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by socalnate1 14y ago
This is the essence of what is wrong with copyright law: "Apple paid $21 million for a clock design." I believe in the value and importance of design, but the money/value ratio of design IP has gotten out of hand.
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What utter crap. The version of Michael Porter that this "article" argues against is a straw man that bears little resemblance to the actual man or his ideas. Between Forbe's hosted blogger section (where this article came from) and the At
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by socalnate1 14y ago
Good God that first graph is so misleading.
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by socalnate1 14y ago
This is fantastic letter. If we could all get fired so gracefully.
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by socalnate1 14y ago
Exactly, waiting for a "perfect" solution is a good way to ensure that nothing ever improves. (This is true about nearly everything btw).
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by socalnate1 14y ago
I'm sure he is just a law abiding citizen, going about his patriotic business. After all, the vast majority of gun owners are law abiding, so I'm sure we have nothing to worry about. </sarcasm>
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by socalnate1 14y ago
This and the previous article are really about the difficulty of finding tenure track positions for newly minted Phds. Trying to apply this figures broadly to all hard science education and across all industries is a mistake.
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by socalnate1 14y ago
I disagree. Daily deals can work, but only at the right scale, with the right focus on the right types of markets What groupon, livingsocial, et al assumed was that this was an endless market and would work for every type of business. Thi
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by socalnate1 14y ago
This in particular makes PrivCo look stupid: "Two of the three investors listed on the PrivCo site as participating in the round didn't participate, and one isn't even an investor in the company."
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by socalnate1 14y ago
You sound like the worst employee ever.
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"L.A. is about to become the first major city in the world to synchronize all of its traffic signals." For such an obvious way to improve traffic, safety and reduce pollution, it seems very odd that this hasn't been done before in other for
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by socalnate1 14y ago
It's hard to believe a cloud storage company was really as ignorant of Python as they claim. Let's hope they drop the claim, and we can all move on with our lives.
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by socalnate1 14y ago
Agreed. This blog post is at least as disingenuous as the original article that Musk called "faked."
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by socalnate1 14y ago
Exactly! I could feel my 16 year old self getting all excited again.
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The true story of John Broder's Tesla Trip.(penny-arcade.com)
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by socalnate1 14y ago
Ignore it. They send thousands of letters for the same reasons e-mail spammers do, they anticipate a huge percentage of people to ignore them, lose the letter, have no money, etc. Be a part of that group. This doesn't help the societal pr
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by socalnate1 14y ago
"(I had to go and investigate what the Economic Policy Institute was. Apparently it's funded by a consortium of labor unions. Odd that they would bother about this, since few to none of the jobs involved are union jobs.)" Labor unions are t
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by socalnate1 14y ago
I'm very curious how (or if at all) this thinking has been applied to Netflix's hourly employees. Basic customer service, distribution center folks, etc who have more structured jobs to do. The distinction is briefly touched on at the beg
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by socalnate1 14y ago
Agree completely. I am a Netflix/Hulu only subscriber and I would gladly pay 3x as much for more content.
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I love that the first comment on this is from Mike Krieger, one of the founders of Instagram trying to fix the "bad." The idea that a guy who just made $100 million is reading hackernews on a Sunday night, and immediately tries to address a
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by socalnate1 14y ago
This was enough to get me to cancel my print subscription, which is really the best way to show my disgust over this.
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by socalnate1 14y ago
A friend of mine did this in LA for a couple years and paid off his school loans. He worked for a company that had a full kitchen and showers, so he was able to use the office frequently for those necessities.