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It would seem that anyone who could consistently arbitrage a currency OR synthetically front run transactions would be able to capture a great deal of value extremely quickly. Further, they should have an easily identifiable and intelligible record of success. Have a pitch deck ready if you don't already.

Either one should either generate the capital you need, get your system bought by a big player, or get you hired with a big salary by a big player.

Let us know how it turns out!

In my experience, it just means that your habits have become that which you don't want them to be.

Look into creating a morning routine that gets you to working on something so when you wake up you get out of bed and start something, anything. Start making breakfast (this can be easier if you have the coffee pot on a timer so it is ready upon waking), pound some water & a banana before going for a run, do hygiene and get dressed -- any of these make a good starting point. Finally, getting out of the house/apt to a workspace can really help the focus as well -- I dream about working on my startup all day at work but when I get home I frequently fall into the traps you've discussed unless I go to a place specifically to work.

As a redditor you might want to look at /r/getMotivated.

Finally, the biggest thing for me has been realizing that "just start" is really, really helpful. If I can just make myself start on something for 5min then I can easily work on it for 5 hours but that initial resistance is by far the worst of my barriers.

Good luck.

By nature a false positive interaction could be re-tested more easily than a false negative though, correct? Also, that fits in with medical "first, do no harm" framework more readily.

Sorry for the delay, things got away from me for a while.

How little Spanish could one speak and realistically get by? Yo sé un poquito, solamente un poquito. The website says they work in English but the general Chileans?

If the idea is a web & mobile service that focuses (almost) exclusively on the US & UK, would that be feasible?

Can you talk about what type of talks and events are required for founders to give / attend and how demanding on your time this is?

At the end of that time period, what happens to your work visa and whatnot? Can you stay to work there, are you expected to work there, etc...

Sorry for the delay again & thanks.

A false positive costs much lower than a false negative in this instance so it should follow that FP should be more common. However, without the data it is still speculation.

Could you please elaborate on your experience with them as a solo founder?

Also, how would the US market being the almost sole target impact things?

I'm forwarding your link to some friends who work consistently rotating shifts and need to be accessible. It seems like doctors, nurses, and sysadmins would be potential users. I'll ping you if they have any feedback.

I have no experience in this so be skeptical of this. It might be a good idea to bring on an adviser for this sale? Perhaps talk with a VC just to help on the sale for some flat fee -- say 5k$ + 3% of the sale - transactions fees? Use your own numbers of course.

If they are offering serious money (being BigPharma I imagine it isn't peanuts) you will want this handled professionally. Peace of mind that you are getting a good deal and while they company maintains interest.

Kudos on the success!

There is a central limit theorem joke in here somewhere, I just know it.

What about doing a "partial sort" where the point sum of a discussion thread starts to go lower that it is pushed lower than any zero/positive sum thread? This way discussion threads that are low quality tend to be pushed away, but the rest are treated equally -- after some testing to make sure the modification isn't too sensitive.

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I am aware of that. I felt it warranted repeating for this conversation given what you had written up to my response.

They do. They are also paid extrememly well for that area.

Not everything is binary. Other people have different motivations than you. Not everyone does an Ironman for bragging rights. Not everyone starts a company for bragging rights.

The implication, however, is that they were doing something shady that the rest of the credit rating agencies were not -- which is incorrect.

Not only that, the BRK & GS deal was hugely publicized as were the favorable terms for BRK. Anyone who would care about it probably would have known that already. He is watched with millions of eyes for his every move.

Anyone who who owns pretty much any public equity can say he/she benefited from government intervention.

Full, unnecessary disclosure: Long on BRK, GS, C, BAC and others.

I hadn't seen the SECWatch site. It looks like there is a lot of potential there, thank you.

One important application of course being that if P=NP and we can prove it is that encryption as we know it today would no longer be viable with public key systems. Also, if I recall correctly the protein problems that Folding At Home works on are some variant of NP that could be expedited.

A much better example would be technology brought us companies like LTCM and other quantitative investments that allowed people to borrow 30-70% of assets for leveraged investment (which when the funds had to de-leverage and were unwinding we saw some big stock market volatility).

