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by alexqgb 12y ago
And then they go to lives of selecting against people with more gumption. It may be good for institutional stability, but not so great for organizational innovation and adaptability.
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by alexqgb 12y ago
This actually seems kind of brilliant. It's using the still small but statistically signifiant pool of people who are proactive about not being tracked to track the trackers themselves, then selling this information to the the people w
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by alexqgb 12y ago
Germany recovered from WWII very nicely. The same cannot be said of post-Columbian natives.
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by alexqgb 12y ago
One of America's greater shames is the "success" with which it's managed to erase the genocidal history of westward expansion from the collective memory. Spend some time with Indians and you'll get a very different
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by alexqgb 12y ago
You may not find the expression offensive but I assure you, Native Americans have a very different perspective. On a related note, they're not okay with "Redskins" either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR-tb
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by alexqgb 12y ago
Describing someone as being "off the reservation" means they need to turn around and go back where they belongs a.s.a.p. The expression is pejorative because it rests on the idea is that Native Americans are actually okay when the
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by alexqgb 12y ago
Take it from someone in a position to know: this arrangement is not as great as you make out to be.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Most people think of "reasonable expectation of privacy" as meaning "what can I reasonably expect the police to respect given all they're technically capable of?" Obviously, the boundaries of this interpretation are
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by alexqgb 13y ago
"Rules of the Game" is among his best posts. http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/the-design-game... And if you have the money, New City is well worth the price. http://www.amaz
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by alexqgb 13y ago
A failure to accept the mere possibility of institutional corruption in free market enterprises was the defining failure of the Greenspan era. Regulators working through the '90s and the '00s could not have turned a blinder eye to
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Indeed. All to often people mean freedom for me . Like, for example "I should be free to impose my religion on others if that's what my religion says I should do." Theoritically, the principle of reciprocity should preclude
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by alexqgb 13y ago
"The one group of people Agassi seemed in no hurry to hire were actual managers with car-industry or infrastructure-building expertise. 'We had no automotive experts,' explains one person familiar with the inner workings of t
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by alexqgb 13y ago
"There are some bad apples, but there are also many who genuinely believe that they are doing a service for the market." Believing they are doing a service and actually doing a service are two different things. I agree it's i
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Um, right. And how did the law intend to "encourage inventors to share their ideas"? That's right, by protecting the investments made in their origination. That's it.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Yes, and moreso to people who are not, themselves, terribly careful readers. Savvier folks can read a string of knowledgable corrections to a point that (apparently) wasn't made then work out what must have happened easily enough.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Yes, but exponentially moreso when he becomes the public face of the company and (to some degree) the arbiter of its corporate culture.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Actually, the dude (heavily) edited his original post after a bunch of people pointed out that he didn't know what he was talking about.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Votes are private. Donations are public. That's a material difference. It's the public support that's really got people frosted. That's what makes it part of the public persona that you can't just leave at the doo
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by alexqgb 13y ago
This is exactly what Gregg Steinhafel (Chairman, President, and CEO of Target) discovered the hard way back in 2010. http://consumerist.com/2010/08/05/target-ceo-explains-suppor...
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Kickstarter specifically prohibits equity deals with backers, as allowing them would place them in the crosshairs of the SEC. FYI.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
This isn't about gay marriage, per se. It's about carving out exceptions to the general writ of legal equality for all guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Oh, sorry, didn't mean to break your reply. I felt my remarks got a bit emotional but I suppose that's par for the course when it's your own family that's being attacked. Regarding Thiel: I'm not defending the guy.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Etc.? More like etc. etc. etc. etc. And as the folks working with Greenwald have noted, there's plenty more to come. The easier to digest stuff is what's appeared to date. The more complex programs - i.e. the ones that take more t
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by alexqgb 13y ago
I don't mind money going towards Libertarian asshattery because frankly, I'm happy to see it crash and burn as publicly and spectacularly as possible. Or not. In which case I'm prepared to change my views. But I'm not pr
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Sure, but even the open web has some basic ground rules. What what special about Prop. 8 (as opposed to virtually any other issue) is that it represented a direct attack on the 14th Amendment - which is one of the basic pillars of our democ
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by alexqgb 13y ago
"Private, personally held beliefs" Personally held, yes. But private? Hardly. Indeed, that's the problem. He made his personal beliefs very, very public. That would be less problematic if he wasn't blocking the basic rig
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by alexqgb 13y ago
If the CEOs politics are public, they follow him into the office whether he wants them to or not. It's one of the (many) burdens of leadership.
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by alexqgb 13y ago
Uh, there's a big difference between simply "working for" a company and being the CEO. Do you honestly not recognize this? Or were you deliberately downplaying the nature of his role as deliberate act of spin?
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by alexqgb 13y ago
That's a viable view in a perfectly flat organization. Mozilla may be closer to flat than most. But it's not flat enough. A guy who would take a public stand against the 14th Amendment has already provided others with cause to dis
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by alexqgb 13y ago
I'm glad you pointed out that you don't live in California. If you did, and had seen the actual campaign, you would know that it was one of the shrillest, most dishonest, most deceitful political campaigns in living memory (which

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