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by lmg643 13y ago
I also have to wonder whether such high-achieving and renowned people, being quite busy and in-demand, would of course decline an interview with someone who couldn't further boost their status or spread their message and would otherwis
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by lmg643 13y ago
I think this NSA case is getting way too air time on HackerNews. We're turning HN into the drudge report. Snowden may well be a spy and we've made him into some kind of martyr/hero. His actions came out right around a major s
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by lmg643 13y ago
A: start with a large fortune, and buy an airline.
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by lmg643 13y ago
this story has been floating around for a week or so now. i remember when the qwest insider trading scandal first broke back in 2001 - it fit with the times - bernie ebbers, worldcom etc - corrupt telecom executives. it is quite disturbing
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by lmg643 13y ago
I think as long as Americans maintain a "zero tolerance" posture towards terrorism, this kind of security will always be justifiable, because the goal is zero events, versus accepting that some percentage "will happen."
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by lmg643 13y ago
I'm surprised we haven't seen more discussion of NSA leaker as a potential foreign intelligence coup. Think of the timing, right before a summit with China. And he defects to Hong Kong. Not to get too nutty here, but its worth con
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Barron's Cover: Trouble Ahead at Tesla(barrons.wsj.net)
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Given all the contortions that politicians have to make just to get through the day, it wouldn't surprise me that Obama truly believes what he said back in 2007, but once he got into power he got an education on what the CIA/NSA i
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Elon Musk has to sell 540,000 Teslas a year to justify projected market cap(breakingviews.com)
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‘This is a massive effort to attract cheap labor.’(m.washingtonpost.com)
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The declining importance of non-human capital(lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com)
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Could the concept really be less creepy? encapsulate the double inside a blow-up doll? :) (I, for one, welcome our new cybernetic overlords.)
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In order for a this analogy to work, we'd also need to imagine henry ford launching the model T into a market that was dominated by a monopolist whose product was carefully manipulated to serve as the basis for all of their society and much
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by lmg643 13y ago
having been on both sides of the hiring equation, my sense is that the current system is broken by design. For myself, I've read positions at a company that are a perfect fit, only to see things like (paraphrasing) "5-10 years of prior expe
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Apple’s Problem Isn’t Skeuomorphism, It’s Services(techcrunch.com)
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Follow-up on old engineers(lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com)
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Joel Spolsky has written extensively about peopleware: "Ever wonder why everybody at Microsoft gets their own office, with walls and a door that shuts? It's in there. Why do managers give so much leeway to their teams to get things done? Th
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The Outrageous Cost of a Gene Test(nytimes.com)
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by lmg643 13y ago
1) I think the author completely misses the point of why tumblr is fascinating to us. But i don't think it matters whether we see tumblr as a cool toy (like an iPhone) or just a well-designed re-tread (like Facebook vs Friendster). Basicall
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by lmg643 13y ago
1) My company started getting spam hits a few days ago on our "request a demo" page and they have not let up. I am guessing they are related, only because of timing. The attacks seem super lame to me - random emails, garbage messages, over
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America's New Oligarchs - Fwd.us and Silicon Valley's Shady One Percenters(newgeography.com)
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by lmg643 13y ago
That was fast...see prior comment on this issue: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5698514
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by lmg643 13y ago
Off topic, but it seems like even the snarky Mr. Greenspun misses the joke on his throw-away aside to close the article: Singapore is reportedly one of the top money laundering centers in the world. Seems a little unfair to fault the US for
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by lmg643 13y ago
I'm not sure how many SaaS companies are at the intersection of as many critical business flows as Bloomberg is. And then, amongst those that are, how many of them are tied to full blown news operations. While I think the green dot/red dot
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by lmg643 13y ago
It's still amazing what businesses are able to accomplish with summing, counting, percentage of total, % change period over period, average, median, min, max.
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Snapchats Don't Disappear: Forensics Firm Pulled Dozens of "Deleted" Photos(forbes.com)
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Amen. The new endorsement feature is typically a sign of "how hard is this person looking for another job" which as a quality signal, may be inversely correlated with their capabilities. LinkedIn seems to be expanding as a magnet for scummy
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Agreed. Plus, this may be the coolest thing going on at Facebook.
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Angie’s List: Bad Idea + Bad Business = Wall Street Fiction(citronresearch.com)
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they should continue to make great products and build upon their past success. you may not understand the tax angle on their cash, or perhaps you don't care. but i don't think making a profit is mutually exclusive with social responsibility

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