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You seem to be implying that breaking up the VC cartel in Silicon valley with money that was potentially stolen from russian peasants maybe OK. I understand that Ycombinator compan…

I came to the US 20 years ago too and in my experience, the wait-times are nothing like what my employees from Indian and China face. I got a PhD in 6 years, then applied for a GC …

As a lapsed superconductivity physicist, I hate to burst the bubble. In the community there has been a long-standing joke about USOs, Unidentified Superconducting Objects, and it i…

Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Peter Thiel (Paypal), Mark Pincus (Zynga) I mean is this even a serious question?

Right. And allow the economy to go into a long-term depression with 25%+ unemployment. A government "for the people" does not have a choice in this matter. The real problem is that…

Run like hell, Say no firmly and forever.

It seems to me that the core dilemma in the AI community has always been - is intelligence a "systems" problem or is it a "general" problem. It seems people first tried a series of…

Thank god for physicists.

VCs are clearly exaggerating their contribution but it is easy to forget that they are the only long-term investors in the current financial system. Who else will commit to eight y…

Yes, but some previously lousily governed countries like China and India have become much better options than they were even ten years ago. The goal is not to have "some kinds of i…

On the 28th day - we crash.

This article and all others on the topic seem to confuse two different trends: 1> That there is a real incentive for the very best to return to India and China because they are sel…

Autism is more complex than that. See for example http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=vitamin-d-a... . One of the big mysteries is that Somali immigrants to the US and…

College is a place where you learn to learn, or should be...

Yet another blah article generalizing about entire countries based on experiments done on 30 people at a time under lab conditions.Go NY Times.

It goes back to the specialist vs. generalist question. An MBA experience will help you become more of a generalist, you will interact with people who are different from you and so…

If you help them save money in a direct demonstrable way in a short period of time, you could have a shot. A good example is ITA software that powers the online pricing engines for…

Unfortunately all these discussions are too filled with obnoxious generalizations to be useful. In my experience good business people are rare and when you find them you should kee…

On 2, we are a company founded by a combination of CS/Physics people. We have found that pairing a physics person with a CS person leads to the best outcomes. I think you should em…

You are right to ask for a precise definition. I mean the Fortune 5000. What you are describing (usually called the mid-market) definitely will be a play for Web X.0.

Dump and run.

When I was in grad school, I went through exactly what you are experiencing. My advisor sat down with me and said: "Take a month off. Go hang out with family and friends. Don't thi…

"Real innovation is one thing that that the current crop of enterprise software is largely missing." Based on what? You don't think virtualization is real innovation? Spend some ti…

And you think the people who started VMWare, ITA software, Akamai & Ab Initio were dumb, stupid, second-rate hackers? Obviously by your definition these were never a startup becaus…