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by visakanv 10y ago
> "if your story was really credible it would involve a lawyer" Damned if you do, damned if you don't. "Aha, she's got a lawyer! She's making up this nonsense to try and get a fat cash payout from Uber!&quot
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by visakanv 10y ago
> Personally I haven't heard many such stories from women in tech. Women learn from a very young age to be very selective about who they trust, in a much more nuanced way than men do. If you haven't heard such stories from wome
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by visakanv 10y ago
That is exactly the message of the post, hence "purchase fuzzies and utilons separately", and not "forgo all fuzzies for utilons"
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by visakanv 10y ago
I didn't remove anything that he said; I just presented his multiple lists of examples in a easier-to-read format. The original essay probably was formatted a particular way on the printed page, but it's turned into a tedious wall
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by visakanv 10y ago
Relevant LessWrong article – Purchase Fuzzies and Utilons Separately: http://lesswrong.com/lw/6z/purchase_fuzzies_and_utilons_sepa... > There is this very, very old puzzle/observation in economics about th
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by visakanv 10y ago
I loved it so much that I once tried to do a 'modern update' of it, with headers and bullet points and so on. It's meant to be a supplement to the original essay, not a replacement: http://visakanv.com/blog&#x
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by visakanv 10y ago
^ This is always amusing to me, because people who get really successful do it by compounding earlier wins over decades. I'm reminded of @pmarca's advice for startup founders who want to meet VCs: > The best way to develop cont
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by visakanv 10y ago
I wouldn't say there are any new insights per se; I'm maybe just more intimately acquainted with them. Ie when I first read it, most of the descriptions about things like how a paycheck influences your thinking/behavior were
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by visakanv 10y ago
Nassim Taleb's Antifragile. First read it when it came out in 2012, and I was still unmarried and unemployed. Interesting to re-read it now that I'm married and have been working for 4+ years.
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by visakanv 10y ago
> American think tanks have nothing to do with this as they come from industrialists, that did not even exist in Europe at the time of the Royal institutions. That's exactly the point though, isn't it? That American think tanks
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by visakanv 10y ago
Read the article, and you're right.
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by visakanv 10y ago
> we shouldn't judge a comment on whether we recognize their username, but rather on quality of content Ah right, I think I see the nature of our disagreement / misunderstanding. I totally agree with you on the general principl
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by visakanv 10y ago
From the Mass Effect Wikia: > Cerberus is a human-survivalist paramilitary group led by the enigmatic Illusive Man. Cerberus' core belief is that humans deserve a greater role in the galactic community, and that the Systems Alliance
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by visakanv 10y ago
That doesn't mean anything, though. "Some people who do X also do Y" does not imply that "people who do Y are qualified to comment on X." For example: Elon Musk is a Twitter user. I too am a Twitter user. So's
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by visakanv 10y ago
A person who's convinced that Zuckerberg is a selfish agent will choose to cynically interpret this as some sort of tax evasion, PR stunt, etc
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by visakanv 10y ago
"Mr. Zuckerberg, is it true that you screwed a bunch of Hawaiians out of their property?" "That means I'm smart. When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by their huge tracts of lan
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by visakanv 10y ago
The rules were probably designed by and for a group of people with a specific culture and worldview, who didn't plan or design for wealthy entrants (even pre-Zuckerberg).
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by visakanv 10y ago
> if my ancestors worked hard to provide for their families and I, down the line, inherit some land or money I should feel bad about this? Why? You don't have to feel BAD about it; just recognize it. People inherit vastly different
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by visakanv 10y ago
I use one-tab.com; works fantastically for me. Not a huge stretch to say it changed my life.
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by visakanv 10y ago
Some fun facts: Zuck's favorite book(s) growing up was the Ender's Game series [1]. He learned Mandarin and spoke to Chinese audiences [2]. As such, I don't think he's setting himself up to be POTUS, that seems too smal
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by visakanv 10y ago
As Paul Graham said, "So if Apple's not going to make the next iPad, who is? None of the existing players. None of them are run by product visionaries, and empirically you can't seem to get those by hiring them. Empirically t
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by visakanv 10y ago
I think about this a lot too, and the question I have is – has there ever been a visionary who made his way to the top of the corporate ladder of ANY company, however enlightened? Would love to hear about it.
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by visakanv 10y ago
> What Apple needed was another person like Steve, but unfortunately, by letting Steve select that person, they ended up with someone completely unlike Steve. Paul Graham wrote about this back in 2012: "I was talking recently to som
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by visakanv 10y ago
> Apple came there, wanted to be first again Interesting point. Got me thinking about how the iPod was not the first MP3 player, and how the iPhone was not the first smartphone. I believe the philosophy was "don't be the first;
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by visakanv 10y ago
Does it use a middle-out algorithm?
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by visakanv 10y ago
This phenomenon is alluded to in the spoken bit at the closing of Jason Mraz's "Details In The Fabric", with "You're an island of reality in an ocean of diarrhoea".
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by visakanv 10y ago
Yup, that is what I meant
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by visakanv 10y ago
It's totally on-topic. It's a planning/execution gap.
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by visakanv 10y ago
> I say this in a general sense, not specifically to Uber. It comes down to trust. Yeah, I suppose this is true. Thanks for sharing your thoughts, I appreciate it.
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by visakanv 10y ago
> Saying that it's worth giving up all the improvements this can make to make that impossible through just this one venue is frankly ridiculous. It certainly is; it's also something I've never said

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