FelixP

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by FelixP 9y ago
I would also point out that the author conflate two tightly-coupled but distinct spheres - the political and the economic. China, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore have all been massively successful because they acted aggressively in the po
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by FelixP 10y ago
Their annual revenue is 75B DKK, which is more like 11B USD.
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by FelixP 11y ago
In Soviet Russia, Cabin boards You!
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by FelixP 11y ago
Runners are pedestrians, too?
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by FelixP 11y ago
One interesting thing to note is that this allows for the exact quantification ("pricing") of various forms of dissent. If a large enough segment of the population is willing to pay a measurable financial cost in order to engage
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by FelixP 11y ago
If you want to see the impact of profoundly cheap labor in a modern country, go to India. When I was there last winter, it was fascinating to see how many things were done by simply throwing seemingly-inordinate man-hours of labor at tasks
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Let’s Modernize Our Environmental Laws(nytimes.com)
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by FelixP 11y ago
Banker here. We actually have automated and outsourced quite a bit of the drudgery, although doing it within the framework of Excel and PowerPoint often requires some pretty strange contortions from a UI perspective.
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by FelixP 11y ago
I actually like and use sheets (it's much better than Excel for simple and/or non-analytical use cases), so when I use Excel for something, it's because I want to use Excel for that thing .
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by FelixP 11y ago
No. The middle class in the US and other highly developed nations is hurting, but by any global measure, this group of people is actually relatively wealthy. The global middle class has experienced an unprecedented level of growth and pros
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by FelixP 11y ago
Google keeps trying to force me to open files in Docs, Sheets, etc., which is very annoying. It also tries to convert Excel files into Sheets.
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by FelixP 11y ago
There is TONS of investment capital sitting on the sidelines looking for decent returns at the moment. Capital availability is not the issue here.
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by FelixP 11y ago
I have the same setup, as well as a 15" retina MBP. Each one is optimized for different use cases, but it's amusing that a machine that ran me ~$400 is better for a lot of things than my $2500+ top of the line Apple. Biggest draw
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by FelixP 12y ago
I mean, moving a few blocks isn't that material in terms of people's commutes (and implied relative power/importance/influence). Moving from one city to another can be highly disruptive.
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by FelixP 13y ago
> Bridges. You'll burn them. As a manager, this is definitely not always the case. If someone is leaving for the "right" reasons (namely, they have an awesome opportunity somewhere else), then that's great. While i
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by FelixP 13y ago
As someone who's live in both SF and Philly, I'd have to say that while they're both awful in terms of public transit, SF is definitely worse.
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by FelixP 13y ago
Couldn't agree more. As a Jew, this sort of behavior makes me furious and embarrassed.
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by FelixP 13y ago
It failed on "Are you sure that's a good idea?"
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by FelixP 13y ago
Tablets and mobile devices are primarily consumption devices, and are ill-suited for creating anything. However, going by the 90/9/1 rule, there's a much bigger potential set of consumption consumers than creators.
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by FelixP 13y ago
If you know something about the industry, could you recommend some good alternatives?
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by FelixP 13y ago
Lease terms that prohibit or limit subtenancy (especially without the express consent of the owner) are nothing new, and certainly not a reaction to AirBnB.
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by FelixP 13y ago
Yes, absolutely. My family has evicted tenants from some of our units for repeatedly violating this clause of their leases.
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by FelixP 13y ago
> If you don't want your tenants doing this, then make it against the terms of your rental agreement. It's actually a violation of most standard residential rental agreements; sub-tenancy is often tightly controlled and only permitted w
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by FelixP 13y ago
>I would even argue that this, more than any other thing they could say, is the number one argument Nazis use to reel people in. I'm sorry, could you clarify this? I'm hardly an expert, but I can't imagine that your average skinhead-ty
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by FelixP 13y ago
Normally, I'm fairly (unconsciously) biased against such 'longhairs,' but in the case of Lanier, my impression is that he is, in fact, extremely intelligent. I'd highly encourage you to read this (very long) interview with him from 2011 in
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by FelixP 13y ago
Honestly, this seems like a pretty unambiguously good thing - don't assume it's bad just because you dislike the politician / party that's proposing it.
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by FelixP 13y ago
Pretty sure it was just a figure of speech...
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by FelixP 13y ago
I think non-business people frequently make the error of lumping all MBAs together; practically speaking, there's a decent gap between the top three programs (HBS, Stanford GSB, & Wharton), the rest of the top 10-15 (Kellogg, Berkeley,
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by FelixP 13y ago
I'm bringing the real fucking ingredient (talent) and not these unproductive and fucking uncultured absentee landlord fucksticks (half of whom don't even live in the city, and what the fuck are we doing allowing foreign speculators, i.e. t
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by FelixP 13y ago
I think most people prefer SF, but VCs tend to be older and thus prefer locations with more space to raise families (e.g. Palo Alto, Marin, etc.)

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