ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: China won't be luring foreign tech talent any time soon
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ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: Someone started dumping Lockheed Martin stock just before Trump's tweet
All times EST. :)
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: Someone started dumping Lockheed Martin stock just before Trump's tweet
Twitter says he posted that at 5:26 AM, not 8:26 AM.
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: Silicon Valley Stumbles in World Beyond Software
And I'm pretty sure Lockheed Martin is still right next to Moffett, as well as the SV campus of Carnegie Mellon. I think there might be too much going on in this little strip of land to completely discount aerospace.
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: “They Went to Sea in a Sieve, They Did”
I read The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst in high school, and can recommend that as well.
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg Is in Denial
And is Google guilty as well? The story below is currently at the top of the World section of Google News -
Nuclear War Alert: US Prepares For North Korea Missile Launch
http://www.morningnewsusa.com/nuclear-war-alert-us-prepares-...
I have no idea what this "news" site is, but I'm pretty sure that the US is not currently rushing to prepare for a North Korean nuclear missile launch.
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: How We Make Money at Stack Overflow
How do they employ almost 300 people on $11 mil / year?
Also, why are these posts getting downvoted? The title of this article is "How We Make Money at Stack Overflow".
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
No they don't.
Hillary Clinton lost the election but is winning the popular vote
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/donald-trump-hillary-...
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: DDoS attack halts heating in Finland amidst winter
Yeah, that's kind of the problem.
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: DDoS attack halts heating in Finland amidst winter
Not sure why this is controversial. Boilers have an on/off switch, and when your company manages a large number of buildings, you automate and centralize on/off for efficiency's sake, no?
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
Doesn't he mean executive orders? I believe those are considered law, while executive actions are simply directional.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/20/365467914/...
EDIT: Never mind, he said ...cancel every unconstitutional executive action, memorandum and order issued by President Obama.
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: Donald Trump’s Contract with the American Voter [pdf]
Does anyone know if this -
Enacts new ethics reforms to drain the swamp and reduce the corrupting influence of special interests on our politics.
...means overturning Citizens United? Because if it doesn't, then this is just propaganda.
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: Google Trends Electionland
Burlington, PA has been the biggest red dot on the map for the past 20 minutes or so. That's another story I'd like to learn about.
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: On Wall Street, a high-ranking few still avoid email
-> I mean, come on. Everyone uses email.
Not actually. I've been a consultant for a few years now, and have worked with executives who have their assistants print out their email for them in order to review. It isn't limited to Wall Street.
Though it's probably something we'll see less and less of as the years go by.
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: Eric Schmidt's 2014 plan for Hillary's campaign via Wikileaks
Actually, they sound like the people that GOOG/FB currently hire.
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: PM2.5 exposure possibly leads to 1.37M people’s premature death in China
-> I'm not very excited about China's nuclear power program, I don't have confidence that they aren't going to cut corners
Then hopefully you don't live in the UK, where China is developing new designs for reactors -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/09/15/china-to-buil...
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: Computer Simulations Suggest War Drove the Rise of Civilisations (2013)
-> They stagnated basically because there was little to no fighting.
A fair assessment, but now I realize that another way to say this is -
They stagnated because there was little to drive innovation.
Stated this way, it at least makes us consider that there might be an alternative to constant warfare as a driver of progress. Maybe recognition of this is some kind of societal turning point as well?
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: Computer Simulations Suggest War Drove the Rise of Civilisations (2013)
“It seems warfare created intense pressure that drove these societies.”
This seems backwards. Wouldn't the intense pressure of societies bumping up against each other drive warfare, and not the other way around?
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: I Was Wrong About Offline
And for you game devs (since we're on the subject), not providing an offline experience shuts down 5 mil+ NYC subway riders from your game every day. Not sure about other cities, but it's a significant use case.
ComteDeLaFere | 9 years ago | on: Silicon Valley Cozies Up to Washington, Outspending Wall Street 2-1
Since I live a few blocks from Zuccatti Park and was present for most of the Occupy rise and fall, I'm pretty sure I know what it was about, but feel free to share. And yes, I personally feel that a clear parallel is shaping up.
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