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by xanados 15y ago
The system in Germany is different in that it names a particular set of stakeholders, namely workers, and gives them a formal place in governance controls. To my knowledge, German managers do not have to take into account the objectives of
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by xanados 15y ago
There are actually several arguments against these so-called "stakeholder society" initiatives that most people don't consider at the outset. For example: 1. These concepts generally come with weaker governance for company managers, allowin
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by xanados 15y ago
My desire to interact with a waiter varies depending on the nature of the restaurant. Clearly this system isn't going to be installed at a 4 star restaurant any time soon, but if I go to a restaurant just to eat it would be useful. It would
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by xanados 15y ago
Using PayPal is basically a crap shoot for recurring virtual services. As one poster on Hacker News said, if you aren't putting physical items in boxes and shipping to customers homes, you aren't in PayPal's target market.
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by xanados 15y ago
Here is the definition of an exit discussion for you http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/less-than-words-can-say...
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by xanados 15y ago
Very true. The result of this for people making strategic decisions regarding their lives is that if the field puts high value on positional factors, you should only engage in practice in that field if you have natural talent. For example,
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by xanados 15y ago
A dutch auction can't work for some of the other reasons I mentioned. The terms in a venture capital transaction are as critical in making fund returns as the valuation, and a formal auction can only optimize one variable at a time. The ter
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by xanados 15y ago
I am not a lawyer and have not reviewed the text of this legislation so I can't speak to the precise details, but I have agented venture capital and private equity transactions and thought I'd add a few considerations that others haven't me
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by xanados 15y ago
One nuance to this is that not all profanity is created equally. Essentially none of the people here that would drop the F-bomb in a presentation would utter the word "cunt" in any remotely professional environment. It connotes disrespe
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by xanados 15y ago
One under-appreciated fact regarding the acquisition of skills or the attainment of goals, is that both are difficult or impossible if you can't structure the activity itself so that it is enjoyable. Learning how to make vocabulary fun will
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by xanados 16y ago
This is a good idea and would be a really useful service, but doing it this way doesn't work. What the app is doing is using SMTP to try various permutations of the name to see if the email is rejected or accepted by the email server. The p
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by xanados 16y ago
I saw a link on hacker news to this article on how to sleep five hours a day[1]. Since following this advice, my life is really much better. Like Steve I set a fixed wake up time (5am) and go to sleep whenever I'm tired. I use a lamp that s
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by xanados 16y ago
1: http://www.transitionguelph.org/images/front5.jpg 2: http://orangejuiceblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/oil-pr... 3: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_-b-kpMH_7eM/SkPP2QB4d9I/AAAAAAAABI... The country is Russia.
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by xanados 16y ago
The irony is that the font used in this article actually renders to be really unattractive on my Windows machine at work. I've always noticed that they use this font at BusinessWeek online, and it's always bugged me, personally. It looks li
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by xanados 16y ago
There is no generosity in imputing your own beliefs onto other people's reasoned statements.
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by xanados 16y ago
Even if I do great things, I can only do them in so many domains in a single lifetime. In all other domains, my only recourse is to complain about how they should be. The idea that no one can complain unless they would choose to overthrow t
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by xanados 17y ago
Yeah, that part seems like it needs more support. The situation for the largest and most diverse economy on the planet is a little bit different than the situation for those Asian countries. Our economy is far too complex for this sort of c
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by xanados 17y ago
I'm going to have to disagree with the premise of this and the last post regarding history. History is fun, but not ultimately particularly useful. It's fun in that the "whys" provide narrative value to the facts of history, but as to why i
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by xanados 17y ago
Uh, I guess. They needed some way to support all the communication applications on their browser-OS after all...
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by xanados 17y ago
It will be great once web socket support becomes more pervasive. True 2-way communication would be a great boon in the complexity department for a bunch of different types of web apps.
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Erlang Creator Joe Armstrong Wants to Ditch AJAX, Loves Chrome's New Web Sockets(groups.google.com)
116 points by xanados 17y ago|36 comments
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by xanados 17y ago
> Fact is, startups operate in a financial system that is inefficient, illiquid, and challenging to manage. Well, that's certainly true... > more transactions of any kind or size help improve overall startup ecosystem health. While
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by xanados 17y ago
One test of having an ethical business is, "Would my customers still use my services if they were fully informed?" Cash4Gold does not meet this test. If everyone knew what we all know, no one would use Cash4Gold. They prey on people's ignor
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by xanados 17y ago
This article is relevant here, I think... http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by xanados 17y ago
Humans are the ultimate generalist
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by xanados 17y ago
Investors already know this. Venture capital will always call for the creation of an option pool, and the option pool is always dilutive to the pre-money (founders) rather than the post money. That is, if they are creating an option pool th
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by xanados 17y ago
If you have a one-on-one tutor I don't think I would be too worried about taking a long time to learn the language. It's much more effective just having someone to talk to, TPS or not.
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by xanados 17y ago
What they didn't mention is that the bloat made them 1/4 inch thick.