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by m52go 11y ago
R&D is exactly what an innovative, cash-rich company is supposed to do. And it's precisely why I would never invest in Apple, no matter how promising and successful their product strategy is. Their stagnated mountains of cash are
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by m52go 11y ago
Wow, I wish more companies had this mindset. When I'm shopping for anything, particularly a big-ticket item, I'll gladly trade a few 'cutting-edge' features for solid build & longevity...and pay a lot more for it. Al
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Silicon Valley Data Is the New Wall Street Debt (2012)(livefreeortry.com)
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E-Book Subscription Service Oyster to Shut Down(techcrunch.com)
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by m52go 11y ago
Never memorize something you can look up - Einstein
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by m52go 11y ago
Great points. I'll add back some of my copy and content from the old site. If libraries buy at all, it'd be sold as an antidote to shrinking budgets: the app would be a way to virtually expand shelves without the expense of paper
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by m52go 11y ago
Thanks for your feedback! Your considerations are all very appropriate. 1. The demo site is very bare-bones right now. I had something more informative when I was targeting consumers, but right now, I'm having 1-1 conversations to intr
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Ask HN: Corporate sponsor for school library app experiment?
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by m52go 11y ago
I'm sorry, I don't follow. What do you mean?
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by m52go 11y ago
> A married historian, productive in the way Gibbon was, is not so much a joke but perhaps an impossibility. One can be the author of a vast historical work of the kind of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, which wa
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Short attention spans are good(canonofman.com)
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by m52go 11y ago
Thank you for posting this. I don't have any personal connection to Sergey. But I'd be damn heartbroken to see such a titan of our time be captured by this miserable, disgusting disease.
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by m52go 11y ago
First, hat-tip to Marko for running a business with integrity. I really like the parallel between data and finance as it relates to privacy. As it turns out, banks have a very similar history of making promises & violating them. There a
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by m52go 11y ago
That's hysterical.
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by m52go 11y ago
This is great! I've added Arthashastra to Canon of Man. http://canonofman.com/item/7rJtzB3dWPkQHAK28
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by m52go 11y ago
Update: product remains the same, but it's now totally free. Messaging will be more educational in nature as we gauge demand from teachers for additional paid features.
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by m52go 11y ago
Hey, developer here. I was tired of click-bait and noisy modern media, and really wanted a way to browse more significant works in a fun way. I just enabled user submissions, so you can submit your own selections of books, art, music, video
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Show HN: Canon of Man. Pop your filter bubble with a swipe!(canonofman.com)
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by m52go 11y ago
are you just surviving ? lighten up... live a little.
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by m52go 11y ago
"live to the fullest" or maybe just..."live" so often it seems like we're so preoccupied with 'hacking' our lives that we forget to live them at all...
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by m52go 11y ago
This is my exact frustration. If you want something intellectually exciting with no ads, no filter bubble, and no click-bait, I'm building Canon of Man. You can sample it at: https://canonofman.meteor.com It's not laun
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by m52go 11y ago
A large part of my motivation to start my own company is to define my own culture. How is one to progress without asking 'why'? How is asking 'why' once a year (and in abstract, politically-correct terms) supposed to hel
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by m52go 11y ago
Your comment is a perfect example of why companies don't adopt this. Critical feedback is too often construed as 'unprofessional' or 'inconsiderate' when it's simply a subjective statement on the way someone do
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by m52go 11y ago
I made an attempt at digitally replicating the bookstore-browsing experience. What I learned: while there is no shortage of people who appreciate the idea, the number who would appreciate the same experience made virtual is exceedingly smal
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by m52go 11y ago
Problem is...most don't. In favor of higher sales, more clicks, etc.
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by m52go 11y ago
Just be 'radically transparent' (a la Bridgewater) and don't be hesitant to give feedback in REAL-TIME. That's the only way to consistently improve. It's surprising to me that places like Deloitte haven't embra
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by m52go 11y ago
> How you classify what they do with the money left over after fees isn't all that important because the primary business is fee generation. Right. But the 'what they do with the money left over after fees' happens to be t
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by m52go 11y ago
Your comment is (largely) ignorant of what I actually wrote.
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by m52go 11y ago
The comment he made was with regard to the mentality they have when determining whether to deploy capital, not so much the legal and financial structure of their deals. You can see the full context here, worded better originally than I coul
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by m52go 11y ago
Absolutely, and that's why I qualified my statement with 'largely'. A sweeping generalization would have been irresponsible of me.

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