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The Feds’ Battle Against Huawei(wired.com)
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by achow 7y ago
Really bizarre that I now only see 26 ratings in the Amazon page, as opposed to 113 that I saw earlier. https://www.amazon.com/Surrounded-Idiots-Behaviour-Understan... Anyone know what is happening? Is that the sudden burst
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by achow 7y ago
Couldn't help but check that it is rated 4.6/5 (113 reviews) in Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/Surrounded-Idiots-Behavior-Effectivel... Excerpt from one of the top review.. The book really helps you to understand
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by achow 7y ago
Twitter Revolution: - 2009 Moldova civil unrest, claiming that the elections, which saw the governing Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) win a majority of seats, were fraudulent - 2009–2010 Iranian election protests, also
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by achow 7y ago
Russia, FB and POTUS?
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by achow 7y ago
> The members of Away’s board say they feel as if they fell victim to management by Twitter mob. Interesting times. Social media is dictating countries, and companies governance. Of course, before internet there was media (newspaper etc
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by achow 7y ago
The entity behind it: https://sahamati.org.in/ Nandan Nilekani (cofounder of Infosys and one of the main architect of India digital payment movement - UPI [0]) launched Sahamati (='consent'), a private not for pr
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by achow 7y ago
It is true that Jef Raskin set the vision for Macintosh as an extremely friendly and approachable computing machine. However, there is other anecdote which says.. Andy Herzfeld, one of the Macintosh’s developers, says that Raskin is “much
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by achow 7y ago
Water batteries: Pumped hydro storage 'the unsung hero' of the US grid. https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
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Interesting. CEOs have started fearing Softbank now? CEO Alex Garden has restricted communication between his leadership team and SoftBank's investment team and other outside investors. Some sources speculated that Garden was trying t
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by achow 7y ago
Hindsight is 20/20. On a Pitchdeck it may have appeared disruptive (therefore right up Softbank's alley), and not very far from Travis Kalanick's Cloud Kitchen. “Pizza was our prototype,” Zume CEO Alex Garden told TC’s Brian
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by achow 7y ago
Pretty cool! After tweaking a little bit of settings (reducing height settings to low), get a very interesting graphics for Asia+Europe - quite a few majestic mountain ranges there. Coffee cup result: https://www.zazzle.com/
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by achow 7y ago
>..these companies were recently bought by private equity firm KKR Co Not KKR. In 1995, Borden was acquired for $2 billion by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), which proceeded to sell off pieces of the company to various buyers.
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by achow 7y ago
At Microsoft itself. If a manager has $100 budget for hikes and rewards, she has to invisibly stack rank to distribute it with some logic (and not give $10 to each in 10 people team)[0]. Stack ranking was not about firing at Microsoft (or a
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by achow 7y ago
This is made quite clear at the end, and makes sense. They are doing this exercise for themselves and are sharing with others. Our job as a seed stage investor is to look for brilliant entrepreneurs when their success is not yet obvious.
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by achow 7y ago
I'm with you on the sentiment. But comment on the rationale behind the sentiment.. > Computers only perform a specific set of actions, and it doesn't matter how you put them together.. More or less everything in this world is
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I've never worked through a night. The only times I worked more than 40 hours in a week was when I had the burning desire to do so. ...never...
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Bose seems to think otherwise.. https://developer.bose.com/bose-ar There seems to be some opportunity, maybe not at the same level as something with visual interface, but voice interface (hands eyes free) has lot of untappe
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by achow 7y ago
For non-visitors (locals), who I assume would be bulk of riders, installing of Uber or another app is same. Once they become habituated to one app, they would be very sticky.
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by achow 7y ago
HBR has a case study on the exact same topic - dated 2017 [Accounting Turbulence at Boeing] Unlike its rival Airbus, Boeing used a practice called program accounting to record its commercial aircraft expenses since the 1980s. https:/&
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> Now the guy who sold him the electronics just made a whole bunch of money not only from your friend, but also from the a batteries buddy. That is how things work, and nothing wrong with that. If not money then a favor got chalked up
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by achow 7y ago
Only way Google perhaps can take a lead in Cloud is if they invent a new paradigm - quantum cloud or something (just to illustrate the point). That is, change the game and not change themselves for the current game. Google just can't c
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The overwhelming sentiment in comments seems to be dismissive. However, I can see how one day "AI" can easily generate automatically a very functional User Interface for enterprise software - think Oracle, SAP etc. Point it to a D
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Like what Unsplash did? Introducing Unsplash for Brands. A new model for imagery and brand building. https://medium.com/unsplash/introducing-unsplash-for-brands-...
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Care to share some :-)
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http://archive.is/6dfLd
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by achow 7y ago
Isn't 'pointing at' little nebulous. I may have setup my camera to point at my backyard, but some portion of neighbor's yard may showup in the corner. If I adjust the camera to eliminate this neighbor's yard then th
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From the people who are not familiar with studies conducted in the software usability labs, quite a common question is - Aren't test participant aware of the very visible camera pointed at them and the monitor and therefore they would
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by achow 7y ago
Is this related? Merck has a new IT Head - joined on Nov 2018. The attack happened on Jun 2017 (i.e., 1.5 years earlier). Jim Scholefield - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimscholefield/ Great pedigree: Nike, Coca Co
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by achow 7y ago
All these book publications seems to be orchestrated around starting of Disney+. Recently Bob Iger (Disney CEO) published his autobiography.. Ride of a lifetime https://www.amazon.com/Ride-Lifetime-Lessons-Learned-Company..

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