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by gamble 16y ago
Right now, in the wake of the most significant financial crisis in decades and with the country staring down enormous structural deficits, the most contentious issue is whether it's fair to let tax cuts expire for people making more than $2
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by gamble 16y ago
It's telling that most of the comments on this article are the usual iPhone vs. Android arguments. I just don't see the interest out there for another smartphone platform to survive, particularly one which is so far outside the interface no
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GM Lied: Chevy Volt Is A Conventional Hybrid(insideline.com)
2 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
Can anyone explain what TomorrowNow was doing that got them sued?
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by gamble 16y ago
I've worked for healthcare and education startups. These are very, very hard markets for a startup to tackle. They combine the slow, expensive sales cycle of a large business with the regulation and bureaucracy of essential government servi
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by gamble 16y ago
> Nuclear is technically easyish Not the way it's been done in the US. Every plant was essentially a one-off design, with all the risks you'd expect from a multi-billion dollar construction project with significant R&D aspects. The
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by gamble 16y ago
People who need to run OSX and need multiple cores and lots of RAM or support for hardware expansion cards. Think high-end RAID cards, graphics cards, specialized AV cards, etc. If you don't know you need it, the Mac Pro was not built for y
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by gamble 16y ago
The Chinese can't stop buying bonds if they want to keep their currency depressed relative to the dollar. Moreover, they have no intention of stopping the gravy train - tanking the US economy (further) would only hurt their own largest mark
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by gamble 16y ago
It only works the first time you try it. Afterward, everyone with a stake in the country's direction realizes that having a technocrat who shares your views and has personal access to the administration is a great way to influence policy. T
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Larry Summers and the Subversion of Economics(chronicle.com)
3 points by gamble 16y ago|1 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
I'm sure it won't hurt their chances to have burned Verizon on the Kin and sued their key smartphone provider. WP7 is obviously going to be so good that it won't matter that they'll launch as second banana on the two largest networks in
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by gamble 16y ago
I was being facetious, but I do partly agree with you. A bad name does hurt. Wesabe isn't a good name; it comes off as syllable salad. Mint is a much better name. On the other hand, plenty of successful companies have terrible names. 'Googl
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The Price of German Reunification: The Euro(spiegel.de)
3 points by gamble 16y ago|0 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
If name alone could carry a company, sex.com would be a billion-dollar business.
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by gamble 16y ago
The most bizarre aspect of law school is that students take on enormous debts even though they don't actually learn how to practice law. It isn't the sign of a healthy market when there are a huge number of people who can't afford represe
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by gamble 16y ago
NoSQL has technical merits, but it seems to me like a good chunk of the interest in it is driven by distaste for SQL and the complexity of RDB systems in general. There are a lot of programmers out there who shudder at the thought of delvin
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by gamble 16y ago
There is no country where programmers are as well paid as the US. Even in Canada, where cost-of-living and salaries are normally comparable, programmers are paid at least 20-30% less. I'm not sure why, but it's a dramatic difference. Of cou
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by gamble 16y ago
Absolutely. I don't think many people appreciate just how dedicated Apple is to excellent power management. The iPad is a dramatic example, but Apple has excellent power management across its product lines. Macs have had near-perfect power
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by gamble 16y ago
How many medical tourists are people with no connection to the host country purely there to find cheap care? My impression is that medical tourism is more talked about in America than practiced. The subtext to healthcare discussions in the
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by gamble 16y ago
I've noticed that the more a manager behaves like that, the less likely it is that their own space is set up to put their back to the door.
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Young, Single, Childless Women Earn More Than Men(time.com)
70 points by gamble 16y ago|74 comments
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by gamble 16y ago
I'd pay $30. There's nothing romantic about waiting in an hour-long lineup at the multiplex for the opportunity to cram yourself into a crowded theater and watch a half-hour of commercials and trailers.
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by gamble 16y ago
I'm reluctant to trust 3rd-party traffic numbers, but it this was true, then why? Gizmodo and Engadget all but post identical content. I'm not sure why anyone would prefer one over the other.
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by gamble 16y ago
South Korea was a often-brutal military dictatorship until the late 1980s. The US was there to stop Communism, not foster democracy. If South Korea is a better place today, it's because of the Koreans themselves far more than the US.
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by gamble 16y ago
America has the foreign policy and military structure of an imperial power, but lacks a direct mechanism to collect the tribute that historically supported empires. Instead, the system depends on the US possessing relative economic advantag
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by gamble 16y ago
The business press is like the t-rex in Jurassic Park - they only see motion. Microsoft is big, but not growing.
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by gamble 16y ago
That's a bit of a shame, really. I loved those courses. And they can be very practical. You'd be surprised how many game programmers I've known who don't have the understanding of basic mechanics and the spatial intuition imparted by a coup
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by gamble 16y ago
Ads are the last thing I want to waste limited smartphone screen real estate on. I'll happily pay to avoid ads, but there's no way I'm going to pay for something that forces me to wade through ads. If your app isn't profitable, raise the pr
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by gamble 16y ago
By the time I reached the senior year of my EE degree, I was terribly impressed with how neatly the prerequisite courses slotted into requirements of later classes. It's a shame that the reasoning is opaque until you've already been through
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by gamble 16y ago
It never hurts to try. Check out the faculty website for the area you're interested in. Find out if anyone is recruiting grad students and ask them if they could use an undergrad. Lots of professors will hire undergrads to work in their lab

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