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Yes. The police in the US explicitly reject people with high IQs. It has been challenged in court but upheld. https://www.kake.com/story/32508747/court-oks-barring-high-i...

Another tactic that Amazon recruiters use a lot to convince you to take a shitty role: "You are coming in at level X, but this role is actually scoped at level X+1." In reality, it…

I might be missing something with your comment, but there are obviously animals that live in and around oceans. So "just" flying at super sonic speeds over oceans seems like it cou…

"One former partner called the settlement hugely significant because it shatters the distance that McKinsey — which argues that it only makes recommendations — puts between its adv…

The takeover of tech by MBAs continues. It has now happened at the top 4 largest tech companies in the US. We will have Apple (Tim Cook), Amazon (Andy Jassy), Alphabet (Sundar Pich…

Imagine a market where there is one food delivery company rather than ten: a) at a restaurant, rather than having ten different delivery people pickup, One person can pickup ten or…

I am bullish on this as a recent shareholder. We are now in the consolidation phase of delivery service where fewer companies mean less competition, more efficiency and better econ…

I am not a fan of Facebook and have deleted my account. But Zuck is right in trying to avoid policing political content. It just won’t work. Twitter’s attempts, although idealistic…

It seems like people from other ethnicities/countries have done well in Silicon Valley, e.g. India, China, Iran. Notably, CEOs of Google, Microsoft, Uber and others are brown-skinn…

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"A16z has $12 billion in assets under management across its funds, so a $2.2 million fund is not groundbreaking from a monetary perspective" The math comes out to 0.018%.

I trust Firefox as well. It was my second choice. I had two reasons for not switching to Firefox. 1. Firefox used a lot more memory & CPU on my MBP. Maybe that is fixed now. I reme…

This is why I gave up on Chrome and Android even though I loved both products. I don't know if this complaint is valid and what the exact scope is. However, since switching to Safa…

Social media is a dead end. The results are depression and misinformation. Unless you believe truth can easily be determined, there is no tweak that Zuck and Jack can do to fix the…

2800% is a much bigger number than 83%. But if you do the math using your numbers, you see that GE substantially underperformed the S&P since 1981: GE = (1+2800%)*(1-83%) = 4.93 = …

I didn't come up with it. It is the yardstick that he suggested we use to measure his performance :) And it's a well-known issue with executive compensation that CEOs will juice nu…

Jack Welch retired in 2001 after twenty years as CEO. "Upon his retirement from GE, Welch had stated that his effectiveness as its CEO for two decades would be measured by the comp…