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by ganeumann 11y ago
To take an example at the far end of the spectrum: in 1989 WPP (the world's largest owner of advertising agencies) bought The Ogilvy Group (a very large ad agency) for $864 million ($1.7 billion in today's dollars.) Ogilvy was not
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by ganeumann 11y ago
I know about the landing on the Hudson (my apartment faces the Hudson and I saw it happen), but this paragraph still didn't make sense to me. What solution did the pilots push? Sullenberger, the pilot on that flight is both a glider pi
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by ganeumann 11y ago
Sure, but bank size falls off very quickly after the biggest four. Compass is about 3% of the size of JPMorgan by assets (source: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/03/03/ranking-the-50-big... ), and 10%
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by ganeumann 11y ago
BBVA barely had a footprint in the US before the Simple acquisition so it wasn't insurance, it was one of the cheapest ways to enter the US market.
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by ganeumann 11y ago
I like the longer articles in the New Yorker. The charm of articles like that is becoming familiar with a milieu, not the notional theme of the article. Learning about a small but dedicated subculture by reading an interesting story is more
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by ganeumann 11y ago
I need friends like Aaron
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by ganeumann 11y ago
Saying the government will do what it wants is a vast oversimplification of how the government works. The government doesn't speak with a single voice. The FBI can want one thing, the judge in this case another, a different judge somet
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by ganeumann 11y ago
Words I dread hearing when I arrive home from work: "daddy, can you install a mod for me?" Usually the first half hour is getting rid of all the crapware they were tricked into installing as they tried to get the mod themselves.
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by ganeumann 11y ago
Yes, this is a good strategic move by Microsoft. All of my kids have Google apps accounts that their schools set up for them. They are required to use Google docs, etc., so they can work on stuff at school and at home. I assume that a good
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by ganeumann 11y ago
I would buy a robot that could fold clothes, but that turns out to be a really hard problem ( http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-robots-still-cant-fold-your-... , although there seems to be some progress in the lab: http:&
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by ganeumann 11y ago
That may be true of industrial systems, but human systems bite back. If you devise a strategy for the stock market or the startup market to make more money that anyone else, people who get wind of that strategy can (and will) devise a count
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by ganeumann 11y ago
About 3.4 days of US government spending.
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Google and NASA Say Their Quantum Computer Finally Works(popularmechanics.com)
3 points by ganeumann 11y ago|0 comments
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by ganeumann 11y ago
This, obviously, does not make sense. The entire $45billion would not have been given over to taxes.
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by ganeumann 11y ago
Greenspun would read the worst into whatever Zuckerberg did here, as seen by him starting the post criticizing the timing of Zuckerberg's marriage. Why not assume the best? Zuckerberg said he planned to give away 99% of his wealth to h
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Mining a VC(bugra.github.io)
1 points by ganeumann 11y ago|0 comments
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by ganeumann 11y ago
"Among the redeeming qualities of our species is that we play. Indeed, we surround ourselves with toys, and we remain preoccupied with them throughout life… We display almost inconceivable creativity as we tinker with our playthings. T
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by ganeumann 11y ago
This research: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1059217 "...advertising was positively linked to brand prices in manufactured food products. Prices of weakly advertised manufacturer brands, private labels and generic p
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by ganeumann 11y ago
Absolutely true, but so what? The first banner ad had a click-through rate of like 70%. Novelty works. That's why ad agencies have never gone away: they are tasked with doing something new. But novelty can exist within a specific frame
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by ganeumann 11y ago
There's plenty of data-driven academic research to back you up. It's not very interesting to read, but the stuff I've gone through confirms that brand advertising does work (although maybe not in the way you think it does. So
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by ganeumann 11y ago
It depends on how you define the market. Advertising as a whole has grown no faster than GDP over the last century, yet specific sectors have grown much faster over that time (at the expense of other sectors.) Twenty years ago online advert
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by ganeumann 11y ago
I think you imply this, but to make it explicit: IBM mainframes run some instructions in microcode, others are native. The ones that are native are not slowed down by the existence of the microcode engine. IBM analyzed programs-in-use to
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Network of ‘Scouts’ Spreads Money Through Silicon Valley(wsj.com)
76 points by ganeumann 11y ago|22 comments
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by ganeumann 11y ago
The duplicate detector is a bit odd. Not sure what its rules are, but it doesn't always seem to work. One example (only noticed this because I wrote the linked blog post.) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8860103
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Large Companies Game H-1B Visa Program(nytimes.com)
400 points by ganeumann 11y ago|392 comments
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The Rise and Fall of .Ly(priceonomics.com)
3 points by ganeumann 11y ago|0 comments
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Outsider vs. Disruptor(avc.com)
2 points by ganeumann 11y ago|0 comments
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With G.M.O. Policies, Europe Turns Against Science(nytimes.com)
2 points by ganeumann 11y ago|0 comments
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by ganeumann 11y ago
Actually, he is currently a lawmaker. He is running to be the person who executes the laws. Of course, this just makes his position worse.
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by ganeumann 11y ago
Just don't bring it to school with you.

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