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People thriving in learning is still an amazing resource to have around if the company manage to steer that learning into how their business works. I believe the usefulness isn't about if there is a lot of deadlines or not, but if the field of business is complex and rewarding intellectually.
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I know exact definition of dumping involves international trade and all that. I used this word not literally, but because it's the closest term to what's happening.

Good example on newspapers: what is happening to them (they are dying) is one consequence of the web-ads model propagated by Google. Are you better off now with them dying and thousands of people being laid off, while Google's pockets get fatter and fatter?

Free newspapers don't offer quite the same content as subscriptions. However if they started reprinting materials from subscription-based ones and offering the same material for free, along with their ads, they should probably be restricted from this - for copyright violation. This example is much closer to what's happening with Google. And this is also the reason why some newspapers and authors don't want to be on Google.
Some great non-hair-on-fire conversation here. Whenever I read and note that most folks are not that far apart on things, I keep wondering why the system is so broken. Here's the systemic problem, which has nothing to do with Treasury Bills, tax structures, or political parties.

Phases of political maturity:

1) Apathy. Political parties are like football teams. You pick one and they're your guys. You root for them no matter what. If anything, there might be something wrong about folks who take these things too seriously.

2) Emotion. The other political party is the devil. They are out to destroy America.

3) Enlightenment. The other party is just full of people like me. There are some smart folks, but the problem is that they have all the wrong incentives and conclusions.

4) Understanding. Gee, there are those same bad conclusions and wrong incentives in my favorite party too. Ergo, parties don't matter. There are smart people everywhere. When the system fails, it's a problem of the system, not of the people or parties.

The problem in the U.S. is that the majority of folks are in stage 1 or 2 when we need them to be in 4. So when deep structural conversations come along, they're still either rooting for their team or blaming the other guys, when they should be talking about principles that need to be changed for the entire system to work better, no matter what the actual goals of any party.

There is another problem that helps create deadlock -- an understanding of where the money comes from. I think many folks view the economy as something the government grows so that it can harvest money in the form of taxes. (This is not a Keynesian discussion, simply a discussion about taxes in general.) Other folks view the government as something the economy grows in order to keep it functioning. These are two deeply conflicting world-views. I'm not sure you'll ever reconcile them. Some put trading first and sharing second. Many put sharing first and trading second. These two camps have come to demonize the others, sadly. (Which takes us back to the observation above)

For this problem to be solved, we need to give up on arguing specific issues or philosophical positions and instead talk about fixing structures so that the budget stays balanced long-term no matter who is in power or what their priorities are. This is a meta conversation, the kind the framers had. I am very doubtful there is anyone around today in power that can handle it. Not a happy outlook. All of the people in political power got that way by playing ideological and rhetorical games and by being fiercely loyal to their party. It's the exact opposite qualifications for folks that would have a chance at actually solving anything.

I think we could talk forever and reach general agreement informally on all number of things, but if the system remains broken, it's all going to be for nothing, sadly. Without an honest look at meta systemic issues, a free-for-all discussion around U.S. policy is all so much activity without results.
>> The debt is $14T, the deficit is just over a billion

The US budget deficit is far more than $1 billion.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-10/u-s-had-record-222-...
Unless they are required to do so by law.
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Yeah. Despite Britain's significant fall from grace over the past 100 years, its wealth per capita is still not significantly below that of the US, even now. The US has nothing on how onerous and profiteering the British empire was.
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#4, #6, #8 and #9 are Open Handset Alliance members.
I'm surprised they don't use their IP collectively to protect the platform.
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Google should buy RIM
According to this report http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/the-biggest-ip-war-chests-08042011-gfx.html RIM has the biggest I.P. war chest in mobile (more than Microsoft or even Nokia). With a current market cap of about 12 billion US$ it would be "only" 3 times more expensive than the Nortel patents but would bring much more to the table than just patents (RIM is stil pretty profitable and could help Google significantly in the attempt to gain more corporate clients).
You seem to have forgot one point: the trillions spent in the Middle-East are to protect the supply of cheap Oil — so step 0. is: Sell your car, insulate your house.
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Had to check - it's not Amazon, despite their rather obsessive focus with tweaking and testing things all over the site. First purchase at Amazon is still somewhat involved, possibly due to "we're Amazon, where else are you going to go" mentality.
It does, but it also has bookmarks and there are a number of bookmarking services that all improve on the basic browser offering in some way.

