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by thisisit 9y ago
This was a real insightful look at how "clients" feel when coming down to India. There are some great points made on how things don't gel well together. I have been on both side of the fence - both as a "resource" f
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by thisisit 9y ago
Is it just me or does that read - Mulriple from starting levels? If yes, that is some poorly written and edited report.
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Southern New Hampshire University experiments handing out degrees via blockchain(concordmonitor.com)
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PayPal Makes a Move Toward Traditional Banking(wsj.com)
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by thisisit 9y ago
The article has an interesting perspective, but it doesn't answer the perennial question - How many creators exactly? Then there is this: > , a growing swath of creators have fled to sites such as DTube to avoid the constraints. Lik
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by thisisit 9y ago
The real question you have to ask is - What do you want to do in your life? There is no shame in saying - I want a well paid job which helps me sleep at night. There is nothing wrong with it. The whole idea of going out and building your ow
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Toys Were Us: The Perils of Debt(barrons.com)
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by thisisit 9y ago
There is an inherent issue with market making on a blockchain. Here's my understanding of it, maybe amluto and ScJa can correct me if I am wrong. Let's say X coin is worth 1 ETH now. As we are using a decenteralized market this pr
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by thisisit 9y ago
>Switching from experimenting a lot and thinking a little to experimenting a little and thinking a lot was a key turnaround in productivity. I think corollary might be - Know your data and the processing steps from the paper very well.
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How Did Big Four Auditors Get $17B in Revenue Growth? Not from Auditing(wsj.com)
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by thisisit 9y ago
My first reaction was that this looks cool. A friend has been looking for an open ended fund/ICO on the ethereum blockchain. But, reading through this has left me confused as to what am I looking at? I can be wrong but my understanding
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by thisisit 9y ago
This article gives a good overview of the promises and issues of the Aadhar system. I might be wrong but it doesn't add anything new which hasn't been covered in other Aadhar related articles submitted earlier. The system has done
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by thisisit 9y ago
The article is very illuminating on how the licensing on the technology side. But I am confused. First it said: This approach had advantages for everyone involved. It meant licensees and Qualcomm didn't have to scrap over which parts
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by thisisit 9y ago
FB's response to this whole thing is been terrible. Zuckerberg and Sandbberg weren't seen for days. And now Sandberg comes out with the defense that "Cambridge Analytica told us so we believed them. We are doing audits to ens
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Supply and Demand Does a Poor Job of Explaining Depressed Wages(bloomberg.com)
98 points by thisisit 9y ago|131 comments
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by thisisit 9y ago
Most of the Tesla threads seem to directly jump from Tesla to Musk to SpaceX. The question on viability and profitability are never answered during such comparisons. I dug around to see how SpaceX was doing and I only found this article fro
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by thisisit 9y ago
India has strict laws on tender or cash. Personal foreign currency holdings are severely restricted. So, this doesn't come as a surprise at all. That said, > The regulator, however, decided that it will promote the use of blockchain
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Zuckerberg Testimony: 38 Questions for Facebook's CEO(bloomberg.com)
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Investor Alert: SEC Impersonators Pretend to Help Investors Buy Stock(investor.gov)
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by thisisit 9y ago
> So the rise in value of bitcoin has made Mt Gox extremely valuable in bankruptcy (possibly more valuable than if it were properly managed from the beginning) and now Mark Karpeles is a billionaire. Yes it has made MtGox valuable but
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by thisisit 9y ago
This one really close to home for me. Upon joining one of my previous employers I found that while they had an IT system, there was zero reporting. So, people had no clue on exact uptime for various systems. Once we had it in place, we foun
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by thisisit 9y ago
Yes, the article does point to the fact that he's the founder of a company selling a service. But, this is not a submarine. You can look at the example quoted by Paul Graham: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/14
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by thisisit 9y ago
I was just about to say the same thing. He postulates everything in the book to be true. With all due respect to Graeber, there are some serious issues with the book. Especially given the liberal bias.
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by thisisit 9y ago
Parts of yesterday's Zuckerberg interview [0] highlighted and commented by Matt Levine today [1]: Zuckerberg: You mentioned our governance. One of the things that I feel really lucky we have is this company structure where, at the end
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Are Bitcoin Bubbles Predictable? Combining Metcalfe's Law and the LPPLS Model(arxiv.org)
2 points by thisisit 9y ago|0 comments
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by thisisit 9y ago
I agree investors are not stupid. But, I never said it was about investors being stupid. It is simply not saying stuff which casts doubt about Tesla's ability to deliver. People are going to arrive at the conclusion irrespective. Take
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Floyd Mayweather-backed cryptocurrency ICO was fraud, SEC says(cnbc.com)
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by thisisit 9y ago
> Way to spin all the production issues and delay of the previous quarter into a positive. I don't really like Musk but sending positive messages in Investment relations is the key to keeping the company afloat. At one of my previou
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by thisisit 9y ago
> It's actually not easy to find information of OPPO and OnePlus's relationship unless you query the commerce database in the Chinese government, where you will also fine that VIVO and OPPO are affiliates Oneplus sold its phone
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Zuckerberg’s Grip on Facebook Could Put Directors in a Tricky Position(blogs.wsj.com)
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