that individuals can buy on their own w
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But there was significantly more investment in cleantech than there was in the Internet during the last decade. While said as an aside, if true, this is incredibly significant. Even if there is an internet bubble, it's hard not
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Right, but it's about the psychological state. Jimmy Wales made his money outside of Wikipedia. Linus wasn't doing Linux to get rich. If you read their bios, the Google guys weren't thinking about getting rich. Of all the recent crop of suc
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"Strike it rich" implies fame and impact. You are arguing terminology. They are not the same. Wikipedia, Khan Academy, Linux and Rails are fame and impact. Github is smaller than Zynga but has much higher status in the programmin
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There are several points this guy doesn't acknowledge: often excluded from that culture, not because we're lousy coders If he is an amazing engineer, he's not "excluded" from the culture. You need a command line and an internet co
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Just want you to know that there will be people who utterly reject your worldview (in a phrase, "yes means no") and all it entails. In your mind consent can be retroactively revoked years after the fact (to wit: "the successful advances w
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What is this conversation about? Read the complaint. Ellen Pao, an extremely wealthy woman, has issues with virtually every partner at KPCB, one of whom she sleeps with and subsequently charges with sexual harassment years later. By her own
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his advances weren't unwanted before or after (or, for that matter, those times they were successful). The successful advances were unwanted? Are you kidding? This is a reductio ad absurdum of feminism and may well be the most lu
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Reread the suit. She claims he harassed her "over a period of years". But during that period, she slept with him consensually! If you don't see how that detonates Ellen Pao's claim that his advances were unreciprocated (i.e. that they were
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by temphn 14y ago
I'm not implying promiscuity. I'm implying that it can't actually be "harassment" if she lost track of how many times they had consensual sex. Doesn't "yes" mean "yes", not "yes but I might sue you later"?
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Do you agree that Occam's razor slices differently for others? For example, if you agree that women are human beings, you also agree that they are just as prone to any human to misrepresent the facts in their favor. And Ms. Pao stands to ma
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by temphn 14y ago
Much more reasonable interpretation: he didn't leave his wife for her, so she got angry and threatened to destroy him. A jilted lover story line makes a lot more sense than a "harass into having sex two or three times" story. No physical fo
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In the suit, Pao alleges that she was sexually harrassed for years by Ajit Nazre, a former partner with the firm who left last year. The two took a business trip together in February 2006, the suit says, during which Nazre mad
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It's a societal convention that the smartest people go to college. However, systematic studies suggest that this correlation is not causation: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/02/23/elite-colleges-not-th... Now, the two economists hav
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Does the average plumber make more than the average college graduate? That is the real question. If it's even close, especially after accounting for student loans, that is an indictment of the current higher ed system.
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How about lifetime income, with the plumber beginning work at age 18 and the doctor starting at age 37, paying off all student loans, with both retiring at 65? The doctor may come out ahead by 50-55 or so, but certainly not by 37. This hold
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Exactly right. This is why all the innovation is in the virtual world rather than the physical world. Engine explosions [1], airplane crashes [2], and radiation poisoning [3] were the price of progress in the early 20th century, but we've b
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Dunno. 5 years later and this pair of comments in that thread seems more interesting: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35095 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35103 Dropbox is a huge business, with real revenue, which has helped mi
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Elon Musk made his fortune with Paypal, an internet company. Google made its fortune on the internet. There is nothing that prevents people from making the easier dollars first in something like Zynga and then going and putting their person
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Google should consider auctioning support time. Make it into a profit center rather than a cost center. No guarantee of a successful outcome, but it takes the situation out of the press.
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Life insurance companies are the largest lobbies for increased death and inheritance taxes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/hanisarji/2010/12/01/life-insura...

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