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by Bsharp 13y ago
Great article, had no idea about that side of him. I'm sure he's no expert hacker, but it doesn't matter - hopefully his message gets out to the millions of kids who think a passion for coding, computers, and tech in general
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Jocks and Bonds: Fantex and The Arian Foster IPO(grantland.com)
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by Bsharp 13y ago
Except growth doesn't just happen at the will of a company. Companies grow because people buy their products and use their services, which means they wouldn't grow unless people wanted them to. So how is growth a bad thing when it
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by Bsharp 13y ago
You're picking apart my example of a luxury, not the argument. People aren't forced to spend money on iPhones. If they spend money of iPhones that they need for food they otherwise couldn't afford, then that's their pr
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by Bsharp 13y ago
I don't deny that people aren't spending their money wisely, but no one forces people into debt. It isn't hard to practice financial responsibility. Also, wait: you can ensure better living quarters than a tent, presumably wi
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by Bsharp 13y ago
Obviously...what's your point? Of course they're concerned with the growth of their own company. They don't care if other markets are shrinking though. That's why I specified macro level .
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by Bsharp 13y ago
> Some of the happiest people I've ever met in my life have nothing by North American standards. Some of the happiest people I've met in my life have everything by North American standards. Material things are tools for happi
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by Bsharp 13y ago
The important take-away from your statement, though, is that these people are still getting food. The fact that developed nations have the basic survival necessities taken care of to the point that everyone has time and money to spend on th
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by Bsharp 13y ago
No one who understands what capitalism and free markets are about would suggest that they focus on the idea that one should sacrifice everything for more growth. The idea of growth as it's being talked about in the article - in the mac
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by Bsharp 13y ago
The only good thing about the mess that is Obama's presidency is that people might finally learn that it generally doesn't matter who you elect, most presidents and politicians will act similarly. Politicians tell the country what
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by Bsharp 13y ago
Money from quantitative easing goes to the wealthy and connected first. The rest of the country doesn't see it until its value has been inflated away, which is why you'll see the wealthy benefit from the recovery and the poor stay
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by Bsharp 13y ago
I think they are simply trying to get an under-represented group interested in coding, with people they will likely be more comfortable around. This isn't an elite group of hackers excluding other sexes and races, it's meant to be
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by Bsharp 13y ago
Oh awesome, I'll have to check some of these out! Apparently I haven't looked hard enough.
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by Bsharp 13y ago
This is great, thanks for sharing! Hopefully it's able to stick - I live in Miami and there is little-to-no tech culture around.
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by Bsharp 13y ago
> they try to find others to blame instead of just fixing the damn issue. This is for two reasons: 1) Fixing something makes it appear, politically, like it's your fault, or at least savvy opposing politicians can spin it that way
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by Bsharp 13y ago
> If anyone saw this briefing, it was mostly a lot of really technologically illiterate people asking pointed questions about a gigantic set of systems that can't easily be answered to technologically illiterate people. This is, u
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by Bsharp 13y ago
Infant mortality plays a huge role. It has dropped significantly in the past century.[1] "It is true that life expectancy in the Middle Ages and earlier was low; however, one should not infer that people usually died around the age of
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by Bsharp 13y ago
It may be hellishly annoying to follow (and trust me, I've had to clean up many Frankenstein-esque spreadsheets), but it's imo easier than any sort of messy code. Which do you think is harder for Average Joe Exec - following poorl
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by Bsharp 13y ago
Absolutely agree with you. Database-to-spreadsheet is the best way to analyze data then summarize the results in a business setting. Unfortunately, the people seeing the results occasionally want to see how you got to your numbers, and sinc
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by Bsharp 13y ago
You definitely don't want to be using Excel for heavy data analysis or statistical analysis, and unfortunately some companies refuse to acknowledge that. Performance is very often sacrificed for familiarity and ease-of-use in business.
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by Bsharp 13y ago
Just because something can summarize data doesn't mean it's the best tool to use when trying to explain something. Executives and VC's with non-technical backgrounds might be intimidated by someone using relatively complex to