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by 001sky 12y ago
Soylent should be able to get industrial quantity discounts. a poor person is paying retail. And urban retail is no-where near wholesale (rent/overheads). Soylent is economic in the sense mentioned in the article--low time spent shoppi
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by 001sky 12y ago
"While a student at Harvard Business School, Bricklin co-developed VisiCalc in 1979, making it the first electronic spreadsheet readily available for home and office use."
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Nasty Gal's Sophia Amoruso: 'Shoplifting saved my life'(bbc.com)
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Student Debt Grows Faster at Universities With Highest-Paid Leaders, Study Finds(nytimes.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
The constrainst from going from nich market to mass market are detailed in the piece--they are supply side issues and they are technical. The demand-side is taken as a given that there is plent of demand. The reason that there is no substit
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by 001sky 12y ago
According to a tech industry source, Leahy has changed his position in part as a result of pressure from the Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform, a lobbying group whose law firm Akin Gump recently hired Leahy’s long time chief-of-staf
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by 001sky 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT&T_Broadband The cable/telco consolidation 1.0 play.
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What Farm-to-Table Got Wrong(nytimes.com)
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The missing piece to changing the university culture (2013)(nature.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
There is a huge imbalance in new phd/new tenure-job openings. also, the proportion of faculty jobs with tenure is shrinking. both of these are massive 'caveats' to the use of 'stable'.
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by 001sky 12y ago
Pro's/USP 1) Repeatability 2) Ability to communicate to others your work-social/viral Cons: 1a) Colour gammut problems 2a) None (?) There is risk of failure but also (potentially large?) upside...seems worth trying out.
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The Blood Harvest(theatlantic.com)
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Mary Beard: The Public Voice of Women(lrb.co.uk)
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by 001sky 12y ago
'Ambivalence' can be used in a strategic context (ie, similar to 'strategic ambiguity'--in relation thought/intent). Whereas other notions of "muddled" are pertain to more passive states (apathy, confusion
915.
by 001sky 12y ago
Author is not a TC staff-writer / employee
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by 001sky 12y ago
And to follow on, what was a specifically interesting: Reports that the premium was less that 1/3 salary per FTE being offered by the "Acquirer". That is, these so-called "M&A deals" were valued at <less than
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by 001sky 12y ago
Nutella is awesome--it tastes great, is shelf-stable, long-lasting and packs in very good calorie density. That being said, it is only 11% nuts by mass. And 92% of its calorie content is from either fat or sugar. "Hazzlenut Spread&quot
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by 001sky 12y ago
"Amazon said to play hardball in book contract talks with publishing house Hachette" AMZN reportedly adding 3-5 weeks of (arbitrary) "delivery delay" for online orders. Exactly the type of opportunism they seek protectio
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Amazon's Hypocrisy on Net Neutrality(washingtonpost.com)
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Tech companies still hate the FCC’s net neutrality plan(news.yahoo.com)
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Never Forgetting a Face(nytimes.com)
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With Flextime, Bosses Prefer Early Birds to Night Owls(blogs.hbr.org)
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No matter what the boss says about flextime, get to work early(qz.com)
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by 001sky 12y ago
I talked to one guy who's a former Goldman Sachs guy who left to go to the tech industry who said the adage in the tech world now is "be wary when the pretty people show up."
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by 001sky 12y ago
The tradeoff between 'performance' and 'plasticity' is an interesting framework. One with larger ramifications later in life. It's also one that vexes the "education" industry, and has broadeer applicabili
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The Hand that Rocks The Cradle(mcb.harvard.edu)
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by 001sky 12y ago
Tenure committees can’t read the actual papers of all the applicants to form an opinion on the quality of the research. They need some form of proxy. This is a completely unacceptable situation, it seems.
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Mirror, Mirror in the App: What’s the Fairest Shade and Shadow of Them All?(nytimes.com)
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Why Jill Abramson Was Fired (newyorker.com)
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Average Americans Think They're Smarter Than the Average American(nationaljournal.com)
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