xenophon

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by xenophon 10y ago
An aside that seems relevant to a general discussion of "name vs not name": I've noticed that you (or a set of users that share your very unique username, perhaps) spend a ton of time attacking Redfin on various social media
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Envisioning the hack that could take down NYC(nymag.com)
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Jamie Dimon Wants to Protect You from Innovative Startups(nytimes.com)
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Making Movies with Virtual Reality(newyorker.com)
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The Perils of Being a Black Philosopher(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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The Minecraft Generation(nytimes.com)
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Facebook 10 Year Roadmap(businessinsider.com)
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Intelligent Machines Might Want to Become Biological Again(aeon.co)
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Virgin Galactic Unveils the VSS Unity(techcrunch.com)
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by xenophon 11y ago
Can you provide an example of "many people 'binning' Ivy resumes?" I'd also request evidence that reputation is fluid in the field of education, because this seems patently contradicted by the facts. Especially in e
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by xenophon 11y ago
This heuristic, generalized, is sometimes called Hanlon's Razor: "never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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by xenophon 11y ago
The argument that this article makes is somewhat muddled, but if I'm understanding correctly: child prodigies don't end up advancing their fields to the extent that their early talent might suggest because by and large they'r
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Get Startup Ideas(getstartupideas.com)
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The Timeshare Hard Sell Comes Roaring Back(nytimes.com)
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On Display at CES, Tech Ideas in Their Awkward Adolescence(nytimes.com)
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The Hard Problem of Consciousness(iep.utm.edu)
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Why Copenhagen Has Almost Perfect Water(citylab.com)
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Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg launch clean energy research fund(theverge.com)
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The Cook and the Chef: Musk's Secret Sauce(waitbutwhy.com)
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The Two Faces of Airbnb(businessinsider.com)
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Free will is back, and maybe we can measure it(aeon.co)
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by xenophon 11y ago
I would just contest the notion that "most great agents don't want to undersell their own industry." Not only does that kind of thinking assumes that compensation and customer service are tightly coupled -- even though "
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by xenophon 11y ago
To be precise on this: Redfin covers 75+ metro markets and the vast majority of the United States by population. "Spotty" is fairly inaccurate if your intent is to describe the % of the population that can use Redfin to find a hom
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Children of the Yuan Percent: Everyone Hates China's Rich Kids(bloomberg.com)
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Chamath Palihapitaya on Insane Burn Rates and IPOs(techcrunch.com)
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Thoughts on Transitioning to Universal JavaScript(redfin.com)
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by xenophon 11y ago
Redfinnian here. To add a bit of context to this claim, our agents do four times as many transactions as the most productive traditional agents. This is primarily because we don't have to prospect for leads; our site and mobile apps ar
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by xenophon 11y ago
Thanks for making yourself available, Matt. Sounds like an incredible opportunity. What kind of progress do you expect founders to make by the end of the Fellowship? Put another way, if the goal of participation in Y Combinator is for compa
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by xenophon 11y ago
Well, that's precisely the point of the article. According to the author, the United States indeed "walks like a duck and talks like a duck," to the extent that it is homeostatic (feeds itself, defends itself, undertakes coor
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by xenophon 11y ago
I think the core idea is much simpler than that. It's the notion that falsifiability is the most powerful tool in our arsenal when we try to conceive of theories that explain a certain state of affairs. The idea you're getting at

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