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by mpbm 10y ago
It's fun to be reminded of controversy that happened outside of modern memory.
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by mpbm 10y ago
Let's say a law like this did get passed. How could it even be worded? For example, if it merely says "you have to give the cops your password when a judge tells you to" then using a password manager should technically protec
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by mpbm 10y ago
Maybe it's much more of a social decision than a business decision. Early stage investors are gambling even more than late stage investors. The best they can hope for is to find 50 reasonable deals and let the math work itself out. So
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by mpbm 10y ago
Yeah, that was a TIL moment for me when I found out the body can make glucose without carbohydrate. There were others, like how mitochondria burn fat more efficiently than glucose.
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by mpbm 10y ago
I think with business acumen you can hire all the "more" you need.
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by mpbm 10y ago
LOL, you see "a staggering amount of waste" in commercial entities and thing the way to find efficiency is to look to the government? Like government-sponsored research is going to be more efficient? That's a good one.
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by mpbm 10y ago
"Dark time" strongly implies a subjective experience. Maybe Mark meant that was an event he personally experienced as intensely dark. That's more or less the same situation that the TV show Silicon Valley used to stress out t
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by mpbm 10y ago
It's disingenuous to claim that because a new feature isn't making your life better means he's failing at making the whole world better. Maybe you're one of those 10-100K experiments where some engineer pushed something
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by mpbm 10y ago
Why would their body language have anything to do with the content you were hoping for? Yeah, the title is a bit more grandiose than just "Sam interviews Mark." I thought it was good. It's a huge topic that has hundreds of th
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by mpbm 10y ago
concise, not precise
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by mpbm 10y ago
Benevolence is over rated. Competitive self-interest is at least verifiably productive.
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by mpbm 10y ago
Since a solid five minutes of the interview are devoted to Mark explaining how he never expected to start a company, let alone do anything as big as "connect the world", I don't think this is much of a rebuttal of anything. W
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by mpbm 10y ago
I think he means if it's important to you it's still worth trying and if you fail at least you were trying. Whereas if it's just a business, "nothing personal," then failing means you've got nothing, not even t
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by mpbm 10y ago
LOL yeah, I just spoke to a dietician the other day who swore that glucose is the only thing your brain can use for fuel. It's easy to be ignorant about a situation you never experience. Every single person they deal with is going to b
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by mpbm 10y ago
I can recommend this book http://www.artandscienceoflowcarb.com/the-art-and-science-of...
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by mpbm 10y ago
From experience, you'll need to spend a lot of time learning about macros before advice on what food to eat will do you much good. For example, if someone says "eat two cups of green salad with 2 tablespoons of olive oil" you
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by mpbm 10y ago
My research indicates those 5 kilos were probably mostly water because when you go low carb your body uses up all of its glycogen, which is stored with 3-parts water, and that takes a lot of salt with it. So you have to drink more often and
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by mpbm 10y ago
If you're looking for a startup, something that's supposed to start cheap and scale huge in <10 years, then you're probably only looking at problems that can be addressed by software on the internet. That being said, you d
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by mpbm 10y ago
Yeah, I appreciate when a point is succinctly and aesthetically encoded, but not poetry for the sake of poetry. Seems like the vast majority of it is just ambiguity masquerading as depth. One of my favorite poems is Invictus by William Earn
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by mpbm 10y ago
Seemed like an okay title to me. They summarized the article at a non-technical level. That's the same title I would have written to summarize it. Maybe I wouldn't have used the word "revolutionary", but I already ignore
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by mpbm 10y ago
Maybe all those ignorant poor people will just use the free Facebook-only internet to coordinate long enough to build their own infrastructure. Maybe a half dozen other providers will build planes and fly them over those ignorant poor peopl
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by mpbm 10y ago
If you're honestly confused why a for-profit corporation needs to find a business model before they can provide a service then go back to the basics and start reading again. Charities are altruistic, and even then it's more theory
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by mpbm 10y ago
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWorldIsJustAwe...
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by mpbm 10y ago
Didn't he put like 99% of his wealth into a charitable trust or something? Maybe he doesn't have much of an intention. Maybe he's just sitting on top of a rocket ship and looking around and going "okay, what now?"
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by mpbm 10y ago
To be fair, Facebook was an idea that caught on, and advertising was all they could come up with to keep the lights on. I mean, I can't think of anything else they could do for revenue.
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by mpbm 10y ago
For what it's worth, I honestly think Musk is just a geek who got lucky enough to be able to pay everyone else to build his toys. I don't think he saw SpaceX as an investment I think he saw it as crazy fun. If it hadn't worke
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by mpbm 10y ago
Wait, so, Google controlling your access to information on the internet via "the front page" doesn't bother you. Facebook controlling your access to information inside of a website you have to visit and log in to, does bother
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by mpbm 10y ago
You're underestimating how highly people value their own vanity. All Narcissus needed was a puddle.
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by mpbm 10y ago
I'm not sure how you'd propose to stop them from trying. They're offering a service. People will accept or reject that service based on the costs and benefits. Can you think of a way to provide internet to everyone in the wor
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by mpbm 10y ago
I think the key part is "if facebook disappeared and was replaced by another tool." The important part is how many people are in the SAME tool. The value to the user of a network depends on how many other people are in that networ

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