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mattee··on Peter Thiel: Uber is most ethically challenged company in Silicon Valley [video]
Peter Thiel is correct. But, it should be noted, that as an investor in Lyft, Thiel has a big interest in scolding Uber publicly.
mattee··on Give people an iPhone 4S, tell them it's an iPhone 5
Who threw it?!
mattee··on Show HN: Twin Cities Transit "Where's My Bus?"
Nice. This is much better than Metrotransit's mobile website.
mattee··on How to cope with the Gmail redesign
I have always used the basic version of gmail. It works very well for me. The site design has not changed.
mattee··on Show HN: I just redesigned my college newspaper's website (and it's responsive!)
Nice! I like it.
mattee··on Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
I don't think you understood my point. If Switzerland's economy financed movies and depended on the revenue from those movies to employ people, their government would have a different view of people downloading free movies and music. It is a different aspect of intellectual property rights, but the argument is the same in both cases.
mattee··on Swiss Government: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal
Easy for them to say. But are they also ok with people creating counterfeit Swiss watches?
mattee··on Mark Pincus memo to Zynga employees
He shouldn't be CEO if he can't write a memo that is free of grammatical errors.
mattee··on Larry Summers Joins V.C. Firm Andreessen Horowitz
The guy who said the Facebook idea wasn't worth anything is now joining Andreessen Horowitz? What?
mattee··on Legal docs should be written like code.
They are doing something like this for accounting and financial information via XBRL.
mattee··on Ask HN: Six month sabbatical in Colombia. Any words of wisdom?
From today's nytimes: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/world/americas/06bogota.ht...
mattee··on Why Nokia's Collapse Should Scare Apple
Apple shouldn't be scared. Nolia has been behind the curve for the last decade.
mattee··on IMF: The Age of America About to End
We would remain, however, the most technologically advanced nation. Plus, GDP per capita would remain far higher. The majority of economists consider GDP per capita the most important thing when determining the wealth of a nation.