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by Synthetase 15y ago
Hi refurb, I compiled the statistics behind the white paper. We found several candidates with both MBAs and engineering degrees. However it was on the order of low tens so the sets are largely disjoint. We excluded it for the sake of cla
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by Synthetase 15y ago
I think I might have some perspective to comment on education. I dropped out of a large public institution in a technical program to work in industry for a while. Many of my motivations were similar to the authors complaints. Is education
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by Synthetase 15y ago
An innovator, especially someone with as much power as Zuckerberg, should ideally be taking risks and challenging norms. I'm not saying I want all my personal data out in the open nor do I approve of all of Facebook's recent moves. It just
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by Synthetase 15y ago
I would readily do without buyer's remorse.
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by Synthetase 15y ago
Barring any significant development in propulsion technologies, they did what any responsible engineering design team would. I would obsess less over the form factor and more over efficiency.
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by Synthetase 15y ago
It's basically the simplest version of a helicopter possible where the entire craft is the rotor. It's pretty much impossible fly fixed wing UAVs indoors. This concept is pretty amazing.
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by Synthetase 15y ago
I don't agree with the author's premise that founding service companies are somehow anymore noble than building a product companies or whatever else. A dollar from a local business is as good as a dollar from an advertiser. The image of th
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by Synthetase 15y ago
It's depressing that some of America's most important fiscal matters must now be negotiated at the point of a gun. The dearth of start ups focused on the public sector seems somewhat surprising to me. It seems that Silicon Valley should h
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by Synthetase 15y ago
I remember being taught this technique in my discrete math class last semester. At first blush, it seemed utterly ridiculous. One could still infer the result, the true signal. It was only after some consideration from the human side I re
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by Synthetase 15y ago
I'm beginning to doubt journalistic integrity of Forbes. It seems to grant industry mouthpieces get a soapbox to harm technology companies. Between the SpaceX/Loren Thompson fiasco and this I'm taking any article from them with a huge rock
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by Synthetase 15y ago
Used: asrWhpJYUWyBJfcgSend Your great.
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by Synthetase 15y ago
Couldn't agree more. A startup, headed up by an MBA no less, is somehow more innovative than a hothouse of talent and capital?
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by Synthetase 15y ago
I find myself agreeing with his sentiment. When the cost of doing business grows intolerably large, in this case the acquisition of talent, growth slows and reverses. This is one of the classical reasons for boom bust cycles.
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by Synthetase 15y ago
I think Neal Stephenson is actually part of the Long Now. Looks like they lifted something right from Anathem.
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by Synthetase 15y ago
Obviously GAAP rules are not the end all and be all of reality but this article seriously made me step back and marvel at the audacity of some of the companies. Loose accounting seems to present before every bubble stretching back to the E
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by Synthetase 15y ago
I've never gotten the impression from any of my hard science professors that they take the Culture Wars seriously enough. I would think that camp of though to be utterly discredited after the Sokal affair and the various books that sprang
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by Synthetase 15y ago
And the artifacts of literature, film, etc... which did the influencing mostly derived from places outside the ivory tower.
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by Synthetase 15y ago
The proof is in the pudding. GWB may have wanted bin Laden dead but never devoted sufficient resources to allow it to happen. The fact that this was an operation which was beginning to be planned 10 months ago is evidence enough of Obama's
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by Synthetase 15y ago
I don't see how the vanity of a some analysts affects Google's underlying business. This is exactly the bipolar behavior of the market which has netted people like Buffett a fortune.
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by Synthetase 16y ago
1."Einstein wasn't a genius because he was most skilled in math -- he wasn't" Pretty ambiguous imho. And it blatantly plays upon that misconception. "Just" sticking with a problem for a long is not an easy undertaking as the passage makes
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by Synthetase 16y ago
I will concede that it covers it tangentially before the article starts veers from psychology into questionable neurology. However, the author of the article definitely comes from the camp which mistakes the perspective shift as more import
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by Synthetase 16y ago
I'm not sure why this was front-paged. Twice. I disagree with the premise that a mere mortal can spontaneously boot strap him-self to a higher plane of thinking through a simple change in perspective. Revolutionary breakthroughs are a prod
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by Synthetase 16y ago
The author's premise is flawed. I would argue that New York and DC are extremely important as well. Centers of finance and government? Beijing and Shanghai may soon become quite influential so I would hold off on making judgments. They c
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by Synthetase 16y ago
Yeah! I never want you to make fun of my peacoat. Or my scarf. And my oh so awesome tastes. Ever. Again.
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by Synthetase 16y ago
I really think he doesn't know what he's talking about. Let's look at his qualifications. He's a professor of "Media Studies" at the New School. I think he's going to be taking everything with a lot of lit crit palavering. Myspace to Fac
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by Synthetase 16y ago
I don't think he was justifying sexism ANYWHERE in his comment. The fact is that few women are in tech. You can't fault people in good faith for making observations of their environments. But I doubt you can even claim good faith to your
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by Synthetase 16y ago
Excluding the most populous country on the planet seems more than a mere oversight...
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by Synthetase 16y ago
Money makes a wonderful servant and a terrible master. You have to ask yourself, is money what you're after or a simulacrum for something else? I suspect for most people its the latter.
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by Synthetase 16y ago
Nicholas Carr is a pundit, not a neuroscientist. He is paid to come up with neat and pretty ideas, not to be right.
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by Synthetase 16y ago
"The Web site must be shut down and prevented from releasing more documents -- and its leadership brought to justice." The latter imperative might be achievable. The former is the height of delusion.

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