shahan

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by shahan 15y ago
> However, I wonder how much of that is changing due to the fact that most talks are now available to view online. Interesting point. If ideas, arguments, and claims in video and audio can be visualized more effectively, that might ch
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by shahan 15y ago
Skip news entirely and read only (personal) blogs. Define news how you wish. Benefits will ensue.
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by shahan 15y ago
The number you're aiming for is going to meaningfully change how you act. For example, you might get an offer for $50 million. If you do, the probability of making it to $1 billion matters. (Incidentally, the creator of this community was
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by shahan 15y ago
This is almost equivalent to saying that the expected value of a startup increases with the scale you aim for -- clearly not true after some point.
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by shahan 15y ago
The fact that the destination is the same does not mean that the journey doesn't matter. Most people are not indifferent to dying in 6 hours or in 60 years.
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by shahan 15y ago
It's ridiculous to think about surviving the heat death of the universe when 50 % longer life spans would be pretty cool. In the coming decades, We may or may not be able to significantly extend life, but it's not clear why it's unlikely, o
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by shahan 15y ago
The benefits of diversification -- higher return and lower risk -- is a better reason to invest in gold, even if it was true that gold holds its value for millenia, which probably isn't true. The article is about "why stocks beat gold and b
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by shahan 15y ago
It's Warren Buffett, man. Perhaps he invests (long-term) in stocks because he believes what he writes, rather than writes what he does because he just happens to be invested in stocks. You really think there should be a disclaimer here?
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by shahan 15y ago
I don't think people do treat market share as a proxy for profit share. You don't really need a proxy for profit share because it's easy to measure. And if market share is publicly avilable information, so is probably profit share. It does
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by shahan 15y ago
It's hard for you to be wrong. If someone with zero programming talent does become really good, you could just say that they did have talent after all.
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by shahan 15y ago
Thanks for your answer. > I'm not sure what happens in terms of formal default if a borrower deliberately and aggressively inlfates away its debt faster than lenders can react by demanding higher interest rates at the next auction. Th
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by shahan 15y ago
Oh, I think I answered my own question. The lenders probably factor in inflation when they lend the US money. That would actually mean that the loans are in real money, and that there is no such thing as a nominal obligation. Anyone know if
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by shahan 15y ago
I was wondering about the exact same thing. Ability and willingness to pay should mean ability and willingness to pay in real terms. Anything else doesn't seem to make sense. Also: If the US defaults, how does it go down? Here's why I'm con
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by shahan 15y ago
> Basically an infrastructure company in the most elemental and violently grand sense of the word? (a) I love this sentence, and (b) this is probably why people are so excited about Dropbox, myself included. But, the potential of a co
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by shahan 15y ago
It will be time to stop looking to growth potential as a valid reason for huge valuations, when it seizes to be a perfectly valid reason. All else being equal, wouldn't you pay more for a company with high growth potential than one with low
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by shahan 15y ago
Agree that it will be tricky to recognize the pieces, but what's the point in doing it with 2D pieces? The app would be (slightly) more exciting if it could help you record the state of any game anywhere in less than 5 seconds -- and allow
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by shahan 15y ago
Don't see the use of this as an app, but fuck the use. If the goal is fun and learning, I think it's worth going all in and do object recognition using, say, SIFT vectors (see Wikipedia). Just to see if it works. It's easy to find SIFT impl
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by shahan 15y ago
Whether their decision was right or wrong, they made a decision that big companies tend not to make. Startups should probably have a bias towards decisions like that.
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The Quantifiable Self(kk.org)
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by shahan 15y ago
Good post, but it would have been difficult to write without including IT (or media). You'd have to use the year 1795 or something. There are probably lots of fields today where Aristotle, if he would be brought back to life, would go "meh"