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by fipple 8y ago
Well the idea of an index, whether done through a fund or not, is to buy some of each company. A value investing approach would be to find the better stock and invest in it, so Coke stockholders would rarely own Pepsi stock and vice versa.
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by fipple 8y ago
The summary: if Coke and Pepsi are owned by different guys, Coke will take an action that makes them an additional $1 million, even if (especially if) it causes Pepsi to lose $1 billion. Most commonly, cut prices. If the two companies are o
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by fipple 8y ago
Well the Googles of the world are absolutely pulverizing the IBMs of the world so it’s really the people with “gravitas” who are playing House and the “elementary school” students who are getting shit done.
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by fipple 8y ago
Cloned in a day? I could clone it in four minutes
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by fipple 8y ago
Using Target is nothing about the price. It’s because I once got a counterfeit baby product from Amazon and aren’t going to risk that again.
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by fipple 8y ago
China is an ends justify the means country. They will violate as many human rights as necessary to avoid growing their own banlieues .
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by fipple 8y ago
The alternative I use is a physical Target store. I’ve switched 75% of my Amazon spend to Target.
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by fipple 8y ago
I know, I’m not talking about real chess, but the Hollywood concept of chess. I also realize that Hollywood chess has the player representing Amerifreedom(TM) squared against a thickly accented Slav who kicks his dog.
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by fipple 8y ago
It’s simple - either people act however they want, or they watch their behavior. In the former they develop stronger bonds with each other. In the latter they are more respectful of each other.
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by fipple 8y ago
Yes, as a non chess player I think of the game as two people each taking about 15 minutes per move. Blitz chess isn’t what the cultural concept of “chess” is.
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by fipple 8y ago
I know that as a result of diversity training and guidelines I am 10x as cautious about my behavior at work in front of women as with just men. That means there is a camaraderie that the men have that the women are left out of. When I worke
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by fipple 8y ago
Yes, the federal government is the US’s largest employer.
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by fipple 8y ago
The answer is cost. Then they get a guy wearing all black and tortoiseshell glasses to tart it up in some language about identity and authenticity.
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by fipple 8y ago
I don’t use Amazon for the website, I use it because it brings shit to my house in a day or two. Companies with tremendous market power often have shitty customer experiences.
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by fipple 8y ago
That’s not really evidence, as there are articles like this for many combinations of two cities.
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by fipple 8y ago
“Should” doesn’t matter. If I can use my vote to prevent my job from going to a more talented and more desperate person in Cameroon I’m going to do so, right vs. wrong be damned.
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by fipple 8y ago
There is a lot of variance in $15/hr offshore developers. For example, you can buy a shirt for $10 in various places in the world, some of them will be total crap and some of them will be exquisitely tailored. The selection becomes the
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by fipple 8y ago
It’s also cool that this is a female founder in an industry that is thought of as characteristically male. It’s not like Spanx.
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by fipple 8y ago
LOL! I had given OP some credit and assumed that Nextcloud was a full featured competitor like Box. Whoops!
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by fipple 8y ago
I mean, exactly? When you had some novel tech, you kept it to yourself. Now that you have market power, you develop out in the open. Perfect game plan.
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by fipple 8y ago
How about you use it before assertively making claims about it. Just a good practice for life.
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by fipple 8y ago
Not every company is Artsy. Artsy is an Internet company, not a place where new frontiers are being conquered. It makes sense to build Artsy in the public square, not so much Waymo.
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by fipple 8y ago
On the contrary, I’ve found that companies who are actually doing hardcore software engineering, where the code is the main value driver for the business, rarely open source their best stuff, but they’re great places for engineers. Google d
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by fipple 8y ago
Incredible craftsmanship. Even when Pixar makes turds like The Good Dinosaur they are a pleasure for the eyeballs.
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by fipple 8y ago
That’s because China now homegrows its IP. The right time to control this would have been 1978, not 2018.
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by fipple 8y ago
Like having a shadow profile on Facebook.
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by fipple 8y ago
That’s not true of “The Road Not Taken.” It’s not the poem’s fault, but 90% of people read the completely wrong meaning from it.
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by fipple 8y ago
LOL... imagining an auction market for incentives to remote workers, where basically the prices get bid up to almost the entire economic contribution of the worker over the time that they live in the city. Like the Japanese hometown tax.
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by fipple 8y ago
Corporations exist in a world with governments and politics. It’s entirely reasonable for senior management to require a methology that they can defend in a televised Senate hearing even at the expense of some predictive power.
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by fipple 8y ago
The suggestions probably come from people’s email, so as the system gets better, you’ll be judging someone just because Gmail later plagiarized them.

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