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by tjic 17y ago
I've launched two startups, both of which have had some - minor - degree of success...and both of which have had major problems. I got Steve's book a few months ago and have been reading it ... and re-reading it ... and re-reading it. I sla
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by tjic 17y ago
item 6: no more custom chips. item 7: everyone can create custom chips in their garage. Color me befuddled...
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by tjic 17y ago
> He starts his article with a line from Maggie Thatcher on socialism. Not a subtle way to tee off a debate - he may as well have dropped in a couple of references to the Third Reich while he was at it. Thatcher presided over a countr
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by tjic 17y ago
I read a quote somewhere (forget where) saying "folks in favor of universal healthcare keep saying 'lets have a debate'. OK, then Mackey's editorial was a PERFECT example of having a debate ... and he's getting castigated for it. This sho
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by tjic 17y ago
"The principle of revealed preference." If he's not buying it, he's not really valuing it Exactly!
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by tjic 17y ago
> Companies like IBM that take this position [i.e. buying the most affordable engineering talent they can, even if it's off shore ] are hurting America. B.S. If you can purchase one apple for $1 or an identical apple for $10, failing
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by tjic 17y ago
IBM is shipping jobs overseas because ... wait for it ... (1) the complete cost of employing an American, including taxes, regulations, compliance, etc., is much higher than employing an Indian national. That's it. That's the complete list
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by tjic 17y ago
> I value lots of works of art very highly, but I've hardly ever considered buying art. Then either the art you admire is way out of your price range (I admire Alphonse Mucha, but I don't own any originals!), or the artists you admire
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by tjic 17y ago
When I accidentally end up on Rt 128 at rush hour, I do this. (I note that I was on a mailing list with a bunch of relatively smart people once, and I mentioned what I did - and even among the smart folks there was a lot of outrage because
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by tjic 17y ago
Why are artists poor? That's the wrong question. In a state of nature, EVERYONE is poor. Getting out of poverty means one thing: creating something that other people consider to have value, and then exchanging it for cash. Heinlein had rule
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Yeah, but this way he gets 40+ points of HN karma...
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by tjic 17y ago
X.a() then X.b() may be completely different to X.b() then X.a(). This implied ordering is not really expressed anywhere. Oh noz! OO is capable of CORRECTLY modeling complicated real life objects like Rubik's Cubes, cars, clothes, and ven
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by tjic 17y ago
The proper approach to these debates is either (a) rational ignorance [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_ignorance ], (b) study up on both sides. I dislike the word "revisionism" as a slur against the standard position. Revision is
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by tjic 17y ago
> _IF_ the draws are independent That's a big IF. Let's do an experiment with people: we ask them to stand in a road, then we tell them that in a moment a hologram of a fire truck will come at them. They are requested to stand in the r
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by tjic 17y ago
You're missing my point. The original post was arguing "people are stupid and credulous". I am arguing that, no PEOPLE ARE NOT STUPID - they are finely evolved to operate in the real world. If you present people with a REAL WORLD PROBLEM a
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if we’ve just observed the coin appear as heads 29 times in a row, what are the odds that the same coin will land on heads on the 30th toss? Many people would argue that the chance of this happening is less than one in a billion, as we j
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by tjic 17y ago
Having launched a few ventures, I've learned that smarts and hard work are not most of the story - having the right venture is. Tipjoy struck me, from the very first time I heard of it, as the entirely wrong idea. It "solved" a problem tha
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by tjic 17y ago
Fascinating. Conventional wisdom to the contrary, it's always neat to see how sausage is made. This is why folks love police procedurals and forensics TV shows ... and its extra fun when the topic is math.
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by tjic 17y ago
> My intuition is that removing corn subsidies Heck, why not go ahead and remove tobacco subsidies!
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by tjic 17y ago
Is it just me, or is this article borderline incomprehensible? Pull quotes dropped right into the text flow, relating to nothing, and unclear in their import. Check. Graphic design pushing text to the margins? Check. 7 different colors of
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by tjic 17y ago
This so clearly falls under Fair Use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Fair_use_under_United_... 1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational
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by tjic 17y ago
This article didn't make a lot of sense to me. Plywood can't be recycled because it has nails and paint, but plastic can? The reason that folks don't recycle plywood is that it's part of construction debris. When you gut a place, you end u
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by tjic 17y ago
As someone who's done a fair bit of roofing, I would never in a million years butt two surfaces next to each other, caulk them, and call it a roof. Water is insidious. Things move and degrade with age, with the seasons, and with the weathe
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I didn't inject it. These folks self-describe on their website as "Social Justice teachers". If the website had been about hemp clothing and the folks called themselves "pro-marijuana activisits", that would be relevant. If the website had
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by tjic 17y ago
Idiotic. People spend most of their money on things other than food, so to save money by cutting your food budget is silly. It's far more efficient to cut your housing budget by the same number of dollars. Also, this reeks of muddy-headed
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by tjic 17y ago
This part is wonderfully hypocritical: ----- Anne and Vincent LiMauro moved into the southernmost apartment, which they bought for $225,000. As successive units were sold and inhabited, and their residents began to embellish their spaces, M
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by tjic 17y ago
I am amused that the architect called townspeople out for being Republicans, because in a "democracy" people are free to do whatever they want. In fact, the more powerful the demos (the people) the less individual freedom we each have. Whe
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by tjic 17y ago
I don't think the inclusionists care that much - they just want the information to be out there. The deletionists, though - yes, they do seem to care about the "right" version. IMO.
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The sad thing is that the Inclusionist / Deletionist war does not need to be fought at the data level - they could coexist at the view level. There could easily be two views into the db: * en.more.wikipedia.org * en.less.wikipedia.org Let t
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by tjic 17y ago
I've got far too many things that I wouldn't trust some stranger around: cash, rare books, tens of thousands of dollars of tools, firearms, dogs. If it works for some people, great, but I thought the idea of CouchSurfing.com was insane the

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