Marazan

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by Marazan 7y ago
"Uber created the market for on demand transportation" What the fuck is this? It's a mini cab firm with an app. Mini cab firms existed before Uber.
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by Marazan 7y ago
Linux although some were going to go with android
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by Marazan 7y ago
Microsoft (+ Intel) murdered the netbook in one of the most insane self sabotaging plays I have ever seen. Combine that with the launch of the ipad and the future of ARM based laptops was delayed over a decade. Netbook makers were poised to
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by Marazan 8y ago
That's bollocks.
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by Marazan 8y ago
Why would either be best placed to take advantage of driverless ride sharing? Why do any of their curre t activities make you think that?
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by Marazan 8y ago
What does that mean?
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by Marazan 8y ago
The state's right they were fighting for was the right to keep slaves. It is super clear, the states say it in their succession documents. Claiming it is about abstract states rights and not slavery is Lost Cause revisionism.
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by Marazan 8y ago
The most impressive thing was the bit where he spent 2 grand on a domain name he didn't want and didn't think "Oh shit, I've just blown 2 grand I needed to..."
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by Marazan 8y ago
? If you scale a monolith you have to scale the whole thing. You seem to be describing that a monolith is more efficient that a microservice in a non scaling situation, which is true, but I think you have missed the point on scaling.
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by Marazan 8y ago
What I call "Twitter Communities" is my answer to that problem. Invite only groups. The world can read but only group members can post to the group. Otherwise exactly like Twitter currently is. You can create a community and invit
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by Marazan 8y ago
Does AWS give you the option to get just a full token stream for voice? Alexa's parser always seemed vastly primatove to me compared to Inform
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by Marazan 8y ago
Compile your inform 7 game and ftp it onto your website?
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by Marazan 8y ago
I don't know this game but I would be willing to bet huge amounts of money that it was written by Emily Short.
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by Marazan 8y ago
Cool, cool. Just gotta raise prices by 25% or cut costs by 20%. Trivial.
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by Marazan 8y ago
1.5 billion on R&D, 3 billion on marketing. Uber don't get the income from the rides without the marketing so I don't get why you get to ignore that when working out if they are profitable or not.
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by Marazan 8y ago
When your business is selling $10 for $5 then no, I cannot see a way to turn cash flow positive.
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by Marazan 8y ago
Neither the drivers nor the riders are capital items.
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by Marazan 8y ago
Taxi firms don't have massive IT departments. That is the key to the "Uber will never be profitable" brigade. Taxi firms are way, way leaner than Uber/Lyft.
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by Marazan 8y ago
I see this repeated as an article of faith but how profitable? Uber is billions in the hole. If they make a billion in profit every year for 15 years then they will have repaid their investors money at nominal rates. In real terms they wil
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by Marazan 8y ago
Ah yes, cheap second hand VHS players, definetly not famed for chewing up cassettes.
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by Marazan 8y ago
I once wrote a self learning AI to play Lines of Action. Due to an incorrectly placed minus sign it got worse at the game over subsequent generations. After 1000 generations I couldn't even make a forced win against it so wily was it a
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by Marazan 8y ago
As the Z80 doesn't use dynamic registers (I think basically the only "modern" CPU to make this decision) it doesn't need a minimum clock signal speed to refresh the registers as every other CPU does. This means you can r
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by Marazan 8y ago
You can hand clock a Z80. There is a certain magic to that.
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by Marazan 8y ago
How did crime rates move in cities not using broken window theory policing?
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by Marazan 8y ago
Insurance companies engage in a co-operative relationship with the people who take out insurance products with them. When you insure your house against fire neither you nor the insurance company want your house to burn down. In a gambling s
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by Marazan 8y ago
As a poker player: poker is gambling. Pretending it isn't doesn't gain you anything. It is different from slots or roullette because rather than the house you bet against other people but it is totally gambling.
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by Marazan 8y ago
Minicab firms are profitable. Using VC money to subsidise minicab rides (which for some reason is called ridesharing) isn't.
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by Marazan 8y ago
I think it is a very important computer in the history of computing. It was a seminal machine for British Software Development. It's cheapness and ubiquity turbo-charged the UK computer scene. It's clones crossing the iron curtai
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by Marazan 8y ago
But what if the people 'engaged' in the selling of the cars are only tenuously engaged in the activity and are simply trying to game the law and rack up paper losses? All the car buying and selling is racked up by agents working o
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by Marazan 8y ago
A key feature in many obfuscated corporate structures designed to avoid tax is differing corporate structure declarations in different tax juristictions. As companies are made up of many different sub companies by declaring your corporate s

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