When I first started Recawl Chrome's history search was somewhat unreliable/buggy although it has improved since then.

I also find Chrome's history search hard to use.

For example:

You cann't constrain a search by time period and you cann't block sites from appearing in the results.

Recawl suggests keywords related to your current search and it also learns to re-order results for search terms based on your previous click history.

Your Recawl history is available to search remotely whereas Chrome's history is only local.
I think the author is missing one of the key facts. Europe was hit hard by WW2 and Germany was in ruins. Other economies like China and Japan was also not comparable. It's easy to increase productivity and innovation when your competition is limited.
I wonder what the degree of relatedness (assuming inbreeding) these descendants actually have with Genghis Khan. We know that family trees break down into direct acyclic graphs over the longer term.

Note that the title assumes just patrilinear descent, so any man that may have had only daughters will not pass on the Y chromosome, though he will still have a non-patrilinear lineage (carried by both sons and daughters).

BTW, what are the main structural differences between strictly male and strictly female lineages?
"To make a parallel with an art auction, it would be like half of the bidding floor banding together simply to ensure that another promiment bidder didn't get the piece."

Except that the "another prominent bidder" was invited to join the party but the bidder refused. If groups were forming, they were forming. If Google did not want to join, they did not want to join. But if they want to complain about others forming groups when it's legal - I'm not sure if one should have sympathy for them.
Some other AAA countries: Switzerland, Luxembourg, Norway, Singapore.

To me it seems a little ridiculous that the US and these countries shared the same rating for such a long time. On the other hand, there are AAA countries like UK, France, Germany that do not seem to fit into the same category either.

I have no real opinion if the US deserves the AAA rating, but thinking treasuries are the safest investment in the world seems a bit optimistic.
Breast feeding goes on for as long as you want it to go on. I'm certainly not advocating against breast feeding, if you're medically capable to do it, enjoy it, and can fit it into your schedule then by all means breast feed away, I'm even cool with you doing it public.

However using it as THE reason for mothers not going back to work and having the father stay at home is simply archaic.
The problem is the voters, you get the politicians you deserve.

I don't think the american people are dumb or lazy, I think they are very complacent.

Americans have become so used to their fairly high standard of living that they are ignoring substantive issues and focusing on trivia.

My personal prediction is that the voters will wise up and listen to smart people who understand the issues eventually. At the moment though americans just see high gas prices and demand their government fix "the problem", they aren't interested in the challenging geo political, economic and social complexities.

How far amercia falls on the way to this correction is difficult to tell.

edit: just in case anyone thinks I am america bashing, the above applies to most of western europe as well.
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This is not as surprising as it might seem, and in fact is more of a statistical trick than anything else— according to Wiki, the most recent common ancestor of all humans alive today is believed to have lived only 2~5,000 years ago.

Of course Genghis Khan was unusually prolific, and the direct patrilineal aspect is what makes it special, but you don't have to go far back in time to find an ancestor you share with one in ten people, let alone one in a hundred.
I remember reading a fact like 4% of China is related to Genghis Khan. Considering the amount of people in China this statistic of 1:200 makes sense.
Also, I remember someone doing "math" on how many women Genghis Khan had to sleep with everyday his life to reach the number he did (it was like 2,000 women wasn't it?) compared to his lifetime... I remember the number being pretty ridiculous.
> I also remember stories from my mom's family of 7 kids growing up poor in Rochester, NY in the post-war era. Perhaps I've inherited an attitude of bite-down and deal with reality from their history.

