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by toby 17y ago
I get "Forbidden" for both those links. Are there any other links to those papers? I hadn't heard of this result and I'm very curious.
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by toby 17y ago
The whole argument here is based on the questionable assumption that coaches and players are actually trying to make decisions that maximize the team's score. An individual might do something that's "perceived to be less risky" because if i
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by toby 17y ago
The referenced blog post is incredibly silly. Is Pete Cashmore sad? http://siteanalytics.compete.com/mashable.com+tmz.com/
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by toby 17y ago
He states in the comments that something like that would be "too intrusive". It's actually clear from the comments that he's become more fixated on the device he has in mind than in actually solving the problem.
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by toby 17y ago
To be fair, he says he made these predictions in 1996. The PalmPilot personal, which I would say was the first widely-used PDA didn't come out until 1997. From what I remember, there weren't really any commercially available 802.11 devices
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by toby 17y ago
I'm not sure that contradicts the author exactly. Higher unemployment, high GDP/capita, and net out migration suggests to me that a lot of lower and middle-class jobs have been lost in CA, while the higher-income jobs remain. And agreed, I
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by toby 17y ago
Really? I'm mostly liberal and I found this pretty fascinating.
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by toby 17y ago
"neither were promoted for anything related to doing what investment firms are supposed to do -- finding good opportunities to invest in." "instead pumped out mediocre returns while gobbling up fees off of their clients/investors." Your wor
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by toby 17y ago
Like most 37signals articles, this presents a platitude backed by two examples. There are thousands of companies that succeed with the opposite strategy, and thousands that do something simple and fail. It's not even clear that Pinkberry su
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by toby 17y ago
Steve Job's bonus may have been $43 million, but John Paulson made $3.7 billion in 2007 -- it's not an executive bonus, but I think that excessive compensation, regardless of structure, is what people get annoyed about. These results are te
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by toby 17y ago
I believe these are just 2009 investment rounds... from what I understand, Tesla has actually raised close to $800 million total if you count debt financing. Twitter's is still less than $200 million total.
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Start-Up's Software Crowdsources Company Forecasts(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by toby 17y ago|0 comments
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by toby 17y ago
I just sent you an email. I'm getting married in about three weeks and I didn't like any of the wedding website options, so I built my own. My favorite part was the interactive guest list, so everyone can see who else is coming (and who the
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by toby 18y ago
There are already plenty of things that can't be enforced by contract. You can't sell yourself into slavery, for instance, because the state isn't allowed to make sure you submit to your agreement. As another commenter said, sign whatever y
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by toby 18y ago
I was also annoyed by that -- the implication seems to be that atheists are necessarily cold, calculating and logical. I don't find that accepting the existence of emotions in decision making has any impact on my religious beliefs.
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by toby 18y ago
I've done it before. It also involved working with the client on customization since the sales people don't always understand exactly what's possible. It's fun if you like traveling and interacting with customers. Actually being part of clo
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The Twilight of Venture Capital(twilightofventurecapital.blogspot.com)
6 points by toby 18y ago|2 comments
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by toby 18y ago
It was through Craigslist... the deal is that every building in San Francisco built before a certain year (I don't remember which year) is rent controlled, so you don't really need a connection. The year cutoff is, I assume, to encourage de
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by toby 18y ago
I also live in a rent-controlled apartment in SF. I'm not sure what the particular policy in Boston is, but here they can increase the rent by 3%/year (I think) while I live there. After I leave, they can reset it to whatever they like. So,
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by toby 18y ago
I shared my unedited notes on this book a few months ago. I felt the book had a few really cool findings and a lot of fluff, so I redid it as bullet-points: http://blog.kiwitobes.com/?p=49
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by toby 18y ago
I really enjoyed the lifestyle message of the book, which I think is an interesting goal, but the "specific information" about how to implement it kind of upset me. There's enough room in this world for a few people to be selling vitamins o
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by toby 18y ago
That's very cool -- has it been like that for a while or is it temporary spike? I remember when my book hit #56 on Amazon for one hour, right after it was reviewed by Slashdot. I was so happy to have a screenshot where I was just ahead of M
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by toby 18y ago
By definition, a very small fraction of graduates attended a prestigious college. Wouldn't it make more sense to look at the odds of an individual reaching a certain level of (for lack of a better phrase) "corporate achievement", depending
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by toby 18y ago
I'll add mine here, I try not to participate in blog noise and only write about things I've actually, so it might not be so interesting for memetracking: http://blog.kiwitobes.com/
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by toby 18y ago
Absolutely. Some people have trouble with the style, I found it amusing. If you're willing to accept its message, it's definitely a book that can change your approach to life. Also, anything by Murakami is worth reading.
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by toby 18y ago
That's because this list is incomplete. This guy appears to have just gone through crunchbase and made a list of companies, sorted by the size of their latest funding round. I know of several startup biotech companies that have been funded
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by toby 18y ago
He does spend a paragraph before that talking about the state of the Dow and a lot later on how companies will manage their earnings, so I went with the parent posters interpretation. But you're right, I could have misinterpreted. Also, I d
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by toby 18y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. People's willingness to point out what they know about markets _for certain_, without being willing to actually make the bet, has always amazed me. The truth is, if someone was 100% certain that the market w
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by toby 18y ago
Thanks guys! I really appreciate it.
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by toby 18y ago
"If we've learned one thing from funding so many startups, it's that they succeed or fail based on the qualities of the founders. The economy has some effect, certainly, but as a predictor of success it's rounding error compared to the foun

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