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Hulu is a Bad Investment(blog.bobbyrasul.com)
2 points by mrr2 15y ago|0 comments
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Global Shift in Renewable Energy Production(blog.bobbyrasul.com)
2 points by mrr2 15y ago|0 comments
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Social Media Combines the Mundane with the Profound(blog.bobbyrasul.com)
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Farmland and Free Capital Flows: What are the limits?(blog.bobbyrasul.com)
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Irrationality: A Tale of the Housing & Stock Markets(blog.bobbyrasul.com)
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by mrr2 16y ago
As a Somali, this person's life is likely absolute hell in Kuwaiti prison. The Middle Eastern countries are incredibly prejudiced against people of Indian Subcontinental and African origins as many come to the peninsula in order to work on
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by mrr2 16y ago
They are more likely to be in the public eye. More visibility = more chances of being attacked for being sexist/discriminating = more programs and "support" to hire females, underrepresented minorities etc. A startup is working hard just to
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by mrr2 16y ago
Could it be that once you reach a certain level of size in any organization bureaucracy and complexity turns up? The reason why Amazon might have "terrible engineering" while the sleekest app startup doesn't is because Amazon is really, rea
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by mrr2 16y ago
Definition of holier than thou: Exhibiting an attitude of superior virtue; self-righteously pious. Gladwell tries to come off from a moral high ground where he preaches about certain concepts (in this example the benefits of talent) by se
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by mrr2 16y ago
God, this is classic Gladwell. Skip critical details to come out as a "holier than thou" contrarian. Kitchin's qualification for running EnronOnline, it should be pointed out, was not that she was good at it. It was that she wanted to do i
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by mrr2 16y ago
I completely agree with the sentiment expressed in this post. Too many kids in my school (top-10 undergrad or whatever that means) ended up in banking, consulting, and law school because that was what seemed "prestigious". However, don't di
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by mrr2 16y ago
This title is unnecessarily provocative. We operate in an integrated, global financial system now. For the last decade, our entire country has been funded by Chinese funds for crying out loud! Foreign banks such as UBS, CS, some of the rein
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by mrr2 16y ago
Considering the sheer breadth of knowledge Wikipedia makes available to the public for free, I think we can all afford the millisecond it takes us to scroll away from the banner ad. Better yet, I think we can all throw in some money towards
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by mrr2 16y ago
This is probably the soundest advice to dealing with bullying I have ever seen. As a kid that has been to 7 different schools in 2 different countries (and learned English in '99), I assure you "hugging it out" with the bully will lead to y