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by ahi 14y ago
Private Labelling Rights?
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by ahi 14y ago
Long overdue. There are multiple layers of contractors and subcontractors living off the Big 3; 100M dollar corporations that do nothing but increase the rate on the billable hours. The amount of bureaucratic waste is astonishing.
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by ahi 14y ago
email
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by ahi 14y ago
Bellevue Hospital had (has?) the same kind of operation going on.
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by ahi 14y ago
According to this post, the datacenter people are hauling 55 gallon drums up 17 flights of stairs. Diesel is ~7 pounds/gallon so a 55 gallon drum is ~385 pounds not including the container. Ouch.
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by ahi 14y ago
67.215.65.132 is OpenDNS's "not available" redirector, so you aren't actually pinging the router. It's listed as the ip address for at least one other router that is listed down.
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by ahi 14y ago
> Once they are in a position to increase margins without risk of lost market share That day may never come. edit: Every quarter with margins in the single digits is additional evidence that it won't.
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by ahi 14y ago
>a lot of their spending is on important business stuff (warehouses, kindle, web properties) that will yield returns later This has been the Amazon story basically since founding. At some point, a company needs to yield real returns on
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by ahi 14y ago
If he didn't have an ethical problem working for Lockheed Martin why would he? His point is that IF you have an ethical problem with the work you are doing, it shouldn't be the devaluation of stock options that gets you to stop.
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by ahi 14y ago
Maybe not Mason, but it seems like a reasonable assessment of Lefkofsky.
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by ahi 14y ago
As far as I can tell, the cash in the bank isn't theirs, it belongs to the SMBs. They don't have 3-4 years.
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by ahi 14y ago
It's not easy to liquidate a majority stake in a large public company into cash. At least, not quickly.
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by ahi 14y ago
Not really. There's still money on the table so they are still playing.
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by ahi 14y ago
Pincus and Mason may still be running them, but they both already cashed out big time.
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by ahi 14y ago
All 5 of them.
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by ahi 14y ago
Nevermind a business model; do they even have a product?
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by ahi 14y ago
If you are an actuary you are already a data scientist.
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by ahi 14y ago
His "reasons" are more naive cheerleading. Frankly, I thought Kevin's post was so vapid that a response was unnecessary.
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by ahi 14y ago
"Translation: the ultimate goal of many of these programs is to gum up the system so it slows down the quote feed to others and allows the computer traders (with their co-located servers at the exchanges) to gain a money-making arbitrage op
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by ahi 14y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe
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Posterous blogs using custom domains have been down for 3+ days(twitter.com)
2 points by ahi 14y ago|0 comments
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by ahi 14y ago
In this case, multiple currencies can share the same code base, in the same way The pound and the dollar share most of th same rules Of fiat currency.
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by ahi 14y ago
One of them looks like a database from the student association. Most of their stuff is built by $9/hr work study so no big surprise it's insecure.
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by ahi 14y ago
Sentiment analysis is quite easy given enough source material. However, this type of open source intelligence requires skilled researchers. A lot of the relevant sources are not machine accessible, and the investigative process is driven by
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by ahi 14y ago
You read it, then commented on it. So I think you answered your own question.
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by ahi 14y ago
This shows up every few years in credulous magazines like Popular Mechanics and Wired. It is literally vaporware.
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by ahi 14y ago
There has been repeated discussion of this topic: http://www.economist.com/node/21541391 I thought context would be helpful to readers who have seen those articles before.
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Lawyer Fighting Against Libertarian Cities Project In Honduras Assassinated(m.washingtonpost.com)
18 points by ahi 14y ago|19 comments
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by ahi 14y ago
Not rhetorical.
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by ahi 14y ago
You and I live in very different markets. I have always known who my landlord was, and have asked my landlord to perform inspections. Even if you only rent from property management companies, they are still the target demographic for the ad

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