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by tryitnow 10y ago
I like Sanders, but I can't agree with this. How will he deal with the following: 1) less natural gas could mean more coal => worse carbon emissions 2) this would almost certainly lead to increases in energy prices. These would h
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Understanding Libertarians(dreamcafe.com)
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You need to understand that you don't have to "need" a credit card in order for it to make sense to use one, so the fact that you have plenty of money is irrelevant. In fact there's an older banker's maxim that says
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by tryitnow 11y ago
Meh. The big component of cost is land, not structure. And where structures are expensive it's usually due to regulations. But any incremental cost reduction helps, so good for this guy.
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If I were this "very large" Chinese IT company and I really wanted to buy your business, I'd create a clone to give me better negotiating leverage. Edit: just to clarify - I personally wouldn't do this, because it is pos
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by tryitnow 11y ago
Hmmm, rent control has some problems, but your critique is missing a pretty big part of the picture. We need to look at what the average rents are, not the average rents of current available units. Rent control reduces the former dramatica
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by tryitnow 11y ago
I too am worried, but if this crisis comes to pass I will do my duty and start working for a hedge fund.
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by tryitnow 11y ago
There's a lot of uncertainty here. Maybe upvote/comments ranking will be a good thing, maybe it will be a bad ting. High uncertainty is actually good. That's what makes experiments valuable - they reduce the uncertainty and
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by tryitnow 11y ago
This is some of the best longform I've read in a while. If you're wavering between reading it or not, read it. I immediately bought one of Talese's books after reading this article. He's a fantastic writer.
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If high-rise development solved the problem of high rents, then why is Manhatten so expensive? Thought experiment: Let's say we do massive high density development in SF. A bunch of people move in, but now that SF is denser it's
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by tryitnow 11y ago
Yes, rents are high, but if you invest even a little bit of time you can find a fine residence in the Bay Area for a lot less than $4,500. I rent a two bedroom house in Oakland for $2,200. My commute is not too much longer than it would be
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by tryitnow 11y ago
People are baffled by Tesla's success? I don't really follow cars, but I do know that Tesla gets high marks from a lot of different independent organizations. Besides the whole electric car thing, there seemed to be a general opp
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by tryitnow 11y ago
A little measurement goes a long way. It's remarkable, but there's a lot of inertia even in otherwise successful organizations. And keep in mind salaries are just a fraction of the costs of staff time. Payroll taxes plus benefit
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by tryitnow 11y ago
I think there's an interesting article idea here, but NY post is not the publication to pull it off.
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The problem I have articles like these is that they create a false dichotomy. It's possible to have both. These two policies solve very different problems. The Basic Income supports the notion that it's not cool to force people t
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by tryitnow 11y ago
No, I don't think maximizing employment is a goal in and of itself. It would be better to not employ humans below a certain marginal productivity. Instead, those people need to focus on training/education to enhance their margin
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by tryitnow 11y ago
Glad to see this. I've criticized EFF before. Not because I disagree with them but because they haven't done a good enough job clearly communicating why they're relevant. This article shows that they're improving in th
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My impression is that bootcamps are a useful adjunct for people who are already teaching themselves how to code. Maybe they can accelerate the process. But taking some random person off the street and turning them into a developed, no. The
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by tryitnow 11y ago
A lot of folks are saying that companies don't have to raise money in the public markets. Yes, that's true, but... I'm skeptical. Simply put, the liquidity that comes with the public markets is a huge advantage - IF your co
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by tryitnow 11y ago
I think Spotify's recent funding (a loan!) penalizes it if it doesn't have a liquidity event.
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by tryitnow 11y ago
Agreed. And it appears he agrees to (he mentions it's a six month trial). It sounds like he's been pushed into this by others. I wonder if something like this happened to Elizabeth Holmes. She became a founder at a very young a
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by tryitnow 11y ago
Yes. There's even something about the "tone" of this piece that screams "spectrum" to me. As far as I know there's not reliable evidence that smart people have fewer friends. In fact, I would hypothesize just
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by tryitnow 11y ago
I think there's potential here, but the claims made in this article don't really hold for me. I have no idea why BQL would help facilitate communication between domain experts, business analysts, and data scientists. The parallel
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by tryitnow 11y ago
I'm currently finishing up the Data Science course and whether or not it's worth it totally depends on your goals. These courses are not going toake you into professional in the field, you'll need more than just one certifica
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by tryitnow 11y ago
Indeed. History, frequently ignored by today's techies, teaches us to be highly skeptical of claims about AI. In fact, if you developed a predictive algorithm that assigns degrees of doubt to claims about certain topics, I bet it woul
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After reading this article, it's no wonder. Conrad hasn't been a real technical person in decades. He's a hard-charging business type who learned from a billionaire real estate guy. Nothing wrong with that personality type
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This is completely unsurprising. In fact, I bet you could go back and look at old articles from the business press from decades ago that described similar happenings in older technology conglomerates. When I learned corporate finance it wa
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by tryitnow 11y ago
Is it really a problem if government scientists leave for industry?
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Was anyone expecting it to be really ready for mainstream use?
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This makes sense to me at a high level. A bit too wordy for my tastes but yes, if I were Apple I'd want to be super secure in part because I want to be big player in the payments arena. Although it makes it's not particularly rev

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