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by dowjones 9y ago
Let's not forget that both inflation and unemployment were in double digits, Iran was holding Americans hostage, and gasoline rationing was barely in the rear view mirror
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by dowjones 10y ago
something is missing, this isn't close to 100%
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by dowjones 10y ago
You think Travis Kalanick should go to jail? Really? For what?
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by dowjones 10y ago
>> The program does the mind-numbing job of interpreting commercial-loan agreements A computer program that interprets written language -- natural-language processing -- is reliant on highly-advanced, complex algorithms and AI to do t
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by dowjones 10y ago
You're changing the subject. You imply Travis isn't a good CEO because his company is losing money, whereas Steve Jobs was "was a phenomenally effective CEO." At the age of 40, he most certainly was not.
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by dowjones 10y ago
In the early 1990's, JP Morgan developed software tools it packaged and sold as "RiskMetrics." It standardized the way most banks measured and reported their portfolio risk. For example, it was now easy to determine how likel
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by dowjones 10y ago
When Steve Jobs was 40, which Travis Kalanick is now, he had been kicked out of the first company he founded (Apple), and his second company (NeXT) was failing miserably. Pretty much everything that Steve is remembered fondly for -- his suc
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by dowjones 10y ago
And HN and other tech sites are somehow exempt from this phenomenon? With billions of dollars at stake at Uber and its various competitors, is it impossible to think, for example, that Susan Fowler had professional authoring help, or was of