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by crdb 11y ago
TL;DR: it's the McKinsey of this century. From my relatively limited experience in the space: most companies have trouble actually doing anything with their data beyond slicing it a couple of ways [0] and making bad graphs with it; the
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> The public never said that. The "public" is not the people at rallies, not even what people in the street and cafes are saying, but the tally of the vote at the next election, and politicians act accordingly. As you can see f
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by crdb 11y ago
I've seen both: the same rate everywhere, and a location-based delta. The latter was driven by a strong belief in many Bay Area startups and companies that remote work doesn't work well, and that you get more output per head and m
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by crdb 11y ago
Global, REMOTE only, full/part time/interns. I am running a small consulting operation with clients in Australia and South East Asia. Right now, I am signing up new data consulting clients (including a big one in February 2016) an
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by crdb 11y ago
Additional slightly paranoid alternatives: - $1 IT contracts get in the way of crony overcharging, said cronies then provide campaign financing to the right people (never forget Accuweather paying Rick Santorum $50,000 to lobby to stop maki
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by crdb 11y ago
It's a good point that prices in many countries are driven domestically (Australia!), however, I'd add/counter two arguments: - there's a few papers out there (alas, I don't have them) that show that you can go as l
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by crdb 11y ago
It won't because the main value of dug diamonds is rarity, which makes them perfect goods to display your wealth and status. Many of these goods are stored in vaults (some in freeports, areas of an airport carved out for fiscally optim
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by crdb 11y ago
Thought: s/encryption/guns/ Why do politicians not have identical positions on both guns and privacy? The root argument is the same: that citizen can, or can't, be trusted. Yet almost all the pro guns are anti privacy an
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"[T]he public has access, thanks to the media, to news that they know as 'politics' or 'international relations', 'diplomacy', which only present [...] what we call 'the formal view'. The formal
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I worked in several and I disagree. Take the fashion companies (Lamoda, Zalora, Dafiti... I think they're called global fashion group or something now): branded stuff has a 50% gross margin and the private label stuff up to 90%. That k
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by crdb 11y ago
A few years ago, I opened and closed a company there with no problems. Did it again recently (post the various money laundering laws) and it was much more paperwork. When I flew to HK to get the bank account opened, they stressed I might no
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by crdb 11y ago
From my (limited, I Am Not A Lawyer, etc.) understanding: First, it's expensive - you should count a good S$5k SGD/year if you go through an established player (e.g. Hawksford, who you are quoting), maybe a bit less otherwise. Thi
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by crdb 11y ago
A lot of these fake X articles miss an important point: that advertisers do not pay for clicks/listens/impressions/"eyeballs"/"likes"/[insert obvious user action that you actually, in fact, do &q
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Thanks for the recommendation. These (FCH) reviews are awesome. Do you know any other such critics?
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Awesome. At which point did these techniques crossover from Stockhausen etc., or did they independently appear on the "pop" music circuit?
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by crdb 11y ago
Pax Americana started in WWII (which killed over 55 million people) and since then, there has been no global conflict of a similar scale. Cf http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/massacre.html (top result in DDG). Whether y
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by crdb 11y ago
The key is to look at the current budget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_United_States_federal_bud... It can be split into three families of spending: - defense, which benefits you globally via Pax Americana, free
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by crdb 11y ago
It's been a long time and I took a break from music until I could actually enjoy it again. I vaguely remember the track being (I think) "one more time" and so there was the voice/instrumental motif accompanying the rathe
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by crdb 11y ago
I always think of Churchill's 'You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.' when I hear this comment. Critics also take a risk by staking out their opinion, which they know is
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Most arts require, to an extent, some prior knowledge. It is not so much that there are distinctions but that previous study and understanding is required to make the most of any art (including "pop" or "lowbrow"). A gue
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by crdb 11y ago
(time to stick out my ignorant amateur neck for chopping) I'm sorry if this feels like the wrong tone, but how familiar are you with Japanese aesthetics and philosophy? I am only slightly familiar, but my understanding is that kaiseki
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by crdb 11y ago
Which bank would you recommend in the UK?
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by crdb 11y ago
Adding another data point(s) there: I opened two HK companies (with much the same reasoning as you did), about 5-6 years ago and again about a year ago. The first time was smooth and the bank account happened without a meeting (at HSBC) alt
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by crdb 11y ago
To help you answer that literally: according to Simon Mann who did it successfully twice and failed once [1], a successful mercenary invasion and peace-keeping effort in a country like Sierra Leone cost around 1 million GBP in the mid-1990s
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by crdb 11y ago
Whilst I agree with the feeling, I think a lot of BI devs have a tendency to throw the baby out with the bathwater. Decision making is a complex process. The graphs and data fed to the executive via BI are just inputs to the deep net of his
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Yes things are different today, but not so different. For example, he mentions in his books that people enjoy having something to read whilst waiting for a bus. I personally love long wordy ads in the metro or on the bus as they help me pas
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by crdb 11y ago
I talked to an Australian magazine that will remain nameless where the executive on the other side of the table told me their business model was 100% sponsored content. I couldn't tell, from their website. Every single article was a so
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by crdb 11y ago
You're missing one more on the company side beyond TCO: there's definitely an element of multiplicative productivity from not only avoiding duplication of effort, but getting the stuff everybody does done incredibly well via a col
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by crdb 11y ago
> If you spend $600k on four days of advertising anything using any medium (and then quit), the odds are that you will not meet your goals. It doesn't matter if you spend $600k on one thirty second television slot, a full page ad in
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> nothing like the "500k salary and 2 million in stock" articles I hear about happening in SV Amusingly, the only American software engineer I know who is certifiably taking more than 500k USD a year in base (i.e. cash, pre-bon

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