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by padobson 11y ago
Wages are flat, buy and hold strategies are decimated by bubbles, and any job can be eaten by globalization. At the same time, profits are up, access to capital has never been cheaper, and global market access has never had fewer barriers t
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by padobson 11y ago
Youngstown was a pugnacious steel city of 167,000 when Loew was born, with boxing clubs anchored in many neighborhoods. [...] A half-century later, Youngstown is down to a population of 65,000, a hemorrhaging of 100,000 people caused by st
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by padobson 11y ago
There's some world-shaking insight. The best piece of advice I can give is to never, ever give an estimate to stakeholders until you've worked on the estimate first. And don't finish an estimate until you've actually bui
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by padobson 11y ago
I don't think there's anything morally wrong with a wealth gap if opportunities for upward mobility exist. Which is why the following line from the piece struck a chord with me: A hedge fund is a loose term referring to an invest
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by padobson 11y ago
I see Let's Plays as the new shareware, and it could be a very good thing for the developer if approached correctly. The game industry has long struggled with the chicken-egg problem of getting a gamer to make a purchasing decision wit
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by padobson 11y ago
Seems like the problem is mobile games discovery. I play 10-20 hours of games a week, all of them on consoles or handhelds that are >10 yrs old. Do I want to be playing only old games? No, but it's easier to find a Game Boy game tha
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by padobson 11y ago
I liked this: What really drives the demand for gold is the social aspect. The primary driver is that rich people accumulate gold and so are associated with it. This is also why Chanel can charge $3,000 for a purse. It's also why App
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governments have access to forms of coercion that corporations do not This is the crux of my point. To me, it makes all the difference. But thank you for the added nuance.
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The private planning of corporations, whose budgets were sometimes bigger than those of governments, defined postwar American capitalism, not markets. There may not be a practical difference between centrally planned economies by governme
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I think it's more like Stockholm syndrome. Our compilers are berating us 100 times a day that we're making grammatical mistakes in the language we're using, and we begin to love them for it. It's no wonder we tend to dem
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by padobson 11y ago
The article starts off by saying that having too many choices can paralyze us, increasing the fear that we will choose wrong. I completely understand this from my own life, and I've found that good categorization, rather than fewer cho
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by padobson 11y ago
Are headsets the only path to VR right now? I could see this vastly altering the gaming market, where very few experiences are shared unless a network is involved. But I don't see VR being a paradigm shift on the order of the smartphon
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by padobson 11y ago
There's a major difference between a public employee union and a private sector union. In the private sector, a union organizes to put leverage on management, who represents ownership (i.e. the stockholders, the partners, etc). Ownersh
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by padobson 11y ago
This is effectively how the low fed-funds rate trickles down to the consumer - there are 0% financing opportunities everywhere. Ultimately, these deals are subsidized by people who get charged with massive deferred interest payments because
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by padobson 11y ago
Atticus Finch is maybe the greatest character in American literature. His courage in standing against racial injustice is notable, but the true depth of the character comes from his quiet strength and his unabashed dedication to his family
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From the Windows 7 user's perpsective, there's no difference. It's understood that this article is meant to discuss zero-install applications that require nothing more than the standard C library. That said, if you're ma
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by padobson 11y ago
Looks like a fun read. I did a search, and it looks like there was no mention of the EPCOT project[1]. I would have enjoyed the authors' take on the subject. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPCOT_(concept)
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by padobson 11y ago
.Net 3.5 has shipped with every Windows since Vista, so you can basically do the same thing with C# or VB if you target those OSes. With reflection[1], you can even include third party libraries directly in the executable and access them at
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by padobson 11y ago
* Solve problems in hiring by hiring all applicants on a first-come, first-serve basis and then evaluating them for X days before recommending the best applicants to a client company. Scale this up by partnering with the government to elimi
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Ann Selzer Is the Best Pollster in Politics(fivethirtyeight.com)
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Looks like they reduced it to 5, because yay was not universally understood.
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This phrasing I think minimizes the positive impact you can have with those endeavors. This is well put. It's almost as if I'm saying you don't need to make a dent in the universe if you want to make a dent in the universe.
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2. You don’t need to be Facebook This should be number one - or even just the whole article. Any startup, or a career in general, should not be an end unto itself, but a vehicle to A) fulfill your basic needs and B) get you what you want.
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by padobson 11y ago
So in 50 years we've traveled light years in safety, but only about thirty miles in naming conventions[1]. [1] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Bel+Air,+Los+Angeles,+CA/Mal...
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And they sure as shit won't throw a bone to employees (whose wages have been stagnant for a decade) Labor rates have been stagnant for a decade -> disposable income is eaten up be inflation -> consumers have less money to spend
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It sure took them a long time to get to this point. Here's the pivot line from the release: The pathway links the basolateral amygdala indirectly with the dorsolateral striatum, circumventing the prefrontal cortex. This means that an
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So we should probably start a crowdfunding venture to purchase air rights around 14th street.
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If you can assume that any given client will consume a relatively set range of server resources to the point where random load balancing evenly distributes load for large numbers of clients, then why not just have the front-end servers retu
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Not to mention the test needs some major usability tweaks. If the point is to test snap judgements, but you have to sit there and think about what button to push to convey a snap judgement, then there's no way the results are going to
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by padobson 11y ago
I find the culture itself interesting. There's a wikipedia page for the Trypillians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucuteni-Trypillian_culture These were the biggest cities in Europe at the time, and I tend to bel

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