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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "This went on like this for several minutes. Dude never said a single word to me, and finally wandered off, confused." You consider this "borderline sexism"? Interesting. As is your use of the word "dude" to describe the guy. Does
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "And can't Richards' supporters launch a DDoS as well?" The sentiment around places where "DDOSers" might hang out is pretty heavily against her. Remember, a programmer got fired for a harmless joke, at a programming conference, tha
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
I don't. But this is analogous to TV advertisers complaining about TiVO and the ability to skip commercials. Can't stop it!
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
Do you just wait around for people to mention Germany so you can talk about this stuff? Godwin's Law is about Hitler. So, in essence, you have invoked Godwin's Law. Can I not talk about Germany in the historical context of WWI? The paren
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "I think you have an incorrect view here." The majority of shares are owned by American citizens and the executive and board are mostly Americans.
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "Siegler is a talented writer, and has a lot of interesting technology insights." You and I are worlds apart on what a "talented writer" is. Case-in-point: John Gruber is what I would consider a talented tech writer.
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
No information? There are people around this world and on this site who haven personal experience dealing with Mr. Arrington and/or have followed his antics for years. He's stirred up a bunch of unecessary drama, some much like has been b
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "But to make the argument that something is "bad" you really have to know what management had in mind for it." What they hand in mind is irrelevant to me. All I care about is the outcome. Saying Microsoft bought aQuantive with the
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "Dropbox did not buy Mailbox based on a couple of Techcrunch posts, and they obviously will have done their due diligence before purchasing the company." I like Dropbox. But recent history is filled with terrible acquisitions that h
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> " in a way that is insulting to Dropbox, TechCrunch/AOL, CrunchFund, and the Mailbox/Orchestra team" Arrington is a jerk and MG is a talentless shill. They're both "right place, right time" guys who strut around with undeserved infl
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "the simple fact that the banks fucked up" The banks are run by citizens and funded by citizens. So when the banks "fuck up", it's going to end up on those same citizens. There is no way to isolate losses to some "bank" entity.
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "They have many (natural) resources standing still on the earth. Which can be used to pay back loan." Like the German war reparations after WWI? That worked out well for everyone.
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "Back in the day you'd at least get reasonable interest by keeping money in a bank, but nowadays it's really only the convenience of direct deposit and online bill pay that draws me." Back in what day? You mean, like, 5 years ago?
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
Central banks are known buyers at the highs and sellers at the lows. Part of their mandate is "financial stability", and up to and including backstopping out-of-favour assets (like, say, mortgages). I see central banks buying gold as a wa
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
Iceland has 300,000 people and a GDP of $12BB. Their economic "choices" and ensuing trajectory are, for practical purposes, irrelevant.
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
Not really. Unexpected inflation hurts. Central banks don't hide the fact that they target positive inflation figures. If you stuff your money in a mattress, you will lose PP. Not if you put it in practically ANY investment vehicle, thr
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
Like 90% of the past 5 years, this isn't a banking problem, it's a government problem. The IMF can suggest ways to fund a bail out, but the government has to accept it. Confiscating your citizens money is a horrible precedent.
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "Surely you don't really believe that is how companies are valued" Could you explain how some of these companies are , in fact, valued then? There are a ton with seemingly random valuations.
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "Before most computer science graduates ever walk across a stage to get their diplomas, they’re set for life." Be careful, the market can and will sort this out. Blacksmiths used to be set for life; so did lawyers more recently, n
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> Maybe rename my daughter Susan. Or just have another daughter...or son?
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
Really? The "upper-class" people who use Uber (people who are using their expensive smart phones to order the cab, people like ourselves) are averse to tipping well when the service is great? That's disgraceful.
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
This seems like a great concept. Everyone needs a lawyer, at some point. And with the dearth of new Law grads out there, there is supply. Get international!
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
I'm with you. Look at these cases; there's a lot of guesswork, it's not rocket science. If you have no clue what your business is worth, and are deferring completely to a third party, why are you even going public?
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "“If you think eToys got screwed, what do you think happened to the country?” I don't think this guy has a clue what "happened to the country". He doesn't even seem to understand his own state of affairs.
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
I'm not sure what this solves. If I know that the stock will have less competitive bidding 4 days from now, I'm waiting. I'm a firm believer that releasing all the shares and allowing the market to decide what they'll pay for the stock, ba
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "I'm seeing "the chinese" & "hacking" used too much together without proof more often than not." Get used to it, you're going to be seeing it for what is likely a few decades at least. We need an enemy. The Chinese are the new
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "Technically now ISPs could throttle the bandwith (or even disallow net access)" Most ISPs charge for bandwidth. Outside of governmental coercion, is there any incentive for them to do this?
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
The unfortunate reality is that a "threat" of war, or even a war itself, is what it might take for real changes to take place in the country. That sucks for the people in the short run, but might change the game for their future.
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
Reality.
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by tatsuke95 14y ago
> "why not directly explain your view" It's very simple, which I suppose is way the parent asked the question: I don't want to attach my name to anything I do on the internet, really.

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