PacketPaul

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by PacketPaul 9y ago
I love coffee ... when I'm addicted to caffeine. I found when I get off of caffeine my love of coffee disappears. I've been on/off caffeine numerous times. Mostly because I have a big backpack trip where obtaining caffeine is
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
How did he get so rich from a government salary?
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
Yes. Like the Bruno Mars song says "I want to be on the cover of Forbes magazine...". At one time that was a big deal.
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
The purpose (and only purpose) of the company is to increase shareholder value. That is done via dividend and stock price appreciation. Buying the stock of a company increases demand of that stock and hopefully share price.
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
I agree. It was like listening to my six year old tell me what happened. Every story begins when he woke.
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
If you buy land where the only access is through another person's private property, that is your own fault. The purchaser has a responsibility to do their own due diligence.
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
How are they losing money on each ride? They are not managing fleets of cars, employees, etc. It's an app.
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
How are these guys not profitable? It is basically an app that gets paid to match riders with rides. My guess is they are spending a lot of money expanding. Once done, they will be instantly profitable.
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
I guess you have never rode Uber during "surge" times. Sometimes the pricing becomes insane.
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
Physicians get paid more if you remain sick.
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
How much is the paid service? You could roll your own for around $15/month using an Amazon EC2 T2 micro instance.
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
Can polio spread globally again or is everyone vaccinated thus containing the disease to those small regions?
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
Or a competitor comes along with a self squeezing pack.
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by PacketPaul 9y ago
About 1/3 of the food in the US is wasted. And this is exactly what we want! Food is a renewable yet spoilable resource. Easy to create, hard to store long term. Having more food then we need means the system has the capacity to absorb
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
Then they would not have a reason to charge more. They need low cost and a premium option.
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
Why would Jobs not get credit for the Apple 2? It's not like he engineered any of the other items on your list. It was his marketing that made the Apple 2.
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
I own 3 and still don't know the answer. I've been wonder the same. Steve Jobs swore the iPad was the perfect size and any other size was a failure.
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
Do it now. Every year it will get harder to find the time.
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
The expansion of NATO deep into former Warsaw Pact countries.
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
If you were using the Exodus plugin for Kodi, you were a part of a botnet. Make sure you upgrade to 3.0.5. Who knows what the other apps are doing?
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
He had a big meeting with manufacturers two days ago and is incentivising US manufacturing through the threat of tariffs.
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
Just remember 0-40c is 32-104f. So a decimal point in Celsius gives a higher resolution.
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
Actually a lot of people believe they are a random distribution. There is a great book "A Random Walk Down Wallstreet" which explains it. The basic idea is the market is efficient (the Efficient Market Theory) and all information
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
It will. No company remains dominant forever.
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
Amazon is pretty good with billing disputes. They don't want the bad publicity of shutting someone down. Source: I work for a startup who does not pay their bills.
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
One more reason to fly SouthWest.
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
And you will never get an OS update again. Android products seem to be orphaned at whatever OS is current at the time of production. Just bought a new Android table and it had lollipop. Turns out you cannot get the most recent OS for it so
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
Pilot here. Airplanes have autopilot. While on autopilot you are still expected to be monitoring the flight and take control at a moments notice. Autopilot does not allow the pilot to take a nap or go in the back and party with the flight a
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
I also think Siri fails with Text messaging. I should be able to have an IM discussion using just my voice. But the Siri interface is simply not that involved. I'm constantine having to say "Read Latest Text Message".
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by PacketPaul 10y ago
Two reasons: Stock Options Work at Facebook

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