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by Umalu 15y ago
If Steven Levy's "In the Plex" reflects current reality, Google buys very cheap failure-prone HDDs and builds in a lot of redundancy: "Google's first CIO, Douglas Merrill, once noted that the disk drives Google purchased were 'poorer qualit
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by Umalu 15y ago
When I turned 40 I figured my odds of living another 40 years were pretty good. I then figured that if I continued to read one book a week (my average) for the rest of my life, I would read another 2,080 books. That sounds like a lot but re
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by Umalu 15y ago
The article is based on a false dichotomy. Hunter/gatherers farmed, and farmers hunted and gathered. Some did more hunting and gathering, while others did more farming, but for most early societies the labels "hunter/gatherer" and "farmer"
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by Umalu 16y ago
You nailed it. Who is more mockable: the start-up with a 1.0 product that accepts a ton of VC money, or the VCs who threw the ton of money at them? How many hackers with a 1.0 product wouldn't take the VC money in the same circumstances? I'
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by Umalu 16y ago
Buffett: "One of the things we try very hard to do at Berkshire, is to stay within what I call our circle of competence."[1] It would surprise me greatly if the social network sphere is within Buffett's circle of competence, and it would su
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by Umalu 16y ago
If you want a comprehensive anthology of great essays, try: Phillip Lopate, ed., "The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present." http://www.randomhouse.com/book/103559/the-art-of-the-person...
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by Umalu 16y ago
Very funny but, alas, not true. Similar to a famous prank described in snopes: http://www.snopes.com/religion/pi.asp .
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by Umalu 16y ago
I suspect this was done to defeat a union contract that made it difficult to shrink the workforce. The logic behind collective bargaining is "if you don't like it, you have to fire all of us." That's usually a good tactic, as most employers
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by Umalu 16y ago
Caloric restriction requires you to eat food that is denser in nutrients. Many who don't eat much do so because they're poor and can't afford enough food, let alone food that is denser in nutrients. That is why, on average, those with lower
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The Possiplex: Autobiography of Ted Nelson(kk.org)
2 points by Umalu 16y ago|0 comments
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by Umalu 16y ago
I wonder how much of the cat/woman attraction is fueled by the transmission from cat to woman of the toxoplasmosis parasite? There's been speculation that the "crazy cat lady" is really manifesting symptoms of toxoplasmosis: http://www.nyt
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Passing Through: Why the Open Internet Is Worth Saving(bostonreview.net)
1 points by Umalu 16y ago|0 comments
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by Umalu 16y ago
Perhaps Google's tests of gigabit internet to the home (Stanford, future U.S. communities) will help break the broadband logjam: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/bringing-ultra-high-s... .
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by Umalu 16y ago
Bill Gates has been selling millions of MSFT shares each year for years. You cannot look at his most recent sale as evidence of anything other than he is continuing to do what he has been doing all along.
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by Umalu 16y ago
Pro forma financial statements are prepared to show how an anticipated event would change your current financial statements (such as combining your company with another's). If you're not anticipating an event like that, then I would guess t
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by Umalu 16y ago
The 23% figure cited in the article is students ready for college or careers: "only 23 percent of students in New York City graduated ready for college or careers in 2009." I read that to mean going to college or getting a job. This in mean
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by Umalu 16y ago
The rise of baggage fees incentivizes passengers to carry on as much luggage as possible. It seems that the fight for overhead bin space is getting more intense, and it is taking longer to complete the boarding process. I would have thought
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by Umalu 16y ago
The tale of the global financial crisis has yet to be told, but Michael Lewis is piecing it together chapter by chapter, country by country. We live in interesting times. Lewis's prior articles on Greece ( http://www.vanityfair.com/business
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by Umalu 16y ago
Here is a link to it: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-aol-way#-1
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by Umalu 16y ago
I too am not happy about losing the ability to read Kindle books on my iPad. But does Amazon allow Apple (and Google and Sony) to sell their ebooks on Kindle? This is shaping up to be a battle of walled gardens. While the gardens battle, Go
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Life After Facebook: Peter Thiel Cover Story(forbes.com)
2 points by Umalu 16y ago|0 comments
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by Umalu 16y ago
I too think this cannot be true. If Google had 1 hit in his first month, and traffic doubled every month for the 5 years he was there, Google would have had 576,460,752,303,423,000 hits in his last month.
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by Umalu 16y ago
Step 1: Be sure you and your fellow founders are on the same page. United we stand, divided we... Key areas for agreement are (a) decision to sell, and (b) minimum price you'd accept. Nothing will expose cracks in your team's facade like M&
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by Umalu 16y ago
The most interesting aspect of this is that starting salaries follow a bimodal distribution, with one cluster around $50K and another around $165K. This is very unusual. You would think that lawyers would follow a normal distribution, peaki
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by Umalu 16y ago
It sounds from this like you aren't being challenged enough. For some people that is a good thing, as they like the idea of sitting around doing nothing 90% of the day. But it sounds like you want something more, and I expect you will not f
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by Umalu 16y ago
One argument against saying "whatever works for you" is that it makes it appear that you don't have anything else important to do. This can lower your status, particularly with alpha male top gun types (VCs, I'm looking at you) whose minds
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by Umalu 16y ago
This is an impressive list of articles, and includes some of the best articles I have read on these topics. However, seeing so many of these articles in one place made me think two seditious thoughts: (1) Larry and Sergey didn't need a sing
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by Umalu 16y ago
Interesting that more than half of these 23 fonts are from just three designers: Carter, Hoefler and Frere-Jones. Carter alone accounts for 30%. Carter's Georgia, not included here, is an unsung masterpiece of a display font, tarnished a bi
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by Umalu 16y ago
This article argues that with all the raves for Khan Academy we shouldn't lose sight of the value of the in-person teaching experience. If the traditional teaching experience was so great, there wouldn't be a need for Khan Academy to fill.
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by Umalu 16y ago
Apple does not disclose compensation expense. The closest it comes to that is its "selling, general and administrative" expense figure. This is about $128,000 per employee but, to be clear, it includes more than just compensation and so is

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