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by vladd 15y ago
The patent system reminds me of an airplane going down, but whenever I read statements like "Medical Patents Must Die" I remember that nobody has a solution to make it fly again. The captain might be wrong, but the first officer doesn't kn
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by vladd 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_trial_of_Kenneth_Lay_and_Je...
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by vladd 15y ago
I saw in the supermarket the other day a group of parents buying for their young child a so-called "mini-laptop" that costs $100 and probably only knows to do addition, multiplications and some basic word-games on a cheap LCD screen. And I
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by vladd 15y ago
If they insist, just say you've signed a confidentiality agreement regarding salary with your previous employer.
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by vladd 15y ago
He can use it though as collateral to get real money.
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by vladd 15y ago
If you can print your own currency you'll be able to pay EUR-debt if you tolerate the spiked exchange rates and the hyperinflation that comes with them (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation ). Or you can just default ( ht
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by vladd 15y ago
The most important gain is the country's ability to print its own currency (pay the country's debt via inflation).
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by vladd 15y ago
Euro disintegration implies an abolishment of its treaty ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty ) or a ratification which would severely limit its scope (and significantly affect the list of participating countries).
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by vladd 15y ago
Usually each situation is unique and people tend to analyze the situation by themselves and take the best course of action on a case by case basis: people are free to judge if the recruiter represents a small company trying to juggle their
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by vladd 15y ago
Google should add a 'continuous drive' mode.
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by vladd 15y ago
The encryption key could be a function of his login password and it could be stored in-memory after he is logged in. The issue is to have a trigger which wipes it from memory by logging out the current user when the police shows up, and unp
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by vladd 15y ago
What people criticized about them was the delay of an open source release to sustain their business strategy (commoditize their products' complements via open source but keep a integrated experience by proprietary early-access agreements -
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by vladd 15y ago
I imagine it's a difficult situation for the remaining founders, especially for those (if any) that encouraged Ilya to initially participate in their Diaspora team (it would be for me if I were in their shoes). I think it's important to rem
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by vladd 15y ago
I've read it as "works nice with others".
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by vladd 15y ago
National Geographic made an editorial describing how teen brains are more prone to risky behavior: >> Peaking during adolescence is risk-taking. We court risk more avidly as teens than at any other time. This shows reliably in the l
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by vladd 15y ago
See the comment below, it's not "directly", it's "demonstrably anticipated research or development", which in the case of Google means anything (even games, thanks to Google+).
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by vladd 15y ago
Quite the contrary, you don't know Google's non-compete work-contract provisions and, if any, how would they held up in court, so your statement is quite speculative. Besides, the last thing you'd want to do is to work after-hours and find
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by vladd 15y ago
It is interesting to see whether users interested in new startups want a directory (links organized in a category-based model) or a blog (where new, fresh information is served periodically on an ongoing basis as it becomes available). I as
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by vladd 15y ago
You can distribute encrypted files via torrents to solve both control and bandwidth (you just divulge the password at a future point in time).
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by vladd 15y ago
Their launch announcement is available at http://blog.asana.com/2011/11/introducing-asana-the-modern-w... . I've written about the launch at http://www.dailywebapps.com/2011/11/03/asana-task-management... .
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Facebook Co-Founder's Asana Project Is Officially Launched(asana.com)
3 points by vladd 15y ago|1 comments
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by vladd 15y ago
> The point of making the billion dollars yourself is having a say in where it gets spent I doubt people that are great at creating value would appreciate making these kind of decisions once they get to know what's involved. Just to giv
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by vladd 15y ago
There are several types of "flight law" modes (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_control_modes_%28electro... ) that define the set of protections enforce-able by the software. For example, in the case of Airbus airplanes, flying in
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by vladd 15y ago
Non-paywall link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/21/us-groupon-ipo-ifr...
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by vladd 15y ago
> If the company had their paperwork in order, the OP should have maybe 5% Vesting usually happens over 4 years, so quitting after 1 year means 20%/4 = 5%. After accounting for dilution due to investors, other stock grants and employees
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by vladd 15y ago
The 3 points you make forget the little guy: that early employee, whose employee number has 1 digit, who trusted the founders when he accepted the option grant and put 60 hours of work or more each week in the hope of not being screwed when
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by vladd 15y ago
VCs are guys handling money, they need entrepreneurs (guys getting things done) and vice-versa. They sign a contract which mainly defines how each gets to profit from the other one and the boundaries of their interactions afterwards. It's w
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Google caught with altered rankings for its Product Search website(plus.google.com)
2 points by vladd 15y ago|0 comments
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Google caught with altered rankings for its Product Search website(cbsnews.com)
1 points by vladd 15y ago|0 comments
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by vladd 15y ago
Are you aware that several Googlers resigned after a petition signed by 10% of the entire engineering workforce was ignored by management? See https://plus.google.com/100010618263697835406/posts/azTW8hvw... for details.

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