11thEarlOfMar

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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
What do you want it to do for you? Help fund a car (just put it into a savings account)? Help purchase a home (put it into fixed income, bonds or CDs)? Or keep you comfortable when you retire (put it into a good mutual fund)? Generally spea
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
Is it a compliment to say one has a John Galt complex?
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
Seems that there should be a purpose to the specific attributes of the architecture. Pixar has a pretty unique space as well. One design goal was minimizing the distance to any other person or place, while maintaining a central courtyard wh
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
The hats are awesome. And I'd love to see what the colors were and how they bring out the personalities.
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
The trick is that Kraus describes a clearly delineated set of social groups: Germans, Austrians, Italians and French. Perhaps he's saying that if 'the form is the function', ultimately, the group is susceptible to natural for
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
Please turn it off or I'll stare at it for hours.
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
Automation in manufacturing has been with us for a century or so and its effects have made more and more sophisticated material possessions available to larger and larger markets. More part content, more sophisticated parts, lower and lower
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
Never was much for boycotts, but Spike is making me reconsider.
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
The Internet is the multiplier of many huge economic forces. Some that come to mind: - Productivity of a single worker: Izya, a mechanical engineering friend, used to spend hours in the engineering library trying to find the right part amon
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
If you can suspend the obvious question of why are you hiking from San Francisco to LA in the first place, the general analogy holds quite well: With software development, you can not know how long it will take until you know exactly what y
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
The US Government has a simple way to find domestic buyers: Raise the yield. I currently have to buy crappy BBB- munis to get anything close to a decent fixed income yield. If I could get 6.5% for a long bond, I'd be buying a bunch. (Y
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
Might be fun to have a ranking for players as well to see how they did vs. everyone else. Like the old arcade video games did.
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
I am not too worried about the cable companies. They've made the shift from television to Internet and phone just fine. Television, however, is going through the same metamorphosis that music, retail sales and newspapers are enduring.
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
ycombinator.com Busted.
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
FD: TSLA Shareholder We should discuss whether the situation changes over time. As gasoline cars age, their likelihood of catching fire increases. As electric cars age, does their chance also increase? The flammable elements of a gas-powere
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
Like a chess game, it is not always obvious when you've made a decision that will ultimately cost you the game. Even if it is the only bad decision, and even if the mate comes 2 dozen moves later, you may never realize what it was. In
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
What is rather mind boggling is that Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo all have multiple, huge data center installations and, they are all profitable companies. It does not seem to be a zero-sum game yet for market share, and the
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
I'd much rather see specific comparisons to other choices, rather than generalizations pointing out the strengths of the language. Why and when, specifically, is Python preferred to C# for web apps? Why and when is it preferred to Ruby
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by 11thEarlOfMar 13y ago
Wrong. Silicon Valley's tech culture is rooted in idealism. Not isolationism. The people who thrive in The Valley are those with the conviction to change the world, and, who choose technology to implement that change. No doubt, many of
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Identity is more important to us than fact(bbc.co.uk)
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Let's first differentiate robotics versus automation. A conveyor belt is a form of automation. So are the 'robots' that pick up auto parts and place them into position so other 'robots' can weld them. These devices