Part of it is that back then if a child was acting up, they would get disciplined at school and then disciplined ten-fold at home.

It is a lot easier to teach a room filled with children who are willing to put in the work or at least not screw it up for the other children. It is a lot easier for a teacher when he/she can kick a child out of class for misbehavior and the teacher is protected rather than chastised.

I would imagine bringing back "shop class" would be a good start. Or allowing students to take electrician, plumbing, etc classes at another school for credit would be a good start.

I much rather would have taken Electrician 101 than Introduction to Percussion in high school.

On the other hand... anecdote != data.

That you were allowed to take APs early in your high school career is rare. That you were allowed to take higher level math/science is rare. That a university accepted a 16(?) year old student is also rare.

The argument isn't that it has no benefits. The argument is that it fails the people it was designed to help. Considering the trend is that most drop outs come from disadvantaged backgrounds and tend to have less beneficially involved parents, it seems your case is irrelevant entirely.

Also, I believe that education should mirror yours in more ways, where intelligent students can progress forward at rates that reflect their changing status rather than an inflexible system.

Quite frankly, we can't judge our own competence very well without the wisdom of age and careful observation & contemplation. Even then, we can only judge our competence relative to others.

This is assuming we have a working, widely accepted definition for competence which we tend to gloss over and use only in specific contexts.

I also strongly disagree with "it is a a wise man who knows he knows nothing". A wise man knows what he doesn't know, but he certainly knows some things. He knows where to apply his own judgment and where to apply the thinking of others.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity#Response...

Also, I would think that exptime-complete problems we could call irreducibly complex :)

My first thoughts strayed to computability theory though.

I think Bertrand Russell put it best when he wrote, "[t]he fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

I have found the smarter (and in the majority, not all) someone is, the more likely that person sees the complexity of things.

You would probably like Linked by Barabasi -- it is similar, but Barabasi is an academic (my barabasi # would be 2!)

'I don't get all this passive-agressive "holier-than-thou" attitude towards Gladwell being famous I've been seeing lately. Who cares if he's famous?'

It reminds me of what PG said about this in his "why to not not start a startup" -- he is successful for what he does and they don't think he should be because he writes about things he doesn't do professionally or something.

Having just read that, I wouldn't characterize it as "Pinker curb-stomping Gladwell"... at all.

I read his book of the same title. It is entertaining, but I agree that he makes some questionable interesting assumptions. I get the feeling that he starts with a conclusion that he knows will get some attention or likes -- and then works backwards, even when one must use a suspension of disbelief like when reading fiction.

Even if the sexual contact network is not a hub oriented "small-world network" and more like our highway system -- that doesn't seem to mean that diseases will stay isolated in one area, just it might not spread quite as quickly or pervasively.

Thanks. This is kinda difficult to wrap my head around though. I found this passage interesting:

"By this account, there are no metaphysical or epistemological problems special to mathematics. The only worries left are the general worries about non-mathematical physics, and about fiction in general. Field's approach has been very influential, but is widely rejected. This is in part because of the requirement of strong fragments of second-order logic to carry out his reduction, and because the statement of conservativity seems to require quantification over abstract models or deductions."

I will admit that I have a problem when fictionalism requires that we regard "2 + 2 = 4" as false (also from wikipedia). All in all an interesting idea.

That is true. I could be wrong, but I personally feel that Apple is being difficult on purpose. I do not think they want the iPad to become a business device (or be a company that produces primarily for businesses). I think they want to be recreational products company -- which works pretty well for them -- and not have to deal with similar problems that Microsoft with business issues.

I won't be at all surprised if the Android tablets have a similar look & feel to the iPad, but intended for specialized work as opposed to media consumption. I imagine the customization capability of an Android (or other OS) tablet would allow for simple, specialized devices that succeed.

I could be entirely wrong about Apple's paradigm and the resultant prospects. I disagree with many of Apple's decisions, but no one can deny their success over the past few years (though their stock is overvalued right now imho).