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by lordgrenville 8y ago
Thanks! There were good editors involved, too.
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by lordgrenville 8y ago
Hey HN, I translated this! Very happy to see it on the front page. Please feel free to ask me any language/text-related questions.
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by lordgrenville 8y ago
A lot of the debate in this thread is conflating two questions: are engineers more capable than MBAs? (Answer: of course not, in the sense that MBAs can do things that engineers can't, and are often very smart and technical people).
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by lordgrenville 8y ago
A company has a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, who bought the stock on the assumption that the company will be run in their best interests. If they do't do that they are open to shareholder lawsuits. (This is the way that activist
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by lordgrenville 9y ago
Side note: TIL that Barbara Ehrenreich has a Ph.D in cellular immunology from Rockefeller University.
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by lordgrenville 9y ago
Still paywalled for me. Maybe FB users have a metered paywall?
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by lordgrenville 9y ago
Neither boredom nor never being bored is a sign of a boring personality. But for me, the spirit of OP's quote is that if you're intellectually curious, you can almost always find something to explore - the systems around you, the
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by lordgrenville 9y ago
Go to the bookmarks manager in your browser and add it the way you'd add a website, with the JS snippet as URL. Then when you navigate to a WSJ piece, click on the bookmarklet to open it with the Facebook passthrough link.
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by lordgrenville 9y ago
HN is bearish on SNAP, just like Wall Street is. Sure, they could end up hugely successful, it would just surprise people. Even their own underwriters gave them a HOLD rating as soon as they were allowed to. http://www.cnbc.com
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Classical liberalism.
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The topic at hand isn't the general idea of 'patent rights': it's the specific case of patent trolls . Even if the things you mention were all really accepted and supported by HN/SV, I would still claim that pate
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by lordgrenville 9y ago
Exactly. the article may be correct that luxury spending is declining, but investing in education, retirement and health aren't replacements for that - there are other reasons why they correlate with wealth, but they're not for
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I wonder about this too. I lean towards the side that this is just storytelling in hindsight, but hedge by reading the blog posts every so often. The best way to test this would be to check his history for predictions (or statements that ca