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einhorn
Excellent speech by David Einhorn on the state of global finance:
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your tax dollars at work
Actually, we might be better off if police spent more time playing Wii Bowling and less time fighting the “war on drugs” … whatever that is.
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is siebel right?
Source: Read Full Article in NY Times
This is a somewhat provocative article in the NY Times about the end of the glory days of enterprise IT. Not so provocative among IT circles, but certainly within the mainstream media.
There is some truth to what he is saying in the sense that most of the core high-value [...]
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healthcare
I like Robert Reich a lot. He’s a bit more left-leaning than I am, but I have a hard time disagreeing with him on most issues.
But his most recent blog post really caught my eye:
Universal health insurance won’t happen unless Obama can light a fire under the Senate Finance Committee this week. Within the next [...]
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Vinnie Mirchandani’s blog, Deal Architect , is one of my favorites covering the enterprise software industry. I thought this post was especially honest and direct:
“Technology is becoming to cheap to meter”
says Chris Anderson at Wired. And he encourages “waste is good” by invoking Moore’s Law and the impact it has had on cheap [...]
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technology adoption
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This is a fascinating little segment about consumer technology adoption that compares quality and cost. The subject at hand is Compact Fluorescent Lighting, but his thinking is applicable to a lot of consumer technology adoption challenges.
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sign of the times
I thought this was curious. At Corte Madera, an upscale mall in Marin, one of the storefronts was empty and a cash-for-gold store was happily taking people’s jewelry.
I overheard a few people who were pleasantly surprised how much they got for their unwanted jewelry.
I’m fully expecting gold to go through a spectacular bull market bubble [...]
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traffic barrel monster
The city should be thinking of reasons to hire this guy, not arrest him.
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schwarzenegger
I saw this quote in an Reuters article about California’s financial disaster:
Schwarzenegger also urged Democrats to ignore lobbying by their union allies against sharply lower spending levels to help balance the state’s books.
“Do they want to protect the workers that provide the services, or do they want to protect the people that get those services? [...]
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