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Ten charts: Why Wall Street loves Google and hates Apple(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
As an FYI, the "Smartest Man" that he's referring to is George Soros. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Soros Wein wrote a biography of Soros in the past, and the biographical sketch at the beginning
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by mathattack 13y ago
So much for the sunk cost fallacy. :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_costs#Loss_aversion_and_th...
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by mathattack 13y ago
I was expecting something like F-ed Company to reappear in 2008 or 2009. Dealbreaker.com was the financial equivalent. It's too bad that someone didn't keep it running. Then again, it embodied the Point of View of the founder t
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by mathattack 13y ago
I used to hate campaigns that would just "Raise Awareness" because I thought that raising awareness never fixed anything. After a while I realized it was the first step to getting people to care. Presenting a solution before any
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Backed By Social+Captial, Brilliant.org Is Finding And Challenging The Brightest(techcrunch.com)
2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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Paris-Based Accelerator TheFamily Takes Index Cash To Re-Shape French Ecosystem(techcrunch.com)
3 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
I disagree. For 95% of the world who doesn't work in the guts of computers, clear communication is more important.
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by mathattack 13y ago
True enough. And that's a tough question too. I waited from 4th grade to calculus to get inspired again. And then I think it was the material more than the teaching method.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Extra toys but not extra training to go with them? I'm curious - what do they do when they're not on SWAT missions? Do they go back to being regular cops, or do they sit on the bench?
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by mathattack 13y ago
Incompetence explains more things than conspiracy theories. I agree with your points. Incompetent cops are more likely to shoot people than a random cabal.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Wow - sounds like deliberate arming. But even if it doesn't cost the local department, it costs us in aggregate. (What's rational for the local government may still not be rational for the taxpayer)
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by mathattack 13y ago
I think he had a point that he was trying to get across, and did it very efficiently. I'm not defending what he did by any stretch, just trying to understand it and propose an explanation. When work environments are hostile like that,
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by mathattack 13y ago
No. But to be clear, I'm not defending the firing, only explaining where it may have come from.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I think he was trying to make an example out of him. Perhaps he already knew that Abel was leaking company information? (A fireable offense) This just seems like a very well calculated move. Anyone referring to a part of the organization
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by mathattack 13y ago
I doubt that there is any business reason for taking pictures of an execution. Armstrong would know if there was. He caught a leaker in the act. The question is how do you handle it? If you want to make an example, you do it on the spot
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm out of my depth here. Perhaps someone good at hacking and analyzing government data can help? The real comparisons seem: 1) If SWAT officers do regular policing too, then compare the incremental annual cost of their goodies versu
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by mathattack 13y ago
I was thinking the issue was that Brogrammers had loud in-office drinking sessions that offended people. "Who funded you?" is the least of my worries.
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by mathattack 13y ago
Military style gear and SWAT training requires resources. Resources that could be spent on community policing.
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by mathattack 13y ago
I hated math until I got to calculus. I never knew why, but I might as well quite this mathematician... They took an exciting topic that interested me as a youth and killed it with rote repetition. The question I struggle with is... How
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by mathattack 13y ago
This is a stretch for me... Should every kid know how to install Linux? And troubleshoot a proxy? Hmmm.... And is this important if they can't read or write well? I view computing as a great topic for those that are interested, but
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by mathattack 13y ago
This is one metric of many. Entrepreneurship is just one path out of business school. And it's a tough one considering that most MBA students have a lot of debt, so unless they get traction and funding while in school, they're s
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by mathattack 13y ago
I'm not sure if it was a "show" versus "tell", but the biggest insight came at the start. Someone who steals from his last company to create a new one isn't going to treat people well. They're appropriat
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El-Erian: A lesson on gender bias from my daughter(postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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Glassdoor’s Top 25 Most Difficult Companies To Interview (glassdoor.com)
4 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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by mathattack 13y ago
It depends on what you admire them for. For good treatment of people? Look up Semco. For strong brand management? Look up Procter & Gamble. For strong marketing? Look up Nike. For great engineering? Look up Google. Ones that are goo
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by mathattack 13y ago
Nice! The next question is "How do you make this useful to Commercial Real Estate?" Answer that and you have yourself a business!
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by mathattack 13y ago
Whenever I see something inspired by Clarke, Asimov or Roddenberry, I wonder who is inspiring the kids of today. Which movies or authors? Or will be indebted by the guidance of the early SF authors for the next 100 years? My first guess i
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by mathattack 13y ago
Anyone who has ever Googled their name and hometown must realize how much information is being sold about us. Google is just presenting the top layer, but this problem is a very old one. For better or worse, I think we have to get used to
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Competency based transcripts(insidehighered.com)
2 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments

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