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901.
by arbuge 11y ago
From the advertising standpoint, it seems to me that Facebook has a database of people's job titles which is almost as good as LinkedIn's, without requiring advertisers to pay a minimum $2.00 per click to reach them.
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Apple Ordered to Pay $625M to Patent Troll in FaceTime Lawsuit(techcrunch.com)
176 points by arbuge 11y ago|160 comments
903.
by arbuge 11y ago
The definition for 12 year olds is somewhat murky... what exactly do they mean by "overnight"?
904.
by arbuge 11y ago
>> Other people (i.e. investors) are making money off your work If you are philosophically averse to this, your options seem pretty limited to me. If you join a startup, it might be investors, as you point out. If you join a big compa
905.
by arbuge 11y ago
Perhaps you missed this part: "109,000-horsepower engines that endlessly spin away 24 hours a day, 280 days a year." Most cars, in comparison, are idle for over 95% of their lifetime. My car for example sits in a driveway or parki
906.
by arbuge 11y ago
The comparison starts to look different if you include an "Availability Date" row...
907.
by arbuge 11y ago
You get much better value from Starbucks or any coffee ship if you use it as an office and hang around for a few hours working off the wifi. When you think about rent savings combined with a decent working environment, the equation shifts.
908.
by arbuge 11y ago
Urban sprawl cities designed with cars in mind (eg. Dallas, Atlanta, etc.) will not be easy to convert over to public transportation.
909.
by arbuge 11y ago
I am not familiar with Albanian tax laws, so I can't answer that. I would imagine they are not offering pass-through entities though, since those just shift the point of taxation, not remove it.
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How Amazon’s Long Game Yielded a Retail Juggernaut(nytimes.com)
1 points by arbuge 11y ago|0 comments
911.
by arbuge 11y ago
>> Startups and small businesses in the United States organized as "S corporations" also pay zero taxes This is a misleading statement. S corporations are pass-through entities. In other words, all profits they make get pass
912.
by arbuge 11y ago
This has little to do with the IoT really. The latter is generally acknowledged to be the internet which will result once all manner of gadgets containing cheap sensors, actuators, and microprocessors are internet-enabled.
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by arbuge 11y ago
They are also protected by the goodwill of the general population. Voters in the USA have real power, but by and large believe that delegating that power to law enforcement without any real checks and balances is a good thing. "Tough o
914.
by arbuge 11y ago
>> That being said, there's nothing stopping DoorDash from buying food from In-N-Out and delivering it to people. I would imagine this is not true if they're representing themselves as a delivery service officially sanctione
915.
by arbuge 11y ago
Are they actually relying on dropshipping? At scale this could be problematic unless they have really reliable dropshippers to work with. Witness for example the customer service issues this caused Fab.com.
916.
by arbuge 11y ago
That describes alot of companies besides Amazon if you insert "for a while" after "stopped".
917.
by arbuge 11y ago
Analog IC design is in fact a largely incremental business these days and has been so for a while. Perhaps 10-15 years.
918.
by arbuge 11y ago
I always thought Sagan would have been the best spokesman, ironically.
919.
by arbuge 11y ago
This is particularly ironic. I remember the messages we got from Google earlier this year telling us that our websites could be penalized in their rankings for not being sufficiently mobile-friendly...
920.
by arbuge 11y ago
Given that large companies face large numbers of patent suits however, typically litigating several in parallel, spending all this money on just one could indeed be seen as distressing.
921.
by arbuge 11y ago
>> The American empire is perhaps the first empire in history where people want to be under its banner as opposed to out in the cold. This kind of thing has happened before in some cases. Malta wanted to be part of the British Empire
922.
by arbuge 11y ago
Indeed. Another example: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2014/11/ftc-i... The FTC fines seem to be quite affordable to these players, who may just see them as a minor cost of doing busines
923.
by arbuge 11y ago
There is usually more than one cockroach in the kitchen if you spot one. I wonder how many other aspects of their software they messed with in ways they probably shouldn't have...
924.
by arbuge 11y ago
Quite true but this kind of wheeling and dealing is not something that VCs typically do, in my experience at least.
925.
by arbuge 11y ago
You would not, by definition, be much of a venture capitalist without any capital to command. Perhaps a better title might be "How to raise your chances of some day being a professional VC, slim as they might be."
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Cell phone dirtboxes(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by arbuge 11y ago|0 comments
927.
by arbuge 11y ago
>> This article, like many pro-nuclear arguments, doesn't address the most basic problem -- is nuclear power cost effective? That is really not the most basic problem though. Cost is a non-issue if the alternative is green house
928.
by arbuge 11y ago
SES is great for newsletters. We use it for that all the time. Not sure why this article concludes it's only a good idea for transactional email.
929.
by arbuge 11y ago
Never heard Uber in use as a verb before. Skype, a few times.
930.
by arbuge 11y ago
I believe Mark Zuckerberg's father is a dentist.

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