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by mathattack 12y ago
The challenge here is that people fighting this have to be convinced to pay higher taxes rather than "Stick it to the criminals." When you ask people to pay for higher principles, sometimes they balk. Of course we know about the
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by mathattack 12y ago
If you feel it's garbage, don't work on it. :-) Many startups fail because of execution problems, many fail because they are too early, many fail because they are too late. And yes, some fail because the idea doesn't look
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by mathattack 12y ago
I have had a long standing cultural fascination with Japan, that included over a dozen trips, and 9 months of living there. Some observations: 1) He's true on who to hire. At one firm I worked for, the women were MUCH more competent
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by mathattack 12y ago
Is this a sign of what happens when a cloud guy becomes CEO?
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by mathattack 12y ago
My comments and data are more on NYC. (I moved to Silicon Valley in part based on the terrible public schools in NYC, and picked my new location based on zoning) The school I was zoned for had ~90% of the kids failing the state math and re
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by mathattack 12y ago
Having a large chance to have your kid land in a poor quality school is reason enough not to live someplace. (Unless you can afford private)
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by mathattack 12y ago
Occupying a keynote slot at the Forbes 30 Under 30 Summit That in and of itself may highlight part of the problem. I've known a handful of people on those lists, and it rarely ends well. I don't know if reversion to the mean,
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by mathattack 12y ago
The answer clearly isn’t economic: it’s moral and political. The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger (think of what started to happen when this even began to
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by mathattack 12y ago
The strange thing is when you recruit into the Wall Street jobs, you are supposed to pretend that the reason is anything but the money.
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by mathattack 12y ago
I would say very good in NY suburbs - I wouldn't go as far as great. (Without going into too much detail, I've done quite a bit of research) The difference is that Silicon Valley has a lot of jobs, and is the area of the original
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by mathattack 12y ago
High schools are. K-8 are of dubious merit. It's based on IQ testing of 4 year olds, a very weak science, especially in the backdrop of prepping. It is very much a system of haves and have nots.
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Our skewed, empty media diet(nydailynews.com)
1 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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How to gladden a wealthy mind(nytimes.com)
1 points by mathattack 12y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 12y ago
I guess I consider it harsh to judge a book based on the MOOC that uses it.
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by mathattack 12y ago
I'm surprised by the sales increases, as it takes many years to reclaim the trust of consumers burned by crappy products and services. I recall a personal laptop breaking, not being covered by warantee, and then being shipped to the w
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by mathattack 12y ago
My impression is that Silicon Valley (like NYC) is a destination. Move to St. Louis and everyone asks where you went to high school. Not here. It doesn't take long to make a name, and there's a tradition of helping "the ne
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by mathattack 12y ago
Having lived in NYC too, the greed there trumps the greed in Silicon Valley. The greed in NYC is money for it's own sake. The greed in Silicon Valley at least has the pretense of creating good products. The greed in Silicon Valley r
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by mathattack 12y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but are you taking this as a MOOC? If so, what were you expecting?
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by mathattack 12y ago
I feel sick after eating Taco Bell. This isn't the case with Chipotle.
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by mathattack 12y ago
I used to buy into the "It's all about execution" and "We can make consistent food with a high school work force" story but the very few times I have been in there lately have been bad experiences. I'm not sure
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Taibbi takes time out after “disagreements.” Can I publish our emails now, Matt?(pando.com)
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by mathattack 12y ago
I think it's not so bad given the context. And she does have a very legit background. Per her Rose Hulman profile... http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~berry123/CV.pdf I view Rose Hulman as one of the hidden gems in o
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by mathattack 12y ago
Very ironic given that McDonalds was an early investor. I find them similar to Starbucks - not the best out there, but they've driven a lot of mediocrity out of the market. And I used to eat there more than weekly when it was walking
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by mathattack 12y ago
One can argue that Slack is overpriced, but writing like this is silly: "To put it another way, if Slack had the same annual revenues as LinkedIn at $1.5 billion in 2013, it would be valued at almost $140 billion and become one of the
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by mathattack 12y ago
This confirms that the money is in the software, not the harder. I see parallels with 80s and 90s desktops.
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by mathattack 12y ago
"If you need more than 2 tweets to express your thought, you're either using the wrong medium or thinking too far. If that conversation model doesn't fit you, that's perfectly fine, but that's not the fault of twitt
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by mathattack 12y ago
Per what others have said, I am explaining by following the money, rather than justifying. I think companies and people (despite companies being people?) act somewhat differently on this despite similar economics.
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by mathattack 12y ago
Very different. Corporations frequently think like this under the guise of duty to shareholders. Many do the right thing, but frequently they do a cost-benefit analysis against the damage from getting caught. Gary Becker (RIP) discusses t
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by mathattack 12y ago
“So… Yahoo bought my website.” “I don’t think I can counteroffer that.” That put a smile on my face. Thank you for sharing!
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by mathattack 12y ago
"Inbox functions very much more like a ToDo list than it does an email client." This is very important. I've started using Evernote, and thought, "I really want to keep track of what gets done and who is doing what via

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