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by rjett 17y ago
They should have filmed their subjects over the span of sobriety to high levels of intoxication. The results would be interesting since confidence should go up, but coordination should, at some point, drop off.
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Venture Capital Money Drops to 1997 Levels(reuters.com)
1 points by rjett 17y ago|0 comments
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Silicon Valley 'Bloodbath' Leaves Buildings Empty(bloomberg.com)
1 points by rjett 17y ago|0 comments
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by rjett 17y ago
When I read interviews like this, it makes me realize just how cool it must be to work at Google.
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by rjett 17y ago
I'm a fan of reading biographies and Open, Andre Agassi's biography, was a very intriguing, enjoyable, and surprisingly well-written book. The only other book I read this past year that stood out to me was GK Chesterton's The Man Who was Th
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by rjett 17y ago
I haven't seen the study, but I could believe it. This isn't really what the article talked about, but I caddied for 6 years as a teenager, and during that time, I developed an ability to read the distance to the pin within 5 yards before I
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by rjett 17y ago
Dear Mr. Kitahata, Please don't kill yourself. I have no idea what you're going through right now, but I can imagine that you feel a great weight on your shoulders and you might perceive a certain hopelessness in your circumstances. S
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Goldman, Buffett Establish $500 Million Small-Business Program (bloomberg.com)
21 points by rjett 17y ago|4 comments
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by rjett 17y ago
Those two sentences aren't mutually exclusive. In 2006-2007 when Tiger was on a 7 tournament win streak, golf ratings were up because a lot of people wanted to see Tiger extend his win streak. Complementary to that, a lot of people also tun
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US Charges Madoff Programmers(online.wsj.com)
2 points by rjett 17y ago|0 comments
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Denmark a global power in wind energy(financialpost.com)
1 points by rjett 17y ago|0 comments
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by rjett 17y ago
A lot of the newmogul guys have gone over to markenomics.com fyi. Still, congrats on hacking together a solution to the newmogul problem.
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by rjett 17y ago
It's only 6 minutes, but if you want the 10 second version, the winning team sold their 3 minute presentation time in class to a company called Frog Design that wanted to recruit Stanford design students. Frog Design paid $650 for this 3 mi
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The Economics of Organizations(becker-posner-blog.com)
1 points by rjett 17y ago|0 comments
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by rjett 17y ago
I think it would be interesting to run an experiment with this model where some buyers were shown what the last buyer of the game paid and another group of buyers were shown what the average price paid for the game was. My hypothesis is tha
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by rjett 17y ago
Memorable quote: "The VC business is not about grabbing the largest slice of the pie. It is about getting involved with very big pies."
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by rjett 17y ago
In addition to the isolation that others have cited, there's quite an opportunity for moral hazard on behalf of the entrepreneurs you accept into your house. Not only would you have to be very good at selecting capable entrepreneurs, but yo
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by rjett 17y ago
Does your windmill provide 100% of the power needed for your house? If so, how big is it and how much did it cost to build?
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by rjett 17y ago
The Man Who was Thursday by GK Chesterton....very well written allegorical spy novel. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas... I'm a sucker for a good plot and this has always been a favorite of mine since I first read it in 5th grad
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Ask HN: Where's NM?
18 points by rjett 17y ago|5 comments
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by rjett 17y ago
"After changing our passwords, I tried to pass the incident off to my wife ... as a teachable moment," he said. "To which she deftly replied, 'Well, it is not my teachable moment. However, it is our money. No more Internet banking for you."
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Vonage Unveils Mobile App for iPhone and Blackberry(reuters.com)
1 points by rjett 17y ago|0 comments
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VoIP Reality Check(stocks.investopedia.com)
1 points by rjett 17y ago|0 comments
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Insure your fantasy team...No, seriously.(withleather.uproxx.com)
2 points by rjett 17y ago|0 comments
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by rjett 17y ago
Book Extract: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~lharris/Trading/Book/Book-extract.pd...
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by rjett 17y ago
Yes.
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by rjett 17y ago
My guess is that this guy will declare bankruptcy if he doesn't get this ruling overturned on appeal. Of course there are other secondary financial consequences for him like more than likely getting kicked out of school and having trouble s
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by rjett 17y ago
Contributing to the segway-smug/ridiculous factor is the fact that the segway is parodied in so many movies and television shows, most notably with JP in Grandma's Boy or in other movies like Paul Bart: Mall Cop. It's such an odd looking mo
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by rjett 17y ago
I agree. IMO, Charlie Rose is probably the best all-around interviewer today and to be featured on his show at such a young age is quite an achievement.
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Sam Altman of Loopt on Charlie Rose [video](charlierose.com)
66 points by rjett 17y ago|16 comments

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