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by mathattack 12y ago
It's a big risk though. You can be right, but there may be other reasons why the stock moves. If you don't get on 60 minutes and the company gets acquired, you could face a big loss of capital.
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by mathattack 12y ago
It's social groups. Want to meet people different from yourself? Study jiu jitsu or ballroom dancing. For better or worse, I noticed at a recent friends catch-up that almost everyone was in advertising technology.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Indeed. And he was very selective and disciplined about what he chose not to do. Many gurus are bad businesspeople. (What makes them a good guru contradicts the nuts and bolts of running a company) I'm glad to see how well he's
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Yellen: Poor values may undermine bank safety(cnbc.com)
1 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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Cabbies call for investigation of Uber data breach(nypost.com)
1 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 12y ago
I used to think that was Joel on Software, but then he did StackExchange. It was as if he was preparing his whole life for that.
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by mathattack 12y ago
17.4 million in investment can't maintain a staff of 28? What are their big expenses? Or is it more of a strategic redirection? I like a lot of what Jason Freedman writes, though I don't have much experience with them as a compa
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by mathattack 12y ago
My 2 cents... There are many people running the US (Congress + Presidents + Supreme Court) who: - Failed out of school - Got fired - Lost elections - Had IRS problems - Couldn't pay the rent - Got cheated on - Cheated on their spouse -
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by mathattack 12y ago
I agree re: McCain on torture. Can you name one political candidate with a chance of being elected that would reasonably go easier on him than Obama?
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by mathattack 12y ago
You really think Reagan, McCain or either of the Bush presidents would have been more lenient on him than Obama? (I'm not being pro-Obama, just realistic)
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by mathattack 12y ago
Obama is no saint, but I suspect he's better than the alternatives.
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by mathattack 12y ago
He probably stands a better shot of a deal with Obama, rather than whichever administration comes next. I think Hilary had a lot of egg on her face with the leaks (though using public email is her own fault!) and the Republicans would cruci
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by mathattack 12y ago
Taken literally this is pretty bad. Wasting time to placate hands on incompetent managers is not sustainable. This is also why design by committee fails - everyone wants to seem like they have some input. The reality is this always exists t
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Does playing video games make you smarter?(marginalrevolution.com)
4 points by mathattack 12y ago|5 comments
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by mathattack 12y ago
Yes, and a nasty derivatives position [0] if memory serves. Buffett also had to get involved after Solomon Brothers [1] had some regulatory improprieties. [0] http://www.forbes.com/2003/05/09/cx_aw_0509deriva
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by mathattack 12y ago
Fair enough. I've been an Apple fan for a LONG time, and have always felt it was the alternative, and never the main player. For a long time it seemed like it was just a few bad quarters from selling to IBM. It seems like the "I
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by mathattack 12y ago
It used to be a software company - it was Google before Google. I think the media distinction is a little false. Several media companies have had long term products: The Big 3 networks pre-cable, HBO, Dreamworks...
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by mathattack 12y ago
I don't like when people say, "Just look at the stock price." The stock benefit came from not undoing the work of her predecessors who purchased Ali Baba. The article does jump into this later. Turnarounds take a while, and
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by mathattack 12y ago
Yes - definitely more of a symbolic lesson. I remember a comment from Jim Rogers [0] that I can't seem to find to the effect of, "The lesson from Japan is bubbles take decades to recover form, not years." This is symbolic t
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Data Mining Indian Recipes Reveals New Food Pairing Phenomenon(technologyreview.com)
3 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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The fiasco that is the Nicaragua Canal, explained(vox.com)
1 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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A startup helps stores give suspected shoplifters a choice: $320 or cops(slate.com)
29 points by mathattack 12y ago|49 comments
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Can a Stock-Trader-Turned-Convict Start a New Life?(nytimes.com)
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by mathattack 12y ago
Good points. This can be a good article for people in large companies who need to justify Open Source efforts.
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by mathattack 12y ago
"And generalists aren't supposed to make such money." I think the general modus operandi for the freelance economy is the generalists are supposed to find capital and customers, and hire the freelancers. If they do their job
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by mathattack 12y ago
These things ebb and flow. Now is the right time to "Jump in" as you don't lose much from joining a startup and gain a lot of potential upside. But who knows - in 30 years, it could be the return of "the Company Person&q
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by mathattack 12y ago
Practice is the key to getting better at everything. Ignore the concept of innate talent or gift. People who are good are good because they spent a lot of time practicing. Very true. And even when it's not 100% true, we're bette
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by mathattack 12y ago
- Over the short term there are a lot of variables to success other than being a smart, hard working, good person. Over the long term things start to even out. - Being smart is the price of entry, but drive matters more. (The #1 & #2 p
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by mathattack 12y ago
The reality is it's very hard to have objective performance. Salespeople somewhat have it, but even then you don't know the performance of the deals until many years later. You can somewhat come up with it for VCs, but it takes
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by mathattack 12y ago
This nails it, but I think they're failing. I can't mention how many times it's 10:00 and I start looking for something interesting, and by 10:15 give up and go to bed. (Or pay for something on Amazon)

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