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by cjmb 2y ago
Respectfully, there’s a 1,000 word section in the middle about the fundamentally zero-sum nature of media and the competition for consumer eyeballs that I wrote to explain why the stunning success and growth of the mobile internet and walle
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by cjmb 2y ago
That is exactly the thesis and the point of that whole section! I’m sorry you got downvoted for saying it, perhaps your tone was too blunt. It’s not that Google was created as a monopoly with no competition — there’s a neat little graph abo
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by cjmb 2y ago
Yeap, just +1'ing this too. One other axis of engagement is "topical relevance" -- and I think that does have some overlap with the axis of "effort put in". Meaning: putting a TON of effort into a long-form piece te
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by cjmb 3y ago
$35 billion? I regret to inform you the number has gone up substantially since you last checked it
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by cjmb 3y ago
OP didn't include any context here, but I frequently link this resource to friends! So allow me to pitch it to folks who come here first: reading a transcript is a bit odd at first, but there are so many unfiltered gems in here analyzi
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by cjmb 3y ago
I can confirm this thing is amazing the pro one, not the one you linked (headphone inserts seem like needless ear pressure): https://mantasleep.com/products/manta-sleep-mask-pro i toss and turn all night and this thing
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by cjmb 4y ago
Agreed. Don't forget the massive implosion of the real estate market 30 years ago that turned a whole generation off of buying property and bankrupted vast swathes of the population. Said "breathless articles" usually just gr
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by cjmb 4y ago
did you read that link or just the subtitle? quoting the penultimate paragraph (why are the relevant bits always buried?) > Analyzing a 2008 survey conducted by the National Association for College Admission Counseling, he noted that one
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by cjmb 4y ago
Of course! It was hugely influential on my thinking/approach to problem solving under uncertainty/adversity. And yeah the other commenter provided a link but there is no actual recording of this exact transcript -- the ones that I
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by cjmb 4y ago
I highly recommend reading Boyd's transcript of a talk he gave in 1989 instead of the wiki on this stuff: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5497331ae4b0148a6141b... It will resonate with any builders in the H
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by cjmb 4y ago
and what would then happen if a bank were -- somehow -- induced to make more of those loans, which, as you describe "duplicate" or "create" money a number of times up to the number of loans made? and how would the world
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by cjmb 4y ago
In the OP - > [4.81% interest on your money after 6 months from the date of purchase] This is a single concept. The quantity of money earned (4.81%) and the time period over which it is earned (6 months from the date of purchase) are bot
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by cjmb 4y ago
Apple has made their own music app horrific to use -- every month it bricks when I open it and become unresponsive until it loads a fullscreen ad for their streaming service. Even when I'm in low or no-data modes (like on a plane). Eve
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by cjmb 4y ago
as severe as anything the SEC can bring to bear, imo
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by cjmb 4y ago
I agree. Correcting the many incentive problems in modern American science would need a hypothetical body with significant funding leverage over journals & scientists to exert executive action. Sadly there is no such centralized funding
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by cjmb 4y ago
"in a way" -- the region in question is northern New Hampshire. on balance, the housing price appreciation, and therefore tax burden, on "these people" is functionally entirely due to external macroeconomic factors, whic
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by cjmb 4y ago
I hate to plug my own writing here, but if you'd like a much deeper exploration of the topic, you'll probably enjoy reading The Full Stack of Society: Can You Make A Whole Society Wealthier? https://www.conradbastable.c
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by cjmb 4y ago
This is actually a picture of national failure, tantamount to celebrating a blowout losing scoreboard. It is not a model for others to copy. Productivity and inflation are very related to each other. Per your chart, "Japan enters the c
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by cjmb 4y ago
"...requires many safety features for new cars:" > "Making them mandatory saves lives." Alternatively: making them mandatory raises the price of new cars and pushes more consumers to buy used older cars, which are gen
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by cjmb 4y ago
To be fair, the majority of professional sports contracts include items that keep the athlete on payroll while injured or otherwise unable to play, and teams will often invest significant resources waiting for a player to return to health (
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by cjmb 4y ago
The book cover thing is really insane, too. It's gotten a little better over the last decade, but the early 2000s period was crazy (source: moved from UK to USA at that time). It's interesting that your pet theory is New York City
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by cjmb 4y ago
You can use the old definitions too and see the same effect: https://gonzoecon.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/chart-line-... The change increased M1 by moving common components of M2 downstream into M1.
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by cjmb 4y ago
I rarely see this sentiment since the entire Tech class has moved to Spotify subscription streaming as their music platform of choice (slight hyperbole, only slight). But as one of the 12 remaining iTunes app users out there, I am shocked a
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by cjmb 4y ago
Don't let it bother you man. It's just an example of cross-cultural confusion crossed with some blunt HN mannerisms (to put it politely). The tell is the callout that this is an "American thing" -- which, well, it is. Am
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by cjmb 5y ago
> I don’t have to have any opinion at all about the origin of COVID-19 … but I did, and I didn’t share it only because of the likelihood that I’d be called an idiot on social media. This is a great justification for anon accounts -- bot
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by cjmb 5y ago
(author here, hi) Thanks, glad you got something from the piece! > My view is that most people cannot know what they want before they have an experience of it. I feel this very strongly. As I said on my "About" page, anytime I
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by cjmb 5y ago
I think the visual aura part can be different for many people. I also thought I was having a stroke -- in my case the entire center of my vision in both eyes disappears. But the brain is used to that behaviour (center-dead-spot from optic n
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by cjmb 6y ago
> But see it's more complicated than that :) exactly!
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by cjmb 6y ago
:) Thanks! And yes, I did read that part, and it is true, but I think it was getting at something slightly different. "What are you not saying because you're scared I'll blame you if it fails" implies that the advice-g
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by cjmb 6y ago
One additional thought on advice that I didn't read in Alexey's piece: - the best advice, in most domains, is never given freely or publicly, so if you are seeking advice, seek it in private - the best advice tends to have pain as

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