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by mathattack 15y ago
Seems logical enough, no? There is diminishing personal benefit in getting another 2-3x returns. To quote The credit card companies - locking in your kids education is priceless. From a moral point of view - if firms are turning down billi
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by mathattack 15y ago
Seems inevitable, no? I get perhaps one meaningful piece of mail a week tops, and nothing that can't wait a week. There are peaks (weddings, Xmas, etc) but very little that justifies the scale of the system. I suspect this is true for a l
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by mathattack 15y ago
The 99 cents is arbitrary. Basically any number low enough to keep you from getting scammed. I was "yes, helpful" vote number 154 this morning. Hard to imagine too many others buying it. The charity idea is a good one too. Or you could
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by mathattack 15y ago
Interesting post. I find work life balance to be very tightly coupled with the time horizon of the company.
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by mathattack 15y ago
Perhaps you could sell a 99 cents version on Amazon?
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by mathattack 15y ago
The beauty of this discussion is not just "How to create memorable but hard to break password?" but "How much deep insight can a 4-6 frame cartoon contain?" The signal to noise ratio of xkcd is fantastic! They've again zipped a great discu
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by mathattack 15y ago
Any time you have a massive government subsidy to an industry, people will eventually line up to scam it. In this case, it's a shame because there are a lot of innocent bystanders who get scammed. In addition to the taxpayer footing the bi
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by mathattack 15y ago
In Japan it was a 2 tier issue. Insolvent (Zombie) banks were allowed to stay open. They in turn kept many insolvent companies alive. It's a testament to the strength of the Japanese that they kept the game going on for as long as they d
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by mathattack 15y ago
I had two folks re-interview with me who in the past 6 months had declined offers from my firm. They both went to other firms, and massively failed. In my eyes they are now more valuable to me, not less. More maturity, humility, sense of
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by mathattack 15y ago
To paraphrase one of the Great Ones, "They're Not Dead Yet!"
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by mathattack 15y ago
Don't just think of compensation in terms of dollars and equity today. Also consider: - What are the benefits implications? - How much will this increase your future marketability through connections and learning? - How will this impact you
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by mathattack 15y ago
On the one hand, the article can be depressing - each fallout is a dream that died. On the other hand, one of the things that makes the Valley succeed is it's capacity to celebrate failure. A mistake? What did you learn? Now move on! Co
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by mathattack 15y ago
In a sense it's like having a baby. There are always 100 financial reasons to postpone, but if you wait too long (despite 100 good reasons!) you wind up saying, "I wish I done this years ago!"
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by mathattack 15y ago
Good point. The more people are scared, the less they'll give useful information, and the less they'll benefit from the service, so the less they'll give useful information... Public versus private is a tough one, because many times I do c
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by mathattack 15y ago
Call me jaded, but this doesn't seem so bad to me. If I like something, I am putting that out in the public. I expect it to be on my feed. Why wouldn't it be used more efficiently to tell others what I like? My view is that both Facebook
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by mathattack 15y ago
The headline is a little more downbeat than the story, no? As I read it, they say that private VC investment is moving from research to development. This is consistent with the nature of VC funds - they usually have to pay back investor mo
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by mathattack 15y ago
There are two unwritten assumptions in this post: 1 - The company focuses on people as appreciable assets, as opposed to costs to be minimized. 2 - There is not diminishing returns for chasing the best. Where this is true and recognized, co
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by mathattack 15y ago
My 2 cents... What is more likely to create a company built to last? 1) A firm starved for cash, but with boadloads of the best talent or 2) A firm starved for talent, but with boatloads of cash In situation 1, a great leader can create g
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by mathattack 15y ago
Interesting observations. As someone who has been in hiring positions over several years, the signal to noise ratio in recruiting consistently goes down. On-line recruiting used to be the domain of the talented. Now that everyone is on-l