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by wskinner 9y ago
Perhaps charging companies to put chairs on the sidewalk is not necessary, either.
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by wskinner 9y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16846229
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Bergson’s debate with Einstein swayed the 1921 Nobel committee (2016)(nautil.us)
12 points by wskinner 9y ago|7 comments
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by wskinner 9y ago
Distance makes things appear shinier than they are. It's not just new-to-tech people who find these companies prestigious. It's anyone who is sufficiently far from the industry, and especially people who are in other status-orient
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Unicorns take different paths to bring public(bloomberg.com)
2 points by wskinner 9y ago|0 comments
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New Kind of Network(nkn.org)
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by wskinner 9y ago
Software is significantly different from buildings in that it can be substantially upgraded or redesigned after going into production. That flexibility means that the first release need not be the last release. The obvious charitable interp
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Self Driving Cars Still Don’t Know How to See(theatlantic.com)
14 points by wskinner 9y ago|8 comments
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Everybody’s Lying about the Link Between Gun Ownership and Homicide(medium.com)
11 points by wskinner 9y ago|2 comments
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Spotify Will Skip a Lot of IPO Essentials(bloomberg.com)
1 points by wskinner 9y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 9y ago
It's a permalink. The document itself seems to have been updated quite a bit since 2015.
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A Quick (Battle) Field Guide to the New Culture Wars(ribbonfarm.com)
5 points by wskinner 9y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 9y ago
Why is a one size fits all government solution better? You control your phone and the apps on it. Don’t like the app tracking your location before and after movies? Kill it or limit it to While Using (if on iOS). And you can always uninstal
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by wskinner 9y ago
One recent example in the USA: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywq4gm/google-gun...
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Luxuriating in Privacy(ribbonfarm.com)
1 points by wskinner 9y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 9y ago
It's hard to infer much from this article since it lacks all relevant detail. If the earlier share holders are selling common stock, it's not clear how that affects the preferred price.
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by wskinner 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the preferred price stay flat, even with dilution? The company issues new shares and sells them at e.g. the current preferred price. Now there are more outstanding shares, and a higher post-mo
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Peter Thiel Is a Flawed Messenger with a Crucial Message for Tech(wired.com)
54 points by wskinner 9y ago|56 comments
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by wskinner 9y ago
A lot of the top comments seem to be intentionally misunderstanding the point of the article to score cheap privilege points. Yes, the author happened to have the luxury to choose between two objectively good options. The core advice could
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“Some puzzles for libertarians” treated as writing prompts for short stories(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by wskinner 9y ago|4 comments
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US Craft Beer Slowdown Sends Hops Market from Boom to Bust(ft.com)
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by wskinner 9y ago
It’s called proof of work: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf
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New York after Paris (1906)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by wskinner 9y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 9y ago
Example of cool stuff?
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by wskinner 9y ago
If you had read the paper, you would have found that they tested and rejected the idea that reviewers were overcompensating due to guessing what was being tested. In Experiment 5, they sent single resumes to reviewers and asked them to rate
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Spotify will pay Banks to cut out the Banks(bloomberg.com)
1 points by wskinner 9y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 9y ago
Can you cite any of the research? Here is a decent overview, but I would love to learn more. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/cholesterol/
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Quick Tips for Fast Code on the JVM(gist.github.com)
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Bitcoin is a Bubble(theguardian.com)
25 points by wskinner 9y ago|29 comments
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by wskinner 9y ago
Upvoted for your last two sentences. If this is the destiny of humanity, so be it. Either we will get past it, or we won't. That was always the case, bitcoin or not. The fundamental issue is human nature. Technology merely distills and

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