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Comment · 6 years ago
> 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 privately owned and run by the owners. Those are very different incentives than public or VC-backed ventures.

Comment · 7 years ago
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-essential parts and added one amazing exercise where we implemented the lambda calculus and, funny enough, the ycombinator.

Highly recommend it for anyone who desires to learn this material, can't find the time, and is willing to pay $2500 for the experience.

Comment · 8 years ago
https://www.fs.blog/mental-models/

This site has great information on how to think. The above post is particularly excellent.

Comment · 8 years ago
Reddit link missing a 'r/'
Comment · 8 years ago
In this case it seems the customers are unlikely to revolt. Most won't even notice, right?
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
Draw lots of pictures. That habit helped me learn analysis most.
Comment · 8 years ago
That's the only reason I won't delete. So many friends from traveling that would be lost ...
Comment · 8 years ago
"openly supporting" the winning presidential candidate isn't "absurd".
Comment · 8 years ago
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'm not saying "scientists are bad politicians". I'm saying what the two groups do don't overlap a ton.

For a gross example, most scientists will have to learn to lie to be good politicians, because all good politicians play fast and loose with the truth.

Comment · 8 years ago
They also might be bad at politics.
Comment · 8 years ago
Stopped reading after their first example of an investing model was "high frequency trading" ...
Comment · 8 years ago
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 is gone.

Comment · 8 years ago
Ethereum was an ICO.

Was Ethereum a scam?

Comment · 8 years ago
The comments section on aeon.co is very good.

Encourage you guys to read the comments.

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