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by schmittz 15y ago
He is, in general, extremely frugal. However, he also owns a chalet and Porsche that he drives when at the private chalet (although, I'd argue that for someone worth more than 20 billion dollars, that's fairly frugal.)
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by schmittz 15y ago
I'm not sure what the point of your post is as it's unrelated to the comment it's in reply to. But aside from that fact, be careful to avoid confusing price increases due to shortages and price increases due to speculation about perceived c
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by schmittz 15y ago
Out of curiosity, what state do you live in? That's why right to work states are so great, because it ensures your ability to work regardless of unionizations. It's also why unions spend an incredible money lobbying against states becoming
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by schmittz 15y ago
That's not true. A wrongful termination suit can be brought against any employer. Employment law is handled on a state by state basis. In most states, once an employee has worked for someone for 90 days, termination without documentation of
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by schmittz 15y ago
Thanks. I was watching the NBA playoff coverage as I typed that. Clearly it pervaded my subconscious.
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Goldman leaves LinkedIn party early (by selling 100% of its stake)(finance.fortune.cnn.com)
4 points by schmittz 15y ago|0 comments
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by schmittz 15y ago
I agree that incumbents don't like disruptive innovation (in general), but who says that a) Apple wouldn't mind as they've in general done a phenomenal job of interrupting themselves before others have had the chance over the last twenty ye
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by schmittz 15y ago
This comment is interesting, because when the iPad first was announced, I had a lot of people give me the "oversized iPod" line and I tried to explain that even just significantly increasing screen real estate was enough to open the device
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by schmittz 15y ago
This is going to be incredibly interesting to see what happens starting tomorrow for the remainder of the trading week. From a business perspective, this company is hardly worth its 4.5$ billion valuation. However, I have a theory that we'r
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TurningArt Raises $750K To Be The Netflix For Artwork(techcrunch.com)
1 points by schmittz 15y ago|0 comments
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by schmittz 15y ago
It's average now, slightly better than a base Comcast connection, but that's about it. (I can compare directly since I lived on campus two years and off the last two). I suppose it would depend on what you were doing that would make it matt
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by schmittz 15y ago
As I am in this year's graduating class, I was immensely excited to hear this news. Carnegie Mellon's greater fostering of entrepreneurship through initiatives such as this and the relatively new Engineering and Technology Innovation Manage
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by schmittz 15y ago
I'm absolutely confused why you have such hostility. Did you forget the premise of the organization that hosts this news board? Also, did you read the link? The funding is coming from Jon Kaplan, CEO of Pure Digital Technologies and creator
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by schmittz 15y ago
I honestly can't believe this guy is a financial reporter and doesn't know the difference between TARP and the stimulus. I'm sorry, but you can't argue that he works in startups as an excuse to have misunderstandings about major macroeconom
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Indiana Supreme Court Rules Against Right to Resist Illegal Police Entry(nwitimes.com)
3 points by schmittz 15y ago|0 comments
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by schmittz 15y ago
While I agree that such a conversation is irrelevant to this post, I would say that in certain cases we are pretty close to locking people up en masse and forcing them to live in fairly abominable circumstances albeit not death camps.
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by schmittz 15y ago
I can see your point, but would argue there is a difference. Small independent game designers can at least approach studios for money to fund/produce their game. Composers, playwrights, and artists don't have an equivalent body to turn to.
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by schmittz 15y ago
I actually just got off the phone with my dad who has had a BlackBerry for the last 10 years and just replaced his with an Android phone (Samsung something, I believe) last week. He said he finds it much easier to use and likes it more. It'
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by schmittz 15y ago
Ah, I didn't mean to imply video games must have an aesthetic to be considered art (I said this because, and you do have to admit, the prevailing attitude for those who believe they are art is that they are of a supreme aesthetic). I'm not
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by schmittz 15y ago
I disagree with you, public art can be very entertaining and challenging and of extremely great value. The problem is that the NEA has attempted to become so all encompassing that it no longer has enough direction or focus to support those
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by schmittz 15y ago
Thanks for the link, but I don't think I will use it, because I would like my money to directly support arts that I think need support. As long as the NEA is giving money to video game designers and radio shows, I don't feel compelled to as
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by schmittz 15y ago
This is a huge mistake. I don't want to argue that videogames can never be art, but in general, no matter how good they look, they aren't (Radio is also highly suspect on this list). The problem is that "the arts" (in a more traditional sen
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by schmittz 15y ago
I up-voted this comment, because I liked it, but honestly, I first looked for the "like" button. Facebook's got a serious hold on me.
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by schmittz 15y ago
Although not the link for this story, the fact that this story broke in the NYT (not that surprising), with an explanation to attempt transistor design and functionality (incredibly surprising) is really uplifting. A good piece of purely an
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by schmittz 15y ago
That's so funny because I always loved getting the answer wrong. I could get full credit for explaining possible sources of error, versus having to develop a well-established analysis independently. You'd think more students would think thi
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by schmittz 15y ago
Natural units are nice, but they are completely impractical for dealing with normal Mirkowskian space. I.e., how do I explain to someone who cannot view me how tall I am? Our normal unit system is nice because it's phenomenological, and may
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by schmittz 15y ago
As a materials science major, this comment made me smile. All my labs at Carnegie Mellon were like that, it was(is) great. We just take a bunch of materials and then argue which one would be the best choice. The only time I had to produce r
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by schmittz 15y ago
It's often poorly explained, I completely agree, but people forget that even Planck introduced his constant just because it made the data fit. It turned out to be arguably the most fundamentally important constant (along with its reduced fo
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by schmittz 15y ago
Yes, judge's should not judge the zeitgeist. I'm confused as to what you mean by "your administration." I'm assuming you assumed I voted for Obama, which I did not (I also didn't vote for the previous administration as I was not old enough)
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by schmittz 15y ago
I sincerely hope that this is mostly a generational thing. Younger people (<30) have a drastically different ethical valuation of copyright related issues. Older people (>45-50) who still make up a large number of the judges who fie

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