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by lmg643 12y ago
I like the optimistic start - keep it up. please promise to follow up when you are on day 100. and here's a good quote to keep in mind as you go through the process: "It is an insufficiently noted aspect of adult life that everyon
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by lmg643 12y ago
my understanding is that transmitting intelligence to the next generation requires (a) the presence of whatever genes are responsible for intelligence and (b) the absence of mutations affecting those genes. it would make sense that the qual
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by lmg643 12y ago
I totally agree. The question I ask is whether Beats is the kind of headphone that Steve Jobs would personally design and use. The "steve" test seems to guide everything else they build, so why not extend to headphones. The way I
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by lmg643 12y ago
even in apology ... "especially since Elliot is talking about my neighborhood growing up" ... it has a bad tone, particularly when you consider the bullying the kid faced. was mahboob the kind of guy to be part of the problem, or
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by lmg643 12y ago
at the federal level - drug offenses are about half of the population. of course, it's one thing to talk about legalizing marijuana - but i'm not sure what i'm supposed to think about early release for a guy who was importing
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by lmg643 12y ago
I would agree with this. People have a way of heavily discounting the present in favor of the uncertain future. It becomes a habit, almost an addiction, to medicate feelings in the present (FUD - perhaps their anxiety over being a parent, e
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by lmg643 12y ago
The homepage isn't dead exactly - just have different requirements. Drudge Report is a big driver and example of this. Arts and Letters Daily is a highbrow example. Basically, there is still demand for a curated home page, just with a
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by lmg643 12y ago
I'm sure this is about the Beats library deals, and not the products. I think the Beats products are a strange fit for apple, looks and brand-wise, but i guess they already sell them in their stores so not that big of a stretch. If I h
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by lmg643 12y ago
It's quite appropriate that this is a discussion at the bottom of the page. I appreciate gems like "why are Americans more eligible to work in their own country," and "what makes the domicile entitled to the fruits of th
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by lmg643 12y ago
I like the early Google employee example - of course, let's cherry pick the best-of-the-best, and just assume everyone in the sample is of that caliber. I am fine with citizenship or automatic green cards for accepted Harvard students.
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by lmg643 12y ago
It sounds perverse to say this, but the first thought I have is all the marriages that will be specifically arranged to take advantage of this. Seems like a clever loophole to increase the number of visas, while casting it as a benevolent c
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by lmg643 12y ago
The guy was in New Orleans for jazz fest. One of the biggest parties there other than mardi gras. My first assumption is that he was totally drunk and can't handle his liquor well. Then I think, perhaps he was on something crazier, lik
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Euro candidate Paul Weston arrested over Islam remarks(bbc.com)
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by lmg643 12y ago
there are audited returns for NNT's hedge fund floating around on the web. while his options strategies will make money in the worst year, they bleed money in all other years. Unfortunately for him, average returns count, and the fund
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by lmg643 12y ago
i think pg already captured this idea when he said that once mobile phones were powerful enough to run an IDE, so you could carry it in your pocket wherever you go, plug into a monitor and keyboard and work - then the PC would be dead. i di
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by lmg643 12y ago
Not sure why this is getting resubmitted as a front page article. Having read the book and most of the coverage of "flash boys", I'm surprised and disappointed by the complete lack of any statistics to prove the assertion tha
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by lmg643 12y ago
i think a lot of people miss the joke about why piketty is so popular. it's not the theorizing about the cause of inequality, which seems fairly obvious if you read financial news and blogs. the "novel" piece - at least in po
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by lmg643 12y ago
somehow the current scuffle between uber and regular cabs seems to miss the joke. we're going to need a plan for the eventual unemployment of a lot of cab drivers, regardless of how the cab is hailed.
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by lmg643 12y ago
There is a clear line drawn around criminal behavior and employment. It's considered disqualifying for most jobs to be convicted of a crime - and if he is convicted, he should be removed. Should a CEO should be held to a lower standard
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by lmg643 12y ago
do the individual plaintiffs have any say, in aggregate? surely there has to be a better way to pursue a class action than this.
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by lmg643 12y ago
this is an interesting way to look at the problem but in my reasonably informed opinion, flawed. it seems like this is working backwards from the assumption that quote stuffing must be benign activity, and then trying to rationalize it with
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by lmg643 12y ago
Since there is other office space available in the valley, and event space has value in the private market (rental rate at any hotel) it is a kind of contribution in its own right (unless they are paying you, which I doubt), as well as an e
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by lmg643 12y ago
interesting - seems like the reverse use-case would also sense. soldier with one of these uses it to block guidance and communication systems going into a drone. range would be an issue i suppose.
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Hookers turning Airbnb apartments into temporary brothels(nypost.com)
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the other issue i keep thinking about related to miners are the people who sank millions into mining rigs. if you look at the hash rate / difficulty of finding new blocks, compared with the cost of the equipment and time required, seem
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by lmg643 13y ago
Considering that the rail gun projectile is basically a hunk of metal, $25k does seem really expensive. No gunpowder, nothing. All the work is in the railgun.
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by lmg643 13y ago
i recently saw a table of firms awarded these visas. it seemed nuts to me that a large proportion of the visas go to firms whose primary business line is outsourcing in one form or another. i typically think of visas as fulfilling unmet hir
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by lmg643 13y ago
I used to rent my apartment exactly as they do on AirBNB, in NYC, about eight years ago. My landlord found out, told me it was a violation of lease, told me to stop. I stopped. As a result, I never would have thought AirBnB was a very good
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by lmg643 13y ago
Of course it's ridiculous. The book makes no actual mention of what SAC did, to avoid cognitive dissonance. Perhaps SAC was infamous for dwarf tossing - not illegal but in poor taste. I don't think the 60 minutes audience would ha
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by lmg643 13y ago
This was a great article. I started reading the book. Early on, one of the examples given was "Brad talked to a friend of his at SAC Capital" about how HFT firms were taking advantage of information in the markets. That is the kin

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