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by the_reformation 6y ago
> Stay away from people who are world-weary and belittle your ambitions.
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by the_reformation 6y ago
How is this not a "WFH vs office" post?
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by the_reformation 6y ago
Still, why the need to be transactional? An eventually consistent delete seems fine here.
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by the_reformation 6y ago
Been following this guy on Twitter for a while, he's great. I like him a lot because he's so eloquently defends beauty and humanism vs. what he calls "pod life"- the Zoom/UberEats/WFH triumvirate- the airportif
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by the_reformation 7y ago
$100bn is a lot- but not as much as you seem to think. It's not the amount to move the needle on something like nuclear fission and drug research, which have a multiple of this budget annually. They picked verticals where production de
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by the_reformation 7y ago
This essentially happened after 9/11. We saw broad consolidation into the Big Three. The argument was that the restructuring meant we'd finally have an air industry with structurally bigger margins. This was sorta true- during a b
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by the_reformation 7y ago
Can you quantify the human suffering avoided by lower prices borne out of supply chains?
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by the_reformation 7y ago
By this same logic, consumers are willing to exchange their inability to set a default Maps app in exchange for the iPhone bundle, at the price Apple provides (discounted because of the services revenue they can extract.)
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by the_reformation 7y ago
Google launched a service consumers preferred. What's the issue? That they have a sustained competitive advantage?
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by the_reformation 7y ago
I can't tell if that's a typo or not, but it's great.
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by the_reformation 7y ago
Fascinating that the Stripe CEO has become the foremost critic of San Francisco municipal governance.
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by the_reformation 7y ago
Re: all the comments that this article doesn't disclose the Bloomberg conflict of interest. It was published before Bloomberg entered the race. Granted, you could make the argument that Bloomberg was shadow directing the publication to
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by the_reformation 7y ago
Television advertising isn't stuck in the dark ages. Political candidates run and create ads targeted at specific counties or districts.
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by the_reformation 7y ago
Absolutely incorrect. I worked there for 3 years, saw one person fired, and everybody who joined with me ended up vesting their shares. Most got promoted too.
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by the_reformation 7y ago
Dumb question- why is 1/3 from donation when the endowment is so massive?
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by the_reformation 7y ago
Harvard receives federal funding through student tuition assistance and research funding.
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by the_reformation 7y ago
I'm going to posit that 92% of what we think we know about Alexander the Great is wrong, not just his death.
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by the_reformation 7y ago
This doesn't make any sense. It's not zero-cost for a company that provides a book to also provide an audiobook. Both require their own supply and value chains. An audiobook will require recording studios, artists, a streaming aud
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by the_reformation 7y ago
The UI is so smooth that I visit almost daily and just punch in cities to see what itineraries come up. I just moved to New York and I'm having a blast seeing all the new nonstop destinations I have.
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by the_reformation 7y ago
The American Constitution argues free speech is a human right, not granted to us by government, but by nature. Even if some all-seeing deity could build a more optimal society by restricting the free speech of some group, this would be a mo
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by the_reformation 7y ago
It's totally reasonable for Google to draw the line somewhere in an exceptionally crowded presidential race. Imagine if anybody could get around Google's fraud controls by just declaring yourself a presidential candidate.
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by the_reformation 7y ago
Even when literally losing thousands of dollars to honor a price advertised to customers, HN manages to spin's Amazon's actions as somehow duplicitous.
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by the_reformation 7y ago
Were there no McDonald's in Iraq? Although that exception doesn't disprove the underlying point; Iraq is probably the most developed country America has been at war with since the Second World War.
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by the_reformation 7y ago
We agree that the pension obligations are the reason why the USPS (once one of the most innovative logistics organizations in the world) has degraded so throughly. But pointing to shadowy private interests is backfilling personal politics i
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by the_reformation 8y ago
FAANG companies have a very obvious interest in a net neutrality resolution. The ubiquity of the coverage of this particular bit of regulation is the FAANG companies flexing their PR muscle.
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by the_reformation 8y ago
https://stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title-ii/ It's hard to read this and walk away supporting net neutrality.
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by the_reformation 8y ago
"I’m a big fan of Slack Technologies Inc.’s approach to corporate finance. Near the peak of the unicorn boom, in 2015, Slack Chief Executive Officer Stewart Butterfield correctly noted that “it might be the best time for any kind of bu
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by the_reformation 8y ago
What the hell is "brown uncle" syndrome?
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by the_reformation 8y ago
The evidence is exactly the opposite; "democracy and economic growth and development have had a strong correlative and interactive relationship throughout history." Refer here: http://ftp.iza.org/dp10880.pdf . This
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by the_reformation 8y ago
So you expect all customers to accept higher prices because of the community aesthetic you personally enjoy more?

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