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by Top19 9y ago
I want to emphasize that outsourcing to China really played a large role in this. Even if each one of these hubs starts the new Facebook, that will only generate about 17,000 jobs (the amount of people Facebook currently employs) plus of co
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by Top19 9y ago
Another bubble is agricultural land prices in the United States. This was such a foreign thing to me when I first heard it, but it’s so overvalued. If you look at a 20 year graph you’ll see it barely even dipped during the 2008 recession. T
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I cannot emphasize how much this advice hurts people “Passion, attitude, and vision”. I’m not saying it’s wrong or that it’s not helpful to people applying for jobs at Amazon in Seattle, but it’s so woefully out of touch with the times and
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Europe has a bad history with records misused to later pursue political enemies. The records the Germans used come to mind, but also things like the Staszi secret police in East Germany. Interestingly, a lot of stuff that just “works” in Am
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All of this stuff is cool and there is definitely support in both academia and industry for all of this, but I think predictions about how soon it will arrive are off-base by a lot. What if political and social disruption increases? What if
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For reference, Deep Springs College, the male version of the college in this article, is in the desert of California. It’s a two year college set up something like a farm. One of the Facebook founders (Sean Eldridge or his husband I believe
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by Top19 9y ago
Hey you had a really good post that was remarkably unpretentious and straightforward. Ugh I think of all the questions on Quora like “What books should I read to become a huge success / be the best digital marketer!”. So first I would
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Fair request and it was actually the New York Times so my mistake: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/business/too-many-restaur...
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There was a Wall Street Journal article a few weeks ago that said banks were being far too lenient about giving out loans to restaurants and pumping money into an essentially dying, unforgiving market. I actually thought the WSJ was a littl
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For some reason in the United States we have a cult of moral-kombat-individual responsibility that doesn’t value community. It reminds me of the Est “radical responsibility” seminars in the late 70’s that would say provocative things like “
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by Top19 9y ago
Was at a city council meeting where I live for a developer to build 380 apartments. It was a very nice deal, the apartments were mid-range in costs, they were going to include a park, and there was going to be shopping on the 1st floor. It
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Great post. Essentially the IPO disaster of the dot.com era is now the “ICO disaster”. But it still means success in the long term (so think 15 years out).
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Reminds me of the scene in The Circle where Tom Hanks says “we believe in the perfectability of human beings!”. Google is such a frightening, creepy company that really tries hard not to be. Kind of like the guy who breaks into a girl’s hom
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Most change is generational. Went to my city council meeting last night because I wanted to make sure new housing was approved for. There were 300ish people there, probably an average of 60. Very few people under 40, maybe 10 most. Changes
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by Top19 9y ago
I would say brand recognition among amateur investors. Amateur investors, just like in the dot-com era, drive huge upsurges in prices, and tend to be indicative of the late stages of a bubble. Even Richard Shiller though, a really brilliant
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by Top19 9y ago
This paper from the Journal of Economic Letters two years ago determined that “the fundamental value of Bitcoin is 0”: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DhMqG0YAAAAJ&hl=en If you want to see the choice quote you’
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by Top19 9y ago
Tim Wu, who coined the term “network neutrality”, wrote an excellent op-ed in the N.Y. Times yesterday. He said that now speech,l is a form of control and censorship, whereas 100 years ago limiting speech was a form of control / censor
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by Top19 9y ago
That is something I’ve thought about too. Kind of like passive investing / index funds. It works great, but if everyone is doing it, then it loses it’s original purpose and distorts market prices. I will say once patterns are discovere
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by Top19 9y ago
Interesting article / thanks for sharing although I see it as unlikely to come true. 1. The Economist just this month published a cover story about how globalization is actually helping people and just needs to be “adjusted”. The artic
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Was at Barnes and Noble today looking at magazines. The internet is garbage for finding out what is going on so often. Just go to the magazines section at BN. It’s so visually compelling, looking at all the covers, scanning the aisles, a wo
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by Top19 9y ago
Arthur Schlesinger Jr’s “The Cycles of American History” “The Forth Turning” or “Generations” by Neil Howe and William Strauss. Although be warned although those books were well received at the time in like 1993 (including a pretty positive
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1. Mentors should be people much older than you. There generational knowledge, much of which has been lost, is a value unmeasurable and you will not find on the internet or in almost any book still in print. This also means they are retired
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Those type of executives will be going to jail soon enough. There is a theory, I think first proposed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr (who won two Pulitzer prizes, had an equally renowned father, and was one of Kennedy’s top advisors) that America
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by Top19 9y ago
Yes anything in pink. In all seriousness, your question seems to come from a biological perspective, and that might have _some_ influence, but culture is likely to be a far larger factor. As an aside, I feel like people think they are some
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Sales Departments have way too many people. I like that they employ people, but that’s a separate conversation. On a team of 8 sales people, typically 2 people together sell enough for the team to break even. The other 6, usually because of
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The amount of fraud in the statistics coming out of Silicon Valley companies is really shocking. Just finished the book “Chaos Monkey” by a former PM at Facebook, and he goes into detail about how Facebook, and particularly Google with Goo
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Another concern, which is kind of pathetic, is that you can pay Kirkus for reviews these days, we are talking like as low as $500. In their magazine you will notice many of the reviews are from Amazon CreateSpace or whatever.
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lol that’s what H1-B visas are for...
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Yes this has been pretty much the trend of society over the last 40 years. The focus on career and work ebbs and flows in American society rising with the tides of individualism and ebbing when community and service come back into fold. We
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Dude your post sounds crazy. I tried to write a nicer version of that comment but sorry I am not smart enough. 1. Your name is Weatherman. You do realize that refers to a group of socialist protesters in the 1970’s? 2 Your profile picture o

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