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From the article linked by Techdirt: “executives have sought to almost entirely subordinate clinical case managers’ judgment to the computer’s calculations” Sounds like the issue i…

”“A little-known piece of trivia,” Altman announced. “This smell, after it rains for the first time. You know what’s that called?” “Is this going to freak me out?” Williams said. “…

Someone hasn’t used TikTok…or paid attention to anyone in Gen Z on their phone.

It's not that these aren't interesting subjects or potentially useful in adult life. They just shouldn't be the priority. Is it potentially useful in adult life to know how your ca…

Reminds me of this great travel blog from 2008: http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ The writer traveled from Vienna to Pyongyang by train, giving him 36 unsupervised hours in Nor…

It’s just another example of the “participation culture” that modern parenting and social media have made commonplace. Who needs to do anything real when you can just upvote or ret…

If they actually did get paid so little, why did they do it? This seems like a terrible use of their time.

There are really three categories of management: * Line management: are you willing to be the man and promulgate the party line? You can be mostly apolitical in this role. * Middle…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Genius_Failed

With respect to point #2, the real reason why revamping any regulatory regime "top to bottom" is difficult is because so much organizational, legislative, and administrative cruft …

As someone who has used a variety of VTC products (Zoom, Webex, BlueJeans, Teams, Skype, etc.) for several years on a daily basis (lots of external VTCs with different companies wh…

The death curve is also deceptive - there were likely many patients who were recorded as dying of the flu, or of influenza-like illness, that actually died of COVID-19, due to a la…

See the wiki page for a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_champions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carried_interest

Re: Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker, this critique of the book is worth a read: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/

The most important factor for financial time series forecasting is undoubtedly access to clean data. This is what sets Renaissance apart. There’s no need for particularly sophistic…

My phone's contacts list. Make friends with as many people at your current company as possible, and when they leave, make sure to keep in regular touch with them. I enforce self-di…

Great—let me know when you've changed the zoning laws, fixed urban planning more generally, and how the whole society is organized around massive subsidies for driving and ineffici…

Wrong—the claim has nothing to do with what rich or poor people like to use. The claim is that the only way to provide affordable public transit that's sustainably accessible to pe…

> He claims only the rich use light rail. But what is it about a light rail that causes a poor person to look at it and walk away deciding it's not for them? It simply doesn't make…

That approach (circumventing the specifics of the law through technical workarounds while still violating it in spirit) seems unlikely to succeed for the same reasons as Aereo: htt…

Also, it’s gotten substantially easier for a team of 1-2 to build a polished product on a shoestring budget than it was when YC originally started. The claims of big customers are …

10k is a drop in the bucket. We need blocks of high rises going up around all the Caltrain stops, and a corresponding increase in Caltrain capacity.

If you get a private office at WeWork, you’ll get that peace, quiet, and isolation. Or you can just put on a pair of noise-canceling headphones.

Yes, this is exactly what I meant.