TomOfTTB

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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
A VC Firm is just a company like any other company. Generally they are Partnerships rather than LLCs or Full-Out Corporations but they're still just a business and their investments (and the money they have to make them) are all assets of
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
That was my first reaction too but when you think about it there is an internal logic here. Arrington was the overall editor so he had to go because he could skew coverage. Siegler is staying on but only covering Apple so CrunchFund can't
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The problem with this article is the author draws a dubious line between three different things. Facebook and Twitter provide a service for no money but you end up paying them in content which they trade to advertisers (who then give them m
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Total tax burden is a vague term. They could easily mean total Federal tax burden since they're comparing countries. This NY Times article pegs the total U.S. Federal tax burden at 20.7% which makes the numbers you quote seem dubious htt
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't understand how you're having a problem with this. Looking at a good year (I chose 2005) we had $2.1 trillion in federal revenue ( http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/year_revenue_2005USbn_12b... ) If we managed to increase that by 4
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
One of my favorite articles ever is Reason.com's "One Reason Why Keynesian Stimuli Aren't Working: They Aren't Keynesian" ( http://reason.com/blog/2011/09/07/one-reason-why-keynesian-s... ).
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
We weren't talking about balancing the budget we were talking about eliminating the debt and you didn't say 10-20% you said 5-10%. So do you have a source for the 5-10% or am I right that you just made that number up? I don't mean to flame
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong because I don't know but you are over simplifying First you're forgetting those countries don't have state taxes. For example, the top tax rate in California is close to 40% when you combine both State and Feder
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
> How high? And how is it a straw man? A straw man is a false argument that someone uses to make another person's position seem weak in a debate. I don't see that happening here. I suspect it's around where they were during the Clinton
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I'm in the middle here. U.S. and State debt is a huge problem IMHO but I agree that private debt is a bigger problem (given it dwarfs public debt by a large margin). But the one point where I think you're clearly wrong is using interest ra
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
With all due respect raising taxes that high is a straw man. I'd be all for raising taxes if it worked but it doesn't. Nation states are competitive entities and they compete for the world's resources. If the U.S. dramatically raises tax
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The failure of Lehman Bros. did not directly cause the financial collapse. The financial collapse was caused when other banks realized how bad Lehman's balance sheet was. Because their own balance sheets were also bad and they deduced all
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Both of those and Safari: http://www.windows7hacker.com/index.php/2010/02/how-to-enabl...
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I want to agree with ajross but thus far the pattern seems to support fl3tch. WebGL, SPDY, and WebM are all technologies being held up by one browser.
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Because I want to make a difference in the world and I found building a startup doesn't allow you to do that in most cases. I mean, I’ll always be grateful for my startup experience but I’m man enough to admit it was pointless. We built a
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I'll agree with outright lying in that a person knowingly lying to another person is wrong. But with the rest I'm not sure I can agree. Because again the Valley is a kill or be killed environment. The assumption is that others will look o
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I’m not saying the author is wrong here but I think he’s unfair in attacking just Facebook. The one thing I learned from my time in the valley is that EVERYONE is looking out for themselves. That isn’t meant as negatively as it sounds. Pe
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I think this is a good move simply because the two divisions have contradictory goals at this point. For example, the Qwikster division should be looking at finding ways to deliver DVDs quicker (Kiosks for example). But that's not somethin
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I agree with the logic of your statement but I'm not sure it will work out that way. I've never understood why the studios didn't do more to help iTunes competitors.
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't think the odds are that great (though I think it's what I'd do in the same situation). I figure Netflix still thinks they have the right strategy and they've already taken the hit for the customer loss. So why not ride it out and
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
It's good advice but it doesn't address the core problem. The reason "all large companies are in love with finding the right strategy" is because large companies tend to spawn large org charts and the closer people are to the top of that c
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
"The good news for them is that it won't be any easier for competitors to get those rights at a reasonable price" I'm not sure this is true. When you look at a company like Amazon or Walmart they have a lot of power to negotiate with that
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
The issue isn't really profit as much as it is marketshare. The flawed assumption that people seem to be making is that Netflix will continue to dominate because it was first to market. But that isn't necessarily true. Netflix has to dea
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
That hasn't been confirmed and probably isn't true. John Gruber came up with that theory based on what he felt were hints from Microsoft but that seems to be dis-proven by this ARM tablet running Windows Desktop: http://thisismynext.com/2
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
To me the real value in that post is this paragraph... Reactions? “The web just got richer.” Well, somebody’s getting richer, but I doubt it’s gonna be the web. And did you hear the news? You’ll write it one time, and test it one time (for
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Most of the Enterprise Managers I know moved their desktop applications to Silverlight. It provides reliable local caching (a must), out of browser support and can run on a Mac. More importantly encryption is a snap. WPF really is dead a
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I suspect that has to do with corporations. I've had nothing but problems with Java's auto update and I don't want to give users administrative access just to update their Java. So I either had to have someone go around every update and d
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this. I mean, there are two aspects to consider here. The Metro "Theme" which is attractive but I wouldn't call it mind blowing. It basically plays off a trend that had been developing since the web gained promin
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
I don't understand why they wouldn't just level with their users. Explain to your users that each feature costs money to maintain and almost no one uses this paticular feature. Then ask those who use the feature... 1. If that feature is
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by TomOfTTB 15y ago
It's funny because Telerik's evangelist has been pushing HTML5 hard lately ( http://www.telerikwatch.com/ ) and I found it curious because Telerik's current offerings are useless to anyone who wants to write an HTML5 solution on MVC (they d

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