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multiculti google
An interesting slideshow by the NY Times gives an insight into Google’s multicultural workforce. Dit you know half of the engineers working in Silicon Valley were born overseas. Google clearly is a great example that diversity works and may even … Continue reading
The waste by Chrysler
Economists usually focus on factories to measure productivity. Evolving Excellence points out that one might want to look at other costs too. The papers submitted by Chrysler for its bankruptcy filing show an astonishing waste in its sales channel: the … Continue reading
Assumptions
Ask anyone and they will most likely agree to the following “everybody-knows-that”: – Mass migration into Europe, legal and illegal, combined with an eroding native population base, is transforming our ethnic, cultural, and religious identity. – Europe’s native population is … Continue reading
One man’s pirate is another man’s hero
No, this is not about the conviction of the Pirate Bay founders. It is about some disturbing news voiced by the Independent. What are the origins of the Somalian pirates? According to the Independent the destruction of the Somali environment … Continue reading
Quote of the day
” How much is a trillion dollars? If you would have spend a million dollars every day since the birth of Jesus, you still would have hundreds of millions left today.”
Crowd rating 2.0
Wired News dives into the issue of the rating agencies that gave AAA-ratings to toxic products. Their solution is the right one for the hyperconnected world: – enforce a standard for reporting (XML-based dialect) that a computer can access, read … Continue reading
Locusts
Why selfregulation (update: or a regulator that relies on selfregulation) does not work in the face of greed: a commenter of The Economist sums it up quite succint. Typical scenario for the last 18 years: January – Private Equity Investor … Continue reading
Cold turkey
Ars reviews Steve Knopper’s new book, Appetite for Self-Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age. Knopper’s approach of zooming in on the personalities of the key players probably adds a refreshing view on the events as they … Continue reading
Lessons from the past
Yes, one can always find someone who prediceted the future correctly in hindsight. But this one is impressive, especially the ten years estimate… Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota said in 1999, after the Congress passed the bill to … Continue reading