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Works well so far. Computers are still laughably overpriced overall.
by papermachete 7y ago
Works well so far. Computers are still laughably overpriced overall.
- oh_sigh 7y agoThe problem is that without making a profit, you have no buffer to handle unforseen risk.
- voxic11 7y agoThat isn't what profit means. Savings you are holding for a rainy day are not profit.
- 24gttghh 7y agoThe simplest definition of profit seems to imply that someone paid more for something than was put into it. How does one get savings with no profit? edit: I'm trying to ask a question; and I should add, it is my understanding that's how profit is defined. Why would this be downvoted? Do I really have to paste a definition of profit in here?
- rlucas 7y agoExcept accounting-wise, and tax-wise, that is what profit means. Retaining a surplus into future periods is generally going to be a taxable event. I suppose you could create a reserve against projected liabilities such as warranty returns (which is commonly done in for-profit companies). But that is pretty well explicitly not for a rainy day or the unexpected; it’s for the rather firmly expected.
- repomies691 7y agoProbably meant: business should make profit, from that profit the business can save some money for the rainy day. And I agree. However I don't know who are behind PINE64 - maybe they have some long-term investor backing them up, and they try price at this point as low as possible to get the community going. Actually, I would be interested in investing to this pine thing.
- papermachete 7y agoThat's why they sell at short separated periods.
- bityard 7y agoYou should have seen what they cost three decades ago.