Economics & business

Links about economics & business that Hacker News readers keep rediscovering.

Hall of Fame: 45
Candidates: 67
Types: 8
Median span: 6.3 yrs

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Essays & writing 74 Economics & business links 29 Hall · 45 Candidates Reference 14 Economics & business links 6 Hall · 8 Candidates Research & data 9 Economics & business links 3 Hall · 6 Candidates Books & learning 8 Economics & business links 3 Hall · 5 Candidates Tools, games & demos 3 Economics & business links 2 Hall · 1 Candidates Sites & organizations 2 Economics & business links 2 Hall · 0 Candidates Audio, video & images 1 Economics & business link 0 Hall · 1 Candidates Software & code 1 Economics & business link 0 Hall · 1 Candidates

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45 items

Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008)

paulgraham.com Essays & writing 15 submissions · 15 people · 17.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-03 Resurfaced 2023-01-18

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Microsoft is Dead (2007)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 13 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2020-12-30

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The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free (2009)

steveblank.com Essays & writing 15 submissions · 12 people · 14.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2016-12 Resurfaced 2023-12-16

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Do Things that Don't Scale

paulgraham.com Essays & writing 18 submissions · 18 people · 12.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-08 Resurfaced 2025-08-15

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Jevons paradox

en.wikipedia.org Reference 35 submissions · 31 people · 16.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-01 Resurfaced 2025-01-29

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Diamonds Suck (2006)

diamondssuck.com Essays & writing 11 submissions · 6 people · 12.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-04 Resurfaced 2023-11-13

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How Not to Die (2007)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 12 submissions · 12 people · 18.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2019-11-11

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WTF Happened in 1971? (2019)

wtfhappenedin1971.com Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2025-01-15

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I could do that in a weekend (2016)

danluu.com Essays & writing 13 submissions · 10 people · 7.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-04 Resurfaced 2023-09-27

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Accounting for Computer Scientists

martin.kleppmann.com Books & learning 13 submissions · 13 people · 14.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-10 Resurfaced 2026-01-02

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Goodhart's Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure

en.wikipedia.org Reference 19 submissions · 18 people · 15.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-09 Resurfaced 2021-09-17

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You can't tell people anything

habitatchronicles.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 16.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-03 Resurfaced 2023-03-23

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Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP (2010)

arxiv.org Research & data 8 submissions · 8 people · 12.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-06 Resurfaced 2020-10-21

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Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas (2012)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 14 submissions · 14 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-05 Resurfaced 2017-05-20

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Georgism

en.wikipedia.org Reference 11 submissions · 10 people · 11.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2023-09-19

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Homepage of Berkshire Hathaway, 17th biggest company in the world

www.berkshirehathaway.com Sites & organizations 13 submissions · 13 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-11 Resurfaced 2026-06-09

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How Fake Money Saved Brazil (2010)

www.npr.org Essays & writing 9 submissions · 8 people · 10.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-05 Resurfaced 2021-05-12

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Why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity (2009)

www.johndcook.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 12.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-06 Resurfaced 2022-06-29

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The Great Unbundling

www.ben-evans.com Reference 21 submissions · 20 people · 6.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-11 Resurfaced 2024-11-22

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H&R Block and Intuit Lobbying Against Simpler Tax Filing (2017)

www.propublica.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2022-03-30

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A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018)

www.bloomberg.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 6.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-12 Resurfaced 2024-12-26

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Why There Aren't More Googles (2008)

paulgraham.com Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 13.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-11 Resurfaced 2020-11-06

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Subject: Airbnb (2011)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 12.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2018-09 Resurfaced 2018-09-17

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Open guide to equity compensation

github.com Books & learning 9 submissions · 6 people · 9.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-04 Resurfaced 2025-04-13

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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

web.mit.edu Research & data 6 submissions · 5 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2026-06-12

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Laws of Tech Economics: Commoditize Your Complement

www.gwern.net Essays & writing 14 submissions · 12 people · 4.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-12 Resurfaced 2021-01-03

