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by dkrich 13y ago
I've always thought that was a profound sentiment, and I've always wondered if, in the long run, that's the way to make a business survive. That depends on your customer and what your product positioning is. If, for example
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by dkrich 13y ago
How exactly would you prove this? And even if you could, would suing the maker of a $2.99 game be worth your while?
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by dkrich 13y ago
Maybe useful for some small-claims suits, but not so great for tort cases that have merit. If a negligent company continues to produce toys that hurt children, should the family have to pay 5% of the potential damages before getting a day i
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by dkrich 13y ago
I don't know who the author is chastising- the maker of three's or the maker or 2048, or the clones of 2048. I don't really sympathize with the maker of three's. In the business world, one of the key metrics for determin
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by dkrich 13y ago
Kudos on thinking outside the box. My $0.02 on why this wouldn't fly- he's examining the problem from a bird's eye view, ie, the entire government expenditure. Documents, however, are printed by teams, usually small one'
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by dkrich 13y ago
Then maybe they shouldn't have led with the name "Ban Bossy?" If you create a marketing campaign and it is misinterpreted by what is presumably largely your target group (men who don't realize their words are apparently
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by dkrich 13y ago
I think there's a major flaw in the argument that "these people could be curing cancer!" To have any hope of doing something as ambitious as curing cancer you presumably have to have an unusually large amount of interest in t
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by dkrich 13y ago
Yes, someone who's 65 is more likely to live to 85 than someone who's 50. That's extremely obvious once you know that 1) people occasionally die and 2) people don't come back to life after they die. The closer you are t
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by dkrich 13y ago
I dunno the instructor was a surgeon and faculty member at the University of Michigan medical school. Not saying that makes him correct but I wouldn't be too quick to dispute him either. Besides, death rates increasing monotonically is
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by dkrich 13y ago
When I was a kid I saw this demo tape and was blown away by how lethal and intimidating the A-10 looked. Ever since I've been fascinated with it. The video quality is very poor because this was shot in the late seventies or early eight
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by dkrich 13y ago
I once took a class in business school on medical pricing and the instructor said that if you look at a graph of life expectancy that a large percentage of the population dies in the 50-60 age range, but statistically people who live past t
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by dkrich 13y ago
I don't know that there is a great way to break the cycle, which is why MSNBC and Fox News have very different but fiercely loyal audiences. Certainly there are exceptions- I've had certain issues that I've changed my mind ab
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by dkrich 13y ago
Our "greatest threat to security" is that our people take their opinions from the mouths of celebrities and politicians, and not through careful consideration of the facts. No they don't, they take their opinions from their
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by dkrich 13y ago
Do you find it somewhat presumptuous to argue against the business model of a business you've never visited?
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by dkrich 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand your reasoning. Assuming they run a profitable business, telling them that they should change their business model because you don't like ads is like arguing that Nike should charge less because their sho
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by dkrich 13y ago
So what's more expensive, hiring an expert at $4k/day who by herself in one month can accomplish what an entire team of complacent government employees probably can't in three years or keeping around a staff of employees who
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by dkrich 13y ago
Next up, can they please block any article originating from the Huffington Post since they seem to have morphed from a Drudge Report clone into some kind of Viralnova/Buzzfeed love child?
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by dkrich 13y ago
I think drives like these (whether intended to or not) result in heightened awareness of a problem, not necessarily a fixed outcome. If something like this took place once a year (where sites protest mass surveillance) it would assure that
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by dkrich 13y ago
I don't see why people always compare Microsoft to Apple besides the fact that they are two of the oldest and highest-profile companies in the technology industry. This comparison always leads to them making the false claim that Micros
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by dkrich 13y ago
I would add: work on high-profile (read, important to senior stakeholders) projects within your current company. When a person above you's livelihood is reliant on how you perform, doing well will get you promoted at light-speed compar
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by dkrich 13y ago
I think we're in some kind of media bubble when a "news" website publishes stories about people who steal content and Tweet it. This feels like a lot of people chasing each other in circles without really producing any new co
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by dkrich 13y ago
Stripe is a transaction-based business with a clear model — and one not growing particularly rapidly if it took two years to get to just $1.5 billion in annual payments volume our sources report as of six months ago. Another way to interp
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by dkrich 13y ago
I've seen many movies based on real-life events and have yet to read a review of any that didn't find huge fault with its accuracy. The most notable are probably the Ben Mezrich movies, but most recently I watched Wolf of Wall Str
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by dkrich 13y ago
I like the article and agree with the main points, but I don't really understand the fixation on terminology. Who really cares about what one person defines as wealth vs having money ? Isn't the real point here that people who
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by dkrich 13y ago
The point is that workers are no longer necessary because everything is automated. I do not believe this will ever really be feasible because you still need lawyers, the government, police, teachers, etc. But I do believe that as time goes
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by dkrich 13y ago
Creatives go beyond the arts. People who are able to contribute new inventions and create new industries are creatives too. I think the point is that when technology becomes so advanced to make the cost of most everything trivial, you'
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by dkrich 13y ago
Asimov imagined that humanity would decide to distribute the wealth accrued by the automatons, and the problem wouldn't be lost capital for workers, but lost meaning. Of course, in reality, it's both—and therefore a much, much bl
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by dkrich 13y ago
I think people who make these arguments drastically underestimate the challenges faced in coming up with a single cure-all for cancer. That said, I am very sorry to hear about your wife's condition and I hope that she comes out of it f
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by dkrich 13y ago
Amazon somehow got CBS and 60 Minutes to create a 14-minute free ad spot for Amazon on the eve of this huge shopping day. This is a fairly one-sided assessment of the situation. CBS and 60 Minutes benefit as much from the piece airing on
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by dkrich 13y ago
True, but if he can prove he created them, he has a copyright on the work just by creating it.

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