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by dkrich 7y ago
Huh. I guess this is what passes as journalism in 2019.
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by dkrich 7y ago
This is very true but also very well understood. Marc Benioff is selling to C-level execs who will probably never use the Salesforce software themselves. Same reason why Phil Mickleson is the spokesman for Workday. The people making multimi
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by dkrich 7y ago
Other than for fun and to donate to a good cause, I'm not sure why anyone would ever take the other side of a bet like this or the follow up one for the case of wine. The author is basically betting against an unlikely outcome and the
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by dkrich 7y ago
Galloway's strength is that he's an amazing communicator and very arrogant. People eat up what he says without a moment's thought. And to be fair he's had some great calls, ie, Amazon's stock run in 2017 and this We
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by dkrich 7y ago
I'm surprised that everyone blindly cites the inverted yield curve as a recession indicator without considering the "why". Seriously, if you were to ask ten people why an inverted curve predicts recession, you'd get ten
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by dkrich 7y ago
The main differentiator between Amazon and everyone else continues to be Prime. Having people paying $120/year to come back and shop on their site is an advantage that nobody can compete with. Shopify could try and compete by creating
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by dkrich 7y ago
So, this is a comparison about how lenient various scooter companies are when it comes to allowing use on restricted bike lanes in a particular city. This article applies to people living in Venice Beach who want to ride these in bike lanes
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by dkrich 7y ago
Netflix made over $4.5 billion in revenue last quarter and has been consistently growing it every year at insane rates. Disney? Not so much. A blockbuster film costs hundreds of millions of dollars to make. How many companies have the money
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by dkrich 7y ago
Because capital is cheap right now so you have lots of investors around the world with cash they are looking to get return on willing to lend it at relatively low rates. Netflix is able to borrow at low rates while ratcheting up the subscri
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by dkrich 7y ago
Don’t think same day streaming release is a remote possibility because Disney would be canabalizing it’s theater revenue. I do think it’s likely the only place you will be able to watch it after it leaves the theater.
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by dkrich 7y ago
What’s interesting to me about this debate is that everyone seems to view it as a Disney is coming for Netflix story and not the other way around. But what prevents Netflix from creating its own animation studio and producing its own blockb
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by dkrich 8y ago
When the incentives align they will surely bend the rules. It's in Instagram's and Twitter's interest to have the royal family and high profile politicians, respectively, active, happy, and easy to find.
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by dkrich 8y ago
I have airpods and a pair of Sennheiser PXC 550's. I use the Sennheiser's on long flights and when I'm working at home and the airpods everywhere else. Both are great for their use cases, but the best feature of the Sennheise
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by dkrich 8y ago
Neither is Vimeo for YouTube or Apple Maps for Google Maps. Those were pathetic suggestions and in my mind ruin the credibility of the rest of the post. There is enormous value to the end user in the integration between search, navigation a
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by dkrich 8y ago
I was thinking this too. I’m not a big fan of this “we’re champions of privacy and the little guy” bullshit Apple has been spewing lately. They have some good points and so does Spotify. But the way they address these issues comes across ve
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by dkrich 8y ago
Okay but museums and universities also rely heavily on ongoing donations. A 5% annual yield is far from a guarantee. Not to mention that running a tech company is very different than running a museum or local symphony. A tech company has to
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by dkrich 8y ago
Is this not a concern for those trying to sell mass adoption to people currently on other platforms that make enough money to fund maintenance and enhancements forever?
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by dkrich 8y ago
Ah, thanks. So the answer is that it's not sustainable. Got it.
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by dkrich 8y ago
Serious question as someone who has never used Telegram and don't know anyone who uses it: what's the plan for sustainability from a financial perspective? Running the infrastructure for a scalable secure and reliable service like
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by dkrich 8y ago
I think his point though is that the premise that these companies achieved their success through domination and monopolistic powers is inaccurate because they rose to prominence while not being dominate or possessing any monopolistic powers
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by dkrich 8y ago
Because you always have the option of not using the platform in the first place and/or deleting your account. Your willingness to sign in repeatedly knowing the trade-offs signals your agreement to the terms. Facebook doesn't owe
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by dkrich 8y ago
This is just pure nonsense. I don't doubt you believe it, but Facebook's earnings/advertiser's spend coupled with demonstrated user behavior very quickly put your logic to rest. The statement that nobody wants to see ads
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by dkrich 8y ago
I'm not surprised so many people only see this issue from one side, which is some version of "Keeping all of your data locked up is the most important thing in the world and ads are always bad. If you disagree with that you are ei
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by dkrich 8y ago
He explains this in the article. For the most popular musical acts streaming isn’t how they make money. It’s simply a means to advertise their music so they can make money by touring. If that’s the case no popular musical act is going to lo
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by dkrich 8y ago
No question that iMessage and FaceTime are advantages for Apple out of the box. But what happens when Facebook continues to enhance its messaging platform and people slowly find themselves in a hybrid situation where they are communicating
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by dkrich 8y ago
Agree to disagree. Messenger and WhatsApp are more advanced and combine the social dynamic to chats. They’ve also made a lot of headway in competing with FaceTime. Which apps would Apple have a distinct advantage of it loses iMessage and Fa
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by dkrich 8y ago
So now it comes out that Apple is working to “quickly reinstate Google’s enterprise certificates” but won’t work with Facebook? By now it should be fairly obvious that Apple hates Facebook for a very good reason- Facebook is Apple’s single
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by dkrich 8y ago
Wow, that’s the best take on this entire thing I’ve read. I’ve been saying much of this for months and I’m also not an active Facebook user. The market’s had a hard time deciding what to make of all the “scandals” but the past few headlines
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by dkrich 8y ago
The argument isn't whether specific parties should produce malicious apps. Obviously any rational person would say no, depending upon what your own definition of malicious is (many have argued that a consenting party being paid $20 per
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by dkrich 8y ago
I could argue that Apple is just as responsible for this as Facebook. How can they claim to take privacy seriously if it’s clearly possible for bad actors to get around the rules multiple times! How is Apple any less implicated in this than

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