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applecoreon Finding an Alternative to Mac OS X

Best hardware, really?

applecoreon COP21: Arnold Schwarzenegger: 'Go part-time vegetarian to protect the planet'

Nine of the top ten leading causes of death[1] in the United States can be directly attributed to meat consumption, so there's already a perfectly "selfish" motive to go vegan or vegetarian.

[1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

applecoreon Chrome browser for businesses

What does "low key" mean? Is "low key" a good or a bad thing? Does it mean we should conceal this information?

applecoreon Hedge Fund Is Building an Algorithmic Model From Its Employees’ Brains

I'm not sure All Seasons is such a great portfolio...

It's way overweight U.S. Treasury bonds (55%) and underweight stocks (30%). And what's with 15% in gold and commodities (which produces no interest or dividend income)?

applecoreon Growth as a false signal in Y Combinator startups

Empirically, selling 7% of your company to join YC improves your average outcome so much that the remaining 93% is worth more than the entire company before to the transaction. If anything, YC is too cheap.

applecoreon Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income

> Everyone will receive the difference between what they make and what UBI guarantees.

This isn't UBI either.

UBI would simply give everyone the same income without subtracting the difference for extra earned income. You could earn millions and still receive your basic income.

applecoreon Finland will hand out cash to 2000 jobless people to test universal basic income

How is it "universal" if recipients are required to be jobless?

applecoreon Nine New Findings About Inequality in the United States

What's the conclusion? Pretax incomes have stopped growing for anyone except the top 1–10%. (It's been forty years of income stagnation for the bottom 50% and twenty years for the next 40%.)

It's actually not so bad when you add back the huge increase in entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Maybe we should start getting used to the idea of a welfare state supporting the vast majority of its citizens.

applecoreon Scientists engineer mice genomes to lengthen their lifespans by 30 percent

Immortals will still die occasionally due to accidents and other non-age related causes. Unless risk is totally eliminated from the world, there will always be a positive replacement fertility rate.

applecoreon Facebook Investors Criticize Marc Andreessen for Conflict of Interest

From the article:

    "The cat's in the bag and the bag's in the river," [Andreessen] messaged Zuckerberg.
    "Does that mean the cat's dead?" Zuckerberg texted back, not understanding the spy speak.
    Andreessen replied: "Mission accomplished :)"

applecoreon Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions'

The Northeast Boswash megalopolis[1] is a narrow 400-mile strip of land that encompasses a population of over 50 million people.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis

applecoreon Confessions of an Instagram Influencer

Taleb may have repeated it, but the expression "the map is not the territory"[1] first appeared decades earlier in a paper by Alfred Korzybski[2], developer of the self-improvement movement known as general semantics[3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Korzybski

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics

applecoreon Bitcoin Price Chart

Supply and demand.

applecoreon Peter Thiel's 1517 Fund Is Searching for the next Mark Zuckerberg

Fun fact: 1517 is the year Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church.

Presumably, college degrees are as worthless as the indulgences sold by the church.

applecoreon Manufacturing Jobs Aren’t Coming Back

> There's no 'should' with technology.

This is a common belief but it isn't true.

Actually, government plays a huge role in deciding how technology is developed and broadly adopted by society. There is a should with technology: in the sense of achieving a desirable or expected state.

applecoreon Medallion fund: a remarkably successful quant trading firm built by scientists

> Eventually the scientists went so far as to develop an in-house programming language for their models rather than settle for a numbercentric option such as ASCII, which was popular at the time.

I have fond memories of the late 1980s. The ASCII programming language was very popular at the time.

applecoreon Donald Trump Is Elected President

Politicians know the electoral college decides the election. If the candidates had been campaigning for the popular vote, presumably Trump would campaign harder for more votes in large states like California and New York.

applecoreon Why the Industrial Revolution Didn’t Happen in China

The Enlightenment has its roots in Europe in the late 17th and 18th centuries. The enormous progress of American capitalism in the 19th century sprang out of the preceding European intellectual movement.

applecoreon Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide October 2016

Why not get a refurbished MacBook Air 11"[1] which is guaranteed to work?

[1]: http://www.apple.com/shop/browse/home/specialdeals/mac/macbo...

applecoreon Wall Street's Frantic Push to Hire Coders

Apparently, you're not the only one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667174

applecoreon West Antarctica Begins to Destabilize with ‘Intense Unbalanced Melting’

Real estate. Invest in an area that can withstand or recover quickly from a significant sea-level rise and extreme weather conditions[1].

[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/science/9-cities-to-live-i...

applecoreon Shame on Y Combinator

You're conflating the First Amendment with free speech. The First Amendment is a protection against the government. Free speech is a natural right that could be exercised in the absence of government.

applecoreon Peter Thiel, YC, and hard decisions

> Because of [Peter Thiel's] continued connection to YC, we are compelled to break off our relationship with YC.

What exactly was the relationship between Project Include and YC prior to this?

applecoreon A decentralized web would give power back to the people online

If Twitter led the charge to decentralize the web, starting with their chief product, I believe the company would be worth 10-100x more than it is now (i.e., a market capitalization between $100B and $1T).

applecoreon The CIA Says It Can Predict Social Unrest as Early as 3 to 5 Days Out

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

applecoreon How to Retire at 40

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12605680

applecoreon How to Retire at 40

> We asked three people who retired in their 30s and 40s to explain how they’ve made it pay off.

Alright. Let's see how they do it...

1. "a blog where he chronicles his retirement experience"

2. "writing a book about retirement"

3. "blogging about financial independence"

The trick to early retirement is blogging about early retirement.

applecoreon How to Retire at 40

> We asked three people who retired in their 30s and 40s to explain how they’ve made it pay off.

Alright, let's see how they do it...

1. "a blog where he chronicles his retirement experience"

2. "writing a book about retirement"

3. "blogging about financial independence"

It seems the trick to early retirement is blogging about early retirement.

applecoreon Can a molecule that makes mice smarter heal a human brain?

How does this now-patented "ISRIB" molecule compare to Leonard Guarente's research[1][2] on nicotinamide riboside and pterostilbene supplementation?

[1]: http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/08/is-elysium-healths-basi...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345526

applecoreon Apple's Relationship with Pro Music Needs Mending

Many Apple customers discover an issue with their devices just after the eligibility period for repairs (typically three years) expires.