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by unbannable 17y ago
98% chance of failure? My understanding is that the 5-year failure rate of new businesses is about 40-50%. Given that an average 2x-year-old has a much lower chance of being successful enough in his first couple of jobs to (a) stay there fo
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by unbannable 17y ago
Those who want talent to trade highly against property are those who believe the best and most capable should be making the big decisions. They have the interest of humanity-at-large at heart. Those who want the reverse are those who have p
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by unbannable 17y ago
Memo: Evolution is an explanation of fact and contains no moral (or religious, for that matter) position. Accepting evolution as an explanation of what happened does not require that one subscribe to so-called "Darwinist" social and economi
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by unbannable 17y ago
If your freelance experience will set you up to get a good job, then you're not in a bad place. Most jobs available early on (e.g. out of college) suck; some jobs available later on are great. If you learn from and enjoy the people you work
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by unbannable 17y ago
People with wealth and connections are the bad guys, while the struggling guy at the bottom is the good guy. It's not that simple. There are people who have both wealth/connections and talent. There are good guys who are well-connected an
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by unbannable 17y ago
Invitation-only events don't belong in the technological scene. There is an all-out, bitter war going on between property (connections, inherited wealth, resources) and energy (talent, ambition, hard work). One is past, one is future, and e
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by unbannable 17y ago
For this sort of comparison, mostly-functional multi-paradigm languages like SBCL and Ocaml should be run through the benchmarks twice; once with imperative code, once in the functional idiom. The often-repeated complaint (of which I'm skep
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by unbannable 17y ago
I read that essay, and I think the reason for their existence is simpler: they make face-on mating more comfortable and aesthetically pleasing, which facilitates pair bonding. One disagreement I have with the OP is in the assertion that per
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by unbannable 17y ago
No. I had a friend whose high school life was literally ruined by cheating. He was a "pathological cheater": smart, and in the top 5 of the class by his own steam, but had a tendency to cheat on everything, even practice PSAT tests administ