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by HillRat 13y ago
They should be protesting the fact that he's the person responsible for JavaScript. (Hey, don't forget to tip your waitress and try the veal!) More seriously, there's the open question as to whether a career technologist is
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by HillRat 13y ago
Well, if Google's going to be a robotics and AI company, it's not irrational for Facebook to go into telepresence as a kind of next-gen communications property. They've got the cash to go big, and their dependence on a single
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by HillRat 13y ago
Credit unions are nonprofit organizations that benefit from tax exemptions and not having to comply with a number of banking regulations, including CRA and FDIC coverage. (Most, but not all, CUs are covered by NCUSIF.) Due to their communit
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by HillRat 13y ago
I feel like this is the geek version of some Michael Mann film, where the subtext is "COPS ARE JUST LIKE CRIMINALS." I'm already terrified that evidently any random GS-11 can grab SIGINT data at will; now I find out that they
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by HillRat 13y ago
Well, it's Leon Wieseltier and TNR. My expectations are set correspondingly low. However, he actually stumbles not far from an important point -- Silver is fetishizing "the side of no side," and using the cult of pretended
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by HillRat 13y ago
... Which once led an intern to submit an expense report for me for USD $2,800 for a dinner in Guadalajara. After a stern talking-to by accounting I did the rest of my receipts myself.
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by HillRat 13y ago
Asians (East and South) are themselves underrepresented in board appointments, though, so I feel like they're actually part of the larger discussion. One thing I've seen a couple of times is kind of an ethnic version of a reverse
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by HillRat 13y ago
Going after board appointments and funding is probably the right way to build forward motion, though. There's a real capital acquisition problem for female and minority founders, which generally leads them to seek funding from regions
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by HillRat 13y ago
It's a tough scenario. One of the first big managerial problems I had to face was when I was still a snot-nosed twentysomething working at a Fortune 100. I came back from lunch and was pulled into another director's office, who qu
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by HillRat 13y ago
I really wasn't aware -- not viscerally, anyway -- of just how bad it is until my wife became a tech executive at a non-tech company. The number of social, professional, and functional barriers that impede women (and most minorities) i
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by HillRat 13y ago
This really is one of the nicest pieces of PR -- corporate, political or nonprofit -- I've seen in a while; I appreciate how he starts off with a soft pitch ("the auto dealer franchise laws were originally put in place for a just
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by HillRat 13y ago
Icahn made his bones as an ur -corporate raiders, systematically buying companies, stripping them of assets, and then using the proceeds to pay off his own debt. Ever see Wall Street ? Icahn's Gordon Gekko on steroids. The thing is,
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by HillRat 13y ago
God, I started out with Perl-based CGI, NetObjects Fusion, and ATG Dynamo's early JSP implementation, back when being able to afford a SQL backend meant you were hot stuff. Kids today have it so easy. We had to code ISAPI filters, duri
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by HillRat 13y ago
The irony is that France didn't even allow most withholding of heroic neonatal care until 2004+ (e.g, la loi Leonetti , etc), whereas the US regularly refused such care until 1984 and then enacted statutory allowances for refusing f
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by HillRat 13y ago
Not sure how a nearly 30% YOY increase in tablet sales for Q4 translates to a dead market, unless they thought tablets would end up as full replacements for existing systems. Few people are replacing their other computing devices for tablet
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by HillRat 13y ago
"Mike, I miss you so much and wish you were still alive." "Would you like to talk more about Mike I miss you so much and wish you were still alive?"
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by HillRat 13y ago
I will say that that was actually a pretty strong response from KPC&B. "Shocked" is a hell of lot stronger than the usual "The views expressed by Mr. Perkins are not reflective of the values of this firm" type of res
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by HillRat 13y ago
The vast majority of Jews in Weimar-era Germany were middle-class clerical types or tradesmen; however, Nazi and other right-wing propaganda grossly inflated the economic power of the Jewish community in order to whip up public anger. Of co
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by HillRat 13y ago
I'd say it's more of "tortious interference." If true, this was -- to paraphrase Fouché -- worse than a crime, it was stupid . It seems that Uber is so blasé about the tidal flood of lawsuits it's facing that it is
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by HillRat 13y ago
This -- the fact that even highly-optimized inductive charging is about 85% as efficient as direct-contact DC seems to get ignored a lot. Having said that, I actually understand the appeal of charging mats and the like, because they replace
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by HillRat 13y ago
Great job, guys! This definitely opens up some nice options. Reminds me how much I miss the old TIGER/Line file formats, though.
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by HillRat 13y ago
Well, that's kind of how things work now, which is why your physician sometimes has to check with your insurance carrier to see if they'll authorize work. For example, I recently saw a sports medicine doctor for what we feared was
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by HillRat 13y ago
Mostly in the eye (or ear) of the beholder. One way to look at it is that rap is something you do, hip-hop is a way you live. More specifically, hip hop is a cultural phenomenon that developed as an interplay between Jamaican immigrants a
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MIT has an opera about AI. Here's where to see it.(dallasopera.org)
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by HillRat 13y ago
Yeah, I used two cards and one of them already got smurfed (I put on block on the other one as a prophylactic measure). At this point, if you used a card at any Target in the affected time period, just assume your card has been sold and is
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by HillRat 13y ago
Starting from scratch, sure (everyone always seems to think of DNA and RNA as super-Legos; I blame Hollywood), but I think it's worth being at least slightly afraid of things like lab-engineered influenzas, given that flu is a very sma
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by HillRat 13y ago
:) Actually, the fact that China is turned to the viewer, with a tentacle overlaying it, is possibly indicative of its tasking. The octopus has five tentacles; three are visible, and this is the third of five TOPAZ satellites to be launched
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by HillRat 13y ago
It's one thing to know and care, but another thing to pull it off. I dealt with RIM/BB not all that long ago on behalf of an M2M prospect and was thoroughly underwhelmed; the QNX team we dealt with was sharp and fully on-point, bu
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by HillRat 13y ago
You just happened to choose as your example two careers that are fully, comprehensively, and aggressively unionized. NFL players are paid so much because the NFL Players' Association was willing to fight (and strike) to ensure the owne
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by HillRat 13y ago
Also, just try getting a decent cell signal on the rim of the Grand Canyon. And the wi-fi options in national parks are decidedly subpar. The fact that I know this saddens me greatly.

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