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by w1ntermute 3y ago
From the article linked by Techdirt: “executives have sought to almost entirely subordinate clinical case managers’ judgment to the computer’s calculations” Sounds like the issue is the executives. What does this have to do with “AI”? Also,
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by w1ntermute 4y ago
”“A little-known piece of trivia,” Altman announced. “This smell, after it rains for the first time. You know what’s that called?” “Is this going to freak me out?” Williams said. “Petrichor,” Altman said. “It’s my favorite smell. You only
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by w1ntermute 4y ago
Someone hasn’t used TikTok…or paid attention to anyone in Gen Z on their phone.
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by w1ntermute 5y ago
It's not that these aren't interesting subjects or potentially useful in adult life. They just shouldn't be the priority. Is it potentially useful in adult life to know how your car's IC engine works? Sure, but nowhere n
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by w1ntermute 5y ago
Reminds me of this great travel blog from 2008: http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ The writer traveled from Vienna to Pyongyang by train, giving him 36 unsupervised hours in North Korea.
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by w1ntermute 6y ago
It’s just another example of the “participation culture” that modern parenting and social media have made commonplace. Who needs to do anything real when you can just upvote or retweet? You get the same sort of participation trophy that you
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by w1ntermute 6y ago
If they actually did get paid so little, why did they do it? This seems like a terrible use of their time.
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by w1ntermute 6y ago
There are really three categories of management: * Line management: are you willing to be the man and promulgate the party line? You can be mostly apolitical in this role. * Middle management: are you willing to be the pawn of a specific me
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by w1ntermute 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Genius_Failed
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by w1ntermute 6y ago
With respect to point #2, the real reason why revamping any regulatory regime "top to bottom" is difficult is because so much organizational, legislative, and administrative cruft has built up over the years in the federal governm
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by w1ntermute 6y ago
As someone who has used a variety of VTC products (Zoom, Webex, BlueJeans, Teams, Skype, etc.) for several years on a daily basis (lots of external VTCs with different companies who use different VTC systems), Zoom is by far the best. The a
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by w1ntermute 6y ago
The death curve is also deceptive - there were likely many patients who were recorded as dying of the flu, or of influenza-like illness, that actually died of COVID-19, due to a lack of testing. The bottom line is that it’s very difficult t
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by w1ntermute 7y ago
See the wiki page for a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions
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by w1ntermute 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carried_interest
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by w1ntermute 7y ago
Re: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, this critique of the book is worth a read: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
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by w1ntermute 7y ago
The most important factor for financial time series forecasting is undoubtedly access to clean data. This is what sets Renaissance apart. There’s no need for particularly sophisticated math - they’ve been doing it for 3 decades.
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by w1ntermute 7y ago
My phone's contacts list. Make friends with as many people at your current company as possible, and when they leave, make sure to keep in regular touch with them. I enforce self-discipline on this by putting regular touchpoints in my G
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by w1ntermute 7y ago
Great—let me know when you've changed the zoning laws, fixed urban planning more generally, and how the whole society is organized around massive subsidies for driving and inefficient sprawl housing with long-term unsupportable infrast
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by w1ntermute 7y ago
Wrong—the claim has nothing to do with what rich or poor people like to use. The claim is that the only way to provide affordable public transit that's sustainably accessible to people who aren't rich (that is, even when gentrific
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by w1ntermute 7y ago
> He claims only the rich use light rail. But what is it about a light rail that causes a poor person to look at it and walk away deciding it's not for them? It simply doesn't make sense. Build LRT to a poor area, people will u
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by w1ntermute 7y ago
That approach (circumventing the specifics of the law through technical workarounds while still violating it in spirit) seems unlikely to succeed for the same reasons as Aereo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bro
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by w1ntermute 7y ago
Also, it’s gotten substantially easier for a team of 1-2 to build a polished product on a shoestring budget than it was when YC originally started. The claims of big customers are likely mostly exaggerated—product-market fit is as difficult
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by w1ntermute 9y ago
10k is a drop in the bucket. We need blocks of high rises going up around all the Caltrain stops, and a corresponding increase in Caltrain capacity.
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by w1ntermute 9y ago
If you get a private office at WeWork, you’ll get that peace, quiet, and isolation. Or you can just put on a pair of noise-canceling headphones.
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by w1ntermute 9y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I meant.
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by w1ntermute 9y ago
This is a good idea in theory, but the problem in practice is that for every Emily or Anthony, there are a hundred students at 2nd and 3rd tier universities who, partly through their own failures and partly due to the unfortunate circumstan
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by w1ntermute 9y ago
Just as people who didn’t immigrate from a poor country might not completely understand your circumstances, I don’t think you fully grasp the circumstances of those who have failed to succeed despite being in the US for generations. If it w
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by w1ntermute 9y ago
In this context, wealth doesn’t necessarily have to start out as financial wealth. You came from an educated family, so even if your parents were materially poor, they created an environment that ensured you would be on an upward trajectory
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by w1ntermute 9y ago
Reminds me of these lines from a Hemingway novel: “How did you go bankrupt?” “Two ways, gradually and then suddenly.” There have been a lot of startups without a real product that have been propped up by the bubble of easy money over the la
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YC is making a bet on biotech, but it's not an obvious fit(cnbc.com)
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