echair

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Apple's profit up 26 percent on iPhone boom(ap.google.com)
1 points by echair 18y ago|0 comments
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Don't shake hands with men from the north of England(guardian.co.uk)
6 points by echair 18y ago|7 comments
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Graphs of trends in VC investment (down 16% last quarter)(techcrunch.com)
4 points by echair 18y ago|0 comments
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Their Own Worst Enemy(theatlantic.com)
1 points by echair 18y ago|0 comments
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by echair 18y ago
Because you can't pack enough different institutions within a sufficiently small radius. Parents want 5 year olds to live at home. They're ok with 18 year olds not.
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Jobs responds to outrage over MacBook's missing FireWire(appleinsider.com)
16 points by echair 18y ago|24 comments
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by echair 18y ago
Because colleges select applicants by aptitude, and elementary schools by proximity.
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by echair 18y ago
it is possible that Apple sold as many (or almost as many) personal machines as Dell, and more than any other manufacturer Indeed. This article http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/14/technology/moritz_apple_anno... says they now have 17.6% re
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Apple now has 9% US market share, volume growing at 6x the industry average(apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
22 points by echair 18y ago|34 comments
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by echair 18y ago
Sounds like a description of every government employee in a third world country.
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by echair 18y ago
Why do we need to do more than add a few additional regulations limiting the risks banks can take?
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War’s Irrational Motivators(armedforcesjournal.com)
1 points by echair 18y ago|0 comments
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Einstein's Mistakes(latimes.com)
14 points by echair 18y ago|2 comments
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Ncomputing scores big Indian deal for $70 thin-client computers(venturebeat.com)
3 points by echair 18y ago|0 comments
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by echair 18y ago
The closest thing is the Fields medal.
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by echair 18y ago
...while Apple is already working on whatever comes next.
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by echair 18y ago
Is there even one person who's currently living this way?
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by echair 18y ago
Dziuba is pretty damn smart I've never seen any sign of this. Can you give me an example of something especially insightful that he wrote?
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by echair 18y ago
I don't know if I trust someone who doesn't know the difference between its and it's...
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by echair 18y ago
I never thought it was funny, but those who did may not like it so much in a bad economy. It won't be amusing to hear someone always being negative when all the other news is negative already.
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by echair 18y ago
They must have read the Spiegel article about how the US had lost its dominant economic role.
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by echair 18y ago
This is a victory for the stingy saver Not if he has his savings in stocks. In fact, if he followed the conventional wisdom and put (100 - age) percent of his assets in stocks, a 40 y.o. stingy saver just lost 5% of his savings today alo
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Tom Perkins's (of KP) Giant Yacht Sails to San Francisco(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
11 points by echair 18y ago|22 comments
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by echair 18y ago
"The findings kill the suggestion some of the earliest Americans came from Europe." How exactly do they do that?
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by echair 18y ago
It seems like he invented this myth in order to debunk it. Surely everyone knows the 19th century was dominated by cartels. If people only know two things about Teddy Roosevelt, the second is "trust busting."
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by echair 18y ago
It means about as much as any other English word. I.e. it's not mathematically precise, but it does convey something.
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by echair 18y ago
I would not be surprised if everyone turned out to have nascent cancers. As we learn more about human biology, having cancer seems to be less and less a binary thing.
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Save the Males(entertainment.timesonline.co.uk)
51 points by echair 18y ago|53 comments
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Massive floating generators to provide power and food to Japan(timesonline.co.uk)
5 points by echair 18y ago|1 comments
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by echair 18y ago
Tip: the more personally you are involved in some dispute, the more careful you have to be to be crisp and understated when describing it. This would be much more convincing if it weren't so rambling. As it is, I read it and think "I don't

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