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by netsp 17y ago
China is definitely an interesting high level examples of what leads to growth. Surely its quite hard to say that the China could have grown faster if only XYZ. If there is always a correlation between growth and state non-intervention, it
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by netsp 17y ago
Very interesting threads of thought in this essay. The idea of culture as an evolved complex, similar to an ecosystem in some ways and similar to an organism in others is a strong one. Like an ecosystem, there is a certain equilibria that u
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by netsp 17y ago
Why, not? It's archaic and not strictly a synonym, but why would it be offensive. I understand that those that use it, usually mean offense, but there is no real reason for it. In lots of languages it is not derogatory.
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by netsp 17y ago
That's not an argument against the proposal, it's an argument in favour of sensible policy design - something that is lacking in the status quo. It is if you are arguing that a sensible policy is not possible.
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by netsp 17y ago
Thanks for pointing to that thread. Bokonist makes a strong case against accreditation bodies in general, barriers to entry and the associated slippery slope. While I am sympathetic to that idea, we have to remember that the Founder Visa is
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by netsp 17y ago
Dell & Google would not have seemed revolutionary to the writer of that "memo." Facebook and twitter have had a profound effect on the way people interact with each other. Microsoft & Paypal happened upon revolution or took the oppo
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by netsp 17y ago
To illustrate the last point, a lot of journalists love the explanation that what is happening now is a result of the change in ownership that happened 15-25 years ago away from families. They wanted to increase margins by reducing costs (j
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by netsp 17y ago
I think people misunderstand this recommendation a lot of the time. It doesn't mean that concerts are actually more lucrative then records ever were. That would imply that the record industry of the past 50 years was stupid because concerts
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by netsp 17y ago
Basically, legal software can be better then pirated.
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by netsp 17y ago
There are two major effects going on that are hurting publishers. 1. Consumers don't need companies to move content around for them so much anymore. When companies were in charge of this job you could control them with things like copyright
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by netsp 17y ago
I don't think the comment is really about microblogs. It's about the cycle of some product becoming popular, adding features, becoming complicated, being competed against by newcomers that say "at least 80% of people don't need 80% of this
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by netsp 17y ago
But surely they need a pretty high tolerance for risk. Twitter still has a reasonable chance of just fizzling out. It could just be a fad and it could just fail to find a business model.
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by netsp 17y ago
When VCs put up this much money at this high a valuation are they still looking for 5-10X returns?
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by netsp 17y ago
With something like this it is impossible to really estimate, even if you are looking only at direct effects (starvation. etc.) First when you have a chain of necessary companents: (Scientific Invention > development of agricultural tec
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by netsp 17y ago
SUre. extra competition. An extra place for innovation to happen. All good. But it doesn't seem to amount to using the browser does it?
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by netsp 17y ago
Does anyone find that chrome is just unnecessary? It seems like google got to the game just when all the other browsers hot a point when they are all good. Not long ago, FF seemed like a real edge. Now I just use it cuz I'm used to it and i
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by netsp 17y ago
Size matters if you need it to become an enabler. You can't get sick of email and leave, for example. Backpackers are constantly using facebook to keep track of their rapidly evolving social sphere. You can rely on most of those you meet be
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by netsp 17y ago
Time will tell I suppose. You may be right but Facebook's size and appeal outside of the normal social networking site market might make it different.
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by netsp 17y ago
0. Understanding relationships between people and making everything about that. Facebook friends are people you know. Of your three., number 1 is most interesting mostly because it is part of 0. By concentrating effort in one place, they so
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by netsp 17y ago
Well, assuming that it is worth somewhere around $1.8b (either because of its intrinsic value or because you could sell it for around that), it has already added about that even if they do nothing but just own it. If they have any sort of p
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by netsp 17y ago
I actually don't know what to make of acquisitions when it's two public companies. That $1.8b is more or less a market price. Think the market is over inflated? What difference does that make if you're own assets are valued by this mechanis
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by netsp 17y ago
Adobe has a reasonable good record with acquisitions.
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by netsp 17y ago
betting on the future of the Internet playing out in ways that are bad for open standards I understand why you think adobe is betting against open standards and against consumers, but why do you think that this move is doing that? BTW
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by netsp 17y ago
Omniture has large customers. It might have something to do with that. * I'm not sure if this is related at all as it is a lot smaller. Adobe recently purchased Business Catalyst, a hosted CMS that differentiates itself by combining CMS, CR
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by netsp 17y ago
What sort of legislation relating to your personal position do you think should be passed? I was simply making a more general point about restrictions on immigration. If you take in to account all effects including the immigrant, the destin
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by netsp 17y ago
It seems that you have a good grasp of the reasons put forward against giving you citizenship. A lot of them boil down to rule of law arguments of some sort avoiding arbitrary rules that let you cherry pick the people you want (educated, pr
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by netsp 17y ago
What Apple can pull on though is the ability to edit. That'd be their strength. They are good at that kind of thing.
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by netsp 17y ago
Why are you still in the US? Does an NYU education put you in a position to immigrate somewhere?
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by netsp 17y ago
To expand on what you are talking about: The solution to the problems caused by restrictions on immigration is less restrictions on immigration. A super specialised policy/visa designed to milk some of the meatiest benefits from immigration
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by netsp 17y ago
Without getting into a very detailed discussion, let me put it this way. I think a convoluted system is the price of such a system. It boils down to the need to define startup. This is something we are better off not doing. Once you give st

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