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The Employee Is The Company(byjohnbrandon.com)
3 points by brianchu 14y ago|1 comments
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by brianchu 14y ago
I am proud (or ashamed) to admit that I read the whole thing. The article is pretty dense and it took me a little over two hours to get through it. Around the middle of the article, the author argues that Jewish whites are overrepresented
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Microsoft calls Google 'Scroogle'(news.cnet.com)
1 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 14y ago
No, the reason it's illegal is because it's a fraudulent use of insider knowledge. Just because something has no added value does not make it illegal. EDIT (reply to below): >However, logically, If there was value being added, this coul
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by brianchu 14y ago
That's not front running. Predicting that someone else will buy X (but not being entirely sure of it) is not front running. Actual front running is illegal (the broker sees the order for X coming in and then buys X before the order is execu
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The great unbundling(informationarbitrage.com)
1 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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1906 Earthquake Blended With Today (2010)(shawnclover.com)
2 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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We Are Building The Matrix(carlfranzen.net)
2 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 14y ago
Long-term real-estate play: buy land near urban areas that will be soon submerged (100 year time frame) and near the "new" coast.
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by brianchu 14y ago
Where did you get the idea that "the many billions raised for 'education' went entirely to shore up the teacher's bloated pensions and benefits fund?" (emphasis added) As far as I'm aware, the majority of the money went to prevent spendin
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by brianchu 14y ago
Firstly, the title is linkbait and is a total non sequitur. What's the bluff? Is Reed Hastings lying when he says Amazon is spending $1B? Probably not, as the author admits. Basically the title is meaningless. Secondly, Kirwin (the author)
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Reminder: To be like Steve Jobs, you need to actually be the boss(pandodaily.com)
4 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 14y ago
All else being equal, immortality could very well be a bad thing - overpopulation, over-consumption of resources, massive unemployment, etc. But the problem is that in the real world immortality obviously will not be achieved alone. If soci
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3D Systems Sues Formlabs For Infringement, Kickstarter For Promotion(techcrunch.com)
2 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 14y ago
Is it "guaranteed" to be worse? I'd argue that you really can't say anything with such certainty. If true friendly AI is ever possible (and that is up in the air), such a system would be a better one. Obviously, this is all speculation.
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Digg’s New Business: Finding Apps You’ll Love(businessweek.com)
2 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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The Embarrassment Test(ekoester.com)
2 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 14y ago
Everything except #100 seems pretty safe (for work, at least). Worst is there's some swearing. #33 seems pretty plausible: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/21/color-targets-new-facebook-... . EDIT: added clarification. If you read the parent
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by brianchu 14y ago
The problem is that having conference speakers who happen to be disproportionate in race does not immediately translate to racism. To say that the composition of a group of speakers is "designed to maintain & reinforce the institutional
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Narratives(words.steveklabnik.com)
6 points by brianchu 14y ago|1 comments
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by brianchu 14y ago
The funny thing is that two months ago when I was taking a train in France with some friends, instead of having a quiet car, they had a noisy car. And it was really quiet in there, by our American standards. There were quite a few elderly
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Prepaid or postpaid?: The fight for your cell phone dollars(cnet.com)
2 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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Apple Purchases 1,024 Patents From Rockstar Consortium(tomshardware.com)
1 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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Features of Einstein's Brain Might Explain His Remarkable Cognitive Abilities(sciencedaily.com)
3 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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by brianchu 14y ago
I think there's real potential to take on SongPop. SongPop's interface needs work, and SongPop doesn't really feel as responsive as a native app, since it kind of isn't - it's Flash compiled to native with Adobe AIR.
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by brianchu 14y ago
Dancentinello.com is why everyone should try to own the .com domain for their name, if only to maintain control over your online presence.
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by brianchu 14y ago
1. Terrorists value things differently 2. Terrorists are mentally damaged. 3. Elon Musk values things differently 4. Ergo, Elon Musk is mentally damaged (or more likely to be damaged, or this is an indication that he might be damaged, as is
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Cable companies say they won't disconnect accused pirates(news.cnet.com)
2 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments
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Announcing the prototype Firefox OS Simulator(hacks.mozilla.org)
48 points by brianchu 14y ago|8 comments
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Undercutting Startups, Walmart Launches Food Subscription Service For $7/Month(techcrunch.com)
1 points by brianchu 14y ago|0 comments

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