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That is an interesting thought! I wonder if he did undertake some risk. I just emailed him, as I never properly thanked him. Maybe if he emails back I'll ask. Also he negotiated a …

I was so naive when I joined my first startup. When we were purchased, it came to light that the main guy never got around to signing my stock option agreement. He is a fucking men…

"The problem with Perl is that it tends to be a different language for every programmer." Exactly. Larry Wall cited an analogy somewhere: if you want to know where to put walkways …

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." --Bruce Lee I am not sure if this submission is tongue in chee…

Fiske's Cognitive Miser theory: "The theory suggests that humans, valuing their mental processing resources, find different ways to save time and effort when negotiating the social…

From Wikipedia: "Her four most well-known contributions to the field of psychology are the stereotype content model, ambivalent sexism theory, the continuum model of impression for…

2015 R&D: $806,648,000 2015 Sales, General and Admin $1,132,164,000 I can't imagine a justification for these numbers. Twitter seems like a small company idea.

I presume you speak Russian then? If so did you learn anything about the quotation? I Googled it just now and found... this page. The best jokes defy explanation to some degree. A …

Experience proves that food critic is a legitimate job, and sure there's economic value in restaurant review. However in my utopia it would be a low-key affair. Zeal for watching m…

The humor of oppressed Soviets, particularly Soviet Jews, is perhaps the best I have read. This may be more modern, but one that I love is, "Once you've been in the military, the c…

I feel gratified that you mentioned this. Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita" obsesses about apartments. I suppose this is because financial opportunities were otherwise constrained.…

"The domesticated foxes had floppier, drooping ears, which are found in other domestic animals such as dogs, cats, pigs, horses and goats." I happened to recall the Origin of Speci…

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, fashion is so ugly it has to be replaced every six months. Though the Metropolitan Museum may be my favorite place on earth, I find a good portion of NYC…

"No one can really come up with any stories about his life that don't make him sound like a total dick so they cut the testimonial part short" killed me.

This is a good read. https://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Charl... . Market participants often do know there's a bubble. However, if your neighbor keeps making mo…

Please see my last comment, this is a debated topic. However, I've read Mike Milken and, despite his warts, I believe he did radically improve capital allocation. So it certainly h…

I grant that Google is more of a social good than Facebook. Your claim that Goldman has contributed is a debated topic. Paul Krugman favorably mentioned a study that purports to de…

Besides introducing systematic risk, the sale of this software by Goldman smells fishy. Despite the Blankfein quote about maybe selling for $5 billion back in the day, if the softw…

The US experiment with alcohol prohibition is an ominous precedent to the war on drugs. Prohibition caused organized crime in the US to flourish. When Prohibition was repealed, the…

Clarence Darrow, in his autobiography, discusses his defense for Loeb and Leopold. L&L were wealthy Chicago teenagers who read Nietzsche and decided they were Ubermensch. They murd…

Mobster Whitey Bulger of the Winter Hill Gang did in fact do this in Massachusetts in the early nineties. The papers reported it at face value, I guess for fear of libel suits.

"In 2002, at an event held to celebrate the Times's 20th anniversary, Moon said: 'The Washington Times is responsible to let the American people know about God' and 'The Washington…

I found this article disappointing because there's no advancement of a thesis or journalistic investigation. The author could have tracked down any number of illuminating statistic…

"Driving at 70 MPH versus biking at 12 MPH is a ludicrous point of comparison. If you're traveling at 70 MPH, you're almost certainly driving somewhere that you couldn't realistica…