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by 3am 12y ago
In case you're still checking this thread, I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciated your efforts to educate and correct the record. I know a little about this area, and know enough to see you know more than I do. It's
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Oh no... GGM was an underappreciated author in non-spanish speaking world (in spite of wonderful, gift translators... he was just an intrinsically difficult author to translate because of the poetic quality of his writing IMHO). Cien Anos d
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Google has a pretty good track record with acquisitions (YouTube, Android, DoubleClick, Picasa... lots of smaller tuck-in acquisitions around their big products). The Motorola is an extremely poor example, because it was defensive against t
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It's completely legal, and probably a reasonably good life lesson for you in how communicate in the workplace. I don't disagree with what you said necessarily, but if you think about it from the manager's perspective you basi
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The difference, obviously, is that Prop 8 denies rights to some people and does not affect anyone else, aside from offending them. I don't understand your point about my comment about religions that permit same sex marriage. I think it
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I can completely understand his motivation, even though I believe the efforts to demote/kill them will ultimately be futile. Like you said, this topic will demand discussion. The main thread should at least not be flagged off the front
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It could be 99% of the voters that supported it. It's still objectively morally wrong, just like Jim Crow laws were. @jiojk542: it's morally wrong because it denies equal treatment under the law (tax benefits, government benefit b
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"would you consider it reasonable for Christians to target some arbitrary CEO who donated some money to planned parenthood several years ago" Do you mean exactly how they (Family Research Council in these cases) did with the Girl
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Well, it's the world we live in, not as it should be. The government definition of marriage and the rights it confers (not just survivor benefits, but substantial tax/program eligibility economic advantages, among others) are real
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Yeah, but it's more interesting than reading an (n+1)th opinion on Oculus/FB or another angry, well-paid engineer that doesn't understand the difference between no-recruit and no-hire policies. I have an old car (no HDMI or a
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To be fair, most companies going public lately have been unprofitable. Yes, not true historically; but the desire for savings yield/strategy funds that will buy no matter what/success of flipping ipos has lowered the bar. And th
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Yeah, the gross margins are telling just part of the story - the sales & marketing scaling with revenue looks scary. I don't think a company with a p&l looking like that would necessarily want to go public. I see it that the
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It's a great question. As a contractor, is the Uber driver forced to carry his own liability insurance? How much? Is Uber liable, too? What is the answer to those same questions for a regulated taxi or limousine service? I don&#x27
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Well, first it's financial advice, not technological advice. As other commenters have noted, BC is both a technology and a currency. Buffett is addressing the second. Second, he runs a $300B USD financial and industrial conglomerate t
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I have no clue how anyone could justify downvoting your comment. It's hard to believe that anyone downvoting you could be a hiring manager in a technical field. I have had extremely similar experiences looking for both experienced an
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Did you read the links in your post? The first doesn't strongly support your points, and the second was out of date almost 4 months ago. And that's really saying something, because the first link is an OpEd by Mitt Romney's
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Yup, or worse, we could be mourning the loss of two shuttles and their crews.
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You're the one sticking your head in the sand. You act as though _we have a choice_ about how to continue past global warming. Do you know about methane production from thawing permafrost or melting subsea clathrate deposits? God is m
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Look, I don't carry water for FSF or Stallman, but it's easy to make that statement in the context in the world they helped create. You can't imagine how much OS licensing used to cost, which would definitely be an impedimen
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This is about about as far as I can remember society being away from 1984. The NSA bulk surveillance is bad (doubleplus bad?), but remember the most pernicious influence in the actual book wasn't the surveillance, but the criminalizat
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Three-Piece Suits, Breakfast Meetings, and Overwork(krugman.blogs.nytimes.com)
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You get it, swombat (at least in my humble opinion). Thank you for posting that, I hope that it helps some people understand the distinction between currency and assets that produce returns. edit: Just thinking further on it... I tend to a
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He should apologize for turning down $3B USD from Facebook. edit - To answer your question: to his shareholders and employees holding options, because it was the right decision from a CAGR perspective. edit 2 - if they get acquired 2 years
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Got missed in the downtime yesterday. Interesting since Unicorn's tech allows ad stitching in RTMP streams and they have some pretty interesting patents around the technology.
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Brightcove to acquire ad tech firm Unicorn Media for $49M(bizjournals.com)
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I've had colleagues from Nigeria, CER, S.A., and several other countries in Africa. I don't think you'll find any resistance beyond the intrinsic difficulty of an H1B hire, and that might be complicated by the absence of a bu
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Facebook: it’s not me, it’s you.(muddydogcoffee.com)
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Random observation - that article has a highly entertaining reader comment section, particularly that equity risk premium discussion thread.
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Did you read the WSJ Andreesen interview that's on the frontpage ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7007332 )? He gave a plausible and coherent explanation of Snapchat's strategy (spoiler: Tencent of the West).
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I try to avoid posting about tone because I don't think they add to the discussion and a lot of the time aren't received well. Thanks for the response. And I don't entirely disagree with you either... my read of the post was

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