I looked at that table and immediately thought, "Those are pretty solid correlation values", so I was confused by the point you were making. I also read the page in the PDF you linked that was the source of the table…
There's a great episode of the "Hidden Brain" podcast about scarcity: https://www.npr.org/2017/03/20/520587241/the-scarcity-trap-w... One claim made was that poverty and loneliness are two of the most difficult scarcity…
I'm struggling to see a distinctive difference between a middleman and a platform...
Actors, comedians, and politicians all have memorized scripts, lines, routines, and soundbites. I'm very curious as to what hathawsh's eventual answer to baxtr's question will be, because I consider their comment at the…
I don't know about the salaries, but let's keep in mind that Alibaba and Tencent are two of the biggest companies in the world.
I am also younger (mid 20s) and I've had my FB deactivated for several years now; I also don't have Instagram or Snapchat. I admittedly do use Meetup.com and its app. Initially, I deactivated FB because I felt it was an…
Considering that NYC, Chicago, and LA are the three biggest cities in the country, I would say, yes, quite a few of them grew up in these regions. If anything, boomers would be the only generation that could afford…
>it’s not the checkbook that pays salaries Doesn't the checkbook of a business literally pay salaries? I'm unclear as to what you're arguing here.
>The truth is that it's better for children if parents in a low-conflict marriage to stay together. My siblings and I are all young adults in our twenties, but we've wanted our parents to divorce for years now. It's a…
Nope. Which is why I refuse to use services like theirs.
>It is just not my impresion that men who hop relationships look all that better. The comitted ones are not ugly ones. There are plenty of good-looking men in committed relationships. You're reading the relationship in…
>remember that British kid who sold a recommendation engine to Yahoo? Nick D'Aloisio? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_D'Aloisio) I was confused when you mentioned him, then I realized you think he didn't succeed…
Zuckerberg's mom's a psychiatrist and his dad's a dentist. His dad taught him BASIC programming as a kid and then hired a software engineer as his tutor. Gates' dad's a prominent lawyer and his mom was a prominent…
Even competent people with good training aren't perfect. Competent people make mistakes. You mention bridges, buildings, and ships, all projects built by massive teams of people and stringent processes. These massive…
I think it has to do with the idea that technical skills are more transferable than product management and that there are more job openings for technical roles than management roles.
The parent comment wrote one sentence. How did you miss the "working for a low wage" part?
>vocab is very highly correlated with IQ, which is stable thought life and cannot be boosted. Yet, from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient): >Raw scores on IQ tests for many populations have…
I have three siblings and one parent still using Yahoo. The other parent uses Outlook. They just don't wanna deal with the hassle of moving to Gmail.
On top of that, said toxic people usually start harassing other users.
Google - 85,050 employees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google) Facebook - 25,105 employees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) Amazon has 566,000 employees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)), but…
>They are simply not important enough (by hiring volume) to carry the weight they currently do. Unforunately, they are. A large proportion of the tech industry is startups / small businesses. I'd be surprised if…
On top of the convenience, I don't have to risk putting my credit card information into random websites. My parents dislike online shopping because they're fearful of getting credit card information lost or stolen…
>Doesn't immigration law in America apply equally to immigrants from everywhere? Isn't part of the whole immigration debate in America the fact that Latinos find it easy to illegally immigrate here? Asians literally…
>The second is a fictional prize created to let Americans have prizes too. Huh? Doesn't the U.S. have more Nobel laureates than any other country?
"A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956811
I looked at that table and immediately thought, "Those are pretty solid correlation values", so I was confused by the point you were making. I also read the page in the PDF you linked that was the source of the table…
There's a great episode of the "Hidden Brain" podcast about scarcity: https://www.npr.org/2017/03/20/520587241/the-scarcity-trap-w... One claim made was that poverty and loneliness are two of the most difficult scarcity…
I'm struggling to see a distinctive difference between a middleman and a platform...
Actors, comedians, and politicians all have memorized scripts, lines, routines, and soundbites. I'm very curious as to what hathawsh's eventual answer to baxtr's question will be, because I consider their comment at the…
I don't know about the salaries, but let's keep in mind that Alibaba and Tencent are two of the biggest companies in the world.
I am also younger (mid 20s) and I've had my FB deactivated for several years now; I also don't have Instagram or Snapchat. I admittedly do use Meetup.com and its app. Initially, I deactivated FB because I felt it was an…
Considering that NYC, Chicago, and LA are the three biggest cities in the country, I would say, yes, quite a few of them grew up in these regions. If anything, boomers would be the only generation that could afford…
>it’s not the checkbook that pays salaries Doesn't the checkbook of a business literally pay salaries? I'm unclear as to what you're arguing here.
>The truth is that it's better for children if parents in a low-conflict marriage to stay together. My siblings and I are all young adults in our twenties, but we've wanted our parents to divorce for years now. It's a…
Nope. Which is why I refuse to use services like theirs.
>It is just not my impresion that men who hop relationships look all that better. The comitted ones are not ugly ones. There are plenty of good-looking men in committed relationships. You're reading the relationship in…
>remember that British kid who sold a recommendation engine to Yahoo? Nick D'Aloisio? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_D'Aloisio) I was confused when you mentioned him, then I realized you think he didn't succeed…
Zuckerberg's mom's a psychiatrist and his dad's a dentist. His dad taught him BASIC programming as a kid and then hired a software engineer as his tutor. Gates' dad's a prominent lawyer and his mom was a prominent…
Even competent people with good training aren't perfect. Competent people make mistakes. You mention bridges, buildings, and ships, all projects built by massive teams of people and stringent processes. These massive…
I think it has to do with the idea that technical skills are more transferable than product management and that there are more job openings for technical roles than management roles.
The parent comment wrote one sentence. How did you miss the "working for a low wage" part?
>vocab is very highly correlated with IQ, which is stable thought life and cannot be boosted. Yet, from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient): >Raw scores on IQ tests for many populations have…
I have three siblings and one parent still using Yahoo. The other parent uses Outlook. They just don't wanna deal with the hassle of moving to Gmail.
On top of that, said toxic people usually start harassing other users.
Google - 85,050 employees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google) Facebook - 25,105 employees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook) Amazon has 566,000 employees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)), but…
>They are simply not important enough (by hiring volume) to carry the weight they currently do. Unforunately, they are. A large proportion of the tech industry is startups / small businesses. I'd be surprised if…
On top of the convenience, I don't have to risk putting my credit card information into random websites. My parents dislike online shopping because they're fearful of getting credit card information lost or stolen…
>Doesn't immigration law in America apply equally to immigrants from everywhere? Isn't part of the whole immigration debate in America the fact that Latinos find it easy to illegally immigrate here? Asians literally…
>The second is a fictional prize created to let Americans have prizes too. Huh? Doesn't the U.S. have more Nobel laureates than any other country?
"A friend of mine died and I didn't know because of algorithms": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15956811