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by fan 12y ago
The logic behind the author's central thesis seems to be: 1. Humans live about 100 years. 2. The highest human ambitions, like writing a great novel, can only be reasonably accomplished in a well-balanced life if that life lasts more t
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by fan 12y ago
"English-language conquest is not more efficient than polyglot science – it is just differently inefficient." This seems to be the main thesis the article is trying to prove, yet there's no real clear analysis of the actual t
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by fan 12y ago
Are you against the particular points in this lecture? The video seems like sound tactical advice on how to do a particular type of startup. He talks about things like looking for cofounders, hiring, and soforth. Very little time is spen
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by fan 12y ago
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by fan 12y ago
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by fan 14y ago
Those of you who say that this research is just correlation need to read the paper for a few minutes. Shai's paper would be much less interesting if he just looked at many patents companies did pre and post IPO. Shai looked at companies th
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by fan 14y ago
To the majority of users, including me, that idea is actually novel, and the novelty itself demonstrates the hidden corners that are lurking quite well. I believe that point was well made, even though in a technical sense, the exact error w
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by fan 15y ago
I believe that your metaphor above is correct in getting at some features of the startup world, namely: 1) Many founders are attracted by glory rather than logic. 2) Large companies receive research information from startup successes and fa
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by fan 15y ago
I disagree that a citizen of one country cannot complain about the actions of another country if his/her own country has some (perhaps worse) violations as well. Applying this logic would mean that no one, say, in the 1980s Soviet Union had
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by fan 15y ago
This is exactly what we do. And the point is to give wages to those who value it more, and equity to those who value that more. It's creative and win/win generally for the team. I've yet to have anyone be upset at this. I encourage those
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by fan 15y ago
Speaking from the startup's side, I feel a lot of startup hate for Paypal comes from these horror stories. But in reality any low cost service will have bad customer support (Gmail customer support anyone?). Also, take into account the fac
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by fan 15y ago
You're right that a lot of outcome comes from past experience. I don't think a resourceful person riding a bike for the first day can be nearly as good as a non-resourceful person who's been riding for decades. So outcome isn't purely a f
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by fan 15y ago
True, but he's controls whether its removed or not so it's best to give a more persuasive reason.
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by fan 15y ago
In this case, it's right under the section entitled "Lock Up Agreement", and seems to be indeed after the /prospectus date/ and not the IPO: "...during the period ending 180 days after the date of this prospectus..."
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by fan 15y ago
The transition is never that stark. Take your example of sunglasses. A quick search on wikipedia shows that the precursor were glasses with a thin slit in them. It was never squinting, and then BOOM, Oakleys. There was always a gradual ch
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by fan 16y ago
I think that can be applied to technologies that aren't open -- and it can be a property of the technology itself. In fact, one entire category of technology that's overlooked right now is sensors. Besides sound (mic) and light (camera), a
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by fan 16y ago
99 Designs has actually worked pretty well in my experience. It's like Derek Siver's strategy to have a bunch of people do the work you want be done, and then hiring the best. Except this site does all of it for you.
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by fan 16y ago
I personally have had some luck with Joel's stackoverflow career postings when it first started out. I'm not sure what it's like anymore. Also, are you a programmer yourself? If so it's much easier because you can just reach back to class
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by fan 16y ago
One big assumption that the article is leaving unstated is that the market is valuing things fairly. That is, the analysis depends on the market valuation being correct. In fact, it usually tends to be the other way around. PE ratios pred
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by fan 17y ago
What game does this Nash Equilibrium correspond to? How are we modeling the world such that the eqm. changes? I don't see the "shift" as obvious at all.
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by fan 17y ago
Yes -- this is absolutely key. While the first couple of years in a PhD program can be like a Master's program, once you get to the independent research portion, it's completely different. There is no more "standard formula" to follow, the
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by fan 17y ago
Yes but $9b of "credit" is created this way. The US government emphatically does not sell bonds for credit, only cash, which you still only have $1b of...
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by fan 17y ago
How could this have come about? Was it that you guys didn't do the design at all and someone else lifted it in your name? Or did you guys go ahead and think "we'll wait till we're called out, and in all likelihood we'd be famous enough then
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by fan 17y ago
Point of clarification: what does status mean here? If it's identically equated to having a lifestyle that involves obsession with Star Wars, not following proper hygiene, and being messy, then your theory is empirically isomorphic to the
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by fan 17y ago
You're assuming here that enjoyment in life is some mathematic, static, function of number of years worked and number of years of free time. There are a lot of issues with that assumption. First, there are non-linearities when you mix work
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by fan 17y ago
Re: "Feeling of control is very important...feels a lot worse than driving." Citation? I'm not saying it's not true. I'm just curious if there are actually surveys of this. I've personally never felt a subway/tram/plane was any less safe
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by fan 17y ago
I'd like to see the paper that shows medical doctors only wash their hands 9% of times after going to the bathroom. The number is mind-blowingly low, especially since when I'm in public restrooms myself, the number of people who wash their
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by fan 17y ago
The cohort there is different.
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by fan 17y ago
"- A rapid climb in income inequality over the last generation (check the historical gini index for reference) means that there aren't very many quality, well paying jobs available to young people." The rise in income inequality is offset b
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by fan 17y ago
The article has a huge flaw in not comparing equal consumption. The interesting question isn't how much retirement savings you'll have at the end, but how much "net return" you get from the college degree. I'd like to see a Net Present Valu

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