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by nwatson 12y ago
Pharmaceuticals: one product that's also costly to research and manufacture, and the firm that gets the magic compound first gets a couple of decades of monopoly. Plebs like us can't yet synthesize a copy of the medical product
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Project Hieroglyph – working toward optimistic sci-fi(hieroglyph.asu.edu)
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by nwatson 12y ago
This is won't stop corrupt Chinese officials with money to burn, and also will play out just like the BYOD scenario for mobile phones in corporations in the US: BYOD phenomenon: * company issues BlackBerry or Windows 6.x phones *
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by nwatson 12y ago
I was surprised the article didn't mention IBM's Watson project (the Jeopardy game-show winning "AI" bot) and I assumed IBM would be farther along in actual commercialization in "outside" domains. Google and o
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by nwatson 12y ago
(All this is from US tax viewpoint ...) Also factor in the huge one-time payout and how that's taxed at a higher rate than your normal big-company earnings. I know people who got hammered at Federal + California + special-California&#
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by nwatson 12y ago
Fundamentalist Christians are still seen in the U.S. as the "oppressing majority" that want to impose their belief system on others or want at least to make others feel bad for not adhering to their beliefs or not conforming to th
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Why did Japan surrender? .. not Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2011)(boston.com)
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by nwatson 13y ago
For me, noise isn't the problem. Since moving from the SF bay area to North Carolina, I work at home a lot for my California job. I like to get out for several hours almost every day, though. I head to either Krankies Coffee or Cami
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by nwatson 13y ago
$1 in the US will buy you much less than $1 in Thailand. Raw income comparisons don't work. $32,400 in San Francisco is poverty (my conjecture) for a family of four. At least appeal to something like The Economist's Big Mac index.
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by nwatson 13y ago
>> There's a real growing unrest out there about how a few greedy people control [the movie] business - making their billions Those greedy people understand the importance of "story." The Gooseberry trailer showed no
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by nwatson 13y ago
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE-overview.html I'd like the author also to evaluate ACE at the URL above. When we needed similar functionality in a project starting in 2004 this is what we used. Very old schoo
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by nwatson 13y ago
There's no guarantee. Anyone with a stake, including early investors, faces the same issue. At my last company I thought I got an ok deal on signing but after a couple of pivots and acquiring a smaller company my original stake became
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by nwatson 13y ago
looks like it's back, at least for browsing repositories
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by nwatson 13y ago
Not all early adopters will want to sell. Heirs to their estate will ... which is why in the next 40 years there will be a few floods of bitcoin supply to deal with.
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by nwatson 13y ago
It will let you see through walls. Imagine being in a complex refinery, factory, etc., where tons of infrastructure is hidden behind walls or a couple of rooms away. Just hold your device in front of you, and peer through its virtual porta
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by nwatson 13y ago
A guess, based on my experience and accounts of others here and on other similar forums. The figure could be much different for smaller startups, I've usually joined teams of between 3 and 15 engineers, where the adaptability and lear
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by nwatson 13y ago
Hmmm, I'm no SQL jockey, rarely deal with it directly, and currently work with MongoDB. I got 5-of-5 on the PostgreSQL flavor of the test but am sure I'd fail a whiteboard interview on SQL particulars. Being a generalist I can u
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by nwatson 13y ago
I expected to be impressed by the printing itself, but what startled me was what one sees on pages 2 and 3 of the original link (and what http://www.barbaradoyen.com/book-publishing/physical-anatomy... calls the "
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by nwatson 13y ago
A side effect: the sale of the tasty "chivito al plato" will soar (look it up).
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by nwatson 13y ago
You risk losing a lot with early exercise. The expected return on a $1 investment in option exercise is ??? hard to say. What's even worse though is three years into employment deciding you hate your job and that you want to leave, re
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by nwatson 13y ago
I've "pre-exercised" before, with a meaning different from what's depicted here in the article. In the "pre-exercise", I was able to exercise the stock before I'd vested in it, with the understanding, of c
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by nwatson 13y ago
If he/she dies their heirs will want to liquidate their estate. This event by far will lead to the largest flood of BTC on the market. Look for a big crash 0 to 40 years from now.
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by nwatson 13y ago
Not exhaustive enough. From the link: "Miners of Bitcoin face a host of unique tax issues that are outside the scope of this discussion." If I were mining I'd want to know the tax and legal implications, and there are no g
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by nwatson 13y ago
There is a fungus "out west that occupies some 2,384 acres (965 hectares) of soil in Oregon's Blue Mountains."
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Largest currently living organism is a fungus(scientificamerican.com)
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by nwatson 13y ago
Motorola, Honeywell, etc. Motorola was for long the largest employer in the state, perhaps still is. Arizona isn't heavy on RoR hipster startups, but for semiconductors, electronics, aerospace, and all the high-reliability serious soft
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by nwatson 13y ago
I also think North Carolina is beautiful. A drive through the countryside on a two-lane road is amazing. The epitome of evil here is to not mow your lawn or keep up your landscaping or to not apply that coat of paint, so everyone's p
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by nwatson 13y ago
I'll try that!
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Yep! Do you have experience with the town?
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by nwatson 13y ago
I'm now working for a San Jose startup from North Carolina ... and not from RTP, but from a much less tech-focused area. My wife's family lives here and that's great for our daughter. Our house here costs 20% what an equiva

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