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by jpdoctor 14y ago
This should have been the HN link. (And yours should be top comment.) Many many worthy comments in that thread. Edit: To crusso's point, I didn't realize it requires a login. I guess I finally broke down and got one over there a while ag
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> Most people now want something out of you This is a common mistake, esp among the newly wealthy who are young: The last thing you want is for anyone to know that you are wealthy. There are many ways to make sure people stay ignoran
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
448K in Frackville PA? Looks like an extra zero got added. Either that, or it is about to be overrun with hipster geeks toting iPads.
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> (though yes, divided up over four years). Don't forget also to dilute the 0.5% by a significant amount.
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tl;dr ~ Don't work at a startup for the money. Most of you knew that.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> What is going on? Regulatory capture is my bet.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I predict you will be slashdotted. Edit: I just saw the "Report Inaccuracy" link. Ho boy, you guys nailed this. I hope you monetize it big time.
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> The problem is that states aren't seeing the sales tax revenue from out of state purchases and have become increasingly insistent that they receive said revenue. That's not a problem: It's a use-case covered explicitly by the US co
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
With amazon ceding to demands on collecting state sales taxes for interstate commerce, they have opened the door to a competitor.
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> or maybe you misunderstood when I said "say, within 5 years of your PhD"? It sounds more like I misunderstood when you wrote "you haven't had time for citations to accumulate, and journal name really is the important thing. " Your
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> For young researchers--say, within 5 years of your PhD--you haven't had time for citations to accumulate, and journal name really is the important thing. Maybe for people who don't know better. For example: 5 years out is when a "r
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I remember tenure committees would have "vertical inches" measured from the Science Citation Index. In the world of big data, not all citations are created equal, and I look forward to new metrics based on quality of citations.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> and the primary reputation metric in science is being published in prestigious journals, such as Nature, Science, and The Lancet. Absolutely not. The primary metric is citations. Where do people get these ideas?
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> MIT should instruct its deans and other officials to no longer look favorably upon the mere fact of publication in a “prestigious” journal when making hiring and tenure decisions. Instead, promotions should be based on the quality of
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I think endorsements were a terrible strategic move for LI. It's already at the point that nobody believes the endorsements, and it just makes people not want to deal with the site because of the awkward situations they create.
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> This is rather a meaningless statistic, because acquisitions have a power-law distribution. ??? And the bootstrapped are also power-law. So why wouldn't total number of events also be interesting to bootstrapped folks, especially
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Thanks for this post Steve. We're not too far from deployment and the recent issues have us slightly wigged out. On the plus side, we can make the security revs before going live.
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> for use in medicine. Ear-nose-throat guys still use it for contact anesthetic. I had a light shoved up my nose and then back into the throat while they examined the result of a punch to the throat. (Martial arts FTW.) I sat there
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Could not disagree more. Hell, I wish they'd hellban question-mark titles.
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As usual, anything from extremetech is worth ignoring.
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> This oft-quoted point is only true if you are trading on margin. No. Insolvency can happen with any kind of debt, not just margin.
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> I'm sure there's a great saying or time-tested analogy about concerning yourself with what a stock should be doing, as opposed what it is doing, but I'm at a loss. "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
I find the drop-in-advertising rates the most interesting item. I don't follow this closely, is revenue-per-click actually dropping?
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> I think Amazon is smart enough to know that they can't give anybody short shrift. Really? One example: When states threatened sales tax (before CA), they cut off retailers in those states. They can and they have given people short
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> and we aren't worried. So are you working on designing them out? Or are you counting on them never giving your AWS account short shrift?
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> that can be made more cost effective in bulk I assume the Heroku guys have noticed by now. Hopefully they're working on designing Amazon out.
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
> but who expected Amazon to offer a video transcoding service? Anyone who has used their instant streaming service. They have a boatload of video to transcode to zillions of devices. The fact that they would take that in-house was
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> There are several video encoding companies that operate on AWS already, and they all just got sandbagged. Yep, they put a potential competitor into their critical path. The business lesson is: Don't do that. Nothin personal, jus b
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by jpdoctor 14y ago
Laughable? There is a shortage. A capitalist believes that price solves supply issues. Are you not capitalist? Do you prefer a centralized planning, say from a gov't program to import people?
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> Today, it is impossible to satisfy Silicon Valley’s appetite for engineers and scientists with people born in America. Well, at the price you're willing to pay anyway. Try competing with banker bonuses (or even gasp VC pay) and w

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