seven_stones

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by seven_stones 15y ago
The real trick is that the existing cultures themselves will have to quickly reconfigure so that this doesn't simply shift the problem laterally. For example, initiatives to dig wells in various African countries have turned out to result i
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by seven_stones 15y ago
As already mentioned in this thread, expectations of how it WILL do for this quarter are astronomical. Sales numbers that are already in back this up. Also see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3128143 So, no, this shift is not
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by seven_stones 15y ago
I just read about how the stock tumbled because the results were less than expected. "Highest September Quarter Revenue and Earnings Ever" and it's a disappointment. This is like the market equivalent of "eh, her knees are too pointy". Scum
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by seven_stones 15y ago
Apparently up to 4B tweets monthly now: http://blog.twitter.com/2011/09/share-photo-via-text-message... Sending messages to recipients and load-balancing don't faze me. SMS gateway costs do. I could have cloned it, web-only, missing out
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by seven_stones 15y ago
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/groupon Funding Total $1.14B Series D, 1/11 $950M Digital Sky Technologies Morgan Stanley Venture Partners Fidelity Ventures Andreessen Horowitz Battery Ventures G
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by seven_stones 15y ago
The other lesson is that incompetence of this magnitude on one issue is always a symptom of incompetence generally. I have seen this over and over again with multiple companies. It's not like everything else is first-rate and somehow just
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by seven_stones 15y ago
It's a little different when a single, minority system vendor who is selling systems at twice the price does something like this, vs. when the dominant player in 90% of the market wants to require it of all the PC vendors. It doesn't make A
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by seven_stones 15y ago
Whoever is holding it when the price inevitably falls. When the price is increasing, the money is redirected from any other investment seen as less preferable, and whoever is holding that loses money. The money has to come from somewhe
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by seven_stones 15y ago
> To be honest, I am growing tired of arguing against people who believe that the economy is a zero sum game, along with all the other fallacies. I can just grow wealthy on the back of betting against them, which is what I suspect othe
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by seven_stones 15y ago
That dismissal is a bit oversimplistic. With increases in productivity, it is possible for everyone to have more; but almost all the gains have been concentrated toward the top. PG: > I can remember believing, as a child, that if a f
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by seven_stones 15y ago
> and imply that any company that does business with Monsanto is in the wrong, is wildly inappropriate and unfair. First, if this applies to any company partnering with Monsanto, they are receiving equal treatment. Secondly, your
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by seven_stones 15y ago
By analogy, imagine someone wearing an Abercrombie & Fitch shirt. They are trying to associate themselves with a well-known brand in order to gain some kind of status or legitimacy. But when you do that, you are also at risk of people a
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by seven_stones 15y ago
You're right about the seed currently being a bigger source of revenue and profit than RoundUp, because it's currently protected by patents whereas the herbicide patent expired in 2000, and now Monsanto is being undersold on generic glyph
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by seven_stones 15y ago
> As someone else noted, you can buy Roundup itself at Wal-mart. And who do you think makes money when you do that? Hint: It rhymes with "Monsanto". > that I know the basics of the difference between Roundup and the Roundup-ready GM
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by seven_stones 15y ago
> The herbicide isn't what's interesting or valuable. Headpalm. You DO realize that the point of the gene is to SELL ROUNDUP, right? Not using RoundUp on "RoundUp Ready!" crops kind of defeats the entire purpose . " Sales for Roundup
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by seven_stones 15y ago
> If you invented a new kind of seed which was significantly more productive but cost billions in R&D to develop, what business model would you use instead? If the new crop is more expensive because of IP regulations, it is NOT
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by seven_stones 15y ago
> and then using Roundup on the field. There was an element of getting-something-for-nothing Using RoundUp means more herbicide sales for Monsanto.
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by seven_stones 15y ago
> Norman Bourlag's life work was to develop and distribute high-yield crops. Borlaug's work was via selective breeding. He helped countries produce unpatented food at massive scale in order to feed a billion people. These crops also
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by seven_stones 15y ago
> It's an unfortunate sign for HN when the top comment on a thread is such a content-free rant. To the contrary, the tenor of the majority of comments makes it clear that the context is well -understood already, and this is encouragi
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by seven_stones 15y ago
> because the ultimate test of user experience is whether users continue to use the software. TIL Windows has always been an amazing user experience. Just look at their numbers. > But HN users aren't confused by them. "About 2,
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by seven_stones 15y ago
Down the rabbit hole. Not only are there secret laws, but now courts are being made to interpret secret laws they aren't permitted to see. Or rule based on evidence they aren't permitted to see: > The extraordinary limitations in pl
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by seven_stones 15y ago
> is not responsive to the argument that not allowing muscles time to recover retards growth. That point isn't in dispute. What is in dispute is the degree of alleged growth. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. &#6
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by seven_stones 15y ago
I read it a couple years ago, which is why I remember things like testosterone in the 600 range, but I have to look it up to see... 653.3. Did you look at the pictures on that page? Note how many tricks there are: * Tanning * Shaving * Diff
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by seven_stones 15y ago
Hate to burst anyone's bubble but Tim Ferriss is selling snake oil. The 4 Hour Body is roundly and deservedly mocked on bodybuilding forums. Its claims are completely delusional. Among them: # How Tim gained 34 pounds of muscle in 28 days
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by seven_stones 15y ago
That's a different question than the one you originally posed. Your question was why outsourcing X was any worse than outsourcing Y or Z. The answer is because different things are different. As to your current question as to why outsourci
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by seven_stones 15y ago
The article doesn't make a case for Stallman being wrong , but merely for being "offensive".
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by seven_stones 15y ago
Sometimes the smartest people say the... Why is outsourcing torture any worse than outsourcing web design with WebGL? Extraordinary rendition vs. extraordinary rendering! Hmm, maybe it has something to do with the nature of the thing bein
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by seven_stones 15y ago
I would STRONGLY recommend AGAINST bouldering to start, because of the HIGH likelihood of injury from falling. If you are not used to taking impacts from jumping from high places (e.g., typical sedentary person), you will almost certainly s