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by hmahncke 11y ago
This was a great service and it's a shame it closed. I used it every week.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
Many people I've talked to think that's perfectly reasonable.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
Yes. My Mom was an analyst for the CIA and helped win the Cold War. This phrase is silly.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
One author (Lenny Mendonca) is an ex-senior partner at McKinsey who worked with the finance industry. Pretty sure he's not an anti-capitalist.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
Pretty sure everyone on HN is only alive because modern society is full of rubber bumpers and safety nets like grocery stores and municipal water.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
I feel like these articles de-epitomize the hegemonic aspects of science, by pointing out that perceived epistemological relevancy does not contribute to actual real-world utility.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
I noticed the same thing, and my guess is that the WSJ is generally dismissive of climate change risk, and against government incentives to combat climate change, and wanted to frame this article as what the government should be doing inste
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FTC CTO: Time to Rethink Mandatory Password Changes(ftc.gov)
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by hmahncke 11y ago
This topic is the subject of Kazuo Ishiguro's book "The Buried Giant" where a long-married couple explore medieval England to understand why everyone has forgotten their history, and discover that it was probably for the best
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by hmahncke 11y ago
WSJ closed this[1]; web link here finds the article in google which still hits the paywall. [1] http://digiday.com/publishers/wall-street-journal-paywall-go...
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by hmahncke 11y ago
We did use WACC, which invariably led to arguments about how to correctly calculate WACC as well. For a division of a large company, it can be non-trivial to decide what the appropriate WACC is.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
It's a strategy consulting firm and often strategy involves valuation; like should we buy a competitor or divest a division. Generally if the strategy went all the way through to an action, an investment bank would get involved to fina
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by hmahncke 11y ago
I worked at a McKinsey once upon a time, and this is exactly how we did valuations. But this article elides the fact that with this kind of model, you can quite literally get any output you want from choosing your assumptions. In my view, i
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by hmahncke 11y ago
Vesting an option gives you the option, but not the requirement, to purchase the shares. Typically, you retain that option for as long as you are employed. So you shouldn't have to do anything as long as you are employed - you may have
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by hmahncke 11y ago
It might mean we would have a bus system on the peninsula available to everyone, instead of just Google employees.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
Eligibility requirements - note the VC ownership issues vary depending on the granting agency - NIH, CDC and Dept of Energy allow majority VC owned small businesses to apply: https://www.sbir.gov/faqs/eligibility-requir
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by hmahncke 11y ago
I saw an interesting article [1] talking about Facebook at work adoption at Club Med, making the point that all their minimum wage workers were already familiar with Facebook on mobile devices, so adoption/training was easy for them, c
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by hmahncke 11y ago
Yes, exclusively licensing CRISPR on an indication-by-indication basis as a therapeutic itself (as someone below has suggested has already happened by Broad) would be worrisome.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
There's a big difference between exclusive licensing and non-exclusive licensing. New drugs (like penicillin) tend to be exclusively licensed because of the costs involved in regulatory approval, and that can slow down technology diffu
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by hmahncke 11y ago
Also, we don't know where in its orbit the planet happens to be right now. If we're lucky, it's relatively close to the sun, and it will be detectable. If we're unlucky, it's relatively far away from the sun, and it
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by hmahncke 11y ago
Speaking as a parent, the problem with client based controls is access to the client without an argument.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
Today I learned that very smart people are working very hard to make my teenager's life demonstrably worse (organizing push notifications at lunch time for high schoolers? Thanks, folks). I probably should have known that already.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
This book is an American treasure.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
In all of these situations, one of the "people" is an abstract legal entity already operating under the protection of a set of legal codes that provide advantages to the actual (human) people who set it up. It seems reasonable tha
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by hmahncke 11y ago
Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's is pretty incredible [1] and transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression is effective [2]. The open label studies on DBS for depression were promising, so it was perfectly reasonably to try i
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by hmahncke 11y ago
From a Yahoo shareholder perspective, there's no point to having Yahoo buy Netflix in 2012 unless there is 1) some synergy to have been gained, or 2) Yahoo is acting as a portfolio manager for its shareholders. If Yahoo shareholders wa
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by hmahncke 11y ago
I looked at this market about six months ago and agree its in need of a refresh. This best option (to me) up one step from Quickbooks/Xero looked like IntAcct. The main feature is reasonably good automated software revenue recognition
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by hmahncke 11y ago
One company - http://www.legalese.io/turing.html - is working on this, perhaps inspired by Charles Stross' comments on this idea.
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by hmahncke 11y ago
PDF link to actual scientific publication here: http://bbs.sagepub.com/content/2/1/101.full.pdf+html It should be mentioned that the article is a review article and doesn't provide any actual head-to-hea
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by hmahncke 11y ago
I agree with your line of thought; however the NASA program described in the link only applies to non-exclusive patents. They state at the end that if you want an exclusive patent, to contact them.

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