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by xiaoma 9y ago
This intensifies the problem. Just imagine the US real estate bubble a decade ago if housing loans worked in such a fashion! The perverse incentives alone are enough to cause severe harm.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I like small books that build progressively more complex projects (Dave Thomas's Elixir book was good that way, Realm of Racket was my favorite). Short video tutorials are nice as a supplement are nice, too. Daily Drip's elm vide
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by xiaoma 9y ago
The bubble is credentialed post-secondary schools and the 1.3 trillion dollar student debt crisis. Just like the credentialed schools, there's a wide variety in quality and outcomes, but I think it's pretty clear they're do
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by xiaoma 9y ago
What's the best resource for learning CLJS as of mid 2017?
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Okay, so it looks like I disagree with both you and the low carb nut. You don't need glucose packets. They might help speed you up a bit, but as long as you've built up your range progressively, the human body can go without them.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I've only had that happen twice in a dozen years.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
WordPress has had one-click updates for years and makes it easier than any other CMS I've seen. It's been doing a fine job and powering 25% of all pages on the net and growing.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
And yet Rob Krar isn't into low-carb, is pushing 40 and runs the same distances faster... For that matter, the Bison Bar mentioned in the video you linked to contains roughly equal amounts of protein and sugar! Not that it matters much
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Yeah, there's an evolutionary cause for sure. Maybe the cause for revulsion at certain kinds of marketing is a similar protective mechanism but driven my memetics rather than genetics at the core.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
In each case, your answer was essentially, "the disgusting thing in its entirety!" This is equivalent to nudiustertian's reaction toward the affiliate site. The difficulty comes from trying to zoom in to a higher level of pre
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> "I think that if you see a complex equation, you should be able to roughly imagine it in your head." This breaks down in many cases. What if your equation involves complex numbers for each component? What if it's an ei
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by xiaoma 9y ago
> "what exactly do you find disgusting." Disgust isn't usually that easy to pin down with precision. Do you find a soiled diaper disgusting? If so, " What exactly do you find disgusting? " Do you find a it disgu
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by xiaoma 9y ago
How unusual is it for venture units like this to collect data from the companies they've invested in and then scale up competitors to the successful ones?
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I can't imagine either of them putting up with things like doing sales, handling operations or not having a steady paycheck, but anything is possible.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I did have two acquaintances from long ago when I was a humanities major at school who did this. They were roommates in college, both worked for the same lab, then worked at the same tech company after college. They later moved to Californi
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Is IH open for people to publish posts on now or does the author have some sort of connection to them? I've never seen a post like this and it's cool.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Singapore's not that bad as long as you're not gay (which is illegal and punishable by a prison term), a political activist for the opposition party, too independent thinking or otherwise labeled as undesirable by the government.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Thus the moral hazard. If geo-engineering were a major point in climate change discussions, some would feel a false sense of security. Ultimately, this could increase the odds of such drastic measures would be needed. The other thing is tha
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Honestly? It's from voracious reading over many years, and including both pop and more academic sources. Books almost always go deeper than what you'll find in video format. That said, if you try googling geo-engineering and clima
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Don't believe everything you hear from talking heads on TV. We could put the earth into an ice age for under 1% of global GDP. Discussing geo-engineering is generally seen as a moral hazard, though, so western commentators act like no
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by xiaoma 9y ago
It's not a "myth" or "fantasy" that they didn't have master's degrees. To the best of knowledge any of them would have needed a visa to go to France, and one of them did in fact live in Canada and then the
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Ah, that's good it doesn't apply to founders. On the other hand, it's still pretty disastrous if your startup does well and you need to hire people. Nearly all the key early hires at the companies I listed above also lacked m
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by xiaoma 9y ago
In startups, nearly all the value is in the outliers. Black swan farming beats conservative strategies with even one success in a decade.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
They're requiring masters degrees for entrepreneur visas. One thing Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Lei Jun, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Travis Kalanic and Cheng Wei all have in common is a lack of a m
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I was a pretty early user of Dropbox back when it was featured on this site. As much as I'm loathe to admit it since I don't like the consolidation of huge tech companies, I've pretty much completely abandoned them for Google
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by xiaoma 9y ago
Yes, we need retail investors to be able to invest in micro cap level companies. Nobody independent is going to do well competing against institutional investors who have, better access, faster trades and teams of quants. The only way to wi
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by xiaoma 9y ago
I've noticed a huge difference between China (and the greater Chinese speaking community throughout Asia) and the US, too. I also see a lot of hostility between the sexes in the US. Part of that is due to differences in how people use
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by xiaoma 9y ago
The sad irony of all of this is that I regularly view the NYT without JavaScript because the experience is so much better without.
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by xiaoma 9y ago
They may just be specifying the amount of marketing. If the headline simply reads "Taking $foo to 250M API req/day" and then it turns out that all of the traffic came from a $4MM ad spend, it's a lot less interesting to
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China claims Sino-British Agreement ‘no longer has any realistic meaning’(scmp.com)
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