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Maybe, like Schrodinger’s cat, we can all just avoid looking at Google Quantum AI and it will stay in a superposition of dead and alive.

Perl is the only way to go for serious CGI scripts. It’s so powerful, Python is limited and clunky by comparison. And a new language with syntactically important whitespace? Seriou…

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If that's the case, if Google could cause massive disruption by pulling out of the EU, they have effectively monopoly power in that market. So if that's the case, the suit is anyth…

Misleading headline: most people don't install an app every month, but what about the apps they already have on their phone? Edit: it's misleading because the article actually says…

A PE of 60 is very high. A very rough rule is that the PEG (PE to Growth, where growth is earnings growth in percent) should be about 1.0. So a PE of 60 means the market is expecti…

Maybe they're both overvalued?

Warren Buffett looks for investments with an economic moat around their economic castle. If a startup could get close to doing that much damage to Facebook, maybe Facebook's busine…

I understood the article, thanks. I'm just not convinced. The debate hinges on this: is UX a special basis of competition that can't be disrupted? Will consumers pay a premium for …

But it isn't his money: VC funds raise money from other investors (aka limited partners). It's like asking a banker or hedge fund manager if there's a stock market bubble. They won…

Worse, Facebook makes a lot of mobile advertising money from app install ads. If startup investors cut back the flow of money, that advertising revenue dries up. There will be a gl…

That's exactly what you would expect if a "low end disruption" is just getting started. The low-cost disruptor picks off some but not all of the market, and doesn't immediately com…

But it rules out other kinds of tricks like storing info in file names. If all the metadata is counted in the length of the tar file, these tricks don't stand a chance. There's way…

Or insisted it was a single file, tar files allowed.

Luxury isn't necessarily crazy, it can be rational economic signaling: http://www.joshuakennon.com/mental-model-veblen-goods/

If anyone can build a big enough quantum computer (enough qubits) and prevent it decohering (that is, keeping it quantum long enough) to run Shor's algorithm, standard public key c…

Ed! You was lucky to 'ave ed! In my day all we 'ad was a magnetized needle and a very steady hand!