Ballmer built the amazing airplane that Bill Gates owned. Ballmer was there from close to the beginning, knew much more about business than Gates, and was intrumental.
I once thought it would be funny to offer a service that bought "bundles" of securitized mortgages, but would then separate them out and offer to sell specific mortgages to people's arch enemies who would presumably pay…
To be clear, they're talking about the un-intellectual dark web: they aren't yet willing to take the risk featuring in-band IDW viewpoints on their pages or airwaves. Probably, in the face of trends like Brexit and a…
> Blaming the user is a pernicious problem in UX engineering I've been around computers since well before it was called UX, and since UX? trust me, I never blame users, I definitely blame UX. we need to bring back UI.
> while they knew they had the cure ... would we not find the only ethical solution (while we are minor nitpicking, they have the cure, our view of their ethics might not be the same as their view of theirs)
> observing us while they knew they had the cure to our dying loved ones Good! I, for one, appreciate selection pressure from our insect overlords, it's the only way Darwinism works. Seriously, science is serious…
> (But it solves them exponentially faster than a classical computer) do you mean literally exponentially? or do you mean "a lot" faster?
> It seems to imply that those two people are magically going to agree to something before the meeting it's not magic, it entails preparation, but if you are holding meetings and you don't have the principal attendees…
they can't force you to participate in the receipt checking, you can refuse, and you are free to leave. Because those places are clubs, they can take your membership away and deny you entry in the future, but once you…
in most cases these days, the degree doesn't pay, so you're right, it must be the product.
> never compete on price for that exact reason no, you should compete on price if you are the low cost producer, as my neighbor comment notes. monopolists frequently are the low cost producer because of economies of…
It's funny how everybody covets more power and more money, employers and employees alike, and always want to wrap it all up in a facade of being the moral choice.
I know, people here are demanding that after you fill up at an all you can eat buffet, you should be allowed to sell your seat to somebody else.
you are exactly right, but when people have bad ideas lodged in their heads, it's difficult to dislodge them.
yes, but the point of my post is that the unwarranted enthusiasm for "home ownership because rent is a waste" leads to political destabilization of sectors of the finance markets. In terms of the point you raise, the…
well, it's difficult to predict on the one hand. on the other hand, it is easy to predict that: when the average joe holds "home ownership" up as the sterling example of "making it"; then the average politician will…
ycombinator, where standard econ theory gets downvoted by people who've never taken econ. Here's a challenge, explain the history of the US stock market vs world stock markets and US venture capital vs world venture…
The US economy is the driver of the world economy, and has been for quite some time and it's why we see so much innovation of entire new sectors in the US. (Yes, you can see sustained higher growth for a time in some…
Ballmer built the amazing airplane that Bill Gates owned. Ballmer was there from close to the beginning, knew much more about business than Gates, and was intrumental.
I once thought it would be funny to offer a service that bought "bundles" of securitized mortgages, but would then separate them out and offer to sell specific mortgages to people's arch enemies who would presumably pay…
To be clear, they're talking about the un-intellectual dark web: they aren't yet willing to take the risk featuring in-band IDW viewpoints on their pages or airwaves. Probably, in the face of trends like Brexit and a…
> Blaming the user is a pernicious problem in UX engineering I've been around computers since well before it was called UX, and since UX? trust me, I never blame users, I definitely blame UX. we need to bring back UI.
> while they knew they had the cure ... would we not find the only ethical solution (while we are minor nitpicking, they have the cure, our view of their ethics might not be the same as their view of theirs)
> observing us while they knew they had the cure to our dying loved ones Good! I, for one, appreciate selection pressure from our insect overlords, it's the only way Darwinism works. Seriously, science is serious…
> (But it solves them exponentially faster than a classical computer) do you mean literally exponentially? or do you mean "a lot" faster?
> It seems to imply that those two people are magically going to agree to something before the meeting it's not magic, it entails preparation, but if you are holding meetings and you don't have the principal attendees…
they can't force you to participate in the receipt checking, you can refuse, and you are free to leave. Because those places are clubs, they can take your membership away and deny you entry in the future, but once you…
in most cases these days, the degree doesn't pay, so you're right, it must be the product.
> never compete on price for that exact reason no, you should compete on price if you are the low cost producer, as my neighbor comment notes. monopolists frequently are the low cost producer because of economies of…
It's funny how everybody covets more power and more money, employers and employees alike, and always want to wrap it all up in a facade of being the moral choice.
I know, people here are demanding that after you fill up at an all you can eat buffet, you should be allowed to sell your seat to somebody else.
you are exactly right, but when people have bad ideas lodged in their heads, it's difficult to dislodge them.
yes, but the point of my post is that the unwarranted enthusiasm for "home ownership because rent is a waste" leads to political destabilization of sectors of the finance markets. In terms of the point you raise, the…
well, it's difficult to predict on the one hand. on the other hand, it is easy to predict that: when the average joe holds "home ownership" up as the sterling example of "making it"; then the average politician will…
ycombinator, where standard econ theory gets downvoted by people who've never taken econ. Here's a challenge, explain the history of the US stock market vs world stock markets and US venture capital vs world venture…
The US economy is the driver of the world economy, and has been for quite some time and it's why we see so much innovation of entire new sectors in the US. (Yes, you can see sustained higher growth for a time in some…