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by bedhead 13y ago
I have two additional and unrelated thoughts on this. First, the astonishing price paid is a very tangible indictment on the management of Facebook, and Zuckerberg especially. Combine this $19 billion with the Snapchat offer and Instagram,
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by bedhead 13y ago
When these bubbles really get crazy, you start questioning your sanity and wondering whether maybe you're just plain wrong. You actually start wondering if the valuations are justified after all, whether it be a house, stock certificat
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by bedhead 13y ago
Yup, this was me. Bought the Hero Black and returned it two weeks later, for all of the reasons you cited.
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by bedhead 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification. As I said, in these extreme cases then yes, I do believe school plays a larger role than normal. Also, to further clarify, I think the more important issue with school isn't so much the quality of the lear
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by bedhead 13y ago
Well, I suppose you are right, but you have to cite an extreme case of literally worrying about getting murdered every day. Do those schools exist? Yes, but they are few and far between, and there is a world of difference between "un
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by bedhead 13y ago
The problem is that you cannot say whether your older brother is the way he is because of a lifetime of crummy public schooling or just because he's wired that way. The age old causation vs correlation issue. All else equal (in this ca
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by bedhead 13y ago
Price is a demand indicator. I doubt the price hike will have any impact at all to the number of Prime members or its growth rate. Btw, keep in mind that Prime also gets the rough equivalent of a FREE Netflix streaming account.
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by bedhead 13y ago
Just trying to be light-hearted about it, sorry if that did not come across.
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by bedhead 13y ago
All true, but that still doesn't answer what possesses someone to pack their cell phone in a box .
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by bedhead 13y ago
Who packs their cell phone in a box when moving???
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by bedhead 13y ago
I had had a nagging belief in this for a long time. Then something funny happened that convinced me this is 100% true: Instagram. A couple years and 11 employees and $2 billion in wealth. Incredible. As recently as 20 years ago companies si
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by bedhead 13y ago
Unless it crosses into criminal, then you are correct.
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by bedhead 13y ago
The ever-expanding wealth gap is primarily a function of what Warren Buffett has called the most powerful force in the universe: compounding. The "problem" is that some people are simply better at growing their wealth. This minori
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by bedhead 13y ago
No, I could be holding it to my ear despite it being turned off, as stupid as that sounds. The point is, in the case of the phone, the officer never has proof that the phone was on. And if driving with Glass while it's on is illegal,
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by bedhead 13y ago
If this works, why isn't this same argument used for challenging tickets for using a phone while driving? All the same logic still applies.
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by bedhead 13y ago
Haters. Just good old fashioned haters.
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by bedhead 13y ago
I had never spoken publicly, as in a featured speaker in front of a large gathering of strangers. I had spoken in front of everyone at my old company (80 people) but that was the closest I came to public speaking, and since I knew everyone
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by bedhead 13y ago
I would speculate that it's because Nest's products aren't scalable in the way most of Apple's other products are. The appeal is too narrow, appealing primarily to ultra-techy folks or people building/redoing their
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by bedhead 13y ago
I think the mistake was comparing the speed of silicon with the speed of biology.
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by bedhead 13y ago
There is nothing "brilliant" about this. People just like seeing smarminess, particularly if it's directed at a "big evil corporation". Frankly I thought the guy's response was douchey.
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by bedhead 13y ago
Agree on the creep factor and all of the inevitable places it will be banned, not to mention social situations where it'll be poor etiquette. It just seems so unnecessary, a (lousy) solution in search of a problem. For now, people wear
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by bedhead 13y ago
I've said it before and I will say it again: Gawker is simply professional trolls. They exist only to shit on everything, the farther away from their rigid liberal ideals the better. I wish people would ignore them completely.
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by bedhead 13y ago
Hmm, how do I put this gently? Let me try. I hate to break this to you, but you dont have the ability to "fundamentally disagree" on something like this. Put simply, you dont know what you're talking about. You obviously dont
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by bedhead 13y ago
Well, this is starting to drift from the original point, but it's all just supply and demand, my man. The guy taking a job for a pittance wage is presumably doing so because the alternative is worse, otherwise why take the crappy job?
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by bedhead 13y ago
Let me take a stab at this, and I hope you dont take this offensively. I am guessing you are somewhere between 18-24 years old, right? These are the kind of lazy ideas that get people in trouble. I emphasize lazy because to genuinely believ
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by bedhead 13y ago
The introduction of dollars is irrelevant...you're overthinking it. There is a banking system that deals with the money supply, but that's another (possibly confusing) matter. Wealth is not not fixed, that is the only idea you nee
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by bedhead 13y ago
I admit it's a bit abstract but here goes. Guy 2 (inventor) had to employ himself, other people, and capital in order to create the widget. He has to pay those people and the owners of the capital, and in turn they now have income whic
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by bedhead 13y ago
The rules cannot (and in fact do not) work differently on a macro and micro level. Your argument means that no one ever becomes wealthy over time because we are collectively stuck. The wealth is fixed, it just sloshes around from one party
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by bedhead 13y ago
Something is getting lost in translation here. How does some kid inheriting a bunch of money adversely effect my or anyone else's ability to earn a better living? As distasteful as it may be that someone can win the genetic lottery, th
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by bedhead 13y ago
I can assure you that meager transfer payments in the form of SS, Medicare, etc will do absolutely nothing to reduce the income gap. Do you really think that giving money to the government is going to magically make people wealthier? While

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