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by brianchu 14y ago
In the US it is very hard to win a libel case (as the plaintiff). Basically, you have to prove that the news agencies intentionally and maliciously libeled you. This is pretty darn near impossible to prove in most cases. If I recall corre
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by brianchu 14y ago
In the same vein, profit by itself does not give you a complete picture. Obviously, the reason some people are still investing in Amazon is because they believe (rightly or wrongly) that Amazon will grow in the future. There are some plausi
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by brianchu 14y ago
Dropbox is easy to copy, right? Virtually no lock-in. There's SugarSync, Google Drive, and SkyDrive. Funny thing is that I've tried them all out and I still like Dropbox, even though it offers less free storage. Dropbox is the fastest out o
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by brianchu 14y ago
As someone who only recently graduated high school, many of the trends are ones I saw as well, but many I also did not see. At my school Google Talk ("gtalk") was as popular as Facebook chat. It is still used, but I personally prefer FB cha
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by brianchu 14y ago
> But there are also plenty of counterexamples of people who didn't have rich parents, didn't live in good school districts, and did it on their own. I know a person just like that, and she paid for school on her own working fast food s
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by brianchu 14y ago
I think some of your points are a little off the mark. A bit about my perspective: I used to be (and still am) interested in business (vaguely defined), and did lots of research and talking to people and I used to see consulting as the best
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by brianchu 14y ago
There are several untrue points in this article: MIT is most certainly not a second tier school for finance/consulting recruiting. It is easily a top tier school that is considered along with Harvard/Princeton/Yale (notwithstanding the inan
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by brianchu 14y ago
Just one note: 45% is the top marginal tax rate. No one is actually taxed such that they lose 45% of their income through personal income taxes. The effective (average) tax rate will be much, much less. EDIT: not to mention lower taxes due
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by brianchu 14y ago
On the contrary, that is precisely why businesses offer gift cards. It's because empirically some X% of gift card value never gets redeemed (the number I've heard is 10%, but that doesn't matter). To a business, selling gift cards without a
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by brianchu 14y ago
I actually don't find it very surprising that game prices haven't moved. Software is essentially a fixed cost affair. So although the cost of making a game is higher than in 1983, so too is the potential audience of the game. The higher cos
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by brianchu 14y ago
I think this proposal is an incredibly naive way of viewing the world. A mob by definition is unpredictable. A mob is inherently incapable of meting out justice, it can only mete out indiscriminate punishment. A mob is susceptible to the wo
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by brianchu 14y ago
The problem is that the "mangling" occurred long ago and have been largely accepted as "settled law." This "mangling" is not a particularly new phenomenon. The 9th and 10th Amendments long ago were widely considered by the courts to be fair
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by brianchu 14y ago
This hardly does the commuting for you. This only lets you follow a car in front of you. If your hands get off the steering wheel, the system reverts to manual. I'll wait until Google's cars get commercialized. Night vision and automated pa
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by brianchu 14y ago
That Quora thread you cite is just speculation and really isn't any sort of evidence. That's no basis for making a conclusion about the technical merits of Google's voice search.
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U.S. now 'totally unified' in opposition to U.N. Internet governance(zdnet.com)
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I don't get this author's reasoning here. Maybe the candidate partied all through school but got his career together after graduating. Maybe the candidate went through school and never really figured out what he wanted to do in life until a
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Surviving Disruption(hbr.org)
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From MySpace to the Daily: The real tragedy in News Corp.’s digital experiments(pandodaily.com)
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by brianchu 14y ago
Without small developers, there would never have been Angry Birds, Tiny Wings, Temple Run, and countless other (when released) indie games. Ditto for apps. I think what you mean to suggest is that Apple should raise the bar for app approva.
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Judge OKs $20 million privacy deal for Facebook's “sponsored stories”(arstechnica.com)
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PhoneScope 3D Gives iPhone Users A High-Res 3D Scanner in Their Pocket(techcrunch.com)
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From what I can gather, it's like any other analytics service, except: 1) You have to do all data analysis and visualization by yourself. 2) There are basic data analysis components built in (exposed through their API). 3) You can build (an
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Native Ads In 2013(techcrunch.com)
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Obviously, I don't disagree that top-end PCs and cutting edge consoles will always be more powerful than mobile devices. But just because there will always be something faster does not mean consumers won't flock to mobile from consoles. The
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by brianchu 14y ago
No. (Betteridge's law of headlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline... ) 2013 aside, as someone who works at an mobile game startup, all of us believe that the future of video gaming truly is mobile. Just think
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by brianchu 14y ago
I'm a Firefox user. Extensions are a big deal for me. I'd love to move to Chrome, but: 1) I use tree-style tabs (tabs arranged in a column at the left) in Firefox since I usually have 10-some tabs open. Chrome used to have this but they dis
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Scientists build tiny structures using Lego-like DNA 'bricks'(latimes.com)
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Understanding the Underlying Economics Problem of your Startup(ekoester.com)
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The article makes a point of comparing the mergers to the broader economic conditions at the time. HP acquired Autonomy and lost money at a time when the computer industry was (and still is) growing. On the other hand, AOL and Time Warner m
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by brianchu 14y ago
UChicago has a well-known reputation for being academic and focused on cultivating a "life of the mind," which is probably why jfarmer neglected specify an answer. And your criticism of his expression of a personal anecdote is unwarranted.

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