btian

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331.
by btian 10y ago
I just read the paper and it doesn't say or imply anything about lag. Can you point me to any evidence related to the title, i.e., Pixel lag is 10x worse than Moto Z?
332.
by btian 10y ago
Curious what you mean by "own our own lives again". Are you planning to run your own email servers (or any other service that Google provides)? Or just switch to another vendor?
333.
by btian 10y ago
He's probably going to be the propaganda tsar since he's known for suing the press.
334.
by btian 10y ago
It's the opposite of dimaryp - pyramid
335.
by btian 10y ago
Calling Uber and Lyft non-profit would be very generous to them. Did either of them ever had a profitable quarter?
336.
by btian 10y ago
I buy a new car every 2 years or so because it makes me happy. Money sitting in the bank earning no interest doesn't make me happy.
337.
by btian 10y ago
I buy a car every ~2 years because I like technology. Driving a Tesla Model S now, and looking forward to the company releasing self-driving software before I upgrade to the new version.
338.
by btian 10y ago
For the price of a natural gas generator I can get 14kWh battery based storage and I can go off-grid if I want, that's terrific.
339.
by btian 10y ago
Did Apple buy Pixar?
340.
by btian 10y ago
Lego Mindstorms at 11 or 12.
341.
by btian 10y ago
Most CEOs will do anything to trade places with Microsoft.
342.
by btian 10y ago
And how many rounds of additional fund raising is required for Lyft or Uber to buy enough sensors to retrofit 1% of their vehicles? What happens if drivers decide to sell those sensors?
343.
by btian 10y ago
And Apple never manufactured a single iPhone. So?
344.
by btian 10y ago
Because you can't actually buy 100% of Tesla for $33B. Elon Musk owns 20% of shares. Does he want to sell?
345.
by btian 10y ago
Jony Ive gets around in his chauffeured Bentley Mulsanne.
346.
by btian 10y ago
That is 100% wrong. Ask an accountant if you don't believe me.
347.
by btian 10y ago
Deferred tax is only payable when shares in Alibaba are sold, which will not. Yahoo will spin it off tax free to shareholders.
348.
by btian 10y ago
No idea what you mean by that. Yahoo has $6B in cash and short term investments, and $1.2B in debt.
349.
by btian 10y ago
I think Google Toolbar was his idea.
350.
by btian 10y ago
How are space contracts governments' help and not SpaceX helping government from the evil ULA?
351.
by btian 10y ago
Then why is VW in hot water? They should just claim that rules always benefited industry and should always benefit industry ad infinitum right?
352.
by btian 11y ago
I have plenty of time to make my own dinner, but I don't like cooking, and hate washing up.
353.
by btian 11y ago
All you have to do to make tons of money is buy whatever stock that will rise by the most next week, and short sell stock that will tank the most next week. How to find out which stock will rise or tank next week is left as an exercise for
354.
by btian 11y ago
Revenue is earning. If you earn 200k a year, it doesn't mean you saved 200k.
355.
by btian 11y ago
Hope you enjoy fake engine noise from your speakers. Unfortunately, BMW is a joke these days. They used to be good though.
356.
by btian 11y ago
I hope Obama shows some strength here and not let Donald Trump take the spotlight.
357.
by btian 11y ago
I'd like Google to track down highway patrol cops and integrate it with Waze / Maps.
358.
by btian 11y ago
@toomuchtodo What do you mean? Drive sync works fine like Dropbox, at least on Windows and Mac.
359.
by btian 11y ago
By that logic, Youtube content creators are employees of Youtube? Bloggers are employees of Google? Home owners are employees of Airbnb?
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by btian 11y ago
Shareholders get will nothing, but debt holders will still get paid in proportion of how much they're owed.

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