mediaman

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811.
by mediaman 16y ago
Hey. You seem like a pretty smart guy. Throughout your comments on this thread, though, you've demonstrated a level of condescension, arrogance, and rudeness that is inappropriate for civil dialog between people (see also your comment elsew
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by mediaman 16y ago
Great set of criteria -- I appreciate that this is much more broadly applicable than the narrow spectrum of web startups typically discussed here. Sounds like you've gotten an MBA from the school of experience (the best kind!). Only other c
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by mediaman 16y ago
It's important to note that for whatever definition of the word "shady" you're using, it is different than Madoff shady: Madoff's returns were fictitious, imagined from a series of hypothetical trades made in hindsight; these HF firms keep
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by mediaman 16y ago
I recently went to work at a local cafe for a few hours over the weekend. It's a cafe that is well situated for people to grab coffee and a snack, and then sit down to get some work done. What was striking to me was that I saw no fewer than
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by mediaman 17y ago
Monetization of massive US debt, particularly due to the present value of the future liability of social programs. If current spending patterns don't change, monetization is the only alternative to defaulting on Treasury obligations, unless
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by mediaman 17y ago
Not from what I saw. I worked at a very large Manhattan-based investment bank and we paid the research quants way more than the rating agencies. There was a brain drain from rating agencies to the bulge bracket firms. There's a lot more mon
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by mediaman 17y ago
I don't think that fully explains it. Government paying for your health care is not the same as if government were to pay for your car repair. The former will always carry repercussions for you--diabetes is a very difficult condition to hav
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by mediaman 17y ago
Not that I agree with everything in the article, but it's interesting how Amazon's cross-platform distribution mechanism makes it a significantly more attractive option for readers.
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Five Lessons Apple Can Learn From Amazon(government.zdnet.com)
2 points by mediaman 17y ago|9 comments
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by mediaman 17y ago
People here are showing a lot of dislike for the third category, those who want to make money. I think that's because of how the author describes them, not how they actually are. People who want to make money for money's sake love building
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by mediaman 17y ago
Not true. Warren Buffett fits in that category. Many people in that third category care about making money in an abstract sense -- it's a game, but it can be a long-term game. They don't care about the cars or the status symbols. They love
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by mediaman 17y ago
I'm generally pro-private sector, but the stats on our health care insurance system are astounding. The OECD averages (which are primarily statist health care systems) about 8.9% of GDP spent on health care. The US averages 16%. US has fewe
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by mediaman 17y ago
To add to the others' responses, the following New York Times article goes into some detail to the CBO estimates and why the author believes their figures are unrealistic, mostly not due to any bias at the CBO but due to strictness of their
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by mediaman 17y ago
This is true only in the most technical sense -- health insurers are known for dropping entire small companies that have unusually high claims. The smaller the company, the faster they'll drop you.
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by mediaman 17y ago
This is exactly what I've been looking for -- I've been trying to find a way to collaboratively edit a draft PDF of a newsletter, without dumping a lot of money on Acrobat.
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by mediaman 17y ago
There's a lot of money in businesses in which you're helping companies "find money". In this case, it's recovering at least something from a bad debt. In others, it could be finding buyers for scrap product or other material that's usually
827.
by mediaman 17y ago
It doesn't work without Quicktime on Chrome as well.
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by mediaman 17y ago
I don't disagree that this has been overblown, but in fairness it would be fairly difficult to reach down and pull the gas pedal up while the engine is raging and the vehicle is undergoing significant forward acceleration, while the driver
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by mediaman 17y ago
Calacanis does not seem worth trusting based on this.
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by mediaman 17y ago
Jobs, and the team he hired, including Jon Ive, were the driving force behind the iMac, iPod, and iPhone designs. If Apple felt no need to hire Jobs because they had Be, why would it be reasonable to presume they would still create the same
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by mediaman 17y ago
Why is being focused on the iTunes Store bad? I understand how reliance on the actual software is a bad idea -- although it's rumored that this is being replaced with a web front-end (hence the acquisition of LaLa). But I don't see how owni
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by mediaman 17y ago
His argument is that large reserves do not protect from economic problems. This is in response to Friedman's assertion that the Chanos analysis is wrong because despite excess capacity, China can use its currency reserves to stave off reces
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by mediaman 17y ago
Office vacancy rates in Pudong are over 50%. Many of the signs of excess capacity are readily apparent in China: it is only the massive currency injections, in keeping the currency pegged to the dollar, that have allowed such expansion unju
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by mediaman 17y ago
Why not? WiFi links up to the local network; access the server based on an internal server. I can already do that via the iPhone.
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by mediaman 17y ago
More accounting profit, not economic profit. You have to earn a return on all the additional assets you have by going vertical. The Street will punish you if you just buy companies to make more "profit" but your return on assets decline. Re
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by mediaman 17y ago
Business users. You should see the number of sales teams and executives who are buying netbooks for simple, lightweight and long-life battery capacity use of mainstream business apps such as Outlook, Office, and custom ERP apps. They will n
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by mediaman 17y ago
There is a large market for business-oriented netbooks -- managers, salespeople and executives who are largely using it for access to Outlook, simple document viewing, and other business-oriented apps. I have a difficult time seeing the iPa
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by mediaman 17y ago
I've found their 3G coverage has significantly improved since I bought the 3GS, and general reliability has improved since I bought the first 2g.
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by mediaman 17y ago
I bought a late-model eeePC recently, and one of the biggest behavior changes I've noticed is how willing I am to bring it to meetings. I can grab the thing by the bulging battery pack in the back, and because of its small size it doesn't c
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by mediaman 17y ago
Good news, in my opinion -- back when MSFT was courting Yahoo many were concerned Zimbra would get shut down in the aftermath.

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