dragoon

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by dragoon 16y ago
I've never said this of a fellow startup, but I hope in earnest that they fail, not out of contempt, but because I don't want ever to have to sit in a seat like that. Note: "below economy" class is a terrible idea for us, because it means t
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by dragoon 16y ago
I know that. I was saying that in reference to his claim that 55% of Yale students receive financial aid, which is a bit of a red herring, because the vast majority of Americans qualify for some (but often not much) aid.
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by dragoon 16y ago
Enough people with some degree of need are passing the "extracurricular hurdles" that 55% of Yalies receive financial aid. The vast, vast, vast majority of people in that 55% are not even remotely poor. Most are of upper-middle income and
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by dragoon 16y ago
In fact, they offer incredibly good financial aid packages to people not even remotely poor (families earning over 100k still get discounts). Thus, very few end up paying the sticker price. I wouldn't say it's "incredibly good financial a
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by dragoon 16y ago
"Diminishing returns" also means next to nothing. Technically speaking, it means that the second derivative of output with respect to input is negative, when we care about the first. For example, you exhibit "diminishing returns" for each
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by dragoon 16y ago
These are completely different markets. The majority of car consumers just want reliable transportation; the car is essentially a commodity. If Japanese cars are of higher quality, people will buy them instead of American cars. With univers
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by dragoon 16y ago
There's a difference between expecting the service you paid for and being a demanding prick. Expecting that a financial advisor somehow get your child into a prestigious preschool is the latter. We have, at the top of society in a milieu mo
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Ultra-rich actually are more mean-spirited than the rest of us(bloomberg.com)
8 points by dragoon 16y ago|4 comments
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by dragoon 16y ago
I agree with the gist of what you're saying, but "their children" who have looted and ruined the nation aren't just Baby Boomers, but mostly conservative, white, well-to-do Baby Boomers-- a small subset of them. I don't think they're any mo
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by dragoon 16y ago
This could have just as easily been written by a Gen Xer or a Late Boomer. The problem is that people who are 25 now are comparing their economic fortune not to those of people born 10 years earlier, but to those of people born 30 to 50 yea
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by dragoon 16y ago
The problem isn't generational. It's class warfare. Plenty of Baby Boomers have been fucked just as bad as our generation has. The worst villains are mostly Baby Boomers, but just because that's the generation who is in power, and most peop
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by dragoon 16y ago
I agree. The rot in our society started with the Reagan Era. 2008 didn't make it suddenly appear; it just brought it back to the surface. The OP has a just grievance, but she's comparing the world she faces to the Mad Men era of social mo
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by dragoon 16y ago
On formal principles, we'd expect that robustness and expressiveness are inversely related, on the principle that low-entropy data can be recovered with better fidelity than dense data, but I think I can name a counterexample to this princi
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by dragoon 16y ago
So the CEO is also micromanaging you down to lines of code off the internet. Leave as soon as you can. Start looking for jobs today.
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by dragoon 16y ago
Let's get real about something: they're business guys, and you're the technical muscle, right? You seem young, and you're probably as good at sizing them up (note your "great people" comment) as the average MBA is at writing code; by this,