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Peak HN to link an article about "spurious correlations" (and not even replying with a well thought out point yourself, just the article link) in response to a claim that slowing d…

That's a separate question. But I think all evidences points to that NOT solving any housing crises.

Genuine question, how is giving even more (hyper)local control gonna solve it? This is the exact breeding ground for NIMBYism and the like. The author doesn't really present an arg…

The math gets trickier when you consider monthly payments. At very low interest rates an extra 500k borrowed might only increase monthly payment by ~1500 which can be partially off…

I don’t understand how [0] suggests Twitter is dying. Is a power law distribution of content production on a social network that strange? What % of HN comments come from the top N …

In my experience with most acquihires, your “upside” is basically a new hire package at the mid-high end (sometimes I see low) of external offers + a potentially expedited intervie…

You’re describing an acquisition including IP and not an acquihire. I’m not sure how much Apple cares about idiosyncrasies of founders for potential full acquisitions but I imagine…

They wouldn't extend an offer to you in this case. Acqui-hires have no upside for employees and barely any for founders. Some small return to investors to sign off on the acquihire…

Uber is in a much better position to capitalize on Eats as well as non US recovery (given that it seems the US is on one of the worst paths of most developed economies). Hell if an…

Why should it have? Progress is always incremental. Even before civilization there were minute steps towards organization from just pure hunter-gatherer days. Just because the neol…

The cities are quite happy to not add jobs either. The “bluff” will be called.

Also the initial business plan of Amazon was in large part trying to benefit from not having to pay sales tax on out of state shipments.

Author of the featured package, bayesAB, ( https://github.com/FrankPortman/bayesAB ) here. Thanks for the mention! I'm glad to see others making Bayesian theory/methods accessible.…