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Yes I think about it all the time, both presently and historically. It's mainly an intellectual issue. That is: it's a dispute about what is true in development and education. In t…

dusts off HN account I’m part of a now-large-ish Montessori startup and am a sort of Montessori scholar. The biography reviewed here is very good and worth checking out. Overall it…

This is very much a “yes and”. I think I can speak for all of us working on the course when I sat that we don’t think that industrial innovation is the only or even the most import…

I live in LIC. It’s not at all a transportation desert. It’s one of the most well-connected hubs in NYC. There are general issues with transportation efficacy in NYC right now (sub…

Yep. I travel to China frequently and this is a huge pain. There are some moderately useful workarounds you can do, like floating money from a friend in your WeChat Pay. But at the…

For what it's worth, what the Maya families are doing is a version of the central principle of Montessori early education (and what my company is trying to scale). That is, build a…

2% of 4B earnings market-wide would be 80M, 10x valuation on 80M is 800M.

I am part of a startup with founding team of 12 previous coworkers. One of our selling points during the seed round was that we're starting off with an aligned team. It was really …

I agree. I'm inclined to think the concepts are more subtle, not less. Some traits are shaped by sexual selection because of their deleterious effects. It's an honest signal: if yo…

The still-timely passage continues: "The anti-Rockefeller focus of these otherwise incompatible political positions owes much to Populism. 'Populists' believe in conspiracies and o…

I've been looking for software for months that would help facilitate a lot of collaborative document production. I love the simplicity and user interface of this system -- almost e…

The most surprising thing is that the textbooks haven't been updated. When I was a psych prof this was a commonplace among all my colleagues and even students. It's even common to …

> "Should I focus on clarity or jargon when writing content?" > "Clarity, but also include jargon." Well, that pretty much summarizes my writing strategy.

Yes, there are two questions here. One is whether or not Zidisha is misleading people, and the second is whether whatever they are actually doing is a good thing. I think the artic…

Please tell me you have photos and documentation for this.

But there's no limit on fixed costs for games. Presumably production could cost as much as a Hollywood blockbuster and be priced accordingly. Marginal costs aren't always everythin…

What exactly are those data points? I doubt they are individuals, they wouldn't wrap so tightly around the curve around such a tiny scale (between 1.5 and 1.7 timeline posts per da…

Holy crap this site is fantastic. Thanks.

Is the slope on those charts really steeper than population growth?

This should really be the top comment. For anyone that thinks there is actually a problem here, what could the motivation or mechanism behind this "blackout" possibly be? Significa…

I do but if you're a senior U of C student (as your profile says), I'm sure you've already been very well-served in this regard by your curriculum. :)