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I wouldn't dismiss his work simply based on that. It's not unusual for blog posts to have notes on how the content is related to the author's other works.

Saying "this marble is red" implicitly communicates that "my opinion is: this marble is red".

Nobody "is" anything. People do things. He did some good things, worth praising. He's also allegedly done some despicable things that we should condemn.

Honorable mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNtTylNR7ks

As long as it's disclosed beforehand, I don't see any problem with that. It's not like Amazon coerced the student into the contract: if they had a better funding opportunity they'd obviously have gone for it. This is the best deal they could get and Amazon was also obviously taking a risk: for every successful project, there are hundreds that don't get anywhere.

I guess it's an instance of legislative #TODO comments.

Whenever someone suggests that something be nationalized, I ask myself "Why not create a public version of it?". If the answer is "it cannot compete with the private ones", maybe that's why running it privately is necessary.

Is there any evidence that alcohol does it that way? Sincere question.

Perhaps some A/B testing at The Guardian showed that headlines condemning tech giants are more clickable.

Another factor to consider is that COVID is contagious but blood clots are not. The multiplicative (if not exponential) nature of COVID spread makes this a no brainer that the vaccine should be reinstated (and just monitored).

I suspect that what's happening is that these institutions don't think in consequentialist point of view. They are not comfortable with diverting the trolley even if the math checks out.

It's an essay. He's expressing an opinion, just like anyone can always produce an alternative narrative.

The biggest advantage is that shovels are not worth zero in the event the whole thing crashes (and in a gold rush there is a big chance of that happening, by definition). The idea is to take advantage of the upside (to some degree) but also have your downside limited. It's a risk averse investment advice, not necessarily one for maximizing returns in the best case scenario.

A universe where he invested in BTC rather than funding Coinbase may not have BTC at 50k. We can't compare outcomes without taking into account the probability distribution at the time of the investment.

"You can buy candies". We don't have candies. How's that a problem? Obviously it's a logistics problem. It seems like the anger being driven to the wrong people.

Is it really the same person?

- Coder/programmer (L1) - Software Engineer (L2) - Entrepreneur [in the software industry] (L3)

Companies discontinue products all the time due to acquisitions, bankruptcy, restructuring or simply re-orienting investment and I've never seen them held to this standard of having to host it somewhere external. I'm not even really sure how that would work.

A commenter here shared an example of a similar product shut down by Microsoft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remix_3D

Disclaimer: Googler, but in no way connect to the Poly team.

Edit: Added Remix 3D example.

I cannot agree more. I think he's brilliant, and I've learned a lot from his ideas. However, I've seen him in multiple interviews putting forth evidence-free ideas aligned with Republican talk points.

Do you have some sort of paper/article/book explaining the idea in detail? I don't think it would be fair to analyze it based on an HN comment.

Neat trick. Some websites don't even bother giving you any choice for traditional username/password input though.

I think the problem can be solved by separating the "phone" experience from the "mobile" experience. Phones are these devices powered by a philosophy (and to an extent, a technology) from 3-4 decades ago and day after day we see them ruining the experience of having the internet access from your hands. We need to move from a mobile-phone era to a mobile-internet era.

I've been a fan of Nassim Taleb for a long time. Say what you want about him as a person or his language on Social Media but the man has come with some real original and profound ways to look at the world. "Fooled by Randomness" remains my favorite book from him.

How exactly do you know if a business will be willing to pay for a product?

What's a good business model for this kind of company?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23106043

Someone recommended Ha-Joon Chang books on this thread. They are fantastic. You may also want to check out "Asia's Next Giant: South Korea and Late Industrialization" by Alice H. Amsden

Disclaimer: lived in Korea for 8 years

It's more like they bought it from us. ARM used to be owned by Westerners. https://www.wsj.com/articles/softbanks-arm-holdings-to-sell-...

I agree. This thread discusses that with a historical perspective: https://twitter.com/mikebutcher/status/1221842546881679360?s...

It all really comes down to being the cheapest option. Huawei has no monopoly on 5G technology. It just has the means (and government support) to make big R&D investments.

This Twitter thread discussed that point of a view a few days ago:https://twitter.com/mikebutcher/status/1221842546881679360?s...

Nominations are submitted early in the year and he assumed the office in April 2018.

This. I've seen him being invited to otherwise technically well positioned events/conferences. Sad.

I read both, and Fooled By Randomness. I would say you stand to gain a lot reading about the older ones as well.