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by dmv 18y ago
Keep meaning to make it to an annual meeting. I'm not sure if this year's circus will be better or worse. Thank you for elaborating on the dividend comment. I certainly was not trying to imply that it was a negative. It just emphasizes t
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by dmv 18y ago
From what I recall of the last analysis on this subject, I don't think he has 'a few billion' in his non-Berkshire holdings. The non-Berkshire holdings are basically the money he has accumulated since personally buying Berkshire Hathaway,
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by dmv 18y ago
He did not say 'buy an index fund'. In an average investing environment, the argument for buying the index and not individual stocks is sound. However, buying in this market -- and to take advantage of the blood on the street -- is the in
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by dmv 18y ago
There is cutting under-performing employees, and announcing that you are doing so (and why). Getting rid of them is smart; bundling that anouncement with potentially high impact other announcements is a reason to say it was throwing them u
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by dmv 18y ago
I am surprised at the fast and loose use of numbers and assumptions[1] put in this article. I expect more from the Financial Times. Even if we accept the numbers to establish that the United States and its citizens have a negative net-wor
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by dmv 18y ago
Except that his starting point was that there are two kinds of currently established "startup" businesses: profitable but indirectly dependent on capital for growth, and not profitable but growing and dependent on capital for life :) This
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by dmv 18y ago
Also, restricted stock grants (like Microsoft adopted) look a lot better. Yes, it hurts to see your "potential grant" value decrease - a 50% drop is a 50% drop - but there is still absolute value (unless the stock becomes worthless).
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by dmv 18y ago
Didn't we see a recruiting tactic like this in the original Thomas Crown Affair ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063688/ )?
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by dmv 18y ago
Citation that people don't hold equities for more than four years? I have held equities for more than four years. Most of my portfolio, actually. Daytrading and churning positions are for people with more time to devote to the market than
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by dmv 18y ago
Until it reaches a certain level of familiarity, it seems awkward to remember and to give a username and an SMS short code to transmit info. On the other hand, the ability to send your contact info to a phone might play well with the typic
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by dmv 18y ago
From the 'Preface' part: "I know and rather like some of the authors, so it actually makes me a little sad to report that fourteen years later, writing them off this way is easier than ever." He knows who they are and what they were about.
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by dmv 18y ago
I like the simple but dramatic screenshot
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by dmv 18y ago
Claude Shannon, a pretty smart person, would probably disagree with you and them. Shannon-Hartley helps to derive a maximum on how much information can be transmitted at a given frequency with a given power bound. If you allow that the po
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by dmv 18y ago
Link (of a link) to the PDF: http://sdch.googlegroups.com/web/Shared_Dictionary_Compressi...
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New multi-page HTTP compression proposal from Google(lists.w3.org)
38 points by dmv 18y ago|13 comments
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by dmv 18y ago
The trouble is not bringing the zip tie -- that's easy to hide and hard to detect. The trouble is onboarding a tool to remove the zip tie, discretely, at the end of the flight. Otherwise, it may be fairly easy to determine who tampered wi
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Braking the virus: refactoring viral codes for slower translation speed(judson.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by dmv 18y ago|0 comments
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by dmv 18y ago
Duplexes sell fairly frequently. For mine, the rent of each unit is greater than the mortgage... As a note, though, home ownership (esp. rental ownership) is more expensive than just the mortgage (and taxes, and utilities). Like any busin
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by dmv 18y ago
Because mortgages remain a great leverage instrument. Find a bank who will lend you 4X your initial deposit with a low fixed (or not...) interest rate, without margin calls, in any other investment vehicles?
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by dmv 18y ago
That is not much of a change, really. The Manhattan Project should be as legendary for the genius wrangling as the results. As seen over previous years, the Dream Team formula for olympics basketball is not just 'put all the superstars to
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by dmv 18y ago
...and the pitch is not the product or the feature, the pitch is the company. I don't know why I read the 'whydoeseverythingsuck.com' entries. You don't sell an investor on the iPhone, you sell them on what makes Apple, Apple. The iPhone
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by dmv 18y ago
Depends on how specific "successful exit" is. Otherwise: http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/07/nowpublic-buys.html ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=242417 )
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by dmv 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_FONE_F3
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by dmv 18y ago
Like the wireless keys used in various cars like the Prius? You can press the start button, as long as the key is detectable somewhere on your person? There are some mods to do that kind of thing (door unlocking, etc) with bluetooth. It w
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by dmv 18y ago
Orson Scott Card used to advocate, at least at a talk I was at a decade ago, write it-throw it away-write it again. Something like "if you wrote it once, you can write it again shorter and better". I've found that to be an important progr
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by dmv 18y ago
Re #1, I presume you mean "switched off" to conserve battery. The thing is, a backlight wouldn't really work with the eInk screen. eInk is an ink technology designed to mimic ink on paper. Like paper, you read the screen by light bouncin
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by dmv 18y ago
Although today’s students find yearbooks old-fashioned, they may one day miss their vanished youth. Long after Facebook and MySpace have become obsolete and the electrons dispersed to the ether, future alumni might just wish for the perman
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by dmv 18y ago
I disagree that it is arbitrary, and with your summary. There is a very real difference between what is labeled "programmer" and "developer". I have been working with a very bright intern lately. He is a very technically proficient progr
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by dmv 18y ago
I used a SCORE counselor for help with a technology product (not website) business plan. He was an old-school business executive, with entrepreneurship experience only at the store franchise level. Extremely helpful. The basic principles
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by dmv 18y ago
A nice thing is that it is elastic and cheap to answer your own question. It is not like a shared hosting plan specifically in that there are no contract terms or hassle to get started. Before you spend too much time, just fire up an inst

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