gabaix

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by gabaix 1mo ago
You will be prosecuted in some cases in France. This is a law named “insult to a representative of public authority” If you shout insults at Macron, you will be prosecuted. If you display insults about Macron, you will be prosecuted. https
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by gabaix 2mo ago
I grew up there. I used to bike along stretches of firebreaks between plots. These firebreaks are nowhere nearly enough. Trees are young, pine needles spread everywhere, and ground is sandy. The forest is a giant tinderbox.
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by gabaix 2mo ago
It is also not possible as there is censorship in some cases. The European Union has blocked rt.com.
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by gabaix 4mo ago
Constant recreation may be the ultimate purpose of humanity.
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by gabaix 7mo ago
Learn the social cues. People won’t say when they are busy. They might not ask you questions back, or keep doing what they do.
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by gabaix 8mo ago
They are not allowing other marketplaces, or creators themselves, to run apps on Apple devices directly.
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by gabaix 8mo ago
Karp is a philosopher by training that has fallen into ideological blindness. He claims that he is on the right side of history. Democracies need Palantir badly. He preaches his views to his employees. No one in his flock seems to wonder wh
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by gabaix 8mo ago
Liquidation preferences may have multiples. A 3x liquidation preference would have erased most gains for anyone who didn’t raise in the last round, employees and founders included.
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by gabaix 8mo ago
True. I myself try to read articles without looking up the authors. It is hard though. When someone makes an extraordinary claim I feel the urge to look them up. It is a shortcut to some legitimacy to that claim.
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by gabaix 9mo ago
Nagel's point is that he could not know what it was like to be a bat.
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by gabaix 10mo ago
It takes fresh minds not to think about the collective impact of their actions.
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by gabaix 1y ago
What policies post World War II have had eugenic effects on the population?
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by gabaix 1y ago
The issues are two-fold 1- the territorial split between gendarmerie/police within the French territory 2- the fact the gendarmes for police work report to the Ministry of Defense. If one had to design the police system from crash, the
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by gabaix 1y ago
I have always found confusing the existence of the gendarmes. They are indeed a vestigial force of the XIXth century, and should be transformed into a regular police force.
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by gabaix 1y ago
What if Tim was the coding agent?
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by gabaix 1y ago
Cannot come soon enough. Companies like Voodoo Games have made a killing scamming gullible people with no oversight.
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by gabaix 1y ago
> Some have been tortured. Is there any evidence of this?
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by gabaix 2y ago
Depending on the number of applicants and job posts, it may be hard to prove that the person in company A discriminates.
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by gabaix 2y ago
Ironically the post is affected by Hacker News flame-war detection system.
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by gabaix 2y ago
This is a good analysis. About #2 (disincentivize charter education): parents created charter schools because they disagreed on the choices that was made for them in public education. It is very hard to fight this, as 1- they see a huge dif
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by gabaix 2y ago
Are you referring to the "Joint WHO-China Study"? https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/who-convened-global-...
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by gabaix 2y ago
This is an apt description of how things are, sadly. And it all starts at the crib when parents teach their children blind obedience.
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by gabaix 2y ago
The Hiroshima museum, while advocating for a nuclear free world, has an interesting take on why the US dropped the bomb on them. According to them, the US dropped the bomb because they wanted to show their strengths against the Soviets. It
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by gabaix 2y ago
He has maintained iron clad control over Automattic, WordPress, and WordPress.org. How? By insisting on securing the proxy votes from investors. Investors — what on earth were you thinking? There is something to say about corporate govern
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by gabaix 2y ago
I found this article that explains that the arrest warrant was only to be activated if Pavel was on the French territory. (French) https://www.sudouest.fr/economie/reseaux-sociaux/le-patron-d... It could have been
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by gabaix 2y ago
These tests are often done by people with a high image of the charge. Despite all the research showing futility, they are used in startups time and time again. They do go away with experience.
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by gabaix 2y ago
Not debating the merits of this case. There are many regulations that slightly inconvenience the many, to address the problems of a few. Individually these cases are benign. As a group they compound complexity. Each new reform should be e
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by gabaix 2y ago
As citizen in France, we also had an old democracy. Under Nazi Germany occupation it took no time for the ruling party to oppress ennemies of the state. Jews were hunted down using the National n database of names and addresses. I do view t
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by gabaix 2y ago
> In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that I am an Anthropocene partisan. It would have helped if the author had mentioned this at the beginning of the article. Or they had let someone neutral write the article entirely.
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by gabaix 3y ago
Does YC publish active users count? In its absence one can use public metrics like active commenters count.

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