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It really doesn't matter how many votes you have if you're dead.

Personally, I think they are underrepresented in technology leadership.

You can't be a good leader if you can't follow. Thats the bottom line. I can't give you a group of people and expect you to listen to them and not alienate them when you don't seem capable of doing that when you have only one person to focus on.

Honestly, if I'm Amazon or Google I'm in that business not really to make money. Hell, I'll run the same business at a loss frankly because I have to build that business anyway to run the business I'm already in. I need the infrastructure to run a scalable website if my competitors and others want to pay me to do that ,great.

This is quite possibly the best book I have ever read.

Ask for a million dollars. Its worth it to humanity.

Thats is a really hard problem. How do we define priorities and goals? There is certainly an argument for a company where the only goal is to make money and there is no overriding authority between divisions but there is so much sociopathic behavior in companies already.

A better question might be.Can we automate away the jobs of sales people, middle management and strategic directors? Yes, I believe we can.

e^(-x) right? Concave up(positive), negative deriavative.

Having lived in Georgia, I want to say acouple things. First you need to know that your beliefs and the beliefs of your wife are the reason that jobs that actually pay well will never come to Georgia. You can't educate what amounts to 30% of your population give or take if you think they are morally bankrupt. There is a reason corps move jobs to georgia when they want to pay less.

Having gone to school in the south I will tell you that it is a really strange place. There was an expectation that as black person you would be stupid. Most of the black people I knew played along. I don't really get it.

Actually look to china for the model for exploitation in Africa arrangements established at the state for exploitation. You need political connections no doubt but Africa is no sob story at all. Its undiscovered gold.

I know you think Africa is still largely a charity case but everyone else knows that its the next big growth market that will be easily plundered due to weak political systems and fragmentation.

Nobody wants these people. 15 American lawyers went to Yemen to expose the lie that Yemen didn't want these people back. No one from the Yemeni govt would meet with them. We haven't gotten rid of them because we don't know anyone who is willing to accept them. Go ahead and read it in the Yemeni Observer. http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10012301.html

We could also eliminate first past the post hiring by having a defined period for H1-B submissions and only letting in the highest paid 100000 that are submitted.

Ironically their analysis actually convinces me of the opposite proposition. Frankly, the most neglected part of their analysis is the a can Google actually make money from customers who only pay the initial fee and never pay again for 7 years. Could they conceivably make money on a per customer bases on a customer who paid nothing? I believe they can. Does Google Fiber have the reputation of being the best ISP in the United States. I believe it does. Does that branding offer a regulatory advantage? Will municipalities forgo revenue for high quality utilities? That's probably the question that keeps ISP execs up at nights.