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by vmurthy 5y ago
You would probably enjoy "Start with No" [0] referenced in the book. I took away a few lessons from this book :) [0] https://www.amazon.com.au/Start-No-Jim-Camp/dp/0609608002/re...
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by vmurthy 5y ago
A perspective : Incentives, social proof and momentum are powerful things which might explain why this could still be applied in 2021 (I have no connection to Amazon or know anyone there so this is a theory). What do I mean? Imagine you ar
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by vmurthy 5y ago
Just jumping in to say that the successes of Pfizer/Moderna/AstraZeneca et al may have primed us to think that vaccines are usually successful but the reality is that these are the exceptions (happy ones!) [0] . I can't find
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by vmurthy 5y ago
I'd continue with frequent hand-washing/sanitising to this. I remember reading that Influenza virii spread via touch as well [0]. Plus, it's just good hygiene :) [0] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/dise
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by vmurthy 5y ago
>And it didn’t look good for an EV company of all things Didn't a company filled with really smart people (no, I don't mean it sarcastically) not know that it'll look bad before buying a billion dollars worth bitcoin?
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by vmurthy 5y ago
Footnotes are revealing. Here's the first of 7. FYI rest 6 are similar looking : "1. On April 14, 2021, Union Square Ventures 2012 Fund, LP ("USV 2012 Fund") distributed, for no consideration, 7,702,041 shares of the Iss
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by vmurthy 5y ago
Um , Taleb was a supporter of BTC a couple of years ago [0] and has owned BTC and is now selling it [1]. I think what he did falls in the category of "When facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" [0] https:/&#x
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by vmurthy 5y ago
I've been tired of going to reddit because of reddit's shady tactics to get me to their "new" website. This is a great timesaver for me as I use feedly as my exclusive RSS reader.
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by vmurthy 6y ago
- Snowball by Alice Schroeder (it's a biography of Warren Buffett). So many life lessons here (in addition to teaching you a way to think through investing) - The Goal (and its descendants). Changes the way you look at organizations -
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Intermittent Fasting + Meditation. A bit difficult to explain but bear with me. Imagine you wake up one day to a rumbling tummy (happens when you do IF). I noticed that such sensations would lead me to a bad mood. It's a subtle process
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Vavilov dying of hunger in a prison :( Many of his friends persecuted. I like to print out articles like this and wonder what *led* to such extreme situations. Gradual slippery slope? Big bang bad decisions? All said, the big takeaway has
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by vmurthy 6y ago
While I may not exactly buy Dropbox plus, I think they're on an unfortunate treadmill competing with Google and MS and have to keep offering extra perks to justify the AUD 19 something per month cost so don't be surprised to find
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Not OP. Part of the reason I don't feel like spending $10 for this particular software (I pay for quite a bit of software every month FWIW) is the infinite variety that exists in the digital world : I could pay for OneDrive separatel
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by vmurthy 6y ago
It is tough to see one's project(s) fail but in hindsight, I wonder if the author could have gotten feedback from customer even before writing a single line of code to do the meta-analyses (let alone paying contractors). This is on t
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by vmurthy 6y ago
@qsort: To give you an analogy, think of the "original" wikipedia article as the equivalent of an academic paper. It is absolutely the right level of detail for a particular audience (with references and links and even fancy langu
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by vmurthy 6y ago
I came here to post that simple wikipedia exists :) . Just to prove your point, have a look at the simple page for "Prime number" [0] and the regular page for the same [1] If I were just starting out with mathematics, I'd be
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Think about the second order effect of this one: Trump has lost a big megaphone using which he could have influenced 2024. He has had 4 years to clean up many of the things he has been doing but failed to do so. Kicking him off social media
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by vmurthy 6y ago
I see the developments so far in two stages: 1. The vaccine development and trials more or less happened in a science-backed way (not saying this was perfect but it was say 90% right way to do) 2. The actual deployment : this is worrying be
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Something for the HN crowd that goes beyond articles: A HBR article[0] which talks about an experiment that eBay did testing if digital ads are effective and the paper that the actual study[1] produced. [0] https://hbr.org/2
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Exciting app :) . Have requested access to the private beta
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by vmurthy 6y ago
I doubt there was much hype about the printing press when Gutenberg introduced invented it circa 1440 but if there was any hype, the printing press certainly lived up to the hype. I can think of no mechanism which has enabled such widespre
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Something that happened recently! (I am 35 :-o) : I was a frequent (~3-4 times a day , 5 mins each time) visitor to coupon sites [0] hoping to snag that elusive discount. It hit me that over the course of 1 year I might save ~$500 but I&#x2
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Lovely story and kudos to both Montanez (the janitor) and the company for their success but I can't help notice a bit of survivorship bias in these kind of stories. How many thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of such ideas come to pe
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by vmurthy 6y ago
The tl;dr for the article for me was that the actors were getting a bigger cut of the revenue and the platform OnlyFans has more or less eliminated a slew of middlemen. I'd like to think this is a good thing for the actors and maybe re
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by vmurthy 6y ago
As an aside : In India, we refer to cannabis as ganja [0]. In case you are concerned about naming... [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=ganja+meaning&oq=ganja+meani...
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by vmurthy 6y ago
From the same article : "“A Perfect Spy” (1986), Mr. le Carré’s most autobiographical work, tells the story of Magnus Pym, a double agent with a con man father modeled after le Carré’s own, and how the two deceive and are deceived by
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by vmurthy 6y ago
I liked the NY Times obit better [0]. Goes a bit deeper into his troubled childhood, the fact that his father was a charlatan etc. A memorable quote from the article is that his children gifted him a poster playing on the famous motivationa
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by vmurthy 6y ago
1. I stay in Australia where the prevalence of Covid-19 is really really low however my parents stay in India and if either of us were to visit each other, I'd prefer all of us vaccinated and even then we'll not be socialising wit
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by vmurthy 6y ago
The first time I heard about a universal flu vaccine was in the documentary "Pandemic" on Netflix [0] . The documentary talks about a company called Distributed Bio [1] which is developing this. Interesting to see that many differ
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by vmurthy 6y ago
Lot of upvotes for the site so please do support the author(s) by buying the book[0]. All parts together is $18 (epub + pdf). I am not a front-end developer so not much use for me personally but spreading the good word :) https:/&#x2F

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