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“Why wasn't this page found? We asked some leading economists.” [FT's 404 page](ft.com)
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Yup; the problem here is that while most people probably prefer smoke-free environments, heavy smokers are likely to be the heaviest drinkers, too. So the bar owners are incentivized to reward their best customers rather than the majority o
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Can you read Japanese? The problem might not be the characters themselves, but the fact that you can understand what's being written. I was working at a cafe in a foreign country a while ago, and I really enjoyed the background noise b
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> This type of civil trial only required a 9/12 majority and the other jurors really only saw this as a chance to stick it to the company. "Of course this man should be repaid for the damage done to him!" Any sort of nuanc
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The author said so himself: > If you’re a non genius who hasn’t formed a globally important company in your early 20s — and especially if you’re funny looking — you’ll probably learn more from Ballmer than you can from Jobs. Just because
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> i was prepared to snark I don't know why but this just got me laughing so hard. I'm thinking about one of those infomercials. "They laughed at me when I sat at the piano... but when I started to play!" It's lik
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I'm a bit of a procrastination literature connoisseur. In addition to WBW, here are some of my favorites: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140121123613-25056271-tasks... http://lesswrong.com/lw&#x2
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The point is that "some of the stuff" doesn't matter– the only thing that matters is that you do the most important thing. Once you've done the most important thing, you do the next most important thing. As long as you k
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Everybody's disappointed with Mark one way or another, it seems.
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Relevant bit from Playboy's interview with Steve Jobs: > Playboy: What does the money actually mean to you? > Jobs: I still don’t understand it. It’s a large responsibility to have more than you can spend in your lifetime—and I f
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What in particular would Zuck have to do to convince you that he's "grown out of his youthful moral indiscretions"?
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Whoops, I was thinking of puppies when I wrote cow. Need to get more sleep!
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Yes! It takes the Universe billions of years to produce a cow. It takes that cow less than a year to produce many more cows.
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Why not both? Isn't it possible that it was his passionate, persistent curiosity that allowed him to get to the heart of problems, see what everyone else missed, etc?
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This is awesome. I wonder what the next iteration will be? Will they eventually start giving out Raspberry Pis for free?
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That's one of my favorites too! Good to know. :-)
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He said it himself. "I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
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Out of curiosity, what are the top 10 best longform pieces you've ever read?
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Actually IMHO the curation of Reddit and HN is pretty bad. Just my $0.02. My problem is that it's focused on what's new and relevant. The web sorely needs (IMHO again) really well curated paths that are organized from first princi
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> Jobs or Musk in 2010 were tasked to turn Yahoo around Assuming either of them was actually given the mandate to do so by the board of directors, etc, I imagine they'd fire like 50-80% of the staff, get rid of anything that's
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That's an unfriendly interpretation, but a totally valid interpretation nevertheless. I think this happens to most people in most situations. We go into things with all sorts of expectations, and then find out that our expectations wer
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> Why did you work on getting insurance, getting incorporated, any of that, and why didn't you wait to do that until you had something with validation or growth? "If I met an undergrad who knew all about convertible notes and e
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That's an interesting perspective. It sounds to me like you did very well at things when you were young, and you maybe became used to being "good" or "smart" or "talented" without having to work very hard
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Here's the thing– the "rules" of grammar only really exist to facilitate effective communication. Every so often, a skilled communicator chooses to bend a rule in order to make a point. If the point is well made, it sticks, a
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That's consistent with my experience as a musician. I'm no prodigy. I don't have a musican background. When I started out, I couldn't sing in tune and I couldn't clap in time. All I did was dick around on the guitar
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> Even the business of creating WordPress themes must be very significant. It is, lots of people make full-time livings doing it, and even have entire companies set up to do it.
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Tyson himself cited his experience with Carl Sagan as one of the best moments of HIS life: > At the time deGrasse Tyson was just a 17-year-old kid from the Bronx with dreams of being a scientist, but Sagan had invited him to spend a Satu
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> Based on my experiences, the best way to teach kids is to show them the hidden interestingness in the things you want them to learn. This is consistent with the ideas behind BetterExplained [1] and Crash Course [2], both excellent lea
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You can always choose to ignore the bullshit and focus on having a thoughtful conversation!
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> We are still far away from having computer's truly be able to learn on their own, without having a human optimizing the responses. Could say the same about humans, though. We can't truly learn on our own without having others

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