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by ajju 18y ago
Good stuff. WSGR continues to shine in helping entrepreneurs! WSGR is literally a 'textbook' example of what a good law firm is. In my graduate entrepreneurial finance class, we studied a case where an entrepreneur had to choose between giv
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by ajju 18y ago
Good point. Seems obvious in hindsight although the article also presents another theory: "the monotony of the events of old age compared with the vividness and novelty of the experiences of youth must also be considered."
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by ajju 18y ago
As a corollary, when everything seems old hat to you, you've truly become old. True wisdom maybe maintaining your curiosity and an open mind so you can branch out at any age but knowing when to "split into new branches" and when to "[merg
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by ajju 18y ago
Dekha ek khwaab to yeh silsile hue - that's one of the first songs I remember listening to as a kid! Glad to know our Ambassadors to Somalia were Mr. Bacchan and Dharam Paaji :) No offense taken man and you've definitely been all over the s
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by ajju 18y ago
Well, without even a general idea of what you mean by "some" that information is not very useful.
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by ajju 18y ago
Well, the "as a Somali" part in your first comment tripped me up and I forgot that one can be both Somali and American! I do see your point. Military force is never a solution against extremism bred out of injustice and desperation. Maybe
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by ajju 18y ago
Like I said elsewhere, I may just not be in the right demographic of facebook ad clickers. (Just another way of saying maybe I am getting old :)
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by ajju 18y ago
My surprise is largely based on the recently published articles suggesting their burn rate was something insane like $200M / year. On the other hand if there are developers making $100k+ a month based on ads, I guess I am just the wrong dem
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by ajju 18y ago
There's no doubt that this or any other gun is not going to solve piracy, especially when the root of it is injustice. But the world isn't going to sit back and tolerate piracy either. WWII guns on cargo ships may be closer than you think.
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by ajju 18y ago
What are they making money off? I have never heard of anyone clicking an ad on facebook. (conversely I have met few Internet users who have NOT clicked a Google ad) They could be selling data/information. If so, I hope it's anonymized.
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by ajju 18y ago
America's (and mostly W's) short sighted foreign policies are legend, although Obama seems to be turning that tanker around slowly, as he says. Looks like you guys are stuck between a rock and a hard place if the word Islamists carries the
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by ajju 18y ago
Regardless of any legitimate grievances you may have against illegal fishing or dumping in your waters, hijacking ships full of international goods owned by people and companies having nothing to do with this (hell one of the hijacked ships
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by ajju 18y ago
From the release notes: This is the second bugfix release of the Python 2.6 series. Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being added. Dozens of bugs that were reported since the release of 2.6.1 have been fixed.
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by ajju 18y ago
Hey Chris, Vuzit itself looks like a useful service. What I am not clear on is what value someone would get from writing their own viewer to embed in their website when that seems to be the hardest task they would be "outsourcing" by using
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by ajju 18y ago
I have nothing against this company but 4 of the 6 comments on this story are by accounts created minutes ago and the other two are by accounts who don't have comments on any other story. The story itself is not really clear on what the val
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by ajju 18y ago
With accounts payable of $257B, so the cash doesn't really mean that much and a net ~64B assets-liabilities and all those numbers are from Nov '08
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by ajju 18y ago
Goldman's secret to "success" in this instance is the freshly changed accounting rules (see my comment elsewhere) and in the recent past has been the patronage of ex-Goldman Sachs CEO and now treasury secretary Paulson.
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by ajju 18y ago
Accounting regulations were changed last week [1] so that banks do not have to "mark to market" in "inactive markets" anymore. Since Goldman Sachs is now a bank holding company, they don't have to do this either. What is now a ~2B profit wo
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by ajju 18y ago
Good VCs vet potential investees better than the FBI does. And that is true without the risk of being blamed for enabling a terrorist. Think about how well a VC would vet someone coming in from outside the country. (How well they can vet
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by ajju 18y ago
Actually there is a cap on H1B visas for advanced degree holders (20000/year) and this year this cap was met before the cap for the general category.
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by ajju 18y ago
Thanks for the update. As the above comenter says, apparently Iran is a treaty country but India is not. Nothing against Iran, I'm just referring to the recent anti-Iran rhetoric in the US, but it's definitely sad. Wish Indian bureaucrats w
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by ajju 18y ago
That assumes that VCs have a need to invest in people outside the valley or Boston. VCs would have to travel outside the country to meet potential founders (since they don't yet have a visa) There are enough founders in those two places tha
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by ajju 18y ago
Care to elaborate on how you got through the hoops? Many (or most) of the people taking advantage of such a visa might be those already in the US on student or work visas.
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by ajju 18y ago
Thankyou pg for writing on this topic!
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by ajju 18y ago
Stanford CS is a "family" you don't have to be born into. You can get into Stanford by being good.
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by ajju 18y ago
I have a friend who agreed to being tased as a taser demonstration at some convention. What a dumb thing to do!
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by ajju 18y ago
Can you imagine Mother Jones publishing an article titled "Should Bush Control the Internet?" ? Why is this even a question? Two things: 1) Good luck trying to "shut the Internet down" after declaring an "Internet emergency". 2) Any suffici
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by ajju 18y ago
This looks like the beginning of the end of your average joe paying for computer hardware to use at home. Apple + awesome design will be able to withstand this trend for a while but the starter Dells / Acers / Toshibas of the world are goin
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by ajju 18y ago
I have no information about her specific field, so what follows may not be as applicable but I'll try anyway. You're right, as a masters student, especially one not very interested in research, chance of her becoming a research assistant ar
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by ajju 18y ago
Ph.D or Masters? With the former the chance of a tuition waiver plus some stipend is much higher, especially in the sciences. By far, the best way to find out about such things is talking to graduate students who are already there. Try to g

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