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> This is remarkable because it's hard to imagine most American companies, which are always looking to squeeze out a little more profit to juice the quarterly report HEB is private…

This last week I took an in-person class where we covered almost all of the book: https://dabeaz.com/SICP.html The instructor David Beazley very skillfully weeded out all the non-e…

https://www.fs.blog/mental-models/ This site has great information on how to think. The above post is particularly excellent.

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In this case it seems the customers are unlikely to revolt. Most won't even notice, right?

Benedict Evans tweet: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/955539670103859200?...

Draw lots of pictures. That habit helped me learn analysis most.

That's the only reason I won't delete. So many friends from traveling that would be lost ...

"openly supporting" the winning presidential candidate isn't "absurd".

Scientists generally pursue truth whereas politicians spend most of their time pursuing power by building a constituency, trying to get and stay elected, raising money, etc. And I'…

They also might be bad at politics.

Stopped reading after their first example of an investing model was "high frequency trading" ...

Attempting to follow the news in real time is what wears most Twitter users out. I felt the same way, but then I unfollowed everyone who tweeted about current events and the stress…

Ethereum was an ICO. Was Ethereum a scam?

The comments section on aeon.co is very good . Encourage you guys to read the comments.

Which means they are still basically farmers and just getting started.

I can't find any evidence from 20th century, but here's a study from 2016: http://ftp.iza.org/dp10179.pdf It says Americans work 25% more. This is usually the conclusion of this ki…

And this explains Africa's dominance of the world economy?

> a true digital commonwealth. That is hysterical.

Elon's take: https://youtu.be/GtaxU6DZvLs?t=1m36s

Fair. I became interested when this happened: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/18/f8/f818f8735acfdbf8f4a6...

I'm deliberately being vague for the sake of argument. Of course there are many details in practice. A similar argument applies to the economies of Europe and the USA in parts the …

True. Because everything else wasn't equal. And it won't be here. But if it gets close to equal ... I imagine Chinese work ethic had something to do with the destruction of the Rus…

I can see why people hate on this POV, but one thing is very reasonable: Imagine company A and company B are equal in all ways, except company B's workers work twice as much. If th…

Sequoia has been in China for more than a decade ...