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by Top19 9y ago
Lol I appreciate your comment about the Japanese ninja-workers. Reading business books from the 90’s, it is astounding how many people feared the Japanese and thought they would be the end all be all. Of course it ended with them going into
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If you get a chance look into the book “Status Update” from Yale University Press. It’s an ethnography of the San Francisco tech scene from 2006-2010. There are a lot of people featured in that book who make some cringey, highly embarrassin
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Maybe not web dev shops, but small groups of developers, operating in a partnership similar to what we see with lawyers in say a 9 or 10 (or less) person firm, is what this author argues is going to be the future: https://leanpub
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I highly recommend Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death”. It’s a much more accessible and quite frankly more entertaining (amusing?) than Baudrillard’s work. It was written in the early 80’s but is so relevant it could have been publi
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Their mistake was buying this cloud company, Attunity, for $11 billion, and then realizing the company had completely defrauded them with fraudulent accounting. They had to do a 100% write-off.
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Wireless charging on a level not seen yet. The idea might be for a wireless charging network similar to what we already have for cell phones, so each tower has a 3 mile or so radius. You’ll never be without power in a sense that you’re not,
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A good book on a similar topic was “The Chastening” by Paul Blustein. This was about the currency disasters of the late 90’s, which interestingly also took place at a time people thought we were in a tech bubble (we were). This time period
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Don’t know, but I can tell you Blackberry used to trade there before packing up their bags for greener pastures and switching to NYSE.
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If anyone reads the journals of the far-left, like The Baffler, Dissent, or Jacobin, I can tell you they view Trump more positively than Silicon Valley. The Baffler in particular ran a scratching article about “protests” from Silicon Valley
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Good article, and it’s one of a number I’ve seen in the last 30 days touching on whether or not there is a bubble, or a long-term decline on the horizon. The problem with bubbles is people will call them as soon as things are overly valued
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Good article, reminded me of Gawker/ValleyWag in a lot of ways.
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lol the AOL 2.0 analogy. I will never forgive my parents for signing us up for AOL Broadband. What is AOL Broadband you wonder? Well you sign in to AOL just like you did with dial-up, the experience is almost the same so old people didn’t f
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> Facebook is racing to gain the advantage in Africa over rivals like Google and Chinese players including Tencent, in a 21st century version of the “Scramble for Africa.” That is a really scary thing to have read. Perhaps the New York T
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Yes I still don’t know why this feature isn’t in the AWS Console yet. Even Oracle Cloud of all people has this feature in their Virtual Compute.
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What’s even more disgusting is that behind the public’s back all of these guys brag about this sort of behavior. I was reading a book published in 2008 called “Zero Day Threat: The Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber C
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What topics for
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The head of Facebook AI said something a few years ago that AI has “died 4 times in 5 decades due to overpromising”. AI in general is not a bubble, and progress will continue, but I imagine most entrepreneurs are vastly overpromising, after
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Larry Ellison has a lot to teach business people today. I’m willing to concede it might not be that he is a genius, but simply because he’s from an older generation and has practices that are mostly ignored now. 1). The influence of Japanes
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Sorry about your experience. One thing I want to say is that the quality of material put out by University Press publishers is head and shoulders above anything you’d usually find in Barnes and Noble while not insanely expensive like the $1
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I upvoted simply because the title was too good not to.
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Child Porn is a tough definition too. Good example is during the 80's in the heyday of "Satanic Ritual Abuse", which had its ow acronym btw (SRA), and "repressed memories", you had lots of people being hauled off to
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So you actually hit on the correct answer in your response. According to George Friedman, the futurist, it is "to destabilize the region". That might not be the original goal of any mission the US does, but the fact remains, if th
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Your last words are something Bernard Knox, the famous classicist, encountered in the texts of Virgil while hiding in a bombed out villa in the Italian countryside during World War II. """After training as a parachutist, he f
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Sorry about that. Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth
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Would you say it's part of the process though?
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oh man even worse this guy used to work in regulation for the government as part of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Such a clear case of "regulatory capture", or the process where former employees of regulatory agencies
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Wow if anything this is quite worse than the article says. You can read Equifax's original letter in all of its Orwellian double-speak: https://www.regulations.gov/contentStreamer?documentId=CFPB-... It's absolute
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Furthering this, I would use "Duo". It's such a better MFA app. It has lots of better usability features, and should you want they just added iOS back up. By having just your one Gmail account you are making yourself vulnerab
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This looks great and sorry you didn't get more traction on your idea here. First I'd like to say you have a really good idea that's culturally important. Even though growing up I really hated group work, and still do to some
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I'm reading a book now call "Liquidated: an Ethnography of Wall Street" by Karen Ho from Princeton. There is this incredible part at the beginning of the book where the Vice Presidents of Goldman Sachs are training the incomi

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