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by salemh 13y ago
How great do Yahoo's investors feel that their CEO is spending her time on trying to be designer instead of streamlining and turning her company around. Yahoo! Stock: Oct. 22 2012: $15.77 March 18 2013: 22.01 June 24 2013: $24.07 Jul
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Verizon Poised to Announce $130 Billion Vodafone Accord(bloomberg.com)
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by salemh 13y ago
From the KS page: "Flutter Basic ($20) Still under development, the Flutter basic is tiny and simple. You get all the features of Flutter in a circuit board with an low-profile integrated antenna, rather than the large antenna shown in
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by salemh 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4076872 "Facebook Launches Simple Mobile Payments." Trust factor amongst the technocracy (here), but I wonder if this will have the same end-result of non-usage.
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by salemh 13y ago
Your URL is dead, I believe this is the right one: http://nplusonemag.com/the-intellectual-situation-issue-15 Edit: your URL is missing http:// , for whatever that is worth. Every time a plane flies over New Yor
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by salemh 13y ago
One can have too high of expectations of social interactions. I find this leads to angst. It's ok if this or that person is "only" a drinking after work friend, or this/that person is "only" a weekend friend, e
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by salemh 13y ago
It is not true that the government doesn't care about the rights of individuals just because you want it to be true. Those that are employed are individuals too, and are not being magically compelled to carry terrible secrets against
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by salemh 13y ago
I think he is shooting for "shocking" headlines and somewhat stream of conscious. https://medium.com/p/8f186a4dde94 "I’m Modeling My Company After The Taliban."
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Determinate on said employee's skills being mobile across industries and companies, which may not be the norm outside of IT/software currently. "Why don't they just leave?" is not a valid argument.
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Can you be more detailed?
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Interesting. Warren Buffet has always gobbled up a large chunk of newspapers (albeit not directly as an individual (ala Bezos), rather, through Berkshire Hathaway): http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-13/buffett-
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by salemh 13y ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-16/bundesbank-to-repat... "Bundesbank to Repatriate 674 Tons of Gold to Germany by 2020" 374 tons from France, and 300 from New York by 2020 apparently. The Bundesb
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by salemh 13y ago
You may enjoy the short novel "A Canticle for Lebowitz", which chronicles the cycles of humanity re-birthing through dark ages post-nuclear war, surpassing prior technology and... http://www.amazon.com/Canticle-Lei
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by salemh 13y ago
I believe this is what you are referring to: http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html "What does everyone think about the design?" asked Doerr, switching subjects. "What do you think?" said Jobs to
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by salemh 13y ago
Fluff. Don't know about the silly comparison. Been dropped on my neck by guys 60 lbs heavier then me training; wrestling, not having take-down defense, then a few arm cranks, neck cranked by smaller guys with better technique, cracked
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by salemh 13y ago
Interesting comment and explanation, I was wondering why shares were rising in Myriad and the industry: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/myriad-genetics-share... The high court ruled that genes naturally found i
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by salemh 13y ago
Dan Carlin (more known for his Hardcore History podcast), also does a show called "Common Sense" and has been a political journalist for ~20 years. With this show, he seems to be fairly non-partison, railing against any side of th
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by salemh 13y ago
For improving the survey: I don't have the sources (a few hundred papers / articles) anymore, rather this was for my own research in designing surveys for companies garnering feedback from IT Director (mostly) levels. For buy-in, Saliency o
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by salemh 13y ago
China, which signed a $3 billion currency swap deal with Belarus in 2009 to boost trade, agreed to finance the venture with low-interest loans as long as half the money is spent on Chinese materials... Can someone explain the four-year pl
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by salemh 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5369778 Better discussion then I can espouse. Small summary, we don't necessarily know why whole foods > substitutes, but they are, ergo risk of non-intake of whole foods doesn't make sense for som
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by salemh 13y ago
Increases barrier to his "I want a paperback" as a simplistic counterpoint. Your sunk cost of "I need a laser printer for other reasons" does not reflect the issue of "I want a paperback," not that "I want a paperback, but I'll settle for b
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by salemh 13y ago
Not sure whats wrong with blending some protein powder (ON is tasty), a full avocado, spinach if your feeling frisky, whole-milk if your feeling more frisky (higher fats / a bit more protein) for a near-meal replacement (near, nothing compa
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by salemh 13y ago
How is this going to work out legally/politically? Its a good notion, and a lot of good discussion exists on HN for merits/etc.. Can you fathom any sort of political debate on moving towards such a thing in the US (being US centric here, bu
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by salemh 13y ago
TheLastPsychiatrist is an excellent and polarizing writer. Heres a punch in the gut on Steubenville. Much like her (I think her, its a matter of debate on gender, but mostly accepted via the comments page as "she") other posts, the storytel
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Yahoo’s Mayer Said to Explore Bid for Hulu to Add Video Service(bloomberg.com)
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I would be interested in: Once he found out about the dynamic pricing he tells us “I think I am just going to release with another platform.” FUCK! Are you serious???? What other platform(s)? What were differentiating factors between thos
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by salemh 14y ago
I think its a misunderstanding or misuse of terminology. "Take" may refer too the difference of what the agency bills vs what the freelancer/developer is paid out. E.g., agency bills at 50% markup (40-60% average in agencies in the technica
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by salemh 14y ago
The notion of " the positions eliminated were predominantly _fashion buyers_, who most likely were watching fashion shows and aspiring fashion makers on YouTube because travel budgets had been cut that same year. " Would be interesting, but
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Locus of perception. Even just being "cold" relative to someone else (temperature). Locus of perception isn't really a "phrase" that is accepted, though it would merit some Cog Psych research to quantify the phenomena above.
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Another anecdotal "yes" seems to be working much faster for me. Versus skipping, slow load times, random freezes, and, impossible to play any youtubes in HD quality at all. Now, I can stream them. I've had many friends around me complaining

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