I have not much to add to your excellent comments, I just wanted to give you a heads-up. I grew up in a former Eastern-European country, and my childhood and teenage years were very much marked by the economic collapse of the post-communist years.

First, regarding the reducing of military spending by the US, I can still remember reading a very beautiful Soviet propaganda magazine in 1989 (with colored pictures and all) about how happy everyone was that the Soviet Army was getting out of Afghanistan and how about everyone will be happy. Then 1991 happened to them and the Soviets disintegrated under their own weight, in many cases leaving military units stranded in foreign territory because the money had just run out. I don't know what the moral of this story should be, maybe that it is never too early to cut military spending. You (the Americans) should do it now.

Second, I have nothing intelligent to say about your health-care system, but regarding Social Security I hope that you, the American people, will find a bunch of decent politicians willing to sacrifice their political careers over this. The reason being that when the money will run out (and at this rate it will definitely run out) no amount of blaming the other party or of accusing the Chinese or the Martians or whatever will make up for the fact that Government-run agencies will have no money to actual do their jobs (and no, inflation, i.e. indefinite printing of money will not help solve this, it will only make it worst). Again, I saw this happening in my country, ~20 years ago, social services going the way of the shitter and basically the entire Government-run infrastructure crumbling on its own weight. It wasn't funny at all.
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I disagree with most of this article.
I trust Google when they say that patents they wanted to buy from Novell and Nortel were "bogus".
It says that jobs lost because of intoduction of labour saving machine are regained at later time thanks to increased demand caused by more efficient supply.

But what if we reached a point where one labour saving machine is replaced with even better labour saving machine before it had a chance to redeem lost jobs?

I anticipate transition of jobs and money toward trivial things. In 10 years John will cut hair of James for 1000$ and James will groom dog of John for 1000$. In the meantime theyll both enjoy nearly magical devices they bought for 10$ because they were made by robots.
Hardly turning a fun Austin startup into Dell. We are a fun Austin startup. But Dell has built a very effective Business sales channel.

And nothing we do is "rigid". It is documented and we're learning and making changes all the time. We're a B2B company that's figured out some very difficult sales challenges (like how to sell into the local space effectively). I'd bet money that we try more things more often than most startups because we're trying to optimize solutions for software and human performance that no one has been successful at before.

Think of it this way. If you never had analytics on your sites or applications, how would you recommend scaling?
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2) I'm pretty sure Western Europe is fine with Russia without US intervention, thanks.
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EDIT: Aww you deleted it? Sorry didn't mean to be that negative! But that Royal Wedding app sounds pretty damn lame. =)
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Yes, that's what I was immediately thinking too when I saw that. RIM is still quite expensive though, and unless they plan on turning RIM around and getting a strong foothold in enterprise with Android within like a year, then $12 billion seems too expensive for patents.

This also reminds me what a mistake Google did when they didn't buy Palm. They could've paid only $1.2 billion for their huge mobile patent chest (probably about as big as RIM), their WebOS technology, which I'm sure they could've used, and also 1000 employees, where many of them were engineers. Palm would've been a total bargain for Google.

With RIM, Google has 2 strategies:

1) Get them now by spending 1/3 of their cash, and immediately switch the company to Android. If they move it fast and do it right, they have the opportunity to make Android bigger in enterprise than iPhone will ever be. With RIM, they also have the opportunity to make a lot of money from hardware - maybe close to what Apple is making. The downside is some Android partners may not be too happy about this, but as long as they remain fair towards them and give them access to Android no later their their own RIM division, I don't think they'll mind it too much. They'll still want to use Android because Android is still the most popular smartphone platform they can use by far, right now. It's not much different than if Microsoft bought a PC manufacturer.

What I'd love about it as a consumer, is that there would be a strong manufacturer, Google's no less, that will make great stock Android smartphones.

2) They can let RIM collapse, and buy them in 2013 for much less just for their patents, maybe for 2-3 billions or so.

