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The roadblocks he faced in building the world’s biggest social-networking company were tiny Nathan Vardi is just completely ignorant. I'm surprised to see something so colossally stupid in Forbes. Say what you will about them, Zu
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He was definitely downvoted during the AirBnB hysteria last summer.
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Unusual for the New York Times to criticize the IRS so pointedly. Most private citizens cannot publicly attack the IRS for justified fear of raising their profile and triggering an audit (see: Plumber, Joe The or Snipes, Wesley). But it sur
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Not really a good metaphor. Steve Jobs, Tony Fadell, Elon Musk, Max Levchin, and many more entrepreneurs chose to start a second company rather than take a C level job somewhere else. A better analogy is whether to adapt an off the shelf pi
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The most frightening part here is that at the end of the day, criticisms of this kind have historically led to increases in FDA budgets, because the more the agency fails, the more people cry that it is underfunded in its crucial mission to
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This is sort of reminiscent of those billboards proclaiming "Life is short. Get a divorce." Go talk to some people who've made the leap to founding their own companies or going for that bigger position. The pressure increases and the race n
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Jim Buckmaster calls himself a communist: http://www.craigslist.org/about/jim_buckmaster Possibly the only CEO ever described as anti- establishment, a communist, and a socialistic anarchist, since 2000 Jim has led craigslist to
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Craigslist is being the RIAA/MPAA in this situation. Users (buyers/sellers) want to remix the same content in a different form, and the RIAA/MPAA/Craigslist won't let them. So then it comes down to whether this can be technologically stoppe
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Google is a multibillion dollar company and arguably the best software engineering shop on the planet. You spout theory. They work in practice. You were fired from Google within months of being hired, and continue to trash them in every sin
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Google is a great company in many ways, but "net neutrality" is a political catchphrase. If Google changes your ranking, you lose traffic and visitors just as surely as if Comcast throttles your bandwidth and people bail on your site for sl
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Unless you are Mozart himself, you will always be Salieri to someone.
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Contact sales for enterprise level support? http://cloud.google.com/contact.html That is now at the top of the page. Not sure if it was there when you posted your comment.
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Meta comment: The New York Times has really got a burr up its shorts about Apple these days, what with this piece and its "iEconomy" articles. Yet the NYT's market cap is only $1B: https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:NYT T
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Is this statement true or false: Engineers can do customer service, but customer service reps can't do engineering. You don't have to point this out as an engineer unless dealing with someone who doesn't realize how relatively incapable the
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You find her accusations plausible. Others may not. She certainly constructed an elaborate internal discourse out of this bearskin rug photo. And seemed proud of the fact that the engineers were demoted or reassigned without even having a c
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You can rant at heretical thoughts all you want. You offer no counterarguments other than pointing and screaming. I want you to recognize that the free speech of the internet means there are men who can and will offer different opinions abo
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Therefore she made "those engineers" millionaries just as much. No. All contributions aren't equal. It takes someone special to write HipHop to compile PHP into C++. Engineers can (and do) do customer service in a pinch, customer
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Mark Zuckerberg and those engineers made this customer service representative a millionaire. She repays them by trashing them in the Wall Street Journal. There is nothing wrong with something "unrepentantly boyish", anything more than there
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Ben Horowitz is a great entrepreneur and a great investor. But it's pretty hilarious how he quotes the Geto Boys and Snoop Dogg while being assiduously politically correct in his writing style ("the women from the girls"?). You can understa
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Not sure why you emitted this block of text. Let's rewind to what Arne Mooers actually said: Society globally has to collectively decide that we need to drastically lower our population very quickly. It's rare that it's said so ex
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Well, the "auditors" are called denialists and attacked from many sides -- even though they are the only ones who publish full source code, push for raw data release, and actually try to replicate results. We are making $100T decisions on t
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When publishing a paper, "peer review" typically means that two or three scientists ask you for one round of revisions before publishing. It does not mean complete replication of the source code and data analysis. It means a cursory pass, n
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No, planning on starting a company in Asia so that you don't have to accept spurious discrimination complaints that cost you 1-2 years of headcount as a fact of nature. Something about how "men like women and women like men and tha
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Do you think this state of affairs is a desirable one? If you accuse someone of being a communist or a socialist, you are laughed out of the room; if you accuse someone of being a sexist or racist, the onus is on them to disprove it (and th
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What if 100% of current employees posted a photo of themselves at a gay pride parade, next to scantily clad gay men? It's on their private time. But something tells me that Kathryn Hough wouldn't dream of attacking them.
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tokenadult, this might be your best post ever and shows that you are aware of the literature on IQ, its predictive validity, and the legal difficulties around using it explicitly (though implicitly everyone is looking for smart people). Adm
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Hmmm. Didn't Boltzmann put S = k \log \Omega on his grave? I think we are taking different lessons from stat mech. To me, the triumph of stat mech is that macroscopic phenomena (like entropy S) can be explained in terms of microscopic quant
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There is a difference between normative economics (which the political leaders and Paul Krugman propound - ie the "That's how it should be" class) and positive economics Well, sure, but there can be no obligation to do that w
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It is a "testable hypothesis" which has been verified every single time a recession has happened, that the direct cause of a recession is a fall in aggregate demand and all economists worth their salt ranging from Keynes to
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Fantastic. All I care about is the content. In any case, your comment was no simple personal testimonial, but an attempt to tell carsongross that the "crowd was against him". This is just the conventional wisdom attack again. That is not th

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