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by aey 7y ago
Yea, my point exactly. All the recent IP covers improvements since 2G. Apple can try to sell a 2G network connected iPhone based on expired IP without the Qualcomm tax. Free market pricing is based on demand of the feature not the cost to
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by aey 7y ago
Yes, because the value of the 512gb without the qualcomm modem is lower than the 64GB version. Free market pricing is based on demand of the feature not the cost to make it. Qualcomm should be pricing the part at the point where the phone
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by aey 7y ago
I don't think Qualcomm strangled RIM with their 3.4% (peak!) licensing fee on the selling price of the phone. If RIMs profit margin was 3.5% they had bigger problems. Here is the thing. If Apple sold a 2G network based iPhone with a n
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by aey 7y ago
That is fantastic! Any way to integrate other chains?
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by aey 7y ago
user feedback can be easily gamed and faked. often the loudest voices are the only ones that are heard. Dollars at least have tangible measure. I can't imagine that their users are hate spending money on in game purchases.
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by aey 7y ago
How do you objectively measure better besides revenue?
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by aey 7y ago
Because we can black box test the “risk assessment” that whoever sells to police departments. We can’t black box test bureaucracies.
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by aey 7y ago
No, you can challenge the validity of the risk assessment. Bayes is used in jury trials all the time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference#Applicati... What we have today is institutional racism based on
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by aey 7y ago
I have personally switched to a diet 100% composed of the flesh of the beyond beast. And I’ve never felt better! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyes wgah'nagl fhtagn
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by aey 7y ago
Sure, but if the manufacturers net their share as soon as the item is sold at a store, we reduce the opportunity for fraud. This won’t work for everything, but it could work well for high mark up items that rely on brand authenticity or war
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by aey 7y ago
Generally enforcement has really high legal costs. My partners small business was ripped of by about $10k in product by a Canadian company. There is basically no recourse that wouldn’t cost more. If a “60 day net” contract could be encode
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by aey 7y ago
Whatever it is, no one is going to rip you off. It takes near insurmountable effort to get funding, build, and get traction. If you want funding, get traction. Build and MVP, or a landing page, and start growing 100% every month.
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by aey 7y ago
Yes, and Britain had full sovereignty to defend itself. If the British chose not to, it’s because they valued trade with the US over the cost of IP. The US may choose the opposite with China.
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by aey 7y ago
At 60k a year, $1k a month is totally fine for a house. At that salary with a mortgage I would guess that you pay almost no tax. Areas with cheaper housing typically don’t have $30/hour nannies. The risks are that the house price and
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by aey 7y ago
The price is not attractive
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by aey 7y ago
don't sign! if you are in SV, and you are not at a project where your output is critical to the companies success, you are wasting your time.
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by aey 7y ago
Amazon is the best of what capitalism can offer. They have basically crushed competition by focusing on providing better value, not building a monopoly through lobbying or a legal moat. Given that, I wish us economic policy was focused on
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by aey 7y ago
It doesn’t become more revenue. It maybe a cost reduction which in turn may increase profits, or reduce consumer prices. Either is a good thing. Amazon has a long track record of aggressively reinvesting its profits.
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by aey 7y ago
Reality is that Vitalik has less influence over Ethereum than Linus does over Linux.
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by aey 7y ago
Do you have any statistics to back that? Poverty sounds like the more likely cause of all those things than basic income.
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by aey 7y ago
It’s money redistributed between consumers (progressively). Presumably the consumers will spend it on things they need, and capitalists will try to squeeze out a profit. Unlike bullets and bombs, which is money burned. And unlike Medicaid,
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by aey 7y ago
What percentage of the 900 billion per year has been denied?
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by aey 7y ago
That is a bit misleading. Social security is distributed back to everyone. Although higher income earners pay more than what they get out. https://www.nasi.org/learn/socialsecurity/benefits-compare-e...
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by aey 7y ago
I don’t see that reflected in the article. If the problem is that management is not paying market rates, the article should be about how to have honest discussion with management on compensation.
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by aey 7y ago
If Firefox is generalized to be extended with wasm - which could run a lua VM - what would be the benefit of a single language specific browser?
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by aey 7y ago
This smells of ageism.
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by aey 7y ago
I don’t see a specific need of a “blockchain” feature for this usecase. Uber didn’t need decentralization to coordinate drivers and clients. Aws/Postgres can handle the fault tolerance. FedEx already does this.
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by aey 7y ago
No they don’t. See the USSR, real prices were completely removed from what the government set. If SF set the price of a house to 100k, people would just bribe each other the difference.
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by aey 7y ago
Prices go up because demand is higher than supply. No other reason. If cities doubled the number of houses built any year the average price went up by 5% or more, this wouldn’t be a problem. The tax rate could even be negative.
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by aey 7y ago
I imagine the goal is to use renewables for the energy required for capture.

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