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by dkrich 13y ago
I'm going to have to call bullshit on this. Many companies that we all shop from regularly have huge, ridiculous markups that can be justified in only one way: we are willing to pay the price asked. By doing the good deed of donating
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The problem is that cities want more revenue and so aren't motivated by public safety but rather ways to bring in more money, hence the desire to suppress evidence that in some cases may make people safer (like the flash bulbs, for exa
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I think in the long run you'll be fine. Red flags are a lot less important than ability to solve the company's problems. As much as it pains me to say it, once you move out of the startup arena into large company territory time of
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by dkrich 13y ago
Agreed. I think most of Tesla's appeal comes from branding and the Elon Musk appeal and not merely from the fact that it is an electric vehicle. As an example: had Ford released the Model S and sold the exact same volume with the same
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Is the Galaxy Tab version available? That could get dangerous.
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For better or for worse, we live in a society where higher education does not teach you a trade. That is, when you leave college and start your first job it really won't matter too much whether you studied CS, Philosophy, or the Harlem
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I wonder whether it's a matter of market saturation. There are two basic camps of readers- those who are willing to try and prefer e-readers, and those who simply prefer books. I fall into the latter, and try as I might to change, I ju
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1. Show you how open standards are important. This might be an argument for Bitcoin vs. Banks. Eh? Speaking for the US, the Federal Reserve Bank is the US equivalent of a standard protocol. Before a central bank existed, states and coloni
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Really? I live in DC and see them fairly often. Because Tesla is installing power stations primarily between NYC and DC, I would think this is one region where you would be most likely to see them, actually.
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Seriously? How could anybody doubt that their journalists would perform due-diligence? These are their most-clicked stories this hour: Google 'Pressure Cookers' and 'Backpacks,' Get a Visit from the Cops So, You Want to
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I think there's more to it simply on the basis that sending three SUV's with at least six agents to investigate people would be almost impossible from an economic standpoint. That is extremely costly and time-consuming, not to men
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South Park did a great job with this: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/410876/the-jewelry-pol...
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Starbucks derives much (if not most) of their success from product positioning. It's no secret their coffee is just meh in comparison to any other coffee shop. People frequent Starbucks because they love the brand. A lot of things comp
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Ha, well not sarcasm. I guess I assume that if you are working in Unix you know enough (or can learn) to create a script to handle this for you. Of course that doesn't prevent somebody from running rm, but it does at least put the brun
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I like the solution but I am actually opposed to an out-of-the-box solution. The reason is that precisely what makes Unix such a stable, fast OS is its minimalism. It trusts the user to know what he/she is doing. Once you cross over in
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Yeah, where did you get those numbers? The distance from SF to LA is about 380 miles, and the speed of sound is about 760 mph. Whether or not the principles of sound movement are involved in Musk's plan, the speed is roughly equivalent
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This strikes me as an odd comparison. Apple to Android seems about as arbitrary as Apple to Windows or Apple to Dell or Apple to Samsung. Point being that Apple makes a whole host of products in several categories- OS's, productivity s
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While the general assessment is correct, I think the core argument confuses marginal and fixed costs. Say the average customer represents R dollars in annual revenue. That’s: $4R of revenue over the lifetime of the customer. But: $1.5R i
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You think that struggling for tenure makes people better teachers and better people; No, this is the opposite of what I'm saying. I DON'T think it makes them better teachers. I think focusing on teaching makes people better teac
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I'm not suggesting that there isn't merit to what she says, I'm just saying that it came off to me as an article explaining "how I learned to bide my time in this place for 7 years and eschew the typical advice aimed for
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Not to sound overly critical, but is it just me or does this come off as a somewhat selfish point of view? My father was a tenured professor and growing up I heard enough horror stories from his department to know that a career as a profess
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It would be for businesses that have a large customer base and are less concerned with having the latest features and are much more interested in stability.
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Linus Torvalds not withstanding, I've never understood the "I can't be bothered with your idiotic questions because I'm so Goddamned smart" bullshit. I remember in the nineties if you had a question about Oracle or
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Instead of “telling” its story using advertising, Red Bull conveys its story through the creation of compelling experiences, all carefully crafted to “give you wings.” Is this really true, though? I think most of Red Bull's success c
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My only guess on this is max capacity. Theoretically if the tube were large enough you could run a few of these a day and carry thousands of people on each one. If you can get the energy consumed per passenger way down, then costs may decre
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Will this internship make me filthy rich? No. If it's money you're after go work in the sub-basement of a bank on an obscure back end system that no one will care about. If you want the chance to work on critical projects used by
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Also I think it is mostly a gross oversimplification. One could make the argument that a horse and buggy manufacturer is in almost an entirely different manufacturing business than an automobile manufacturer, and thus no more qualified to l
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I think Patrick's article is one of the best-written I've seen about the realities of the intersection of programming and business for people who have come from a strict tech background with zero business exposure. In my experienc
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I think this is good advice with a very major footnote. You can't reach out to somebody the first time inquiring about introductions or jobs. That will piss them off and they will ignore you. I had an acquaintance from college write me

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