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1021.
by nugget 14y ago
Vote with your feet; it's the only vote that matters in California these days.
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by nugget 14y ago
I spent many years at MIT and continue to support the Institute today, financially and with my time. What makes MIT special - for me - is the way that the administration (at least while I was there) embraces the hacker culture and understa
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by nugget 14y ago
In fairness I think he'd also say he's excited to find exceptions to the rule and would encourage any older entrepreneurs to prove him wrong. You can acknowledge certain market realities and still support and maintain a strong meritocracy
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by nugget 14y ago
I didn't say that folks in the public sector are lazy or stupid, I said that there is rarely a direct connection between their performance on the job and their financial upside. Public sector workers are much more concerned about downside
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by nugget 14y ago
It's very difficult to be "sitting on piles of money" in the way you imply unless you've literally perched yourself atop a chair constructed from stacks of US dollar bills. When a millionaire earns an extra million dollars, he or she puts i
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by nugget 14y ago
Government is the least efficient allocator of resources. For every dollar put to use, many more dollars are wasted due to incompetence or fraud. California's Proposition 30 was a wake-up call for me; despite all the political advertiseme
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by nugget 14y ago
“I miss being in private practice and being my own boss,” says Alexander, the Illinois cardiologist. “I would have said 30 years ago that I planned on dying with my boots on and practicing until I couldn’t practice anymore. Now, do I look
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by nugget 14y ago
Some of these comments confuse me. What do you expect an m&a email to read like? Having been through a bunch of acquisitions, that email is par for the course, especially for a (presumably) smaller acquisition. You have an internal p
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by nugget 14y ago
This is why his startup beats your startup.
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by nugget 14y ago
"Antitrust harm" is not limited to consumers, you can prove harm to competitor businesses as well to qualify a lawsuit.
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by nugget 14y ago
Google controls 90%+ of the search market in almost every European country. In the US, it varies based on how you measure it but is around 80%. Also, the definition of a monopoly is not a strict % test but considers many other factors.
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by nugget 14y ago
Sorry but you don't seem to understand how antitrust law works. Today, in the US and many other parts of the world, Google has a monopoly in the search market. Google is using their monopoly in that market to influence a second market (an
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by nugget 14y ago
Whenever I read articles like this, I try to remind myself that there's an entrepreneurial component to finance as well. One of my friends from school was a trader for several years at a major bank. In 2012, his MD slashed his comp and th
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by nugget 14y ago
I'm confused why there's no effective, tech-driven advertiser response to Adblock. Code wise, it seems to me that only a whitelist based blocker should work; blacklist based blockers can be subverted by ad networks routing through dynamic
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by nugget 14y ago
In Facebook's case (see quora link from beambot), it seems like the instant injection of a high-quality core team permanently elevated the engineering culture and probably led to a lot of the success that followed. I could see it going the
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by nugget 14y ago
I always liked the story of the "Microsoft Five" who joined Facebook early on. I would pay a little more if I could hire a small team of developers who already had experience working together. I bet a team of 3 or 4 devs who shopped their
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by nugget 14y ago
I used to be a fan of Blekko until you started spamming my favorite download site with a crappy toolbar. Why sell out so early?
1038.
by nugget 14y ago
What happens when residential prices rise so high that you price out many of the same employees who created the critical mass and desire for this urban environment in the first place? How do you recruit a software dev @ $100k/yr when the 1
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by nugget 14y ago
Anyone who works with these clowns knows they are full of crap. Facebook spam != real users.
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by nugget 14y ago
you must have rent control...
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by nugget 14y ago
I think this is a very under talked-about topic in Silicon Valley. I'm on my third startup after two successful exits and still deal with the "roller coaster" of emotions related to work in this field. I don't think it ever really subside