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by gmarx 10y ago
"has never been less inviting" how so? I'd say the climate was unusually inviting from about 1965 to the early eighties. Then the AIDS panic started. Eddie Murphy (I think) even had a routine about how eventually there would
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by gmarx 10y ago
Possibly and thank you for using that metaphor properly. The article says "There’s another gorilla in the room:" No!no!No!!!! The 500 lb gorilla sits anywhere it wants. The elephant in the room is what people don't want to ta
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by gmarx 10y ago
A partial answer is that it will hurt in the following way. The main reason Theranos got so big, both as a company and (especially) as a story, was that Holmes was presented as the female Steve Jobs. In future investors might ask themselves
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by gmarx 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Slim
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by gmarx 10y ago
There is a danger Uber could lose the rights to its own name if it becomes the common term for this in the language. It's happened before. Its why Kleenex makes such a big deal about being a "facial tissue" and Q-tips refer t
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by gmarx 10y ago
Does anyone else experience mild anxiety reading stories about Bay Area real estate? Long ago I decided it can't be wise to buy instead of rent. Logic and math argue this must end and yet it seems there is always another "sucker&q
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by gmarx 10y ago
In the ad business, having won that award, I get it. Clients can be seduced with "we have this award winning guy". I also get it when people get paid more to take on more responsibility and stress. But with someone like Mayer, the
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by gmarx 10y ago
When I read these stories I always wonder how one goes over that wall from where people try to talk you down $10k suring salary negotiations to thinking they have to do everything possible to get you to work for them. Even at a lower level
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by gmarx 10y ago
Return to gold standard and have process for rolling back transactions if the gold doesn't match
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by gmarx 10y ago
I disagree. I have encountered many managers whose main problem was expecting that people could read their minds and/or valuing ambiguity so they could change their minds frequently. One of them referred to this as a positive, the abil
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by gmarx 10y ago
It is often used this way similar to the word "unprofessional". But, in the context of a manager of a muti-continent team could be quite legit and easy to define in more detail
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by gmarx 10y ago
There is a famous romantic comedy from the Soviet Union (I forget the name) based in this premise- a drunk guy gets off an airplane in the wrong city, goes to "his" apartment (identical) and his key even fits the door so he enters
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by gmarx 10y ago
I did Dollar Shave once then ordered direct from Dorco and now use Harry's. It's so difficult to do comparisons because you tend to use the blade for different lengths of time.
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by gmarx 10y ago
Granted, people should not be distracting class clowns during a conference. The line about the daughter? It's impossible to tell if it was funny without knowing what the speaker had just said. This entire post appears to be a statement
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by gmarx 10y ago
I worked on a government contract years ago. The government employees always told me that their pay was better than it seemed because of the amazing benefits including a great vacation policy. I never made a spreadsheet to test this asserti
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by gmarx 10y ago
Clearly you do not have a medical background and either ignored or did not comprehend what I wrote. You offer no counterargument. You are simply restating their vague argument more succinctly and asserting it is reasonable.
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by gmarx 10y ago
Obviously people are looking to cash in. The lack of details on this one is expected. What could be the starting situation in which a man is on medication for something (unstated) and his blood lipids and blood sugar come back normal when t
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by gmarx 10y ago
cybersquatting angers me. This crap is wrong and the article is focusing on what a clever prognosticator he is. No, he is a scumbag
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by gmarx 10y ago
The women who put their heights and remark they don't know why it matters? They see height in all the profiles they view (i.e. men's) and figure they should put it in their own even though they don;t get. Men do this because for a
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by gmarx 10y ago
Crap like this bugs me. Because you waste more time on Hacker News you can downvote and I can't? I am clearly correct that we did not hit peak oil back then and if he made a bet on it he got burned for exactly that predictable reason.
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by gmarx 10y ago
I think he was also a "peak oil" guy and made some bad bets
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by gmarx 10y ago
There has long been a received wisdom among a subset of audiophiles that the best records ever made were the RCA shaded dog Living Stereo from the late 1950s and early 60s. This guy opened my eyes to the bunk: http://www.high-end
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by gmarx 10y ago
Coke outsold Pepsi (back then, not sure if this is still the case) because they had stronger restaurant sales. In the grocery store Pepsi outsold Coke
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by gmarx 10y ago
When you listen on headphones, sound in the middle of the mix, which might seem to come from the middle of and slightly behind home speakers, appears to come from the middle of your skull. I find this fascinating. It's a use case that
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by gmarx 10y ago
One could argue that clearly that is exactly how much people like music at that particular time and place, assuming she can distinguish those listening to music from those not
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I'd argue (if provided with beer and a forum) that it is a very professional approach once you acknowledge that once you have applied a pretty low bar BS filter, the average, and probably great VC, has no better way of predicting massi
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by gmarx 10y ago
Haha, asking a barber if you need a haircut! I like it. Especially since I am clipped bald. I think I'll go to a barber and see if he recommends a straight razor shave
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by gmarx 10y ago
I was struggling to think of how buying back stocks could fail to increase the value of the remaining shares. It would have to be that the cash was valued the same whether inside or outside the stock. Wouldn't paying massive dividends
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by gmarx 10y ago
See, I was going to respond to your good point in a thoughtful manner, except you had to follow up with a personal attack. This is why people with different political views can't have reasoned discussion.
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by gmarx 10y ago
Yes, security theater...except coincidentally as we in the US massively ramped up our rate of imprisonment. our crime rate went drastically down. For those who don't remember the 70s and 80s it is understandable to wonder why so many p

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