muerdeme

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by muerdeme 18y ago
See profile, forgot that it doesn't show.
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by muerdeme 18y ago
Good call. My roommate and I are about to start an econ discussion site. Shoot me an email if you're interested in helping us get conversation started or just have any suggestions for us.
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by muerdeme 18y ago
I was thinking that, because the market created value, it couldn't be zero or negative sum. Now I realize that it's negative sum within the scope of the market itself, even though it may create value in a grander scheme of things.
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by muerdeme 18y ago
My understanding is the "speculators" create liquidity for the risk managers, thereby assuming their risk. Why does the money leaking via commissions necessarily make the game sub-zero sum? Is it because we aren't looking at the big pictur
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by muerdeme 18y ago
Venture capital is not an example of this phenomenon. VCs accept high risk/variance in order to achieve high expected value, and it is not a negative sum game.
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by muerdeme 18y ago
http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/14/microsoft-researchers-make-... This at least explains the reference. I certainly don't understand why he felt so overwhelmed by this of all things.
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by muerdeme 18y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEYGU_7EqU
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by muerdeme 18y ago
I don't like the idea of public companies pandering to so called shareholders. No one is putting a gun to anyone's head and asking them to buy a public company stock. I understand your general sentiment, but this is silly. I don't know w
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by muerdeme 18y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity
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by muerdeme 18y ago
I think the biggest thing that troubles me about our tax system is how much time is wasted trying to figure out how much we owe. Individuals and corporations alike have incentives to devote resources solely to minimizing their tax burden.
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by muerdeme 18y ago
Yeah, but it got too expensive for them once they started letting us riffraff in.
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by muerdeme 18y ago
At least he was careful to use "might." They are soothsaying, after all. Luckily, he won't be able to say "I told you so" when our universe runs out of memory.
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by muerdeme 18y ago
I meant that I would have used Sage if I had known about it. I'm certainly not advocating piracy - Matlab is a fantastic product and well worth the money. That part had more to do with the school's horrific IT program than anything else.
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by muerdeme 18y ago
This is pretty sweet. My roommates and I couldn't have made it through school without the pirated copies of Matlab floating around.
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by muerdeme 18y ago
Pavlina's site feels like one big informercial. Is there a term yet for blogs like that?
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by muerdeme 18y ago
In fact, you can use any fab to make these things right now Whoa. I didn't expect to hear that.
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by muerdeme 18y ago
This is laughable to me. I've muttered more obscenities trying to deal with synchronization problems between computers than with anything else I can think of. I want all of my media everywhere. Is that so wrong?
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by muerdeme 18y ago
It is, in fact, going to be a wonderful environment in which to take risk, because there aren't going to be any excesses. I certainly agree with this, but I wonder if we'll actually see any more posts than usual that say "@#$% my job, I'm
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by muerdeme 18y ago
This seems intuitive if you consider that social standing is generally more important for procreation. He notes that this new insight into how the brain processes social standing may have important public health consequences, possibly even
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by muerdeme 18y ago
I think that a couple hours of design practice could be valuable to a designer regardless of whether he wins the cash.
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All-electric car set for U.S. sales in '09(msnbc.msn.com)
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by muerdeme 19y ago
For a long time at Rice University they, in not so certain terms, allowed underage students to drink in private parties on campus. While going there many of us thought this helped prevent drunk driving. Hearing about friends getting DWIs
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Integrated optics: the way to scale a quantum computer(arstechnica.com)
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“The entrepreneur's factory” encourages employees to come up with fresh ideas (economist.com)
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by muerdeme 19y ago
Talk to your friends in other industries about what problems they have around the office. Chances are that more companies are facing similar problems, and marketing a solution to a known problem is more effective than showing up on their do
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by muerdeme 19y ago
This makes complete sense if you assume that a company that only needs a few hundred thousand to "figure things out" has an equal chance of becoming a billion dollar company as a company that is looking for a multi-million dollar investment
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by muerdeme 19y ago
whatever value mba vc types did bring to the table, understanding of business management and such, is becoming less relevant with smaller startups and less money to be allocated. I completely agree. The answer isn't to convince VCs to in
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by muerdeme 19y ago
Instead of making one $2 million investment, make five $400k investments... If you're investing at a tenth the valuation, you only have to be a tenth as sure. I don't agree with this. The investors have to be just as sure of the risk inv
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by muerdeme 19y ago
The Supreme Court took a major step forward in 2007 by reducing the power of the teaching/suggestion/motivation test to prove non-obviousness. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSR_v._Teleflex I find it interesting that the reason for YCo
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Bobby Fischer - Obituary(economist.com)
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