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by not_that_noob 9y ago
I think this parallels the situation in the startup economy. Founder-CEOs are the norm today, as opposed to the older baronial CEO types who walked, talked and looked like old school VC firm partners. It used to be that you needed a lot of
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by not_that_noob 9y ago
Sometimes one needs a ruthless capitalist to act as the midwife of innovation.
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by not_that_noob 9y ago
No, just an admirer. Those are facts. And I generally cast a skeptical eye. But he's got the ambition and that rare combo of design-engineering creativity to see how an impossible task can be achieved by rearranging existing technologi
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by not_that_noob 9y ago
He made electric cars sexy. He made rockets that come back to earth for a smooth landing. I'm betting that as crazy as this sounds he is the man to make this happen. Go Elon!
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by not_that_noob 9y ago
The human evolutionary 'tree' is very tangled, and evidence exists for the emergence of homonim from Africa, some of which moved into Europe, and some of which could have then possibly migrated back to Africa. As sea levels rose a
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by not_that_noob 9y ago
One of the more worrisome aspects of the FB is how it was used by the Russian trolls to influence the presidential election. http://mashable.com/2017/03/30/russian-trolls-fake-news/#LDb... It's not
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Body Farms – donated bodies left to decompose for science(en.wikipedia.org)
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$300 mn US call centre scam mastermind arrested(financialexpress.com)
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
The one reason not mentioned here that may tilt it in favor of a C-Corp is if you anticipate that your company will likely be bought at some point (i.e. strong market interest). When you incorporate as a C-Corp (or convert to one), the cloc
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
And even better, he's the damn president - he can pardon whoever he wants for whatever he wants.
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
Travis fits the mold of a ruthless kind of CEO, always pushing the ethical line as far as he can get away with. Bill Gates in his first incarnation as ruthless CEO has engaged in all sorts of questionable behavior. For example, interview a
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Tesla to 'hopefully' launch the Model 3 in India this summer: Elon Musk(mashable.com)
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Australia to tax all digital transactions(thehindu.com)
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
TL;DR: If you take the price information out, the wine doesn't taste so special http://www.wine-economics.org/aawe/wp-content/uploads/2012/1...
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
Why the downvote? If life & intelligence could be the result as the article states of an alien advanced life-form, then to them we're like a little ant colony they have set in motion. In that context, maybe we're not even that
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
What if we're just a school science experiment for a higher intelligence? Like some kid's ant farm, where we are the ants!
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Can Evolution Have a ‘Higher Purpose’?(nytimes.com)
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I didn't know this part - Darwin is a mensch! "Wallace sent his ideas to the English naturalist Charles Darwin, with whom he often exchanged letters. As it happened, Darwin had been working for 20 years on his own theory of natura
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
Condescending much? There is a sophisticated and voracious readership of English in India. And it has given the world many great writers with unparalleled output in English - see http://www.inflibnet.ac.in/ojs/index.php
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
Slavery in the US was not a liberal conspiracy. People from the South were ready to die for essentially a racist system. They were not liberals. Jim Crow laws were not passed by liberals. Voting restrictions (e.g. fake literacy tests and je
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
It's basically a tribal identification mechanism wired into our brain. We have inherited it from our ape ancestors. Chimps can identify the in-group and the out-group, and go to war to eliminate the out-group. We have realized fortunat
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
Great find! Doctors are famous for lousy financial decisions, which I think proves the point.
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This is an artifact of evolution - mental shortcuts enabled faster decision making, and species that got to the conclusion fastest survived. Of course, there is an error rate, but as long as it was small, the faster decision makers won. Log
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
Almost a hit piece on AH. Their returns are definitely top-tier, but WSJ presents it a failure that returns are not the very best. Seriously? It's statistical noise at that tier.
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RAMS: The First Feature Documentary About Dieter Rams(kickstarter.com)
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
Wonderful exercise and writeup. Just fyi, you can usually buy lists of buyers in target companies. They exist for most markets, though it's possible such a list may not exist for your market. These lists will give you actual names and
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
My sense is that he was making sure that Makinde wouldn't be too politically assertive about race issues. Borderline illegal most likely, apart from being exceedingly and odiously offensive.
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Psychologists use doctored Obama photos to get white people support tea party(washingtonpost.com)
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Grow fast or die slow: Why unicorns are staying private(mckinsey.com)
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by not_that_noob 10y ago
A new and interesting perspective from someone who bootstrapped a billion dollar company without any investors.

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