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   Shifting Sources of Artist Income: 1999-2012…(digitalmusicnews.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   Magnus Carlsen - Flynn Effect(infoproc.blogspot.com)

   1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I stand corrected. I wonder how the past 20 years have looked. (Not trying to be a smartass, interested in the #s)
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I meant large in terms of people. It's hard to keep tabs of remote areas, but even harder to keep track of large groups of folks. This is why China's the best example.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Fair enough. But I'd suggest that it's much easier to get to $20 million as a non-white-Male than it would be in most other fields with similar educations. I don't see too many non-white Males at the top of law firms, in ou
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Perhaps this is due to a more decentralized security apparatus in India? This is an open question, as I don't know the answer but I am aware that in very large countries it is hard for a central government to control the provinces. Sa
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   They were dead first though. I thought of that as disposing of the evidence to make it look like suicide.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Is anyone on here trying to solve this? If so, is the difficulty similar to how the writer describes? This seems like an elaborate recruiting tool to me. Google and Microsoft come to mind, but it could be a security firm or agency too.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   My impression is that Chess is making a comeback in schools. At least in NYC, many schools have competitive programs. Here are two programs: http://www.nychesskids.com and http://www.chessintheschools.org .
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Of course it does. Most sales organizations know this. There are still reasons to hunt new customers though: - You don't want your business to fail at the loss of one customer. - New customers can help you push the product. - It'
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I think it's fair to start with, "No industries or geographies are pure meritocracies." Then it's worth asking, "Where does Silicon Valley fit in the spectrum?" Is it more or less meritocratic than teaching?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    My intuition is that it's very random. A business professor and economist (Luigi Zingales) once commented that lots of firms tend to find new ideas all at the same time. When the market is ripe and the arrows point in the same direct
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Could it also be they are dying of radiation poisoning? Barry Eisler writes (fiction) about a contract killer who makes deaths look like natural causes. (www.barryeisler.com)
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    Beware the top search results (the new Ricardian rents?)(marginalrevolution.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It's a tight line. As someone in Sales, it is helpful to know people's email. But sending spam just creates more powerful spam blocking email systems, which ultimately screen out real email too. The hack is cool. Public directo
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    It would be worth noting geography in the answers to these questions. Japan is very different than Silicon Valley in terms of work culture and expectations. Silicon Valley is very different than Tulsa, Oklahoma. Interesting question, I ho
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm not sure how to interpret this, since it's in relative dollars not absolute. Is it, "Companies overspend on everything relative to revenue when they don't have much, and then it shrinks as revenue grows over time.&q
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I've read the article, though it didn't come to mind when a business partner showed up in full coat and tie. He just said, "I'm dressing up again because I don't have to." The suit is back! :-)
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I remember an internal training class at a large consulting firm in the mid 90s that was using OS/2. I thought, "This is an awful sign. Are we doing this just to get some business with IBM?" They were a big user of Lotus N
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    As soon as I read the first ten words I started thinking telecom. Much of our current boom is based on the wasteful infrastructure spending of the last bubble.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    There were a lot of folks who got out on the top with BS ideas that had me scratch my head. At least I used Blue Mountain, though I never figured out how they'd get anyone to pay for their service. This was well before the current &q
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    An anthropologist’s observations about jobs in banking(news.efinancialcareers.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Swatting at a Swarm of Public Relations Spam(nytimes.com)

    2 points by mathattack 13y ago|2 comments
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Ahhh - gotcha. I think our experiences are similar.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This concept is very strange to me, as Germany is generally considered to be a high-efficiency high-wage country. I wonder if this comes from social pressure of supporting so many high-social-welfare countries.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    They're off to a pretty slow start. $300 from the sponsor, and one $25 addition. This is despite being front page on HN. Thoughts on why this is going so slow? Or is this par for the course for most projects? They have 2 more mont
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I think the "25 to get 5" is aggressive. My experience is close to "25 to get 1". Standard processes are important, but they need to respect everyone's time.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The single most important point is that the process is candidate unfriendly . You can get away with being candidate unfriendly during college hiring. Maybe. If you're not hiring at a top CS school. You can't get away with it
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Maybe someone could write an app for this. :-) And better yet, put the transcript in plain English.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    This is a classic example of Design Integrity versus Best New Features versus Backwards Compatibility. For better or worse, Microsoft and IBM seem to worry most about backwards compatibility, which is why they were more popular in the ente