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excellent article . Instead of these people being coddled by delusional affirmations, as the author suggests, we need to make them aware of their limitations, and then devise strategies for these ind…

better than java , otherwise it would be realllly slow. C and Assembly is at least fast

Aghhh not this again. This is pseudoscience/creationism marketed to scientists. It's impossible to flasify this, since any evidence for or against simulation can be a part of the simulation.

'Gig/sharing jobs' are a way to circumvent the economic inefficiencies of minimum wages and regulation. If these gig jobs are so awful, workers can always look elsewhere, although good …

or $30,000 for private plane

Off the top of my head, the only web 2.0 unicorn to flameout was Evernote. The rest have either retained their value or keep going up. I remember briefly using evernote in 2013 and finding it confus…

It probably will. I can see dropbox branching out into cloud hosting for websites. Web 2.0 valuations have been remarkably stable. 90% of the time, valuations either stay flat or keep rising.

there's nothing funny about comic sans

often a proof will hinge on a key conjecture, so the paper is named after the conjecture

12 pages = huge red flag. these type of proofs go into hundred + pages

'investor class' you realize that businesses don't spring out the ground like plants, right. typically, someone has to invest

High IQ, probably.

What Thomas Frank does not realize, or is ignoring, is that it's still the 'elite' who create jobs, and antipathy towards them won't improve the situation for the millions who are …

A single person winning six times would arouse suspicion

We are on a self-imposed path leading to only one place: a city that is entirely rich and, more or less, entirely white. I want to live in a beautiful, multiethnic, socioeconomically mixed communit…

I wonder what Theranos is worth now?

I use to care much more, and then I realized that since most predictions by pundits are wrong, it probably doesn't matter that much. The economy will adapt either way, although there may be some …

My 'fantasy VC' scorecard since 2008 is nearly perfect, having hypothetically put money into snapchat, air BNB, Uber, and Facebook. Picking the future winners from the losers seems very eas…

These fellows are selected for high IQ will benefit either way. By virtue of his intelligence, connections, and family wealth, Bill Gates would have been successful whether he stayed in college or no…

so I guess questioning the merits of democracy makes one a 'fascist'. there is no in-between

that why every social network does ghosting to trick spammers and trolls

Proponents of the UBI make the generous assumption that recipients will be as careful with money as they (the proponents) are . Choosing between food & housing credits vs. cash, the former has les…

But what about existing entitlement sending, which keeps growing? A UBI without preconditions will only compound that problem, because what is to stop people from wasting their basic income on frivoli…

This seems similar to cookie stuffing, which is prohibited by amazon. The idea is to send lots of low quality traffic to skim commissions from the session A major problem is that amazon has a 2-month …