aetherson

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by aetherson 14y ago
"Competition" doesn't just keep prices down magically. Competition keeps prices down when firms compete to increase market share at the price of unit margin. But the point is, you're weakening that. You're making market share less valuabl
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by aetherson 14y ago
It favors high unit margins. This is a law that says, "Corporation, if your gross sales profit is $200 million, you're way better off if your gross sales revenue is $1 billion instead of $10 billion." But high unit margins are terrible. F
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by aetherson 14y ago
But taxing on gross means that you penalize low-margin companies. Take two basically identical companies. They sell, say, computers. One company has a "luxury" brand and they sell 1 million units at $2,000 a piece with a $500 profit on eac
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by aetherson 14y ago
Heh. Indeed. The chicken-and-egg thing being, "If people like tall or attractive people, and that causes confidence or assertiveness, when tall or attractive people are promoted, is that because other people like them, or because they are
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by aetherson 14y ago
I doubt this is very explanatory. Height is doubtless correlated with athleticism, but it's fairly weakly correlated. Except in basketball, when you see a group of athletes, you'll tend to see a range of heights. A little taller than aver
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by aetherson 14y ago
Or indeed, height/attractiveness could be (almost certainly are) correlated with self-confidence and assertiveness. Which is obviously something of a chicken/egg thing.
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by aetherson 14y ago
It's ENTIRELY an indication of future performance expectation.
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by aetherson 14y ago
Probably doesn't matter a ton. What seems to be driving the modest sell of Apple right now are: 1. Revenue slightly below estimates. Analysts knew that this quarter was a week short and built that into the estimates. 2. Profit MARGIN wa
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by aetherson 14y ago
Good call. I live in the bay area, and originally got on board with an Android phone because AT&T's service in this area was terrible (and, at the time, iPhone meant AT&T). I did this knowing, at the time, that Android was an infer
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by aetherson 14y ago
For whatever it's worth: I got a Motorola Droid RAZR M a few months back, explicitly because it's not gigantic and I don't like gigantic phones. It gets 24+ hours of battery life, even though I play Ingress a few hours a day (though I don'
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by aetherson 14y ago
Your word choices are offputting and, honestly, seem borderline misogynist. Young women do not "wield sickening power over men." Some number of them may get propositioned by strangers a good deal (though, I would suggest, less than you see
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by aetherson 14y ago
This is silly. Single women 28-35 are more likely to try different methods of dating because people in their late 20's and 30's are likely out of college (where there's a large pool of possible mates that are easy to find) and more likely
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by aetherson 14y ago
More like four years ago. I used it back then, twice, getting two dates out of it. The first was reasonably fun but we probably weren't really right for each other and we didn't do a second date. The second resulted in a three month or so
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by aetherson 14y ago
The writer commits a common fallacy: " In 1791, that check meant arming the citizens with rifles and muskets. Those were the effective tools of the revolution back then. But since we started rolling tanks, bombers, and aircraft carries of
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by aetherson 14y ago
Hi Dewitt, I think I know who you were and met you at Williams. I'm also a CS major and I graduated in the late 90's. It is indeed the case that the CS major grew absurdly huge in the late 90's, with my class being double the size of the
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by aetherson 14y ago
As a Williams alumnus: the major color groups correspond to the "divisions" of courses at Williams -- the administration groups all departments into three divisions, and requires that students take a certain number of classes from each divi
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by aetherson 14y ago
I think it'd be reasonable -- for more than just cheating reasons -- to make your scanner move at, say, a maximum of 25mph. So if your "actual" location is, say, 50 miles from your last location, but it's only been an hour, your scanner is
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by aetherson 14y ago
Yeah, it's been pretty successful at driving additional walking for me. I'd been meaning to get more exercise, but finding difficulty getting motivated -- now I pretty routinely walk a couple extra miles per day.
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by aetherson 14y ago
"Most programmers" are not in the top 5%. For example: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Software_Engineer_%2...
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by aetherson 14y ago
Are you suggesting that, like, i-bankers are a group known for its solidarity and generosity to their peers? That i-bankers wouldn't sell out their co-workers for a shot at promotion? Or that, like, junior lawyers at big law firms are thes
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by aetherson 14y ago
I'm sure you're right that some people will find them unusably terrifying, but my experience is that most people with a typical level of fear-of-heights can handle gondolae just fine. A friend of mine, for instance, refuses to ride on a ch
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by aetherson 14y ago
I think there's another big reason: Facebook employees tended to be early adopters, and bought into smartphone back when iOS really was clearly the better platform. And then either got locked in to the ecosystem, developed brand loyalty, c
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by aetherson 14y ago
No, there are several hardware components: 1. It is all-but-certain that the Glass hardware won't be able to "blank out" anything real. At best, it would be able to superimpose a ghostly oreo on top of the real oreo, with the real oreo fa
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by aetherson 14y ago
Except that there's no WAY that Google Glass will be able to seamlessly overwrite the image of an object in the environment. It's going to be a HUD, not a Rainbows End-style real-world-reskinner.