TheLarch

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by TheLarch 10y ago
That is an interesting thought! I wonder if he did undertake some risk. I just emailed him, as I never properly thanked him. Maybe if he emails back I'll ask. Also he negotiated a year off of our traditional 5-year vesting (at the time
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I was so naive when I joined my first startup. When we were purchased, it came to light that the main guy never got around to signing my stock option agreement. He is a fucking mensch and signed it after the fact. Character buys a unique,
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"The problem with Perl is that it tends to be a different language for every programmer." Exactly. Larry Wall cited an analogy somewhere: if you want to know where to put walkways on a new campus, wait until pedestrians have worn
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." --Bruce Lee I am not sure if this submission is tongue in cheek or not.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Fiske's Cognitive Miser theory: "The theory suggests that humans, valuing their mental processing resources, find different ways to save time and effort when negotiating the social world." ( https://en.m.wikipedia.o
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by TheLarch 10y ago
From Wikipedia: "Her four most well-known contributions to the field of psychology are the stereotype content model, ambivalent sexism theory, the continuum model of impression formation, and the power-as-control theory." "Re
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by TheLarch 10y ago
2015 R&D: $806,648,000 2015 Sales, General and Admin $1,132,164,000 I can't imagine a justification for these numbers. Twitter seems like a small company idea.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I presume you speak Russian then? If so did you learn anything about the quotation? I Googled it just now and found... this page. The best jokes defy explanation to some degree. A good example: the de facto definition of 'chutzpah&#x27
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Experience proves that food critic is a legitimate job, and sure there's economic value in restaurant review. However in my utopia it would be a low-key affair. Zeal for watching men play a game or eating seems debased to me. The remar
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by TheLarch 10y ago
The humor of oppressed Soviets, particularly Soviet Jews, is perhaps the best I have read. This may be more modern, but one that I love is, "Once you've been in the military, the circus isn't funny anymore."
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I feel gratified that you mentioned this. Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" obsesses about apartments. I suppose this is because financial opportunities were otherwise constrained. In this story at least cheating seems to hav
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"The domesticated foxes had floppier, drooping ears, which are found in other domestic animals such as dogs, cats, pigs, horses and goats." I happened to recall the Origin of Species mentioning this: "Not a single domestic an
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by TheLarch 10y ago
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, fashion is so ugly it has to be replaced every six months. Though the Metropolitan Museum may be my favorite place on earth, I find a good portion of NYC to be repugnant. Nowhere have I seen such spineless obedien
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"No one can really come up with any stories about his life that don't make him sound like a total dick so they cut the testimonial part short" killed me.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
This is a good read. https://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Charl... . Market participants often do know there's a bubble. However, if your neighbor keeps making more and more money selling tulips (tha
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Please see my last comment, this is a debated topic. However, I've read Mike Milken and, despite his warts, I believe he did radically improve capital allocation. So it certainly has happened over the years. -- edit: I meant about Mi
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I grant that Google is more of a social good than Facebook. Your claim that Goldman has contributed is a debated topic. Paul Krugman favorably mentioned a study that purports to demonstrate that Wall Street's endeavors are largely unpr
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Besides introducing systematic risk, the sale of this software by Goldman smells fishy. Despite the Blankfein quote about maybe selling for $5 billion back in the day, if the software is what they purport it to be, wouldn't selling it
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by TheLarch 10y ago
The US experiment with alcohol prohibition is an ominous precedent to the war on drugs. Prohibition caused organized crime in the US to flourish. When Prohibition was repealed, the machinery was in place, so it refocused on drugs, gambling,
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Clarence Darrow, in his autobiography, discusses his defense for Loeb and Leopold. L&L were wealthy Chicago teenagers who read Nietzsche and decided they were Ubermensch. They murdered a random boy to prove they could get away with it.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Mobster Whitey Bulger of the Winter Hill Gang did in fact do this in Massachusetts in the early nineties. The papers reported it at face value, I guess for fear of libel suits.
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"In 2002, at an event held to celebrate the Times's 20th anniversary, Moon said: 'The Washington Times is responsible to let the American people know about God' and 'The Washington Times will become the instrument i
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I found this article disappointing because there's no advancement of a thesis or journalistic investigation. The author could have tracked down any number of illuminating statistics: number of wing suits sold over time; BASE/wing
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"Driving at 70 MPH versus biking at 12 MPH is a ludicrous point of comparison. If you're traveling at 70 MPH, you're almost certainly driving somewhere that you couldn't realistically bike. Driving 4 hours to a family ga
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Belief and Biology(ffrf.org)
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"cars work fine" Global warming, congestion, obesity epidemic, and arguably peak oil. Also: http://www.roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com/ I agree that many downtowns such as those of Las Vegas, Houston, and Atlanta sim
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by TheLarch 10y ago
This is inevitable as venture capital assumes a larger portion of the economy. However, I have never seen such a focus on reputation as I have in the startup/venture capital world. A good portion of what you might call 'blue chip&
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by TheLarch 10y ago
"not because it makes sense (a lot of the time it doesn't) but because there are no consequences" But it does make sense a lot of the time. The lack of consequences is a contributing factor for this. Car 'ownership'
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by TheLarch 10y ago
Well done! I am mostly referring to the 'bracket' kernel thread processes, which were not there back in the day. I must admit some laziness here, as I could research these in just a few minutes. I avoid Gnome and KDE for that reas
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by TheLarch 10y ago
I generally avoid busy roads, but when I am at a light I do enter the center of the lane. This is because one of the most common accidents that cyclists suffer is the "right hook" where a right-turning car does not see you. I acce

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