Thursday, November 15, 2012

Fed town

Council on Competitiveness meeting in Washington. Fed town is weird. It's jarring to see people using ancient Blackberries ...




State Department dinner.









9 comments:

  1. iPhones, and maybe now Windows phones were the only ones to get reasonable support for enterprise email, other than blackberry.

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  2. LondonYoung9:35 AM

    indeed, and still, the most demanding security requirements can only be met by the blackberry ... as witnessed by the fact it is illegal to use a bberry in Russia, but other smartphones all just fine ...

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  3. LondonYoung9:37 AM

    Did you get around the city Steve? The thing that jars me is that inside the beltway (at least northwesterly of the capital) it feels like national GDP growth is 7%

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  4. As an SV guy, DC gives me the hives. No value creation here, but lots of skim.

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  5. Tertius Lydgate9:46 PM

    Head over to the East side of town and you can enjoy buying food and other items from workers encased behind bullet-proof glass.

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  6. Ken Condon2:19 AM

    Of couse it is. Gummint spendin ain’t de-cerasin. Tiziz?

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  7. That's a pretty standard accusation that labor makes against management.

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  8. Tertius Lydgate8:42 PM

    Which is more valuable to the nation -- Medicare or Google?

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  9. LondonYoung2:13 PM

    actually, I would argue Google. Medicare is just a redistribution scheme, and a bad one at that since a single payer system (like they have in the rest of the developed world) is probably superior. Google creates real wealth for the U.S. and the world.

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