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discount code for HN readers?

Charlie Munger: "One of my favorite cases about the power of incentives is the Federal Express case. The heart and soul of the integrity of the system is that all the packages have…

superman does good. red beacon is doing well

I think he actually argued that men might have a different distribution for mathematical ability than women. Specifically, he suggested men might have a higher variance in their di…

if you're using ruby, check out daemons and especially daemon-kit which includes a nice rapleaf patch to daemons

Submitted on 12 May 2005 (v1), last revised 11 Jun 2005 (this version, v2)

what a killer SEO move. a ton of links all pointing to digg.com. they already get a ton of search traffic, but it will only go up from here

I do think there is a legitimate debate as to whether or not we should have bailed out AIG. To address your later points, there are plenty of respectable people who argue we should…

The company should have gone bankrupt (and certainly would have, without US government intervention), in which case none of these people would have seen any bonuses at all. he shou…

yes. i've been disappointed that the controversy about the bonuses on the order of $200M have gotten more press and attention than the AIG bailout which is orders of magnitude more…

I believe PG said he is taking more of a long-run view on this. He's not trying to make Arc what's hot right now, but rather thinking more about a "hundred-year language"

if an MBA speaks nonsense and there's no one there to hear it, is it still as useless?

or better yet, clip to evernote

"The root cause of this crisis is fractional reserve lending, and micromanagement of interest rates by the Fed in particular and Central Banks in general. The Fed started the party…