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by holograham 13y ago
Most MBA grads are insanely arrogant and completely technically illiterate. A Wharton MBA is just partying and networking with other arrogant ibankers and consultants. They think having some idea is brilliance and they just need a monkey to
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by holograham 13y ago
Fair point. I elaborated more above. Think we are missing each other's next move in the reply delay chain. Sure the real world is not a perfect free market. Regulations and laws can be a huge hinderance to new market entrants...Uber ir
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by holograham 13y ago
I will further this a bit: there is a lag in new entrants that varies based on the industry (e.g. CapEx intensive industries need more time to ramp production). This clearly makes the case above (bottled water in disaster areas) even more o
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by holograham 13y ago
see my above comment on the law of supply and demand
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by holograham 13y ago
This is economics 101. The law of Supply and Demand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand The four basic laws of supply and demand are: 1. If demand increases and supply remains unchanged, a shortage occurs,
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by holograham 13y ago
I'd speculate that some of this marketing is designed to lure drivers from other services.
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by holograham 13y ago
you are missing the other half -- that high prices drive more market entrants. If the price of bottled Water is 100 dollars then more entrepreneurs will take the risk to transport bottled water to a hurricane prone area because of the profi
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by holograham 13y ago
Agreed. Just like a startup tries new tactics so does the US military and foreign policy organizations. And just like startups, some of those ideas fail miserably and look like ideas that should have never been tried in the first place :)
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by holograham 13y ago
Most of these cited failures have no root in Ayn Rand ideology whatsoever. Selling rolexes at Sears is not a smart free market idea. Not sure the details of how he "pitted" company managers against each other but he perhaps did do
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by holograham 13y ago
Loaded question for sure :) You're asking me if the US's geopolitical and military operations currently are increasing or decreasing total violence in the world. A tremendously complex question to answer accurately. My answer (opi
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by holograham 13y ago
A great book to read on the decline of violence in the world: The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence has Declined by Steven Pinker. The Hacker News community should like it as it focuses on the stats and facts rather than anecdotal s
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by holograham 13y ago
Why is there an onus on "society" to train people? Shouldn't the onus be on the individual or perhaps businesses that need folks with unique skills? (Think Ross Perot's famous training boot camps for EDS where they hired
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by holograham 13y ago
pure scamming is clearly not a long-term strategy. Hard to argue with current profits but Ryan Air has been in business quite awhile. Perhaps they do know what they are doing.
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Systems Vs. Goals(holograham.com)
1 points by holograham 13y ago|0 comments
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by holograham 13y ago
the grinder is really the huge purchase price. You can buy a cheaper grinder as a stop gap especially just starting out. Just make sure it's a burr grinder and not a blade grinder. Blade grinders SUCK. That said -- over the long term b
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by holograham 13y ago
I would be more than willing to test my mettle :) Of course the issue with taste is that there is a huge mental component. Sure your taste buds/olfactory receptors tell your brain what you are experiencing but your eyes, touch, mental
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by holograham 13y ago
Intelligentsia offers free shipping on orders over 25 bucks but yes in general the price is on the high side. I did a quick cost comparison though to still show you are saving money vs buying at Starbucks. That said -- I have not gotten int
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by holograham 13y ago
I've tried Tonx -- wasnt a huge fan. Perhaps I should give it another go.
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by holograham 13y ago
ive tried metal -- hasnt done it for me. Also what "small scale" are you using?
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by holograham 13y ago
Where are you getting your coffee from now? I've tried some other online roasters (e.g. Tonx) and thought they were worse than Intelligentsia.
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My Coffee Setup(holograham.com)
21 points by holograham 13y ago|46 comments
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by holograham 13y ago
The beautiful part of CapitalismStan is that no one becomes rich unless they in turn enrich the lives of others. Aka they produce a good/service that consumers want to freely purchase. He can rant about twisted incentives that governme
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by holograham 13y ago
I think you do not understand how stocks work. A stock in a stable, cash-generating company would never "fall to the floor" when it stops growing. Its stock would simply fall to its present day value. That inflated stock price you
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by holograham 13y ago
I dont understand why private businesses discriminating even matters. They just put themselves at a disadvantage by limiting their applicant pool based on whatever tests/discrimination they want.
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by holograham 13y ago
There have been plenty of studies that link salty, fatty foods to brain activity (highs) similar to addicts. Anecdotal explanations usually trend around our brains rewarding us for finding and gorging on life sustaining calories as a leftov
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by holograham 13y ago
While I may not discount the search for "opinions" has passed Google by I think the search for information with Google is still quite relevant. Google does a pretty good job with indexing SO, Yelp, and Wikipedia that nearly always
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by holograham 13y ago
I am curious on this articles definition of poverty. The statement that 20% of the forbes 400 was born in poverty is insufficient on it's own. More telling would be that percentage compared to the percentage of poor in America. That nu
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by holograham 13y ago
"Descriptions of WHY we are what we are and HOW we have accomplished a vast and impressive industrial civilization are still on the far fringes of mainstream science." Not sure if I understand this point. These items are very well
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by holograham 13y ago
The point that the article was trying to make is that in a capitalist economy, the people who make money only make it by provided a valued good or service (criminals obviously not included here). We point at the 1% with their cash hoards bu
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No Obligation for the 1% to Give Because Nothing Was Taken(forbes.com)
3 points by holograham 13y ago|3 comments

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