bokonist

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by bokonist 11y ago
I also thought it was going to be a fad. What is interesting is that everything people use Facebook for day-to-day existed back in 2005. We used email for sharing life updates, various tools for photo sharing, AOL Instant Messenger for chat
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by bokonist 11y ago
I would love to read a blog post with further explanation of what you found out when trying to solve unemployment with your startup.
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by bokonist 11y ago
I switched to reading most non-fiction on my ipad, for exactly this reason.
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by bokonist 12y ago
The issue is that you need to find an idea for a product, wherein 1) the product has the potential to generate tens of millions of dollars of value 2) the first, valuable, version of the product can be built in a couple man years. That is r
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by bokonist 12y ago
In the first cut of your analysis (without rebalancing) the portfolio actually goes negative (I'm looking at the first graph in the notebook). An equity portfolio cannot go negative unless you are using leverage. Then from late 2012 to
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by bokonist 12y ago
That is not the correct way to think about it. Say that the initial offering is for 10 million shares at $20 a share. Then the price pops to $30. That $30 share price is based on a much smaller net influx of investment. It does not follow t
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by bokonist 12y ago
The company and investment banker make you sign a contract saying that you will not buy or sell any derivatives or options or any security based on the stock. Now they probably couldn't catch you, and I'm not exactly sure what hap
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by bokonist 12y ago
Funny you mention this, I have just started building a site to help with this exact problem. Seems like there is so much good content out there, but it is hard to find the good evergreen content once it leaves the front pages of social medi
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by bokonist 12y ago
"heck, it's Valentines day, do something sappy and tell them how I feel" I have never seen this actually work. I have failed doing it myself. Sappiness is what girls want from the guys they are already head-over-heels attra
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by bokonist 12y ago
1. From reading their post, it seems like they made their own REST API for the key server. So it would be nice if they open sourced the service behind it, to alleviate fears of lock in. 2. You're right, it probably should be SRV.
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by bokonist 12y ago
Two things that would make this have more hope of becoming a standard: 1) open source the key server with the REST-API 2) allow domain owners to define their own key server via a DNS TXT entry
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by bokonist 12y ago
A 1% tax is a little bit steep. But what if the tax was only .1%? Or maybe you make it a 0% tax for the first ten years, .1% tax for the next twenty years, and 1% a year after that? If the tax was only .1%, the corporation with big pockets
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by bokonist 12y ago
Why do you think that would improve outcomes? From my observation, if someone is smart, they can teach themselves out of a book, with a bit of guidance to keep them on the right track. If someone simply lacks the cognitive power, there is n
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by bokonist 12y ago
Instead of focusing on reducing the inequality, we need to convince the rich people that paying more tax to educate the majority of the population is a good thing for themselves in the long run. Education spending has steadily risen over
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by bokonist 12y ago
The glass walls would be more tolerable if the mid-section was opaque/frosted glass, so you still get the light but you also get a degree of privacy.
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by bokonist 12y ago
It also depends on your definitions. If the bottleneck to learning is nutrition or lead exposure, then one should advocate directly for policies that would fix nutrition or mitigate lead exposure, rather than generically advocating for mo
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by bokonist 12y ago
You can cite academic articles, but only do so if you can personally vouch for them being good, rather than just relying on the echo chamber of citations. Because if I follow your link, and look at the paper, and find it is the typical esot
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by bokonist 12y ago
The usage of words has shifted, but my point remains. The genetic/ethnic/racial difference between Irish and British was much, much less than that between the British and Black Africans. So my point remains that it may be much mor
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by bokonist 12y ago
The quantity of citation, within an echo-chamber, means nothing to me. Academia is in its own world, and it is very easy for academic papers to become increasingly divorced from reality, since there is no mechanism for overall accountabilit
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by bokonist 12y ago
The issue is that most Americans don't have high enough literacy (including math) ability to benefit from the best of free online education. Notice your slippery phrasing. Most Americans don't have enough literacy ability to ben
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by bokonist 12y ago
You say "in fact" but the papers you site are the farthest things from "facts" that are imaginable. They are academic models that are at the same time, grossly simplified and grossly over-complicated, that have all sorts
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by bokonist 12y ago
Question for Sam about the issue of high-skill immigration: Does YC have any sort of tracking of the number of engineers blocked from going to YC companies because they could not get a Visa? Could Sam write an essay with some anonymized exa
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by bokonist 12y ago
I've added a sentence to make it clear I was talking about "immigration more generally" As for your point... Anyone who gets on a moral high horse about "discrimination" is going to end up in web of contradictions b
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by bokonist 12y ago
" Aside from the obvious and well-documented economic benefits (for high-skilled workers especially, but for immigration more generally), it’s a matter of justice—I don’t think I deserve special rights because I happened to be born her
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by bokonist 12y ago
Sam says " It amazes me that I can become relatively proficient on any subject I want, for free, from a $50 smartphone nearly anywhere in the world. " but he also says, " I think it’s most important to fix the broken parts of
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by bokonist 12y ago
" How do you distinguish two doctors with high prediction ability and low success rates (compared to the average for that procedure) " The doctor is never compared against the "average for that procedure" for exactly the
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by bokonist 12y ago
I ask for the doctor's official opinion/prediction about the probabilities for my own surgery. This must be the doctor's opinion because every person and every surgery is different. A doctor's job is to analyze each pers
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by bokonist 12y ago
Recently I had a major shoulder operation. I was shocked at how little information I had about who was a good surgeon. If I didn't have a family member who worked in the complaints department of the local big hospital, I would have had
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by bokonist 12y ago
"College is about protecting the young from an unforgiving society...Traditionally, college was to protect young men from the horrors that society inflicts upon men of low status,... It protects the students, and it protects the marke
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by bokonist 12y ago
If I was pg, unless I was writing essays based directly on the YCombinator experience, I would write under a pseudonym. Once you achieve a certain level of fame, it is simply too dangerous and aggravating to write honestly under your own na

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