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I wonder how the DJs will react to this hackernews post about them, when and if they find it in their regular searching, or if somebody tweets it at them.

Wait what's wrong with voluntary eugenics? Perhaps the fact that something both "feels like eugenics" and is understood as the "correct medical and scientific thing to do" should c…

James Yeh, Ken Griffin's "first quant" and eventual co-CIO of Citadel, used to say, when annoyed by a junior who was overfitting to the backtest, "I don't let the computer boss me …

All experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But not the right to be forgotten.

> trying to hide a signal in random noise doesn't really work Actually it works perfectly and it's called a one-time pad!

> This isn't how the law works. We don't throw the good and bad on the scales of justice to see which side is heaviest. Shoot, there goes the argument I was planning to deploy agai…

It's noticeably improving, though! Over the last 10 years or so, both their GDP per capita and household income per capita have roughly doubled. Now when I visit medium-sized citie…

$8,400 over three years is about $230/month. And aside from the opportunity cost of your labor to optimize that, you should also theoretically account for any purchases that you wo…

Mark Twain had just finished building that house the year prior, and he would die the next year; the house itself would burn down not long after that :-( https://en.m.wikipedia.org…

> antitrust lobby you mean protrust lobby :)

But disassembling/decompiling doesn't give you anything like the original code!

> I am struggling to find the right words to express how wrong your view is to me. Then surely I have failed to convey it! In any case, my edited point about "deadweight loss" is p…

> That $230,000 was taken from the pockets of my non-homeowning friends. Nope! First of all, it's come from no one's pockets until you sell. Until then it's just a hypothetical, th…

> Interesting to see how companies adapted to the changes in noncompete laws. What will be the next fallback position? a friend of mine just left a quantitative hedge fund recently…

I used to work at Two Sigma Investments, and back in 2012-2014 or so, after the publication of his "irrationality" books (before the ones about dishonesty), Dan Ariely gave a well-…

> Meritocracy is tyranny by another name. [You then go on to elaborate with historical examples of how merit != virtue.] As far as I can tell, the linked article in fact makes exac…

In Las Vegas they solve this by blowing cold air onto the sidewalk through an always-open door, thereby cooling passersby, and perhaps enticing a few to enter for a game of slots.

As described by an attendee, Robert Gaskins [0], who would later invent PowerPoint: This meet-up was initiated by Kevin Kelly and Stewart Brand, and designed by Lee Felsenstein, Bi…

(2017)

I wonder if the title is making a pun about eating a Jewish variety of leavened bread.