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by mathattack 15y ago
Similar to correlation and regression. Great concepts, and can add a lot of implied rigor to a mountain of BS.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Yes - their debt is held locally. And they own a huge chunk of ours. This means that they have less currency risk in the case of deflatiOn. Perversely, the citizens are loaning the govt hundreds of billions to buy loans whose value deprec
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by mathattack 15y ago
He misses some key statistics... The Japanese government is wallowing in debt. Much of the current standard of living is based on borrowed dollars. Their debt to GDP ratio is worse than any of the European countries in crisis and much wo
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by mathattack 15y ago
The CIO put it in his own words - if people are leaving for other firms, he isn't paying a market wage. You have to earn the loyalty of 20somethings. They've seen large companies lay off hordes of people for dumb reasons. You can't pay s
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by mathattack 15y ago
Thou captured much of my reaction. 9 years doesn't make research rigorous if the methodology is flawed, and the end sample sizes are small. Comparison companies are good but don't solve methodology concerns. And I am actually one who lIk
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by mathattack 15y ago
Great way to staff a project within a firm, but violates the confidence of a job search. The only thing I think that might be ok is asking people within your own firm who know them.
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by mathattack 15y ago
They have the resources to invest, but struggle to commercialize. This is why so many of Xerox's great inventions were commercialized elsewhere. Even when they have success stories (ibm's first PCs) they are usually hives off from the res
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by mathattack 15y ago
After companies get to be a certain size it gets tougher and tougher to do basic research. Part ofbitbia corporate culture part is fear of undermining existing products. The examples where this isn't true (lockheed Martin's skunkworks, App
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by mathattack 15y ago
Interesting. In Columbia's case I would ask, "you are already there, what are you waiting for? Free land?"
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by mathattack 15y ago
The banks have two sets of clients to appeal to. The Investment Bankers have corporate clients to keep happy. In 2000 companies were happy for the big 2x IPO day pops. Now they realize this is very expensive PR. On the other hand, their
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by mathattack 15y ago
I was also hoping for Stanford. This is not meant to disrespect Cornell - I just question how additive it will be. Cornell has long produced great Engineers, but many wind up in NYC anyway. Will cutting the prop plane to Ithica really be
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by mathattack 15y ago
While I won't comment on the product or company, the pitch was very well played. For a few hours (tops!) of effort they can guarantee a famous VC will look at them. Crunchbase should graciously take the meeting. Even if they don't, they
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by mathattack 15y ago
I think it's only fair. After all, how many creatives like typical square teachers? Exceptional students and exceptional teachers eventually find each other.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Nothing profound to add, just thanks for sharing!
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by mathattack 15y ago
It's a tangent, but David Carr is an interesting bird, spanning both old and post-Twitter journalism. You can get some insights on him in the recent NY Times documentary -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_One:_Inside_the_New_York_T.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Point 2 is very important. The IRS is getting tougher and tougher on companies for hiring consultants who look like employees. Even companies like Microsoft have stumbled with this issue.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Our system is messed up. I would let anyone in with a degree from one of the top 25 or so schools abroad. IIT, Tokyo, Cambridge, etc. Also anyone with a 2 year grad degree in the top 20 in their field in the US can stay. Only lastly wou
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by mathattack 15y ago
There is no perfect solution, and complain as I do, we still have something good and fixable. In general I prefer less regulation and smaller government so we can let the market handle resource allocation for us. The less pie for the govt
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by mathattack 15y ago
Regulatory capture is the natural side effect of regulatory control of industries. Look no further than Barney Frank asking the companies he regulated to hire his SO.
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by mathattack 15y ago
It is a fast oversimplification to say that economists lose and Mandelbrot wins. Eugene Fama ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Fama ) whose Phd thesis coined the concept of stock prices following a random walk simultaneously wrote abou
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by mathattack 15y ago
A couple thoughts here: 1) As the article states, Facebook has fiduciary duty to Facebook and nobody else. 2) Same with the VCs. 3) This isn't unique to high tech. Sometimes a CEO will accept a bad merger price to become the CEO of a large
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by mathattack 15y ago
Not seasoned, but, any time I ask someone for money, I try to... 1) Put myself in their shoes, and talk in their terms. 2) Understand their niche. (Seed? Early Stage? Late stage? Software? Hardware? Energy?) 3) Be authentic. The m
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by mathattack 15y ago
"That said, you come off as a needy manipulative little shithead." He was supposed to be 14 at the time, no? It could be an honest appraisal of amateur Macchiaveli-ism, no?
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by mathattack 15y ago
Very tough for Kodak to recover. What's amazing is how ahead of the game they were. Digital cameras in 1975. Fischer was also ahead of the game, and they scaled back because their short term earnings suffered. In a way they remind me of
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by mathattack 15y ago
Fair enough. :-) At least with developers, the progress can be more tangible and visible.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Thanks for sharing. I think it's a better math lesson than coin tampering lesson. Hard to imagine the wrench is state of the art. :-) One of the subtle lessons here is just how many tosses you have to make to get a high confidence level.
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by mathattack 15y ago
"Product Guy" can translate to "non-technical" similar to "Business Analyst". 95% of the so-called Business Analysts I see (many from top schools and top firms) really don't know anything about the businesses they're analyzing - they get t
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by mathattack 15y ago
I am very surprised that many of these recruiters can stay in business. Even if internal HR departments are lazy, how do they get candidates that actually pass interviews? Sometimes I wonder if it's a field with a low barrier to entry, th
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by mathattack 15y ago
It's easy to sink a lot of money into renewables. (Look at our govt) Great that Google didn't have the hubris to chase this too long. Being great at search doesn't mean solving world peace, boiling oceans, or solving the energy crisis.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Seems the key is timing. Right before taking a free throw, the visualization helps. No benefit to worrying about misses. Three months into a six month development? Then it's better staying up late thinking of the competition. Save the

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