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Plain Text Accounting

plaintextaccounting.org Reference 6 submissions · 6 people · 5.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-09 Resurfaced 2024-09-15

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Money creation in the modern economy (2014) [pdf]

www.bankofengland.co.uk Research & data 9 submissions · 9 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2021-09 Resurfaced 2021-09-09

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How I went from $100-an-hour programming to $X0,000-a-week consulting

training.kalzumeus.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 13.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-05 Resurfaced 2017-12-23

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The Pitchforks Are Coming For Us Plutocrats (2014)

www.politico.com Essays & writing 11 submissions · 11 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-12 Resurfaced 2024-12-06

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Wealth Shown to a Pixel Scale

mkorostoff.github.io Tools, games & demos 7 submissions · 7 people · 4.7 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-10 Resurfaced 2023-10-20 archived copy

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Wikipedia Has Cancer (2017)

en.wikipedia.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-04 Resurfaced 2024-04-20

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Doing Business in Japan

www.kalzumeus.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 8 people · 8.9 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-06 Resurfaced 2016-11-06

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White Coke

en.wikipedia.org Reference 7 submissions · 6 people · 11.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-09 Resurfaced 2015-11-26

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Startups in 13 Sentences

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-12 Resurfaced 2016-08-15

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Safe Deposit Boxes Aren't Safe

www.nytimes.com Essays & writing 8 submissions · 7 people · 3.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-01 Resurfaced 2023-01-05

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Why I'm Putting All My Savings into Bitcoin (2011)

falkvinge.net Essays & writing 7 submissions · 6 people · 9.2 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2020-08 Resurfaced 2020-08-24

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When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014)

priceonomics.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.5 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-11 Resurfaced 2019-11-05

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What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap

www.kalzumeus.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 5 people · 9.3 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-07 Resurfaced 2023-07-30

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Lessons from Outsourcing to India, China and the Philippines

www.troyhunt.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-06 Resurfaced 2020-02-24

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How did Europe become the richest part of the world?

aeon.co Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 5.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-03 Resurfaced 2022-03-20

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Startup Playbook (2015)

playbook.samaltman.com Books & learning 5 submissions · 5 people · 7.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-12 Resurfaced 2024-08-11

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Why is it hard to buy things that work well?

danluu.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 2.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-12 Resurfaced 2024-12-16

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How to get your first ten customers (2013)

danshipper.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 6.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2019-08 Resurfaced 2019-08-06

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Liberapay

en.liberapay.com Sites & organizations 5 submissions · 4 people · 8.0 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-03 Resurfaced 2025-03-18

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Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

web.mit.edu Research & data 6 submissions · 5 people · 11.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2024-02 Resurfaced 2026-06-12

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Homepage of Berkshire Hathaway, 17th biggest company in the world

www.berkshirehathaway.com Sites & organizations 13 submissions · 13 people · 16.6 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2022-11 Resurfaced 2026-06-09

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Accounting for Computer Scientists

martin.kleppmann.com Books & learning 13 submissions · 13 people · 14.8 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2023-10 Resurfaced 2026-01-02

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Do Things that Don't Scale

paulgraham.com Essays & writing 18 submissions · 18 people · 12.1 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2017-08 Resurfaced 2025-08-15

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Open guide to equity compensation

github.com Books & learning 9 submissions · 6 people · 9.4 years

Hall of Fame Class of 2025-04 Resurfaced 2025-04-13

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Candidates

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Phoebus Cartel

en.wikipedia.org Reference 15 submissions · 14 people · 11.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-04-26

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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How to pick startup ideas

www.defmacro.org Essays & writing 7 submissions · 7 people · 7.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2016-11-07

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Poka-yoke

en.wikipedia.org Reference 12 submissions · 12 people · 14.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-01-09

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Theory of interstellar trade (1978) [pdf]

www.princeton.edu Research & data 7 submissions · 7 people · 17.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2026-04-20

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45

hbr.org Research & data 8 submissions · 8 people · 6.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-03-12

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Give Real-Time Analytics (2013)

mcfunley.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 13.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-07-25

