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I couldn't disagree more. I moved back to NYC because after six years in the Valley, I thought I needed some change. I have two major gripes with the Valley. The first is that it i…

Make NCAs illegal. Make it so your employer doesn't own what you do in your spare time. A truly nuclear option is to bar discrimination based on previous employment history. One ma…

I wonder how much of this is due to Facebook deciding that location check-ins aren't that big a deal. Most of my friends still don't "get" what is the big deal with this.

Well that's not much different from how we play right? Make the future happen, literally. But they ultimately have to face what we will face. The markets may not buy. All that real…

I don't think the military shot anyone. There is a paradox here and it's that the military response would put the republic in danger if it indeed turned violent. But the mere prese…

I was pointing out why people think the way they do. No need to get condescending or shoot the messenger here. More than that, you are merely being pedantic. It makes little differ…

Whatever dude. Just ask anyone who grew up in anything resembling a ghetto. There's lots of us who begin to think that shooting rioters on sight is not a bad idea. Where do you thi…

What is the state of patent law, especially regarding software patents, across the world? If patents really are going to be a murder on innovation, then the least broken system sho…

I can't shake the feeling that it's because they didn't want to play the bad guy. Sun was hemorrhaging money. Layoffs were going to have to happen.

Maybe it would've been nicer if we just said "deep shit" instead of "default." When you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank owns you, but when you owe the bank a trillion doll…

"30 years, and accept a modest coupon of 4.5%", I rest my case. This is comical.

Even if it does get repaid over a longer period, this more or less means those bonds are shot as an investment. Moreover, this means that no one is going to lend the Greek gov't an…

It just means that instead of having the train quickly derail, they're going to stretch it out like it were a Hollywood movie. Seriously. No one believes that debt is going to be r…

Well it works , doesn't it?

Maybe it has something to do with the reporter being from NYC. [full disclosure: I am from NYC]

If they want to help build one here in the U.S., it may help for the sake of rhetoric to make a scapegoat out of the one they have over there. It's just a PR sleight-of-hand. The t…

Actually, I was originally of the same opinion, but then I read some lecture slides from Simon PJ. He has suggested that laziness was perhaps not the best default. It is hard to re…

You know, this almost reminds me of the ML vs. Haskell debate. I remember fondly, hearing the 15-312 kids talk about how ML is right and everything else is wrong. The CMU PL dept w…

I've actually been trying to prove people like this guy wrong for years. My takeaway is that Haskell is not the problem. The real problem is that solving people's problems is hard.…

I'll tell you what doesn't work. Overbuilding the place. Staten Island is a tragic example of this. In Manhattan, it's like they're repaving the streets with park. You need a certa…

One word for you. Copenhagen.