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by lmg643 12y ago
Wow - I posted what I thought was a thoughtful comment on Fred's blog, disagreeing with his throw-away intro on paid content - and it seems to have disappeared? My point was, why should we reward Business Insider for ripping off conten
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by lmg643 12y ago
Really interesting idea. As an amateur runner myself, I'm always interested in how I can run faster. My experience with personal fitness is this - there's never just "one thing" you can do to make yourself run faster. Yo
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by lmg643 12y ago
I gotta think Apple looks at Samsung as a business operating as their R&D departments. What an incredible money saver that must be. Samsung takes the risk on the "edgy" new features (excuse the pun) and then Apple can see what
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by lmg643 12y ago
Agreed. This is like a press release from the department of not-getting-the-joke. It is known that China "misstates" GDP and a variety of economic metrics on a regular basis. Don't take my word for it - thank WikiLeaks: http
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by lmg643 12y ago
>> "willing to put $300 million of his own money of $50 billion required into building infrastructure" I would expect his funding expectations are based on what he could borrow in China to finance this. Based on the number o
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Leaked excerpts of Obama-Netanyahu Call(timesofisrael.com)
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by lmg643 12y ago
it's comforting to think that understanding the "language" of finance would have protected us. I also think it's comforting to think that this was the work of simply some greedy guys on wall street using strange words. u
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Piketty's Terrifying Dystopia(falkenblog.blogspot.com)
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The Fed suckered IBM into a failing cloud strategy?(cringely.com)
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Druckenmiller: Here's what's wrong with IBM(video.cnbc.com)
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Searching for Cynk: The $6 Billion Penny-Stock Debacle, From Belize to Las Vegas(businessweek.com)
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by lmg643 12y ago
i'm mostly impressed that the USPS has the analytical resources to produce this. did they put this much thought into email, before revenues started cratering? what was their intelligent plan to manage runaway employee pensions? do we s
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by lmg643 12y ago
Agreed. My first thought was also along these lines: Programming is not math, but it is logic, and math is almost always a purer and more demanding expression of logic than language. Logic is important because programs always have to "
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Almost everyone involved in developing Tor was funded by the US government(pando.com)
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I am surprised that no one has mentioned the recent cringely book on IBM, which I learned about from HN. IBM doesn't even make their own servers anymore - selling that business to lenovo (IBM only makes mainframes). I assume this is re
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by lmg643 12y ago
i agree with both this and OP - while the format and function of the site is great for reading, i am usually underwhelmed by the annotations. in fairness to the annotators, the content they are annotating is often pretty inane - "he&#x
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by lmg643 12y ago
or, "awesome"? Spycraft - with governments - is fascinating - and everyone does it. Including the Germans. Remember - if Germany knows there is a mole in their operation, they can use him to give false info, which is known as &q
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People's happiness at work usually dips mid career(bps-research-digest.blogspot.com)
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by lmg643 12y ago
These articles are accurate. Of course - can we also agree that the US Government post WW-2, coming off the largest war-time mobilization in history, is not the same government we have today? To say that the government had a huge hand in si
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by lmg643 12y ago
The whole time I read this article, I could only think of PG's "The Submarine." http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html This article describes a process that's being going on for decades, but manages to do
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by lmg643 12y ago
A website for US-based temps, "physical delivery" of employees, is interesting. I'm not aware of any service that does this. Like Uber for people! If physical presence isn't required, Elance, Odesk and even Amazon Mechan
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by lmg643 12y ago
i think the only point in here that represents a potential risk to startup investing is #1 - declining GDP. Basically, if we run into a recession, the risk is that asset values decline based on negative projected growth. when asset values d
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by lmg643 12y ago
I would agree. criticizing the supreme court along these lines feels like like clickbait, and here i am commenting. at the risk of a thousand downvotes, I thought their aereo interpretation was probably on the mark.
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Airbnb Is a Risky Neighbor(bloombergview.com)
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by lmg643 12y ago
I think this is a very important point - people who go to fertility clinics are already having problems and not representative/random. Further, a "meta analysis" means they are not doing original research, they are just culli
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by lmg643 12y ago
of course we export our advanced weaponry. buying the plane is just part of the process. once you own it, you need to have ground support, computer and communication capabilities, not to mention spare parts, and engineers to support the pro
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by lmg643 12y ago
Also, CIA != NSA. CIA are the people doing field work and writing intelligence assessments, NSA is doing mass surveillance/SIGINT. Believe it or not - they compete for funding and attention from their paymasters like any bureaucracy.
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by lmg643 12y ago
i would guess the sell off the advanced machinery like blackhawks for cash - let others strip them down to see how they are engineered. doubt they would have trained pilots or spare parts for repairs, which are the operating challenges of s
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by lmg643 12y ago
I started reading the Cringley book on IBM. It's a captivating and maddening read. By this story IBM management, trying to satisfy the desires of shareholders looking for earnings growth, is destroying the company. HBS is graduating lo
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by lmg643 12y ago
All these examples are interesting - but why single out and pick on IBM? Seems like IBM is responding to natural competitive pressures in the technology consulting/services industry. Accenture, Wipro, TCS and others basically sell serv

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