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superqueston How H-E-B planned for the pandemic

> 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.

superqueston If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP?

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.

superqueston Ask HN: Any resources to learn the fundamentals of critical thinking?

https://www.fs.blog/mental-models/

This site has great information on how to think. The above post is particularly excellent.

superqueston GitLab sees huge spike in project imports

Reddit link missing a 'r/'

superqueston Zillow surprises investors by buying up homes

In this case it seems the customers are unlikely to revolt. Most won't even notice, right?

superqueston Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)

Benedict Evans tweet: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/955539670103859200?...

superqueston Ask HN: Resources to learn real analysis?

Draw lots of pictures. That habit helped me learn analysis most.

superqueston Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook

That's the only reason I won't delete. So many friends from traveling that would be lost ...

superqueston Like Peter Thiel, Tech Workers Feel Alienated by Silicon Valley ‘Echo Chamber’

"openly supporting" the winning presidential candidate isn't "absurd".

superqueston The Largest Number of Scientists in Modern U.S. Is Running for Office in 2018

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.

superqueston The Largest Number of Scientists in Modern U.S. Is Running for Office in 2018

They also might be bad at politics.

superqueston A.I. Has Arrived in Investing, Humans Are Still Dominating

Stopped reading after their first example of an investing model was "high frequency trading" ...

superqueston I Quit Twitter and It Feels Great

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.

superqueston More than 10 percent of $3.7B raised in ICOs has been stolen

Ethereum was an ICO.

Was Ethereum a scam?

superqueston Yacob and Amo: African precursors to Enlightenment thinkers

The comments section on aeon.co is very good.

Encourage you guys to read the comments.

superqueston Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead

Which means they are still basically farmers and just getting started.

superqueston Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead

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.

superqueston Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead

And this explains Africa's dominance of the world economy?

superqueston Switzerland “Should Become the Crypto-Nation” Says Minister

> a true digital commonwealth.

That is hysterical.

superqueston Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead

Elon's take: https://youtu.be/GtaxU6DZvLs?t=1m36s

superqueston Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead

Fair.

I became interested when this happened: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/18/f8/f818f8735acfdbf8f4a6...

superqueston Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead

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.

superqueston Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead

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?

superqueston Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead

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.

superqueston Michael Moritz: Silicon Valley Would Be Wise to Follow China's Lead

Sequoia has been in China for more than a decade ...

superqueston What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

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.

superqueston What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

No. This is the "so you're saying" interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMcjxSThD54

superqueston What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

She is such a firebrand.

After watching that interview I've tried to make my body language more expressive like hers.

superqueston What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

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

superqueston James Damore has filed a class action lawsuit against Google

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"?