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by 001sky 12y ago
It'm not sure its the business model, but that it is attached to an enourmous pile of assets/cash. That might be parsing your comment a bit, but the distinction is both relevant and important if you are trying to replicate it.
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Britain's 30m workers will have the right to demand flexible hours from Monday(dailymail.co.uk)
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Sharing websites are the latest must-have for fashion retailers(theguardian.com)
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The C.E.O. Is My Friend. So Back Off.(nytimes.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
The YMMV study original is here : http://c7.nrostatic.com/sites/default/files/CIS%20Report%20O... A wikipedia page suggesting exisist also suggesting the CIS is known to support constraining policy.
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All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants(nationalreview.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
If you're imagination needs broadening... se, eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7948931 or the many parallels to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7935819
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China expands plans for World Bank rival(ft.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
This is a fascinating piece of historical context. Regulation has a demand side, nut just a supply side. Worth keeping in mind. Likewise, the public tends to demand regulation when the cognitive overhead is prohibitive for an individual,[1]
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by 001sky 12y ago
Taxi cabs are just one of the professions suffering from the problem of competition being in conflict with professional standards (ie, self-regulation). The only option that will be fully serviceable remains government regulation, but it wi
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by 001sky 12y ago
Because that's all that the Federal Reserve can do. Yes. Pretty much. Problem is "unemployment" is such a fake number the entire mandate of the fed has been based on flawed stats. The fed is happy to lower the "unemplo
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by 001sky 12y ago
The way some corporate IP and Privacy policies are worded this would be something as an employee to avoid. The last thing you want to do is co-mingle behavioural information between work and personal/business.
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Yahoo's Marissa Mayer responds to critics after Cannes dinner (independent.co.uk)
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by 001sky 12y ago
Hardship isn't good. Hardship sucks. The point is a bit more subtle. There is the russian roulette aspect of probability, and then there is failure from lack of character. Unfortunately, outsiders can't see or relate to the impo
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by 001sky 12y ago
srsly this is like a "mean girls" at work post For men: being late is a status symbol For women: OMG lets gossip about her
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by 001sky 12y ago
The reason its an interesting subject is that the professions (eg: law, accountancy, medicine) were initially set up exclude non-qualified practitioners for the purpose of limiting competition. So, at its heart, the idea of being a 'pr
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by 001sky 12y ago
Its not like it went from de Medici to Enron to Lehman without a little assistance. There's a much more interesting story about the rise and fall of 'the prefession', hyper-specialization, commodification, diversification, co
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by 001sky 12y ago
This would be perhaps more interesting with a contemporary angle. Has anything changed in the last 30 years? Today, the internal ethics of accounting have receded from public view. No one publicly celebrates the virtues of balancing one’s
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With Facial Recognition, Match.com Users Can Find Dates Based on Exes(mashable.com)
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American Apparel Ousts Its Founder, Dov Charney, Over Nude Photos(nytimes.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
The executive implements laws, and has managerial discretion within the law as its written. To imply that from $1.8b a functional arm of the government doesn't have e-mail archives is absurd. The IRS is in the buseinss of doings audits
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by 001sky 12y ago
Tying the healthcare system into this mess was shockingly shortsighted, in retrospect.
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by 001sky 12y ago
Spectra dominates most applications today, so kevlar is not used so much for ballistics vests. Additionally, the police are not the main customers, much is military. Third, kevlar is still used for cut-resistance but that will not show up i
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Stephanie L. Kwolek, Inventor of Kevlar, Is Dead at 90(nytimes.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
"Most of the time I can spot a fake dress or bag on someone from <5 feet away." I'd be worried about survivorship bias. Perhaps you only "see" a sub-set of fakes (the un-convincing ones) and the good ones walk ri
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Every Senior V.A. Executive Was Rated ‘Fully Successful’ or Better Over 4 Years(nytimes.com)
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Trade in Service Agreement, or TISA(wikileaks.org)
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A taste of Kandinsky(flavourjournal.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
The fundamental questions seems to be (1)"what is the purpose of a BOD"; and (2) are the "good things" the primary purpose of the BOD or the emergent phenomena that happen as a result of (#1). In other words, will (#2)
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by 001sky 12y ago
Predatory pricing is usually subsidized by unrelated but profitable lines of other business--which makes it sustainable (in that context).

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