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by mcphilip 14y ago
Sample complaint against Google re: 5978791 ------------------ INFRINGEMENT OF U.S. PATENT NO. 5,978,791 12. On November 2, 1999, United States Patent No. 5,978,791 (the “’791 patent”)was duly and legally issued for an invention entitled “D
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by mcphilip 14y ago
The recent article in Esquire about rebuilding the world trade center sheds a lot of light into the particularly inept NY & NJ Port Authority mentioned in this bloomberg piece. http://www.esquire.com/print-this/world-trade-center-rebui
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I'm still unable to get a clear answer to the basic question "Why should I use Quora?" I work at a startup in Austin, I read HN daily, I enjoy news about SV startups, etc. Still, I haven't found a compelling reason to spend any substantial
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by mcphilip 14y ago
I can't speak for others but I have an iPhone and choose to only access Facebook through the mobile site. Two reasons: 1. I prefer not to allow Facebook to run a native app on my phone. Various reasons boiling down to not trusting it to a
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Citigroup Micro-Crash Charts(nanex.net)
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Pretty obvious only an idiot would write up this rant on his personal blog while still employed at FB. I ignored the content immediately after realizing this. Click bait title. Lame.
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I really hope this blows back hard on Quora. We need dramatic examples of companies' valuations being hit for making such privacy violations on a whim. Google and Facebook can mostly get away with similar violations since the large majorit
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RIM to lay off 3,000 employees starting next week(bgr.com)
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Schappert successfully dumped (at least) $3.9 million in stock earlier this year. Last week he was stripped of responsibility for overseeing new games. Sounds like as good a time as any to leave. http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/01/zynga-m
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Obligatory reply about The Wire being much better... I'm the only person I know that really dislikes Breaking Bad. I watched the first season in a single marathon session and loved it, but somehow everything fell apart in the second season
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I've spent my last five years working first at an electronic medical records place and then a startup working on a relatively untapped market of aggregating and reporting on enterprise infrastructure related risk management data across disp
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Agreed! I'm not sure that HN has dramatically improved my writing so much as it has gotten me in the habit of only posting when I have something worthwhile to add to a conversation. I appreciate how many users seem to follow this rule of t
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by mcphilip 14y ago
Thanks for the link to longreads! I've been reading longform for a couple months now and absolutely love it. The articles may take 20-30 minutes to read, but it feels so much more fulfilling than skimming over all the image macro memes yo
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I was employed in a company that used something like stack ranking. It was brutal having to evaluate the dev team I was leading. There were a couple veteran developers that consistently did excellent work, but there was a rookie that was
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by mcphilip 14y ago
Probably referring to Apple's market cap being twice that of Microsoft: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=apple+market+cap%2C+mic...
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It's a post of an article from the Bloomberg Markets Magazine.
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I doubt a movie skewering pentecostalism would lead to legions of fundies protesting. Growing up southern baptist, as fundie as it gets, we too would make fun of pentecostals.
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The Terms and Conditions are hilarious: c. You agree to pay $ 100,000 for your use of the Estatis Free Password Security Checker if we ever ask for it.
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Keep in mind that the 'long term' is now ruthlessly reevaluated on a quarterly basis now that they are public. The street is notoriously callous to lofty goals such as long term innovation if it doesn't result in consistent quarterly beats
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by mcphilip 14y ago
The more I learn about markets the more comfortable I am with my decision to primarily invest in index tracking ETFs (e.g. SPY). If I want to 'gamble', i'll do something more elaborate like short volatility, but 90% of my capital is deploy
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by mcphilip 15y ago
A recent WSJ article uses the same terminology [1]. Also, it's common to refer to things as shadowy in financial markets. Shadow banking system, dark pools of liquidity, etc. Calling something a shadow market is a way to describe a marke
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by mcphilip 15y ago
Is there evidence that the bid ask spreads have that substantially declined across the board, or is the decline limited to the most actively churned stocks?
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The guy who made videobox did an AMA on reddit not too long ago. You may find some of it relevant to your questions. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gt0l1/i_have_a_cs_degr...
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Long response from a redditor who launched a reasonably successful startup: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/rqejz/redditors_w...
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Well there was the case of one of the original airbnb scandal submissions [1] having it's title changed from: "AirBnB: Crimes committed against a host" to: "Violated: A traveler’s lost faith, a difficult lesson learned" The rational at the
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by mcphilip 15y ago
Maybe that's true in some sort of a common sense perspective, but the closing of those stores still translates to diminished growth from an investor's perspective which will tend to really punish the stock price and put more pressure on the
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Yes, I remember this when it hit Ajaxian. It's worth noting that the code was done by Thomas Fuchs, the man behind scriptaculous. A true pioneer in Javascript programming.
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The Century of The Self, a 4 part documentary by Adam Curtis, covers exactly what you just mentioned. Fascinating stuff, and available in its entirety on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM
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by mcphilip 15y ago
A few questions come to mind: 1. Can you request a car wash for a car you don't own? If so, how can you prevent car owners who don't want the service handling their care washed as a gift (or prank)? If not, how does a user of the service
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by mcphilip 15y ago
It seems the same argument you're making about it being distasteful to release the emails without any a priori evidence of wrongdoing could have been applied to the HBGary Federal incident, although Anonymous was provoked in that case since

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