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by karl11 17y ago
Do you honestly think that there MBA education made them like that, or maybe in fact it was their general attitude and disposition? Do you honestly think that MBA graduates attract high salaries for no reason? We live in a free market econ
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I completely disagree. This is just another selection bias. The loudest, most obnoxious MBAs are the ones you are most likely to hear about. Saying that MBA programs nurture extreme arrogance, bad ethics and short sightedness is like sayi
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by karl11 17y ago
This might be the dumbest thing I've ever seen. Getting an MBA does not mean someone will be boring, unmotivated and unethical. If a predominate number of business leaders and executives have MBAs then certainly a majority of the mistakes
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by karl11 17y ago
One reason I'm skeptical about this is the the United States has a ton of debt (this is a definite fact), and someone had to lend us the money. China has over $1T of U.S. Treasury Bonds. It might be plausible that they have cash flow prob
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by karl11 17y ago
Don't know if anyone will see this comment, so long after the post came up, but I wanted to add that obviously this was not the saddest thing I have ever read, nor do I value trees more than human life. There was, however, a dramatic mood s
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by karl11 17y ago
I have the same sentiments. I was going to say this is one of the saddest things I've ever read.
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National entitlements and obligations are at about 100 trillion dollars (medicare, medicaid, social security etc.). This is based on estimates made by David Walker who was the head of the GAO under Clinton.
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by karl11 17y ago
Sure they were, but he didn't make the loan until well after everything collapsed. In fact the U.S. Treasury was practically begging for him to make these investments and he said he would only do a deal with Goldman because he knew they we
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by karl11 17y ago
Buffet was never a director at Goldman. Berkshire did not loan the $5 billion and receive the options until well after the financial mess, after Goldman's stock dropped over 50%. The article talks about casinos dealing "financial derivati
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Ask HN: What questions would you ask a potential co-founder?
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What about Cornell?
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by karl11 17y ago
I don't necessarily agree that you should only get an MBA if you want to work at a large company. Getting an MBA from a solid business school allows you to interact with a lot of smart people with similar interests that you can both learn
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by karl11 17y ago
The reason AT&T was banned from refusing to connect certain calls is because they have a monopoly-like presence in many areas. With no other means for customers to make those calls, AT&T was taking unfair advantage of the fact that
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I doubt that when he conceived of this month long project, he had a "celebration of wasting resources" in mind. It was probably more like, "I'm going to meet some cool people and fly to 50 cities".
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Give the man a break, he's living on a plane for 30 days.
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textmate
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AT&T says WiFi only for SlingPlayer App for iPhone(wired.com)
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by karl11 17y ago
This is a good analysis, but I'm still curious why Apple, known for excellence in every area, including customer service, has such a shoddy app review process. In my opinion, it just doesn't fit within the way they approach everything else
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by karl11 18y ago
Voted up because I'm literally writing a term paper on the wine industry right now (procrastinating on HN) and will use this article in it somewhere. Thanks.
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It amazing how a news distribution company is so bad at disseminating news within its own company. It's also sad that we can add one more company to the list of those that refuse to innovate and restructure their business models when the su
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by karl11 18y ago
Actually, the preferred stock in Goldman is an option. He has the option to buy the stock at $123 indefinitely, meaning if it ever goes above that amount he can then choose to buy it and sell it for a profit. And like I said, the stock wen
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by karl11 18y ago
They went down as the market went down and did have some losses, but they also had an enormous pile of cash and not very much debt. Buffett has been waiting for the market to go down like it has so he could make his move with that cash. A
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FTP On The Go - an FTP client for the iPhone(ftponthego.com)
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by karl11 18y ago
On the other hand, Warren Buffett is equally contrarian, and is doing a lot of similar things with his money, though on a larger scale (writing massive loans to Goldman, Harley, GE etc for 10-15% interest rates). He also has the same compl
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by karl11 18y ago
I think better teachers is more likely than selection bias. Teachers who are rewarded on merit will always outperform those rewarded for their seniority.
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by karl11 18y ago
I would agree with you completely. I would point out that for a media and public concerned with the current state of our economy, a year over year statistic is useless. Everyone knows that housing prices are down significantly from the sa
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by karl11 18y ago
I understand everything he is saying, but I do think its still important to know when home sales start to go up month over month. Though he argues this data does not yield a statistically significant indication of either direction, month o
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Got Clawbacks? Thugz on the Bailout - Freakonomics Blog(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by karl11 18y ago
This already happens with ESPN 360. I can access it on campus, but can't when I walk home to my Time Warner connection, apparently because Time Warner has not negotiated with ESPN to provide it.
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by karl11 18y ago
I've always thought it was funny when someone would try to sell me on macs by saying there are less bugs and viruses on them. You have to remind them that if Apple had 90% of the business computer market that wouldn't be true anymore. App

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