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by alvah 3y ago
If you were willing to pay Apple-level prices for a Chinese brand, provide significant oversight at every step of the process, and constantly quality check every batch delivered, then you might get Apple-level quality.
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by alvah 3y ago
Indeed. Nobody was calling it an American car company when Ford owned it. Once it formally merges with Geely, it will become a Chinese car company.
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by alvah 3y ago
Among the blockers are (1) economics and (2) availability of raw & finished materials. This is all in the public domain, if you go looking for the numbers. I’m not saying your claim about the rapid pace of building out battery storage i
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by alvah 3y ago
"The idea that we are not currently, today, deploying massive amounts of batteries everywhere with today's technology is just plain ignorance" I don't see anyone making this weirdly-specific claim. However, it's wid
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by alvah 3y ago
Jasper was cited in a recent TechCrunch article about the obvious vulnerability of the API wrapper startup business model. I guess we could argue at length about the thickness of the wrapper, but that seems unproductive.
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by alvah 3y ago
Conversion.ai / Jarvis.ai / Jasper.ai / whatever they’re called today raised $125M at a $1.5b valuation, so it made sense at some point to some people.
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by alvah 3y ago
ZipWP already does something close to this for WordPress sites.
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by alvah 3y ago
It says the bloody Washington Post has no obvious skill at predicting the future, therefore any statements they make should be taken with a hefty dose of salt.
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by alvah 3y ago
SEO still isn't dying, but low DR niche sites built for Amazon commissions and display ads, where the owner & writers have little- to no domain expertise, have been holed below the waterline by Google's latest updates. Correct
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by alvah 3y ago
That's not correct. When programs such as Amazon Affiliates cut their commissions a few years ago, many SEOs pivoted to info content monetized by display ads. The $ per page view is less, but it was still wildly profitable, at least un
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by alvah 3y ago
Is the "all devices must be put in flight mode" rule written in blood? Everything I've heard suggests it's not necessary. I agree with your general point though.
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by alvah 3y ago
Your glass is half empty. There are businesses you can start for under $1000, you may not personally be aware of them, but they exist (the business I own was started with much less than this amount in 2016 & has delivered decent returns
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by alvah 3y ago
So the first sentence of the wikipedia article you linked about capitalism is now wrong, based on 2 other wikipedia articles? I don't think this is a productive direction for discussion tbh.
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by alvah 3y ago
"You dismissed" - what, by calling it mostly bullshit? The rest of your response is similar to your previous rambles about how it's all too hard, despite the countless examples, a mere google search away, of people who have s
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by alvah 3y ago
From your own link: "Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit". You're talking about something else.
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by alvah 3y ago
-“To be quite frank this mostly bullshit” -some ramble about how it’s all too hard Excellent debating style right there!
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by alvah 3y ago
“and live on your savings.” << this is an obvious strawman. There are plenty of ways to start a business without instantly giving up other employment.
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by alvah 3y ago
In the last couple of months I’ve seen him absolutely destroy a BBC journalist in an off-the-cuff battle of wits. Is luck the only reason you’re not richer than him?
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by alvah 3y ago
Because in the example I gave, you’re not making profit from your own labour, you’re also “exploiting” machines and software. How does this not meet the generally accepted definition of capitalism (a system in which private individuals or b
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by alvah 3y ago
If an owner of capital, i.e. a capitalist, makes money from a combination of his own efforts & automated systems (physical or software) he has invested in, by your definition he is no longer a capitalist. Ergo, your definition is either
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by alvah 3y ago
Your theory is that Elon Musk is unintelligent? That's a pretty wild take.
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by alvah 3y ago
I don't know where you live, but in most Western countries the capital required to become a business owner (i.e. start a legal business entity) is within reach of most people.
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by alvah 3y ago
How accurate were the predictions from 50 years ago though?
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by alvah 3y ago
Typically a query like that will mainly return e-commerce sites. If you prefix with “best” or another superlative, or include any comparison-type words, those are the phrases affiliate sites such as Wirecutter optimize for.
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by alvah 3y ago
According to Ahrefs, Wirecutter is on page 1 (Google) for 756k keywords, and position 1 for 95k keywords, so it's probably just not appearing for what you search for. While the quality has declined, the latest update from detailed.com
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by alvah 3y ago
Clearly a sarcastic question, but as solar panels become vastly cheaper, the battery storage requirements to effectively guarantee power on demand become much less onerous. The kWh of backup required for a solar PV system sized to maximum d
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by alvah 3y ago
RIP, also kudos for one of the most savage Twitter reply burns in history: https://twitter.com/Steven_Hyden/status/946951877635268608
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by alvah 3y ago
>12% body fat isn't a BMI, what are you trying to say? it seems likely parent is talking about his* required body fat to be considered in the "healthy" BMI range (under 25 for males).
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by alvah 3y ago
-Costco has a serious problem with theft The thread yesterday (based on another post from the same source as this one) said Costco had much lower theft (shrinkage) than rivals.
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by alvah 3y ago
I don't think you got it. Judging by the downvotes, the HN crowd don't like fun being poked at pronoun nonsense either.

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