mathattack

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   by mathattack 13y ago

   If you have one of only a small subset of programmers talented in ABCD, and you charge $2000/day for them, are you gouging your customers? If you want to build slack into the system, allow people to make profit off of extra inventory.
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   Viral video of a DUI checkpoint raises legal questions(usatoday.com)

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

   Isn't a government monopoly on anything a morality question? (Of freedom?) Or just economic efficiency?
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   I know Im missing the point, but this jumps out at me.... "closed as too localized by t.b., Zev Chonoles Sep 5 '11 at 22:18 This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a s
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   "In January 2011, the Culosi family accepted a $2 million settlement offer from Fairfax County. That same year, Virginia’s government spent $20 million promoting the state lottery." Lotteries like this are a tax on people bad at m
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Interesting. This goes hand in hand with the saying that "When you are too stressed to have time to exercise, you need it the most." In this case, the science seems to back up the heuristic.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   My intuition is that money is better when: - There is some competitive advantage to being first. - That the advantage is enduring. - There are lots of competitors. - It is important to fail faster. For example, if you're trying to scal
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Welcome to "Best in Class" enterprise software. :-) It sounds like SAP without a competitor.
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   by mathattack 13y ago

   Or perhaps more precisely, "Companies that want money from VCs talk a lot to the press. Companies that want money from customers talk a lot to their customers."
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I was taking a statistics approach actually, rather than the efficient market hypothesis. For example: 20 people have a choice between X & Y. - 10 people choose X, 1 succeed. - 10 people choose Y, 1 succeed. The first person who succeed
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    My impression is the big virtue of getting up early is nobody is around. It's time for solo thought. There's no waiting for equipment at the gym, if it's open early. And it's possibly to plan the day. It's not fo
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Seems like this would flood the market, and perhaps do good things for the values of the Bitcoins in the Winkelvii personal account, no?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Wow!
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm not negative on the company, and am not taking a general stand for or against VC. (It's useful in some situations, but not all) It's just that what he presents as their secret sauce is also the formula for a lot of comp
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Yes, but I'm not sure what the connection to this is. My point is that what he attributes his success to is also true of most companies that never grow.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I'm still not sure if this story says more about Microsoft, Zynga or Electronic Arts. The implication is all three.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    I don't follow it. He seems folksy, but if "Not taking outside money, and serving customers based out of a low cost area" were the path to $912 million in Sales, wouldn't a lot more people be doing that?
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    "...the thing that Medium excels at is amplifying an individual idea. Not necessarily a writer, but something that writer says." You hit it on the head with this. By and large I like following links to Medium, but I rarely connec
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Indeed. Even New Jersey gets some love. Brookyln too. No hipsters on the upper east or west though.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    The slice is the top students, who used to exclusively go to large companies. Now it's not so many. My impression is the top CS and Engineering students can successfully conduct a national job search.
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    "When I graduated from college in 1986, there were essentially two options: get a job or go to grad school. Now there's a third: start your own company." This is an important observation. 20 years ago, the smartest people we
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    by mathattack 13y ago

    Exactly. Once Google beat it, no need to keep the corpse around. Not sure what Yahoo could do. Their own search had already surrendered.
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    What I learned from my daughter's wedding(dealbook.nytimes.com)

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

    Wow - can I have my evening and morning back?
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    Obama: Pay no attention to that man we can't capture(cnn.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    What's lurking inside coffee(gizmodo.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Snowden's options appear to narrow(news.yahoo.com)

    3 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Are celebrity tweets genuine or ads?(money.cnn.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Who is the most important intellectual of the past 25 years?(marginalrevolution.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments
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    Luck, Investment and the One Percent(marginalrevolution.com)

    1 points by mathattack 13y ago|0 comments