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by akd 17y ago
Actually, unalone, I think your quip is correct... I think entrepreneurs are largely wasting money, and politicians are mostly leeches. But it's the exceptions that make the whole enterprise worthwhile -- one Google makes up for the money
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by akd 17y ago
I'm not quite sure as to what your preferred alternative is. You excoriate Kennedy for not having had a "real job," so the mere fact that he is a Senator, rather than the way he conducts himself as a Senator, is what gets your goat. So you
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by akd 17y ago
Yes, you cannot attribute economic growth to Sen. Kennedy. That's why you have to look beyond the numbers to see his impact. You're incorrect if you think that the peak of his influence was in his later career, when the glamour of the Kenne
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by akd 17y ago
Useless companies which simply take from the productive sectors of the economy are also the rule, with the few amazing companies being the exception. You can't have a new Google or Voting Rights Act every week.
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by akd 17y ago
Income inequality is the wrong metric - the right metric is real income for the bottom 10% of America in 1950 vs. today. Of course there are many factors at work, but rising income inequality isn't bad if it's bringing everyone up. Also kee
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by akd 17y ago
I'm as sick of politician hatred by the peanut gallery. Think back 250 years in this country's history, when blacks were slaves, non-landowners couldn't vote, and women weren't sent to school. The difference between that world and today's w
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by akd 17y ago
For 50 years Ted Kennedy has been the US government's leading defender of the poor. If he hasn't impacted your life, you probably aren't poor.
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by akd 17y ago
In fact, complications in calculating sales tax cause many businesses to outsource their entire payments to something like PayPal. If instead they had a number of competing sales tax calculators and other services, one can imagine a payment
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by akd 17y ago
Detroit mallrats don't make as interesting of a read, but definitely the behavior here (sleeping in a store bed) is a whole new level.
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by akd 17y ago
Because IKEA is a global brand, they need to maintain safety and pay standards that wouldn't scandalize their Western customers, which is why their Chinese factories can't produce for the same prices as local competitors.
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by akd 17y ago
This question exists because humans demand a cause for each effect, and a "responsible party" for every tragedy. Sometimes, things are just "accidents." A colleague of my dad's tripped and fell while walking down a set of three stairs,
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by akd 17y ago
Keeping software hosted is active. Let's say he waited until his domain name expired... then he could say "I'm not spending the $10" and let it go offline, and people would excoriate him then. He just chose to rip the Band-Aid off at once i
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by akd 17y ago
The shot fraction graph doesn't hold any water. Ray Allen's shot fraction is likely to be the highest when his teammates are performing poorly -- thus he has to take on more of the burden himself. The effect may not be due to him at all, bu
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by akd 17y ago
Are you serious?
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by akd 17y ago
You can live in a shared apartment in East Palo Alto, cook all your food at home, buy a used car, and select free entertainment options. No need for drastic actions.
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by akd 17y ago
Or, they didn't appreciate you screwing with them when they're already agreeing to deliver your letter for just 44 cents and 3 lines of address.
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by akd 17y ago
The worst one was .museum. Just a way to shake down big companies like Coca-Cola who now have to go buy coke.eco, cocacola.eco, drinkcoke.eco...
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by akd 17y ago
If you can easily get a 10% return on investing every year, you can make MUCH more than $10 million by getting a job at a hedge fund :)
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by akd 17y ago
The very fact that this question has been asked demonstrates the reason that the biggest companies are founded by people who are truly "not in it for the money." Most of the numbers here are under $10 million. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Michae
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by akd 17y ago
Friendly FYI: That's "Allen" wrench.
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by akd 17y ago
Measuring "glory days" by total spending is a red herring. I can think of a lot of places where spending is going down, but opportunities are going up, as value is taken away from the big dogs by entrepreneurs. Imagine all of Microsoft Offi
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by akd 17y ago
Not surprising -- MG Siegler has definitely earned a reputation as either a poor or lazy thinker.
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by akd 17y ago
I've already had a site (forget which one) refuse to serve up its content until I turned off ad blocking. Of course this could get into an arms race involving Flash etc. which would be horrible.
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by akd 17y ago
A friend outfitted his apartment with IKEA and it took 4 MIT engineering students 3 hours to complete it all.
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by akd 17y ago
I think the people you're talking about are nonrepresentative. There is a vast number of people who have not installed any apps, and even more who have apps but don't use them. Very few people see the iPod touch as an economical substitute
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by akd 17y ago
where can I read about this architecture / overengineering?
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by akd 18y ago
They use a company called an ODM (Original Design Manufacturer). These companies can, for different prices, do everything from design a tablet PC off a single phone call to simply building something exactly to your CAD drawings. This is why
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by akd 18y ago
For a hyperbolic analogue, what % of death row inmates do you think are innocent? I'm guessing less than 1%. I find the concept of that 1% very disturbing though.
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by akd 18y ago
If it troubles you, it's still very easy to avoid being surveilled by most of these systems. Pay cash instead of using a credit card. Don't use EZ-Pass. Turn off your phone when you're not using it. Yes, it is inconvenient, but trading priv
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by akd 18y ago
This analysis has two major problems. The first is that housing ads are not a good proxy for total population using Craigslist; different cities tend to have different "velocities of housing" (how many times people move per year). He should

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