Either way they have to take into account that others, like Microsoft might bid for them, too, although I'm not entirely sure Microsoft will buy them right now, after their partnership with Nokia. And at least Android has 50% market share, while WP7 has 1%, so Microsoft's other partners besides Nokia might leave them altogether. And then if Microsoft can't turn WP around with the fast declining RIM, and the even faster declining Nokia, they're gone from the mobile space, and they'll take both RIM and Nokia with them. Google buying RIM at its peak is one thing, Microsoft buying it when WP hasn't even become larger than WebOS, is quite another. Why would the others stick around for an OS that doesn't bring them any significant sales, and when Microsoft will play strong favorites with Nokia and of course RIM, which would be theirs?
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I don't think Lamar would disagree that going into the field is more valuable than any book or seminar. In fact, that's pretty much where all of the sales strategies we use are battle-tested and refined. As a startup, in many cases we've opted to hire someone without the immediate skillset (out of college) but who has potential to succeed. We need a common vocabulary, a common set of expectations, and a knowledge base to work from.

Books like this one are the net, not the trapeze act.
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It's worth noting here that this paper only looks at Kahn's direct descendants through the male line of Genghis Kahn. I believe that the number of people alive who are in any way related Genghis Kahn (through both matrilineal and patrilineal lines) is a lot higher than 1 in 200.
hmm? they cant be bogus from a legal POV, or they would be no good for defence.

Maybe google just meant that they didn't like them very much?
>"If Google can't even get patents to protect themselves, because all the others keep banding together and not letting them win any auction, then something is very wrong here."

There may be more than one thing wrong, and one of those things is Google may not be appropriately organized to operate in some of the markets it has chosen to enter - e.g. the mobile phone industry. Their corporate strategy for the search and advertising services upon which the company was built is centered around trade secrets - and that makes a lot of sense given the sausage factory model upon which they have built those services.

Unfortunately for Google, telecommunications doesn't work that way and never has - that's why Nortel had such a big patent portfolio and why Bell Labs did things like patent Shockley's work on the transistor. This is why it takes longer for more mature companies to bring competitive products to a new market segment - e.g. HP felt it prudent to acquire WebOS before head to head competition with the iPad and Microsoft's WP7 doesn't look and feel like iOS.

In a nutshell, Google's problem is that in the telecommunications industry, they did not innovate through a traditional R&D process. Instead, they appear to have rushed the development of Android without proper due diligence in order to be first to market with (operational and technical merits of Android aside) what could be called an "iPhone knockoff". Now that lack of due diligence is coming back to bite them.

<speculation>Could it be that senior Google leadership's fascination with the Sidekick which led to Android lead developer Andy Rubin's being brought onboard led to the damn the torpedoes approach to IP surrounding Android? And could it be that the patents upon which Microsoft's license strategy for Android is base came from their acquisition of Rubin's former startup, Danger, which he left in order to found Android? </speculation>
Why do you feel the need to quote a Jewish author to support this? Just say it out loud: Our foreign policy is being manipulated by the Jews in favor of Israel thanks to their control of the US government.

When stated like this, it sounds like the crazy conspiracy theory that it is.
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> @seldo: how do I find out about "apropos"?

> shell should offer a tutorial by default on first login.

> 'help' should probably be a built-in

FYI, OpenBSD has all these. I don't know why the various Linux distros don't.
Programming is an inherently creative act. Sales isn't always. The goal with most sales organizations is to replicate a process that works on a regular basis and at scale. Programmers are composers, most sales teams are like musicians in the orchestra. Both are really important to making the music happen. One is creating processes. One is executing on it.
I'd like to see a reference on Google playing IP games, that was not in response to another company starting an IP war.
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Would you be interested in an API/web service that tells you which of your submitted photos are safe for a general audience?

It would be useful for social networks, dating sites, forums, or any site that allows users to post images. The service would also handle videos and text (such as spam).

I have a system that already works well for several major sites, and was wondering if there is a larger market out there.

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