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The crack vs. cocaine comparison is no good, we should stop using it. Free base is a very different drug than cocaine. An equivalent "white" version of crack would be crystal meth,…

I am not convinced that you have ever worked at the average startup. Your points are incredibly divorced from the reality most face. Years worth of runway is not the norm. Having y…

Doc may have been a weirdo, but he was also the most popular and liked person in the entire town. The plot revolves around people trying to throw parties for him because they think…

Sure, that's all correct. But before showing it is dead it would be useful to have empirical evidence that it was ever alive. And the evidence is very mixed at best. The history of…

Yes, 99th percentile quant compensation is significantly higher. But it's a bad comparison. Google alone hire mores more people into these positions than all quant firms combined. …

Will Durant has an interesting quote that has stuck with me, something along the lines of: Out of every 100 new ideas, 99 of them will be bad, and inferior to what was replaced. My…

I think that someone in your position could shift a dial a few degrees. And the resulting consequences, compounded over time, would be absolutely staggering. I'm guessing you did s…

Companies like Amazon were not always in the position you've described. It took decades to get there. And there would have been numerous opportunities along the way where a single …

I'm not sure that is actually a counterpoint. It think they are somewhat in agreement. The blog states that there is very little evidence that people of the ancient and medieval wo…

When I think of the very successful people I know, all have gone through life events that would absolutely flatten most people. The loss of a child, a partner committing suicide, 6…

I have no visual imagery in dreams either. I still have spatial awareness and can move about unimpeded, but there is no visual element to it. Other dream senses are uninhibited. Wh…

> Don't know why you think my emails are spam! Remember, we don't know anything about your site yet. We haven't read any of your content yet. How would we possibly know that your e…

Wii was the third best seller, and the only non-portable in the top 5.

That insight happened 30 years ago. Nintendo's best selling consoles and games have always been portable systems.

I like to start by thinking about cache locality and ensuring linear layout. Next focus on one-time, or minimal memory allocation. Then there are a bunch of small, systemic things …

My partner has had a few airs over the years. Never once has she ever wanted to plug anything into any port, other than power. I think a lot of users are the same. It's a very pret…

> total abstinence isn't necessarily the goal that everyone who has a drinking problem is aiming for I guess you're technically right. But statements like these make me chuckle. Th…

I'm positive you can find many therapies and other methods that end up working better than AA. I went through some of those methods and they are very effective. It also cost me aro…

It's a tough balance. My partner teaches grade 2. They focus on play and exploratory based learning. Parents are furious that their kids aren't instead memorizing times-tables.

I wouldn't be too sure. The author, Jia Tolentino, has made a career exploring, and often ridiculing mass trends like these. Yet by the end of the article she is admiring women who…

There are a few steps to consider before you are loading data into ram. Can you partition the data in any useful way? For example if queries use separate ranges of dates, then you …

Definitely not simple. But the pill is probably the most important invention of the past century or two. Maybe the transistor comes close.

> iOS, ASP.NET Core, JSP and JSF (Java based frameworks), Ruby on Rails, and Django (Python) are all based on MVC. Don't all of those have two-way data binding? > Why is it that MV…

Banks don't want to lend to startups because they actually like their loans to be repaid. VCs don't want to lend to startups because you can't make 100x return on debt.

In the case of a go-playing AI, and maybe even things like self driving cars, then yes I agree. But we are quickly moving beyond the types of applications where you can simply test…