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by thedevil 10y ago
There is a book I recently read: https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-De... This is a book about negotiation written by a hostage negotiator. It was an eye-opener that I needed. One of the key principl
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"If you go to dilbert.com the cartoon comes part and parcel with his blog." You can see blog titles from his blog if you scroll down and read them. Is seeing blog titles (if you choose to scroll down and then read them) like &quot
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"Might his lower Twitter engagement have something to do with people getting sick of hearing from him about Trump?" Do you really think the attention he gets on Twitter DROPPED because of him talking about Trump?
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by thedevil 10y ago
Is this the same Twitter that has allegedly shadowbanned Scott Adams multiple times for his political positions? If Twitter is interested in transparency, how about some transparency on that? Twitter's actions make me distrust any &q
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Utah. I didn't research it thoroughly but have heard numerous times that it's legal. It was only a week-and-a-half pay at a low salary, so it was more of an insult than significant financial loss.
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by thedevil 10y ago
Leave. Your last job did not value you or your work. Don't invest your soul into a project unless it's well run (or you're the one running it) and you reap some of the rewards. I worked some weekends for a project at my las
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by thedevil 10y ago
They learned how to train deep nets ten years ago (and are getting better fast as new techniques are invented). As a result, neural nets started taking over. Big Everything is important, but without the new techniques for deep nets, AI woul
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by thedevil 10y ago
I can understand why they might want to project an image, even an outdated image if, for example, their customers are older. But who are they projecting that image to? There's no customers around and I don't think that projected
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by thedevil 10y ago
Forgive the petty distraction, but did anyone notice the outdated dress code in the picture at the top of the story? They've got people doing manual labor in a repair shop far from customers, and making them wear white shirts and ties
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by thedevil 10y ago
I was about to argue that the HN title should say "Elderly patients..." since there's no guarantee that the study generalizes. However, it looks like NPR also generalized the conclusion in their title.
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by thedevil 10y ago
Reminders and snoozing are key differences from gmail. Also, I disabled bundling right away after I started using Inbox. The bundling is useful sometimes but I thought it more pain than it's worth. Perhaps that's why more people
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by thedevil 10y ago
I do something similar: put in a pile and about once a month I scan the pile (I bought a printer with a paper-feed just for this), upload it to cloud storage, and date it.
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by thedevil 10y ago
I wanted to take this opportunity to give a shameless endorsement of Google's Inbox app. I prefer something like what the article called the "piler" strategy. I don't like spending precious time and energy organizing thi
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"the industry—despite its language of revolution—is quite conservative" This statement is crazy and captures the folly of this article. Silicon Valley is not conservative in any sense of the word. SV is about as radical as you c
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by thedevil 10y ago
Anyone have any really good sources to learn to think about virality? I'm getting a few insights reading this (e.g. demonstration virality now seems stupid obvious but I had never thought about it before ), but I'd go a little dee
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by thedevil 10y ago
> There are professional day traders who earn an income over the long run by day trading. This is a true fact. Got anything to back up this "fact"? > The model I gave was the simplest model I could think of that would let y
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by thedevil 10y ago
I'm saying it's not reasonable to think that a private individual can make a long-term profit day-trading, skilled or not. It's quite reasonable to suppose lots of impossible things. How does your model account for magnitude
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by thedevil 10y ago
Okay, okay. To be strictly correct, I should have said something like "with that distribution and any reasonable assumption about correlation".
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The way the math works out with that distribution: only 80% of them lose money over one year, but as time continues over multiple years, the percent losing money approaches 100%.
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by thedevil 10y ago
Fraud triangle: http://www.acfe.com/fraud-triangle.aspx Fraud is usually a combination of opportunity, pressure, and rationalization. It sounds like a bad powerpoint slide, but it changed the way I think. People are untrus
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by thedevil 10y ago
Sunshine and rainbows aren't produced by the economy. Google searches are, even though they are free. If we're talking about how good the economy is, I'd argue that we should count all the good (and bad) that the economy is
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by thedevil 10y ago
A few rants (mixed in with a few half-baked ideas): 1) Economic progress from the industrial revolution is about quantity. We learned to make a lot more stuff. The industrial revolution is not quite done, but the impact is less and less e
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Sure, the author's worldview is twisted a little by politics, but I recommend skipping to the bottom, there's some substance there. He has some interesting charts regarding how much salary is requested by people of different skill
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I have long supported offering free (tax-payer-funded) housing for the poor - studios or small apartments built in cheaper areas but with free internet. It seems like a win-win for everyone, for a lot of reasons. I'm usually afraid to
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"However, the alternative hypothesis you're outlining is that he's someone who cynically exploits racial tensions for political gain." This is exactly what I'm saying. And I agree that it's not good. I don&#x2
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"Are you seriously asking this?" Yes, I seriously believe in asking questions. Birthers are ridiculous, but you don't actually have to be racist to be a birther. It's driven primarily by partisan politics. Racism just
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I'm not really on either side (I strongly dislike like Trump but also I don't identify with the left at the moment), but I'm curious about the argument here. Why do you call Trump racist? That's a very strong accusation
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It's a little disappointing that it takes so much bravery to disagree in Silicon Valley. Supposed, it's a place of brave ideas and independent thinking. But in reality, there's a giant groupthink going on there. Disclaimer:
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I disagree with Thiel a lot too, but I always recommend everyone to read his thoughts. He thinks independently and is smart. Thus, from him you can pick up interesting ideas that you won't get elsewhere.
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Which is more brave? (a) for someone to say that they're proud to be gay at a republican convention (b) for someone in Silicon Valley to openly support Trump I'm actually not sure.

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