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Christina Cacioppo
Personal blog · christinacacioppo.com/blogstartupscareer
Christina Cacioppo's personal blog at christinacacioppo.com covers startups and career. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A commenter links this blog's data graphs while discussing the axes behind its post on bimodal returns. The graph shows a downward-sloping shape that is less smooth and severe than a power law.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Yes, I think there's a good deal of confusion about the appropriate axes - or at least talking past one another on these points. If you take those data and throw them on a graph that looks more like Fred's, you get something that's downward sloping, but not nearly as smooth or severe as a power law curve: http://christinacacioppo.com/downloads/irrData.jpg This isn't to say that one way of looking at this is better t…
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