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Am I the only one who is still on the fence about China? It’s too early to say there is actually a mess. There is evidence maybe growth is glowing, but it’s far too early to call it a catastrophe, eve…

I actually thing we're in a philosophy boom, with recent developments in quantum mechanics and the synthesis between the two subjects. There is a lot of research in this area, about quantum mecha…

This is the first time I've seen a github used for non programming purpose

The visual scrapbook platform should be printing money. Its predominantly female audience browses Pinterest's various boards for inspiration about their next fashion purchases, vacation destinat…

Businessinsider is a notorious click-bait aggregator, spinning minutia into hype. Reminds be of the Uber California court report they hyped last year, which predictably didn't really anywhere ht…

It's simple Ideas like these that succeed. Imgur succeeded because other image sharing sites (at the time) were so awful, requiring registration, captchas, or being low and buggy. Also, being int…

I think it's cookie based. If you can insert the' welcome cookie' using a cookie editor , that may work. I don't seethe welcome screen when I visit Forbes on my main browser. But I…

Probably the best way to defeat ad blockers is to make the ads as unobtrusive and un-annoying possible. Facebook seems to have succeeded at this . Mobile adverting may also be more resistant to ad blo…

Give that their articles are everywhere when you go a google search, I'm sure they are making wheelbarrows full of money, even if the 'brand' suffers a bit. Print magazines written by p…

Forbes is like a for-profit Wikipedia. Impossible to not see a Forbes result after when you do a google search. I think I saw a Forbes result when looking up some obscure string theory query. They are…

Entitlement spending is so high that it almost acts like a UBI. http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/infographics/2014/12/CP-Fe... The lowest quintile of households have …

depression/recession has now been redefined to mean 'economy is not how we want it to be'

Sounds like goalpost moving, where slightly mediocre growth becomes a 'depression' The 2008 recession, while deep and sudden, was narrow, only lasting about 16 months until growth picked up,…

writing, repetition, and reminding seem helpful.

What if you don't know something for certain? Isn't some discretion needed? Humility is being open the possibility of being wrong.

Another possibility is that the writer doesn't actually know if something is certain or not.

believe it or not, being sued by a private entity is actually worse than having the IRS after you. Not to downplay the IRS, but some of the fears of the IRS tend to be exaggerated and sensationalized.…

even though I'm a 'free market' guy, nice to see action being taken against pseudoscience. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/brain-training-doe... http:&#…

The one for Square is off just 20% from the private round vs. Dec. 31st close. It hasn't really moved that much. Way too soon to assume it's under pressure. Most of the valuations gains wer…

Valuations were indiscriminate, meaning that companies with really bad fundamental were valued very richly, although the worst of these companies like Pets.com and The Globe tended to fizzle quickly. …

The author mentions the worst companies that even I, web 2.0 bull, would never invest in http://greyenlightenment.com/billion-dollar-startup-club-pic... He mentions box.net but ignor…

In the early 20th century, big companies were synonymous with efficiency. In the late 20th century they were synonymous with inefficiency. To some extent this was because the companies themselves had …

Small observation: why title the file re.html? Why not just spell fragmentation? Is there a reason to do it this way? Why .html? Doesn't that make it hard to update all the pages at once such as …

The trend is that wealth inequality will become almost the same as IQ inequality. IQ is more much important today than a generation ago in influencing individual economic outcomes. 100 years ago in a…

there is a lot more at play here than NIMBY-ism http://greyenlightenment.com/why-bay-area-real-estate-keeps-... …

Contrary to popular belief, a lot of pundits were actually bearish on housing in 2005-2007. Given the enormity of the crash, it makes these predictions seem more prescient than they really were, but s…

cooperate profits are at record highs. A bond crisis would require either a crash in profits or a spike in rates, neither which show any signs of occurring.

" The zero interest-rate policy broke the social contract for generations of hardworking Americans who saved for retirement, only to find their savings are not nearly enough." But t…