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by dharmon 8y ago
Interesting. It seems the only way to get a movie made that's not a studio-originating project, with people who _you_ want to work with, is 1) get your own financing (like DiCaprio schmoozing the 1MDB guy to fund Wolf of Wall Street )
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by dharmon 8y ago
And I said, "What about coffee at Waffle House?" She said, "I think I remember the swill, And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it." And I said, "Well that's the one thing we've got."
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by dharmon 8y ago
I remember reading Da Vinci Code (awful book) and he (the protagonist) made this claim, that there was a "Great Demasculation" to remove penises from statues. I tried looking it up but couldn't find anything to support that t
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by dharmon 8y ago
> At least on the small business jet flights I've been on, the actual flight is less comfortable. The interior has nicer decor, but it's also cramped and noisy. But in this case you have to compare U.S. domestic business class
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by dharmon 8y ago
Haha, sorry. I mis-read your question and went waaaay too involved. :) As a Buffett-head, I can't immediately think of another time when he has turned around on a stock so fast. (not counting partnership days, where he would flip stock
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by dharmon 8y ago
From reading his shareholder letters, watching a boatload of his talks and interviews on YouTube, and most importantly trying to re-create his thinking on most of his investments, from his early partnership days up until about IBM. (he is a
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by dharmon 8y ago
He's been super interested in the future of "the cloud" for some time now[1]. He is also a voracious reader. Most likely after he purchased his shares he continued reading and thinking about the state of things and where they
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by dharmon 8y ago
Or at a minimum, increase the "long-term capital gains" holding period from 1 year to somewhere around 3 to 5 years. This maintains the lower rate for people genuinely investing for retirement.
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by dharmon 8y ago
Here's someone who knew him very well's personal tribute: http://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2018/11/a-loving-tribute-to-ri...
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by dharmon 8y ago
If this presentation of Lisp and model of computation clicks with you, you owe it to yourself to read Structures and Interpretations of Computer Programs (SICP). The Abelson from the OP's lecture is the co-author, and the presentation
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by dharmon 8y ago
I wonder if he had to look up what the name of that Jimi Hendrix album was? :)
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by dharmon 8y ago
> By company-ending I mean Facebook would never recover from the consequences of so much user data being dumped online for all to see. It would permanently end the company. Shareholders should be worried. We just don't know how mu
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by dharmon 8y ago
Not sure if you are asking in earnest, but bone damage from a knife would suggest the skeleton was from a murder victim. They can tell skeletons significantly older than 1000 years were from someone, for example, killed by a tiger, due to t
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by dharmon 8y ago
I tell people you only get one freebie when having a kid: giving them a sensible name. Don't give them a dumb name that they have to introduce themselves with for years to come. The only acceptable follow-up sentence to "Hi, my na
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by dharmon 8y ago
I appreciate you editing to acknowledge that Gates does, in fact, know a _lot_ about these topics (the main point I was trying to address with the parent post). I was thinking of your example (and others in the WHO) as exceptions when I sai
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by dharmon 8y ago
Gates also has no educational training in Computer Science / Engineering nor Business, and he's seem to have done pretty well in those areas. :) There's plenty of room to throw rocks at billionaire philanthropists, but Gates
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Target will also price-match.
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by dharmon 8y ago
Before people start jumping on Mr. Rad and getting hung up on whether or not you should freelance first, work at a startup, big company, etc, I want to make a meta-comment. Too often I see high expectations from posts like these or biograph
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by dharmon 8y ago
The problem is they need a story like self-driving cars to maintain the (inflated) valuation long enough for existing investors to get out. Taxi rides alone are not nearly enough. I think they are aware that they don't have a chance at
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by dharmon 8y ago
I _think_ he calls them pernicious because of the ambiguity. 2,3,4,12 is also a "subsequence of natural numbers", but probably not what was meant by 2,3,...,12. You might counter that ... means the complete subsequence, but what d
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by dharmon 8y ago
And he's hilarious! I thought he stole the show in "Trainwreck".
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by dharmon 8y ago
In case you ever feel like its a waste of time, I, for one, appreciate your posts with notes + numbers. Its so easy for conversations about these things to get derailed about, oh, I dunno, flying cars, that its great having your post with h
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by dharmon 8y ago
At around $1B negative cash flow a quarter, with a little over $3B in the bank, they _have_ to do this. I'm not a bond expert, but the debt markets seem tapped out for them, and another stock offering wouldn't look so good either
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by dharmon 9y ago
Billy Wilder told the story of adapting Stalag 17. Co-writer Blum showed up the first day with a copy of the original play and said “I thought we could use this.” To which Wilder showed him how they could use it: by dropping it on the floor
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by dharmon 9y ago
I love what I assume is a winking "pale blue dot" reference in the quote at the end.
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by dharmon 9y ago
_sigh_ Several suspicious paragraphs spent claiming that they have no dog in the TSLA race, followed by yet another fanboy review. The car had outside air blowing on your leg? Dude, if I bought a Kia with that issue I would promptly return
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by dharmon 9y ago
And think about the timing. Just before Spotify wants to go public? Nobody wants to go public with a pending lawsuit, so added pressure to settle.
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by dharmon 9y ago
I think you should really think about the old joke: "Two economists were walking down the street. One looked down and said, 'look, there's a $20 bill on the sidewalk!' The other, without even looking down said, 'No
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by dharmon 9y ago
I'll give you my 3 favorites of the year: - The Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard. The shooting of Garfield is the framing of this book. It covers a time period I knew such little about (~1880s), so I learned so much reading
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by dharmon 9y ago
Literally the 7th sentence points out that Spiegel is older than him.

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