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Japan's Hometown Tax

www.kalzumeus.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-09-18

Needs:5 submissions

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Selling to the Fortune 500, Government, and Other Lovecraftian Horrors

training.kalzumeus.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 10.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-03-06

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Why Tim Cook Is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

steveblank.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 5 people · 9.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-09-12

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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The Theory of Interstellar Trade (1978)

fermatslibrary.com Research & data 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-12-31

Needs:5 submissions

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PayPal Mafia

en.wikipedia.org Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 12.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-09-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Baumol Effect

en.wikipedia.org Reference 8 submissions · 8 people · 10.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-10-17

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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DoorDash and Pizza Arbitrage (2020)

www.readmargins.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-06-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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How to Start a Startup: Fall 2014

startupclass.samaltman.com Books & learning 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-12-24

Needs:5 submissions

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What does one trillion dollars look like?

www.pagetutor.com Tools, games & demos 6 submissions · 6 people · 11.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2013-04-13

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Suspicious Discontinuities

danluu.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 4.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-03-20

Needs:5 submissions

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Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)

reprints.longform.org Essays & writing 9 submissions · 9 people · 2.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-10-28

Needs:3 active years

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Rich vs. King in the Real World: Why I sold my company

blog.asmartbear.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 12.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2013-03-24

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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How to get rich without being lucky (2019)

nav.al Audio, video & images 6 submissions · 6 people · 2.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-11-13

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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How I Turned Down $300,000 from Microsoft to go Full-Time on GitHub (2008)

tom.preston-werner.com Essays & writing 6 submissions · 6 people · 9.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2018-06-04

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Questions

patrickcollison.com Reference 4 submissions · 4 people · 3.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2020-08-24

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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I Sell Onions on the Internet

www.deepsouthventures.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 6.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-07-11

Needs:5 submissions

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Peter Thiel turned a Roth IRA into a $5B tax-free piggy bank

www.propublica.org Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.7 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-03-14

Needs:5 submissions

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Krugman: Internet’s Economic Impact No Greater Than Fax Machine (1998)

web.archive.org Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 9.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-08

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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What's SAP?

retool.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 2.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-09-09

Needs:5 submissions

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American tech giants are making life tough for startups

www.economist.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.0 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-06-02

Needs:5 submissions3 active years

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Baumol's Cost Disease

en.wikipedia.org Reference 7 submissions · 7 people · 2.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-12-14

Needs:3 active years

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My product is my garden

herman.bearblog.dev Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-04-29

Needs:5 submissions

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Why Figma Wins

kwokchain.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 3.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-09-20

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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A handy guide to financial support for open source

github.com Books & learning 7 submissions · 7 people · 6.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-08-29

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos meet "Ginger" (2003)

hbswk.hbs.edu Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 8.8 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2017-01-16

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich? Turns out it’s just chance

www.technologyreview.com Essays & writing 5 submissions · 5 people · 4.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-09-27

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart

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GnuCash: Open-source double-entry accounting software

www.gnucash.org Software & code 3 submissions · 3 people · 3.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2022-04-30

Needs:5 submissions

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50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says

www.cbsnews.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 4.2 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2025-02-23

Needs:5 submissions

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Stuff (2007)

www.paulgraham.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 15.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2013-01-15

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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Giving a shit as a service

allenpike.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.9 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2023-10-29

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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How the Maker of TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing (2013)

www.propublica.org Essays & writing 3 submissions · 3 people · 2.6 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2019-03-14

Needs:5 submissions

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Beating the bookies – how the online sports betting market is rigged

arxiv.org Research & data 3 submissions · 3 people · 7.1 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-11-12

Needs:5 submissions

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Why I did not go to jail (2014)

a16z.com Essays & writing 3 submissions · 2 people · 4.3 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2021-03-08

Needs:5 submissions3 submitters

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Not for sale

milk.com Essays & writing 4 submissions · 4 people · 11.5 years

Candidate Resurfaced 2024-07-23

Needs:2 breakout events 720+ days apart5 submissions

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