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by rvn1045 12y ago
I don't think we are at peak google. I think we are having this conversation a bit prematurely. Some other company in the future will disrupt google (who knows in how many years?), that is just the nature of this business. For now Goog
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Steve Ballmer Interview with Charlie Rose(bloomberg.com)
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by rvn1045 12y ago
Really? Maybe in the Valley they are becoming more libertarian. I think people are becoming less libertarian on main street.
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by rvn1045 12y ago
I think 'knowledge' can be gained from watching these lectures. By knowledge I mean facts. But if you want to learn a skill, you better be slogging on the homework's to gain intuition. I don't think you can learn discret
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by rvn1045 12y ago
Can you name a significant number of instances where Amazon has not lowered prices over a medium to long term period? Amazon has consistently made things inexpensive for the consumer. Sometimes even taking losses to ensure that customers ge
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by rvn1045 12y ago
I think the real issue is not that these companies might not be changing the world, but rather that a lot of these companies don't have sustainable business models.
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by rvn1045 12y ago
> Most of the “intermediate” companies, although it would take a separate long post to explain why, end up not having a big impact. Couldn't this just be explained with power laws? Some small percentage of companies will have a dis
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by rvn1045 12y ago
You should probably never be doing that anyways in Haskell.
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by rvn1045 12y ago
Yes feedback is the most important thing. One thing I notice between people who get good at something and people who don't is that the people who don't just keep doing the same thing over and over again and somehow expect differen
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by rvn1045 13y ago
A lot of economists who have a phd in in economics, were Engineering, Math and Physics majors as undergrads. To get into a good phd program in Econ, you have to have taken and aced a lot of math classes such as Real Analysis and some very a
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by rvn1045 13y ago
I think you might be underestimating the knowledge/skills gained from an MBA. A lot of non-MBA folk don't move up very fast in organizations (in business roles I suppose), one reason I think is because they don't completely understand how t
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by rvn1045 14y ago
Interest expense for the fiscal year of 2012 was actually 360 billion. And interest rates are at record lows, lets just say that interest rates jump back to average levels, then your looking at more than doubling that amount over the next 1
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by rvn1045 14y ago
Yeah but you have to consider the yield too, they have to "guess" the number of applicants who will choose to go to Stanford if they are admitted.
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by rvn1045 14y ago
"they make less money than they used to" That's incorrect, your looking at profit margins and not actual profits. Profits have actually been increasing every year in the last few years (except in 2009).
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Early Investors See Promise in Palestinian Start-Ups(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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New Shares Class Gives Google Founders tighter control(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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