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by HSO 15y ago
Insanely moving. The ending takes my breath away.
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by HSO 15y ago
You could spin this further. Me thinks SJ might have been wrong with his analogy of "trucks" and PCs. Perhaps instead, TVs will become the center of processing power and memory/state in the home, with tablets/phones, in combination with an
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A tribute to Steve Jobs [interviews with various people connected to him](charlierose.com)
3 points by HSO 15y ago|0 comments
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by HSO 15y ago
I have no doubt she is intelligent, experienced, and has good intentions. But to make the simple connection from physics background, decades away, to today's financial markets and economies strikes me as rather bold. You need to have though
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by HSO 15y ago
Have you ever thought twice about what exactly "faceless markets" are? Markets are composed of many agents, people, institutions, and mostly your pension money! It's true. Pension funds and other institutional investors are the single-large
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by HSO 15y ago
Do you have a system that would allow you to detect and prevent patterns analogous to "justice is what the judge ate for breakfast" (more formally known as "legal realism")? See for example: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscien
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by HSO 15y ago
Perhaps this is the place and occasion to ask this question: What's the advantage of taking this class over reading a good (text)book incl. exercises contained therein? I realize people have different learning styles and I'm just not the ty
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by HSO 15y ago
terrible headline. my dictionary says: to topple: verb [ no obj. ] overbalance or become unsteady and fall slowly [ with obj. ] cause to fall in such a way india rising does not cause japan to fall, in any way. also, there's a certain triu
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by HSO 15y ago
Sounds like a good idea. One crucial difference to the original, though, is that you're _supposed_ to react instantaneously to a picture. Resumes, even 1-pagers, demand more care or some involvement of higher cognitive functions. So, this
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by HSO 15y ago
I agree with your sentiment but ask how questions such as "how much is enough" can be answered? I could imagine an arrangement analogous to "floating currency rates" where you define a band within which the market price can fluctuate. Progr
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by HSO 15y ago
While every situation is different, I have some issues with my work style and concentration/focus too. Now I'm 2 weeks into an 8-week meditation program and starting to feel its effect. Without more information and expertise, I think this i
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by HSO 15y ago
"The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States. Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion." --> http://w
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by HSO 15y ago
Although my instincts are the same (i.e. inequality per se should not be a problem, logically), both introspection and some academic studies* suggest inequality actually is a problem. While the incremental benefits of more _absolute_ wealth
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by HSO 15y ago
I'm growing more and more irritated by the classification of "reading" as "consumption". Consumption is usually defined as a sink of goods (as opposed to "investment" or "production"). Reading per se, however, does not result in anything va
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Steve Jobs Through the Years: Highlights From the D Conference (allthingsd.com)
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by HSO 15y ago
> we might find ourselves merely working a job for a paycheck. At best we would be working on someone else’s dream, at worst we’d forget that we had dreams of our own. Yeah, standard cupcake. But what I always found puzzling about entr
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by HSO 15y ago
From his biography ("The Snowball"): "He did the bookkeeping himself and prepared his own tax returns. With its numbers, accuracy, and the measuring of results, the recordkeeping aspect of the job pleased him." [...] "Warren was still handl
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by HSO 15y ago
I think you are both right, once you "de-identify" said resources and cash. That is, the constraint here is not cash but brains/skills/knowledge/time/effort. Many people simply don't know what is possible. I used to run continuously into th
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by HSO 15y ago
Coming from HN, this just caught my eye on the NYT: "Even Marked Up, Luxury Goods Fly Off Shelves" ( http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/business/sales-of-luxury-g... ) while the country struggles to pay its debts and is losing its future. Ju
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by HSO 15y ago
> I don't see how a random blogger is more plausible than pg and Airbnb? Yeah, that's status thinking and antithetical to rational discourse. You evaluate a story or its plausibility on _its_ merits, not on the status of who tells it (
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by HSO 15y ago
no point in replying to your questions because they obviously are rhetorical. good day, sir.
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by HSO 15y ago
"why would that be necessary if spending were reduced or income increased?" i think that's exactly where the problem is. the debt payments are due soon and until the republicans turned the federal debt limit into a political issue, it was b
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by HSO 15y ago
Not sure if this is a rhetorical question or not. But the way I understood it is that it's a question of refinancing federal debt. I.e. the new issues are needed to pay off existing bond holders, and if treasury was prohibited to do so, the
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by HSO 15y ago
to paraphrase larry summers: "post-lehman on steroids" think what you will of the guy, this is a good description of the most probable scenario, i think: http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11777 (at ~ 4:10)
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by HSO 15y ago
+germany downloading now...
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by HSO 15y ago
Which was my point ;-)
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by HSO 15y ago
How does that make terms with the 9 special?
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Apple starting to go more systematically after corporate customers?(online.wsj.com)
4 points by HSO 15y ago|0 comments
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by HSO 15y ago
From a fake interview with McLuhan: "The attention of consumers can shift instantly and make the most profound investments obsolete in just a few years, soon to be sped up even further. We will see economic empires crash within hours, and n
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by HSO 15y ago
I agree. In my dreams, I keep grasping for the undo/revert command -- for life. I close in on my shot at redemption, then I wake up. The cycle turns.

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