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by tryitnow 15y ago
Please refer to the book linked to above, the seasteaders are pretty good at anticipating every possible critique and presenting the counterargument, which is often pretty well thought out. Off the top of my mind, I would say the pirate att
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by tryitnow 15y ago
Has anyone used either SAP or SuccessFactors and thought "wow, this is really great!"? I use SAP (in finance) and it's pretty craptacular in terms of user experience. It's generally counterintuitive and obscure. The problem with enterpris
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I really wish more of the wealthy had the foresight and ingenuity to focus their philanthropy on high risk high reward areas like Thiel does.
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by tryitnow 15y ago
From the article: "Incubators are "no more a waste of resources than going to business school," said Paul Graham. I laughed when I read that. Was that a joke? Business schools are a waste for many, if not most students. However, for the r
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by tryitnow 15y ago
As someone with libertarian leanings I find puff pieces like this pretty frustrating. I generally sympathize with the idea of opening up private equity markets to more participation, but I also recognize that there are reasons for these re
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I'd like a class on how to pick which online classes I should take. Actually, I'm only partially joking. I am guessing that there's just going to be an explosion of these opportunities in a couple of years. I believe in lifelong learning,
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by tryitnow 15y ago
Sorry, I don't understand the link to 20 under 20. My understanding is that it is purely philanthropic. And I'm not sure I've ever heard of Thiel advocating what Arrington is advocating. And honestly, is a university education not being w
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by tryitnow 15y ago
Yes, I think you're on to something. However, if you're an entrepreneur who doesn't mind just renting a room in a house or apartment, then the cost isn't so bad. You can rent a room for around $650/mo easily. Of course, you miss out on al
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by tryitnow 15y ago
This will probably fail. But many if not most ambitious startups fail. However, it's something that must be tried at least for the sake of forcing a reconsideration of the US's draconian immigration restrictions on highly skilled workers.
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I'd like to think the Internet has changed this to some extent. My guess is that I would have found it a godsend. I remember trying to learn advanced statistics and getting frustrated because all of the software was expensive. Nowadays y
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by tryitnow 15y ago
That's a great way to look at it. Safety has costs associated with it. So there may be some benefit to all these precautions, but if the probability adjusted benefit doesn't outweigh the costs then it's inadvisable to continue incurring t
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by tryitnow 15y ago
That's exactly how I view, although I put a pretty heavy negative weight on the hassles of navigating around airports, finding parking, gates, etc. With driving I feel a lot more in control. Driving is also a continuous activity, there's
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by tryitnow 15y ago
If you're just doing it for the money, stop reading HN and go into finance. If you're quantitatively inclined, hedge funds, if not then i-banking and PE. Seriously, if all you care about is money, go where the money is. It's certainly not
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by tryitnow 15y ago
#3 is great, but I don't see anything about Dropbox in my Pragmatic account. Looked under FAQs couldn't find it there either. I'll keep looking but in the meantime I'll just download and then upload to Dropbox. Update: It's under 'edit pr
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by tryitnow 15y ago
This discussion reveals one of the problems with our system of higher education: for some people it's one thing, for others it's something else. Colleges are like companies that are trying to do two very different things at once: broad educ
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I would like to see the US government stop subsidizing majors and colleges that don't get results for their graduates. Now there arises the problem of inadequate funding for the liberal arts majors. But as it is way too many people major i
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by tryitnow 15y ago
The observation this article makes is trivial: Wall Street give a a lot of money to politicians. But the chart it links to has some pretty cool visualizations about everything from political donations to how much it would cost to teach the
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I still get a kick out of people who talk about how education pays but don't the whole correlation/causation thing. Apparently, education for them does not include basic stats.
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by tryitnow 15y ago
It depends entirely on the type of business you plan to create. Let's put potential businesses in three categories: 1) technical innovation, e.g. Google. If you want to go this route then a PhD program might be your best bet. 2) business m
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by tryitnow 15y ago
It is unsurprising that this gets so many upvotes since HN is where many go to procrastinate (myself included).
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by tryitnow 15y ago
This quote is noteworthy: "Does Andreev have Facebook in his sights? "Badoo is more of a social network than Facebook, as on Facebook you interact with your existing friends in an absolutely virtual life," he says. "Badoo is more social: it
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by tryitnow 15y ago
Those are valid points, but I think they miss the purpose he was driving at. Maybe the title of the article could be different, but that's a minor issue. Bottomon line: He wanted a job as a developer. He got that job. Success. You're rig
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I second this. Although my story is different. I would put my toe in the water and try to learn to program, but it all just seemed so absurd to me, so I pursued other areas of study. Then earlier this year I started doing Hartl's Ruby on R
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by tryitnow 15y ago
For those unfamiliar with Palantir: "Palantir technology essentially solves the Sept. 11 intelligence problem. The Digital Revolution dumped oceans of data on the law enforcement establishment but provided feeble ways to make sense of it. I
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by tryitnow 15y ago
My main takeaway is to stop using the word "simplicity." I use it a lot and will cut back on it now because, as the author makes clear, people have pretty different notions of what simplicity means. This is especially important on cross-fun
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by tryitnow 15y ago
Great idea. We need a lot more people like you. I am assuming (and hoping) this is just a trial run for bigger and better things you have planned. There's definitely a need for this. You're the solution to our unemployment problem. Best
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by tryitnow 15y ago
"But the curation part of this effort is key. Though there will be a “Wild West part that someone can dig through if they’re in the mood,” he said the designated subjects will be heavily curated" I am very interested in how they will pull t
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I treat mental illness like I treat, race, gender, and other "sensitive" issues. Honestly, outside of my personal experience, I don't understand and probably won't ever understand the subjective experience of another. So I try my best to l
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by tryitnow 15y ago
"As I understand it, CBT is basically teaching the depressed person how to "fun" (or stress manage/expectation manage) their way out of depression." Most people would not describe "stress management" or "expectation management" as "fun" CBT
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by tryitnow 15y ago
I think this is awesome. I've bookmarked and I will share it all the young people I know. One thing that bothered me a bit: "My message to fellow programmers is stop making excuses, man up and do it." I am in a tiny minority here, but I ju

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