GreeniFi

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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Tell that to the shareholders of Google! We’re not talking about a company set up to manage a water feature in a town square here!
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Can you differentiate acting in the best interest of the company to maximaing return to shareholders, when that is the very raison d'être of a company?
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A lot of people - myself included - feel pretty uncomfortable when we read these stories. But we have to remember that (1) directors are under a fiduciary duty to maximize return to shareholders, (2) use of tax havens is legal. The 2 facts
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Thanks. I also really appreciate the opportunity to ask questions of a writer whose (very well written) essay one has just read. I have a feeling their patent application will be blocked because the process was not COMPASS’s to begin with.
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I found your article very interesting. Thank you very much. One question I had is what and how COMPASS obtained their IP. Surely “distillation” of the psychoactive substance is widely known? It would be a bit like me trying to patent pancak
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I can believe this. Realtors, on a %-based fee, have to show their clients how much they’re making (for other clients). If a realtor turns up in a Mercedes, they’re basically saying: “I’m a good salesman/woman”. Devs in SF display stat
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I suspect a lot of people feel that part of their conspicuous consumption is part of the effort to earn more. You have to wear the right clothes, look the right way, have the right tech - or at a higher income bracket, be part of the right
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I met Nachtwey once. In the early noughts. He struck me as a kind but broken man.
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There is an inherent and inescapable ethical tension in photojournalism. On the one hand, these images are part of a market- they are bought to sell advertising, clicks, newspapers. That’s grubby, dark shit. On the other hand, they’re vital
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“Never be a spy...” :) Interesting story. Thank you for sharing.
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That’s quite an exciting list of job titles. Although follow the advice of the old fellow in the bar, who could quite well have served during the war: “never be a spy...”. That said there was a CIA job ad in the Economist a few months back,
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
For reasons I can’t quite remember, in the late 90s I once had a drink at an army club in London. I’m not very army at all, so it was not somewhere I’d expect to go as a rule. My overriding memory was an old paratrooper at the bar telling m
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
This is an interesting article. I do understand why pieces like this get flagged, but I also wonder whether we need to embrace these discussions rather than suppress them. To my point, I’m not supporting Empire, but in the time of the Raj,
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The issue was that certain of the hedge funds were also funding Brexit campaigning. I believe that was legal, but suspect it won’t remain so for long.
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Going to Munich - and not having heard about the downtown river wave - and then seeing people in wetsuits carrying their boards, dripping along the pavement:what, where, how!!!??? And then finding the wave and watching all the groms - and a
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I think that’s the conclusion I’ve reached. Thanks for your response.
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Haha.
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I run a business at risk of IP theft and this worries me. But sometimes I also wonder if in reality IP is a fairly weak premise for a business (I know...sleepless nights this issue gives me), precisely because (1) it’s so easily stealable,
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I’m really sorry to hear this story. It makes me feel pretty sad, and worried as a recent parent. I think I have a preference for free speech, but stories like this really make me wonder where the boundaries are. Communities are bound toget
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
I’m an environmental economist with a tech business working on climate issues. I use HN for its front page which I treat like a newspaper. I’m always surprised by the number of climate-related articles on the HN front page and the often exc
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
Where does this nonsense end? Every rock in the political space at the moment has slime oozing from underneath it.
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That’s clever. It’s interesting how these guys always end up looking like mafia dons, one step removed from the chaos they create.
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I’m sorry to hear that but am pleased you seem to have been able to walk away from offers that would have worsened your situation. I hope your savviness is still paying dividends.
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Conmen look for people who are so desperate they will suspend disbelief. It’s no surprise that all the marks in this story were struggling to save their livelihoods. I wonder if part of the Yellowstone MO was to use fax? Over email, you hav
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
For sure it’s deserved, but as is often the case with scapegoats, FB is not the only one. The Gusrdian collects and sells used data to advertisers, for example.
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by GreeniFi 8y ago
You’ve been reading Rene Girard it would seem. And he’s a good guide to what’s going on: they were all at it, but Zuck is soaking up the blame not just for the ills of the social media biz model but the ills of late capitalism.
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“It’s different this time”.
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What would you prefer?
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For reference, credible sources estimate a death toll in the millions in the Congo in the last 20 years [1]. Abetted in no small measure, this Bloomberg piece makes clear, by Gertler and Glasenberg’s business practices. Two douchebags of ga
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I don’t think I’m the only one that finds it a bit weird what a hash FB have made of this issue. For a long time it was an era-defining company. It’s employees and even Zuckerberg seemed intent on making the world a better place. But the ma

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