h_operator

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   by h_operator 17y ago

   Funny -- an article on HN yesterday ( http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/edmundconway/100002310/... ) tells us more about the Kindle and Western manufacturing than an article that putatively deals with both those subjects.
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   by h_operator 17y ago

   "It seems to me that every-one wants to be a writer now-a-days," Yeah: see Gabriel Zaid's So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance. http://jseliger.com/2008/06/18/so-many-books-reading-and-pub... .
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   by h_operator 17y ago

   The Ph.D. will always be there, but the opportunity for a startup might disappear with time. Given that, staying upwind ( http://paulgraham.com/hs.html ) would tend to dictate going with a startup.