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by AJ007 10y ago
Sales psychology 1 - Start pricing extremely low, and word travels fast 2 - Temporary pricing causes buyers to act quickly, with less consideration 3 - Buyers who wavered in their decision making panic and pay more than they originally wou
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No, he would not be. Bill Clinton infamously pardoned fugitive Marc Rich who never did return to the US before his death because there was no guarantee he would not be prosecuted for something else. Unfortunately, Snowden will never be able
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Another way to look at it is basic traffic violations will become federal offenses and you go away for years instead of paying a small fine. I think people are overestimating how many companies will be involved. Google, Uber, and others are
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Assuming that this really is an experiment, they are being asked to possibly be subjected to negative results. Researchers get to walk away when subjects of an experiment can carry the consequences of an experiment with them for the rest of
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Similar story for me. I think I didn't read it until I was 14 and by that point I had experienced quite a few of the "virtual worlds" including Active Worlds, the good old text BBS games, and research-grade virtual reality ca
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It is also worth pointing out the i8 is a hybrid, with 15-23 miles of range on electric only.
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I would consider myself a China skeptic but it definitely doesn't help anyone to blanket say the US/West is better or China is inferior. China does certain things extremely well at scale and I have little doubt that some of the mo
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I think few have grasped how much of future output will be machine generated from existing work, and yet rather than violate copyright, almost be a necessity to ensure a copyright somewhere is not broken.
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I thought the spike in usage from the beginning was a contrarian indicator for long term popularity. The rapid viral growth clearly saturated the potential playerbase within the first week. Rapid market saturation means you do not have time
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It will be interesting to see how this ends up playing out. During stage 1, uber was able to win by scaling up driver and rider supply with enough balance to keep everyone happy enough to continue use. Stage 2, the transition to the self dr
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Like EA did with Battlefield?
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This is hardly limited to IBM or software development. Almost any business that relies on human to human "sales" is at risk of devolving in to a deceptive mess of complexity things that have nothing to do with delivering the desir
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I thought the reaction on hn to a population aging story a few days ago was interesting. No one mentioned AI or robots. ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12225518 ) Some aging countries will face a severe loss in stand
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Settling previous discrimination issues along which modifications for the platform going forward are going to be very expensive.
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I buy the explanation on checking quality. This is a big problem with packaged foods from grocery stores, especially if your product is new. Maybe demand padding was a partial motivator but hardly the only one.
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Or it could just shock the person holding it until they drop it and run away http://youtu.be/tMa-lwxXWjY On a serious note, none of these options seem desirable if the Apple account is compromised.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougyoung/2015/07/20/tencent-snu...
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One of the short term advantages of an authoritarian state is that problems can be swept under the rug and hidden. In the longer term, it becomes far more difficult or perhaps even impossible to fix the real problem. I think one of the bett
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Does this mean if a company loses money the employees should contribute to the funding of the company rather than take a salary?
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Yeah anecdotally, my in app time for Snapchat vs Instagram flipped once they changed the feed. Twitter was even worse, I don't use it anymore. How insane would it be if your email inbox didn't sort chronologically? I don't kn
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Really Batista is like an anti-Musk. I'm not sure I could find two billionaires(ex-billionaire) who were further apart. Charlie Munger's quote I read in Poor Charlie's Almanack a really long time ago resonated with me pretty
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He made a pretty good case on the first conference call that buying SolarCity out right is the best way to prevent future conflicts of interest. Partnerships between the two companies as independent entities would mean continuous scrutiny o
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The answer is these things have an immense amount of value. To even say the value of technology an average person accesses today is double that of 1970 is wrong, it is a lot more than that. Much or even most of that value is underutilized.
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A broken automatic door from Amazon killed my friend's chickens. Not quite an automated feeder, but since the door opening was a condition of the chicken eating, similar situation. There are some interesting points this brings up expan
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As Snapchat has. The big strength Facebook has now is very similar to Google's. They can rake in cash without having to spend a bunch of money to generate it. Unlike Apple they don't need to produce extremely polished and innovate
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To be fair, a lot of web forums have run on free software. Centralization was what happened when usenet was over run with spam. Laziness is a poor explanation given one alternative exists and requires no maintenance, and the other takes a g
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The book is not editorialized, it is just an collection of events. I'm not sure how the reviewer came to those conclusions. If a reader had never heard anything about World War 2 perhaps it wouldn't be the first book to recommend
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How many of those decades will be human driven?
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At this point China's debt bubble is too large to have a "bailout" from the West. China will have to do it on their own. The ratio of debt growth to GDP growth looks pretty grim as of 2016. Without having experienced an econo
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Suggested reading https://www.amazon.com/Human-Smoke-Beginnings-World-Civiliza...

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