mathattack

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   by mathattack 13y ago

   7. For Christmas, someone should give President Obama and Secretary Sebelius a copy of The Mythical Man-month. This captures exactly what I was thinking when I started reading about sending in reinforcements.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I guess I'd divide the research world like this: 1) Pie in the sky research that is beyond the 20 year time horizon of long-view companies and 10 year time horizon of VCs. 2) Research that is amenable to teaching people how to resear
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   That's why it's listed as irony. Even great minds have "Whoops" moments.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   This just sounds like a glorified Tupperware party, no? That's perfectly ok though as long as everyone is honest about it. I'm curious about the revenue numbers though. Of the $250 million they're expecting to cross hands,
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   This is actually a good thing, no? If academia is hoarding too many erudite free-thinkers, cut them loose elsewhere to solve the world's problem. If the best 20% of teachers can be leveraged via online resources over 80% of the studen
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Exactly. It's not the logic that's hard, it's the exceptions. If you're not building a new business around the technology, you wind up having to deal with a lot of well-reasoned exceptions and fuzziness that's in
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   When you are the CEO, you are both empowered and bound. Empowered to take risks, because the buck stops with you, but bound by the outcomes because there is nobody else to blame. So yes he took a risk. This was one of many. If it didn&#x
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I didn't like the smugness of it. "We the entrepreneurial class do what others don't..." Yes, you have to ask. And do. And put in tons of hard work.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   It does make sense to properly fund wars, though in worst case situations (WW2?) you need the ability to massively borrow. The irony of Iraq is there are eminent economists who thought it was worth it. http://www.nber.org/pa
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm surprised it's legal. Didn't Amazon have to backtrack on something like this?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    That's not creepy, that's useful. Most retailers have the address of the source and destination of every case they've shipped going back many years. Most bus companies have the starting and ending points for every trip that
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm not to that extreme because you need buy-in to make things work. But.... The problem with group think and committees is that everyone has a veto. The problem then is it is very hard to get out of Pareto Efficient [1] situations
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I agree. Much of this is just because the processing is moving off of the machine too. When you were doing all of your own computations, any incremental thing you did required a stronger PC. Now that computation is happening on the serve
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    True, though Google seems to be investing the cash fairly aggressively.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    But is it really any different from a shareholder getting paid versus an employee? These are pension funds and 401ks counting on the money.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Indeed - 8 years is a long long time. And who is actually harmed? Would it be less evil if Google had to put banner ads up to make payroll?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Of course there is also bonding going on. And a lot of folks who have responsibilities while at home have more freedom on the road.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Certainly conferences have a drinking problem. I've been to conferences in many industries: Software, Consumer Products, Consulting, Financial Services... There are very hung over audiences in each. I think the common theme is you h
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    > I seriously doubt BlackBerry would pay for reviews Why is this such a stretch? Other large hardware companies have done the same. [1] This isn't to say they have or haven't, just that it's a feasible option to think the
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Yes. Increasing the housing stock, and creating opportunities for people to make money servicing the middle class helps.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    One problem is the very policies supporting cheap housing (rent control for example) make it much less profitable for people to invest in medium income housing.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Thanks! Even at 120 pages you crammed a lot of information into a short amount of time and pages. I appreciate what you're doing.
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    Breaking Away: Why Several Top Public Universities Are Going Private(psmag.com)

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

    Could this be why they had a lot of downtime today?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    150 hours seems very little for a book. (3 weeks of intense focus) Any idea on how you got to be so efficient? Were there hours hidden in other activities? Or had you done all the thinking in advance, and it was just putting pen to pape
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Thank you for the comment. I was just wondering... "70% seems high, does anyone have first hand experience?"
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    > Perhaps most terrifying is that the mere act of hospitalization will likely be the highest vector of transmission of nearly untreatable infections. Go in for a routine procedure and end up in the isolation ward due to some highly infec
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    Why VCs aren’t insanely rich(venturebeat.com)

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

    You can get blamed for changing something! The power if inertia....
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    But didn't Bell Labs have the telco mentality? Or how did they protect themselves from it?