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This is remarkable because it's hard to imagine most American companies, which are always looking to squeeze out a little more profit to juice the quarterly report
HEB is privately owned and run by the owners. Those are very different incentives than public or VC-backed ventures.
This last week I took an in-person class where we covered almost all of the book: https://dabeaz.com/SICP.html
The instructor David Beazley very skillfully weeded out all the non-essential parts and added one amazing exercise where we implemented the lambda calculus and, funny enough, the ycombinator.
Highly recommend it for anyone who desires to learn this material, can't find the time, and is willing to pay $2500 for the experience.
https://www.fs.blog/mental-models/
This site has great information on how to think. The above post is particularly excellent.
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In this case it seems the customers are unlikely to revolt. Most won't even notice, right?
Benedict Evans tweet: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/955539670103859200?...
Draw lots of pictures. That habit helped me learn analysis most.
That's the only reason I won't delete. So many friends from traveling that would be lost ...
"openly supporting" the winning presidential candidate isn't "absurd".
Scientists generally pursue truth whereas politicians spend most of their time pursuing power by building a constituency, trying to get and stay elected, raising money, etc.
And I'm not saying "scientists are bad politicians". I'm saying what the two groups do don't overlap a ton.
For a gross example, most scientists will have to learn to lie to be good politicians, because all good politicians play fast and loose with the truth.
They also might be bad at politics.
Stopped reading after their first example of an investing model was "high frequency trading" ...
Attempting to follow the news in real time is what wears most Twitter users out.
I felt the same way, but then I unfollowed everyone who tweeted about current events and the stress is gone.
Ethereum was an ICO.
Was Ethereum a scam?
The comments section on aeon.co is very good.
Encourage you guys to read the comments.
Which means they are still basically farmers and just getting started.
I can't find any evidence from 20th century, but here's a study from 2016: http://ftp.iza.org/dp10179.pdf
It says Americans work 25% more. This is usually the conclusion of this kind of thing.
And this explains Africa's dominance of the world economy?
a true digital commonwealth.
That is hysterical.
Elon's take: https://youtu.be/GtaxU6DZvLs?t=1m36s
Fair.
I became interested when this happened: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/18/f8/f818f8735acfdbf8f4a6...
I'm deliberately being vague for the sake of argument. Of course there are many details in practice.
A similar argument applies to the economies of Europe and the USA in parts the 20th century. A lot was similar, but Americans had the better work ethic.
Of course, work ethic doesn't explain everything. But it's really freaking important.
True. Because everything else wasn't equal. And it won't be here. But if it gets close to equal ...
I imagine Chinese work ethic had something to do with the destruction of the Rust Belt, no?
I can see why people hate on this POV, but one thing is very reasonable:
Imagine company A and company B are equal in all ways, except company B's workers work twice as much. If they come into competition, company A will be crushed.
All the SF tech companies will come into competition with Chinese companies in the next 20 years. And there's a chance they just get outworked.
Sequoia has been in China for more than a decade ...
I think the article was pretty fair.
He is controversial and polarizing: many people hate him and many people love him.
https://www.reddit.com/r/JordanPeterson/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/Jordan_Peterson_Memes/ are kind of cultish. It's a very ironic cult, but a bit of a cult nonetheless.
No. This is the "so you're saying" interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54
She is such a firebrand.
After watching that interview I've tried to make my body language more expressive like hers.
Below is a very good related article about the "intellectual dark web" consisting of academics like Peterson who are being driven out of the academy by orthodoxy and instead work through podcasts, Youtube, Patreon, etc
http://conatusnews.com/rise-intellectual-dark-web/
edit:
I made a thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16189120
After your first two paragraphs, you mostly allude to the truths contained in Damore's document.
Could you elaborate a little more about its "ugliness"?