digz

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by digz 13y ago
Yes, but why is that their responsibility? Had MegaUpload offered to buy the hard drives, or pay for their safe keeping, sure. It's not clear to me why a company should, in perpetuity, be required to keep the data for a former custome
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by digz 13y ago
Hah those guys are the worst. My next car was an Infiniti and the closest dealer was in Marin. I was always given at least as good of a loaner and they'd even reimburse me for bridge tolls.
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by digz 13y ago
I'm probably going to be booed because It's not politically correct to say this stuff... but so what? Why does the NHL only have 5% black players while the NBA only has 17% white players? Is it that white people don't have the necessary he
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by digz 13y ago
That's the problem.. A few vivid examples shouldn't influence a view on this. Data should. A little finance 101: The longer you hold an investment, the higher the return demanded. The riskier the investment, the higher the return demanded
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by digz 13y ago
I don't disagree with the general argument that degradation happens gradually, and 'truly successful' companies are built gradually. That said, I hate statements like this: "A better strategy is to start doing smaller investments with long
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by digz 13y ago
This is a tautological claim. Of course with the benefit of hindsight, we can see that the biggest successes were those significantly changed the world... No way!? That's why they're successes! Lots, and lots of examples of people who s
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by digz 13y ago
I have had the unfortunate pleasure of having to integrate SQL and Excel for my start up. A provider's tool that we need only works in Excel, so I have to bring data from SQL into Excel, process it and then put it back into the DB. Then a
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by digz 13y ago
Yep. Which will marginally decrease the purchase of smartphones, which will marginally decrease the revenue to the french telecoms, which would force jobs to be lost, but <sarcasm>thankfully</sarcasm>, french companies aren
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by digz 13y ago
This was also the idea behind the sequester... somehow good ideas aren't exactly flowing.
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by digz 13y ago
Unions are not terribly interested in overall productivity/output. Their goal is to maximize the value to their constituents (either through wages or working conditions). By decreasing/holding stagnant the supply of labor available, they
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by digz 13y ago
This study was done by a 'non-partisan' group that's heavily backed by unions. Doesn't seem too non-partisan to me when you consider how significantly anti-immigration unions have been over the last century. The data may be valid, but the
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by digz 14y ago
I sent this to my friend who has a phd in physics and is a post-doc at Cambridge and he said it's bogus.