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by MCRed 12y ago
Nobody seems to talk about how much Apple paid U2 for the right to give the album away for free. I suspect that U2 may have made more money from this album than they did from the last-- and that's just in the free period. (after som
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by MCRed 12y ago
I don't see much controversial here. Apple's practice has long been to underwrite capital equipment for their suppliers, so that the supplier can afford to manufacture the item that Apple needs. This makes sense because the supp
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by MCRed 12y ago
I spent several months in Berlin a couple years ago and was particularly fascinated by the wall. There are many exhibits. To the north is a recreated section of the wall, with a guard tower, etc and a museum across the street. Near check
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by MCRed 12y ago
If you ever find yourself in Berlin, there's a wonderful East Germany Museum, which covers some of this. http://www.ddr-museum.de/en One of the exhibits that made an impression on me was a wall of jars with cloth in th
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by MCRed 12y ago
I wish the FBI would spend its time going after actual crimes- like the ones where people's money are stolen-- rather than political crimes. But that they aren't is proof positive to me that the government does not operate for the
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by MCRed 12y ago
Regarding "Don't beat the market", Warren Buffet says "The game is really easy when your opponent decides not to play". Unfortunately, giving up has a lot of appeal: It means it's not your fault you didn'
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by MCRed 12y ago
This is true for both sides of the debate. On one side you have the lobbyists and big cable companies (and telcos). On the other you have the people who want more regulation because these companies are too big-- but who ignore the fact that
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by MCRed 12y ago
That's a bit confusing. Guessing you're in europe and talking euros per month? Cause initially, to an american it looks like you're talking about $1,700,000 a year - a huge salary-- and just dropped a zero.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Actually, they did.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Or put another way, with inflation government can promise and raise funds for political programs that help win elections, that they would not be able to pass if they had to raise taxes (or cut other programs) to pay for.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Deflation means you can buy the same amount of goods (sustaining the same sized economy) with less money. That less money means you have more surplus money to spend on luxuries. More people will have more disposable income, which likely wo
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by MCRed 12y ago
The way I look at it, high rates of inflation incentivize debt. If I can borrow at %4 a year (much more than the federal reserve charges, for instance) and then deploy that money productively, I can use the proceeds to pay down the debt wi
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by MCRed 12y ago
I think the question hinges on whether that incentive is "perverse" or not. (Not criticizing your use of the word, it is the perfect word for this point.) I believe it is not perverse because saving allows for investing, and is t
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by MCRed 12y ago
I was a "solo founder" type for awhile. If you're an engineer I think you can have your pick of co-founders. My suggestion, after working on and for startups for a couple decades is that you should be the CEO, find business p
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by MCRed 12y ago
I wasn't thinking about gaming the system so much as... well... how to best bring clarity to the subject. It's not just the quality of the idea, team and product, but the quality of the presentation -- and that's always a cha
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by MCRed 12y ago
This is particularly challenging, since, given the amount of effort it takes to make an application, if you apply to multiple accelerators during "application season" it's easy for it to be a full time job. It's very eas
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by MCRed 12y ago
That's the problem you're trying to solve. There are many possibilities for why that didn't result in a successful application. For instance: 1) your solution might not seem viable 2) your solution might seem viable but you
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by MCRed 12y ago
One of the things that I've found so challenging about applying for accelerators is that it's difficult to find examples of companies that got in or that didn't get in, and what they did for their applications. Every time I
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by MCRed 12y ago
Wow, Swift comes in at #19. Pretty spectacular for a language that's only a few months old.
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by MCRed 12y ago
Interesting, since Dart wasn't really on my radar. Does anyone know if it can be embedded easily in other things? EG: If I'm building a server side Go app, could I embed the Dart Virtual Machine in it to run some code? (say I wan
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by MCRed 12y ago
Headline is misleading. First paragraph makes it clear that these companies are not "rejecting" Apple Pay (and google wallet for that matter) but are excluding support for them because they are part of a competing consortium.
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by MCRed 12y ago
That's a really astounding statement. Basically, I think there are only two types of employers. Businesses and government. When government is the employer your salary is paid out of taxes. Those taxes are taken from the economy. So,
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by MCRed 12y ago
I've worked for Microsoft and with Apple. Both of those companies have areas where things are "poor" or very frustrating. But comparing Microsoft to Amazon, is like night and day. Microsoft was much better managed-- still i
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by MCRed 12y ago
I've always thought of Amazon as a company whose primary product was their own stock. They had a great model-- their terms with vendors were such that they often had the customers cash for weeks before they had to pay the vendor. Whe
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by MCRed 12y ago
I think this is plausible, since return is based on your investment. EG: You buy a $300k property, maybe have $40k in rent, $6k in maintenance costs, but only put down $30k on the property, your total investment is $36k. On rent alone you&
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by MCRed 12y ago
I was at amazon for the last redesign. It's interesting the direction they are going. In the 1990s they went from nothing to selling everything, and things got more and more complicated. During my time, we simplified a lot of the la
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by MCRed 12y ago
One thing that I think people miss is that they talk about "the law" as if there was one consistent law. The constitution is the law. But people talk about laws violating the constitution as if they are legitimate. If they are, t
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by MCRed 12y ago
What I find fascinating is that there is less natural conflict of interest in being a police officer than there is in being a politician.... and yet people are willing to believe police are corrupt (and some are, no doubt) but so unwilling
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by MCRed 12y ago
First page just gives me a black background and a feedback tab.
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by MCRed 12y ago
New Rule: I'm officially done with artificially segregating people into "cool people" who have an invite and the rest of us who have to get in line. Simple was the worst offender-- I should have known with the multi-year wait

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