Lambent_Cactus

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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
You could still issue treasuries. As long as we're not experiencing deflation (the Fed is supposed to target 2% inflation), there's plenty of room for the government to borrow money at negative real interest rates, which it should be happy
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
True story. That speech was a major factor in my decisions to leave legal practice and later to found my own startup. Jobs' words that day have had a major effect on my career.
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
This is an awesome idea, and like others have said, props for thoughtful permissions management. Oddly though, I found that the prolific tweeters were the ones I wanted to see, and the infrequent ones were less interesting. I have a core o
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
This is the start of an entertaining thriller. Someone should be working on the movie rights.
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
Lawyers? Retail investors? Even for finance pros who currently parse the raw filings, I can see how having an auto-generated human-readable summary that pulled out the key points would save enough time to be worth spending money on.
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
"The Republican/ Tea-Party approach to job creation is to cut taxes. The theory being that more money in the pocket of individuals will cause people to spend more money in the economy thereby creating more jobs. Nope. Not happening. Why ? B
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
Is there a way to filter to show only the Public Domain icons without opening each shadow box individually?
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
Whoa, where are good programmers in hot markets making more than $200k? Is that counting stock compensation, or actual salary? I'm seeing sub-200k salaries for Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Softw
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
I hadn't considered #2, the Check All option. I love its refusal to be drawn into over-engineering.
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
Yes, 'rotten core' was a bit strong. :P I don't know anything about Groupon's specific case, and it's certainly true that in many cases the VC's will be the more experienced and better informed, and therefore more culpable party. Comity!
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by Lambent_Cactus 15y ago
Making some people very rich is not the same thing as creating value. If Groupon investors get rich at the expense of retail investors, that's bad. If the Groupon founders get rich at the expense of retail investors and later venture inves