Solstinox

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by Solstinox 6y ago
The question, if you have the luxury of asking it, is do you want to sign away a big chunk of your life to one of these companies?
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Oh it's absolutely possible that if they had settled in the 1920s they'd eventually get screwed anyway.
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Palestinians got screwed over by something geopolitical. Again and again they were egged on by their Arab neighbors to walk away from more equitable treaties. All in the name of geopolitical Arab nationalism. Today their Arab neighbors are
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Look around at all the companies shaking taxpayers for loose change because they could not handle a moderate economic downturn. A responsible company needs a cash stockpile for the same reason a responsible person needs savings, to weather
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The way I read that, the problem isn’t exclusive deals. It’s Amazon signing exclusive deals. What do you think about this: authors can sign exclusive with non-monopolistic entities?
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Harm means to hurt or injure. If I write a book and exclusively circulate it among my closest friends, am I harming you because there is 1 less book you for you to happen upon?
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I like how some still characterize Apple's money pile as a weakness. The last five months showed Apple's cash pile to be a wise choice in a world where most businesses can't weather a few weeks of global perturbance without s
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You don't see people sit around staring off into space. Not trying to sit. Not trying to follow some gimmicky Sitting™ 2.0™ technique. Just sitting. In idle. Slow breathing is just a gimmick here. The change came from realizing what ca
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The only vocal minority that counts in business is the minority writing the biggest checks. They probably get access to roadmaps anyway.
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This is cool! The visualizations could be a little finer, but it's neat to see these trends.
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People have tackled this stuff for millennia. By all means focus on the emergent structures, as that's the only way to learn about that structure. If you only study the modern proxies for these structures ("network theory") y
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Coronaviruses make up a smaller portion of colds. Call me a pessimist, but it's more likely for this coronavirus to branch off into new varieties that need updated vaccines.
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Look into network science. Albert-László Barabási does cool work in the space. Don't get too dazzled by proxies. Ideas propagate through people. If you want to get people, read some fiction, some history, and some philosophy.
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Do you know what you want to do? Do that. Don't know what you want to do? Sit around and be bored for a while. Your natural curiosity will kick in. Follow where it leads.
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If you want to work in "the world of atoms" that Peter Thiel likes to refer to, there is a lot of money to be made in dealing with corrosion. In the US, it eats away 200-300 billion every year.
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Companies that get to be as big as Intel are destined for this kind of failure.