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by fnid2 17y ago
Funny, from another post, In his classic book, Only the Paranoid Survive, Grove details the story of leading Intel through the dramatic transition from the memory business to the microprocessor business. There are also studies of rats whe
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by fnid2 17y ago
Responses to this RFI should be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on April 15, 2010 Tax day. Hilarious!@ Not only do they want to take 50% of our hard earned dollars, they want to take our knowledge for free! Here's an idea, stop wast
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by fnid2 17y ago
They are worth a lot. I implement many of them. And thanks for explaining to me how the google ads work. I thought they had an army of people looking at all the web pages and clicking check boxes by the ads that should show there. It's amaz
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by fnid2 17y ago
That's wild, I have 3 laptops right now, one purchased in 2001 (dell latitude), one in 2003 (dell inspiron) and a macbook pro from 2006 and all work perfectly -- all with dead batteries. I still use them. One for my home theater, one for mo
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by fnid2 17y ago
We don't have the time or the resources to "wait and see." Additionally, we aren't waiting and seeing, we are printing trillions of dollars. You even have to wait and see, just look at history. What mises describes has happened countle
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by fnid2 17y ago
Do you really think it's less hassle to package up your ipad, put it in the mail, wait days for a new one to return and then unpack the ipad and reinstall all your stuff, than to simply replace a battery?
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by fnid2 17y ago
I'd like to see Apple encourage its consumers to be a little more conscious of the planet and their place in it. America's disposable culture is ruining the planet and taking resources from those who live on the land where it's mined.
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by fnid2 17y ago
The fancy HN dup checker doesn't look at #'s in the url.
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by fnid2 17y ago
Not necessarily. They could just charge $99 for a new battery and sell them in the store like they sell laptop batteries which are around the same price.
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by fnid2 17y ago
I suppose you don't include every laptop ever made as examples of replaceable batteries in practice. The Apple decision you support here is called "Designed Obsolescence" and it is a big reason our way of life is unsustainable. I've neve
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by fnid2 17y ago
It makes no sense. It's the most horribly inefficient system. It wastes additional shipping fuel. It requires you to accept someone elses iPad. Maybe there's a scratch on it. Maybe you've saved something to the hard driv... oh wait.
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by fnid2 17y ago
Because mises is the light at the end of this tunnel of irrationality we are in. Eventually, the world is going to end up exactly where they describe and everyone is going to wonder how we got there.
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by fnid2 17y ago
Yeah, I think that. In fact, I'm almost positive of it, because to show me "relevant" ads, they have to read my spreadsheet. I don't trust google at all . They've shown repeatedly that they are not not evil. Regardless, their stuff is
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by fnid2 17y ago
As someone who builds tools for developers, my interest was initially to make it easier for me to build apps myself. I didn't quite know what I wanted to build, but I knew I wanted to build it fast, so I built a company around web developm
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by fnid2 17y ago
I absolutely would NOT put my ideas in a Google spreadsheet. That's a sure way to share it with everyone you don't want to have it -- like google. Why on earth would you recommend putting your ideas in a system owned and controlled by some
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by fnid2 17y ago
That's definitely true. I wonder what will happen when China releases the Yuan and they are able to compete on a wealth scale with the U.S. Inflation is going to increase dramatically for U.S. consumers and many of the products we use tod
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by fnid2 17y ago
No links, just personal experience from some small run textile products. I found several factories in India and Bangladesh who all sent me free samples. I called many US factories who make similar products and I got nowhere with any of
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by fnid2 17y ago
That's my concern, because I am one of those. It also seems to be the concern of many who are individuals and worry that their FOSS projects will be squashed by patent holders. I don't think the corporation vs. corporation battle is as s
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by fnid2 17y ago
I've worked with some from Mexico and Argentina. Both are good places to look, so yes, that's a good alternative to distant time zones.
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by fnid2 17y ago
don't hire Americans to do commodity work (i.e. PHP CRUD) This is why Americans are saying they are from overseas to get the jobs. If the price is the same, what does it matter where they are from? Speaking a common primary language and
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by fnid2 17y ago
The difference between the US and China is automation . Same is true of India. I've sent designs overseas that can be made by hand cheaper than they can be made in the U.S. with machines. In this respect, off shoring manufacturing enable
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by fnid2 17y ago
The original idea of patents was to promote innovation through sharing ideas. I agree that the current system doesn't live up to that, but I'm not sure that doing away with patents is the solution. Patents are often like art. You can see
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by fnid2 17y ago
Now imagine that you are a programmer wanting to solve a problem by writing some code. How will you know whether there might be a claim against your work by an entity holding one of these 200,000 patents? What if you are a mechanical engi
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by fnid2 17y ago
There's a big difference between exchanging money for a product that customers want (cigarettes) and taking money from people who don't know they are giving you money at all and who also receive nothing in exchange.
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by fnid2 17y ago
I suppose my definition of "corrected" is different from yours. My definition of corrected means making the people you have wronged whole again. They took money from people and kept it and would have continued taking money from people in
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by fnid2 17y ago
Before zynga was "outted" he lauded them as his best investment. After techcrunch wrote what they did about zynga's business model, he said nothing for a very long time, until one day he was like, "Zynga is a great company, they are awesome
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by fnid2 17y ago
You can say it is ad hominem or you can say it is a matter of trust. I don't trust this man or what he says. He has shown himself not to be trustworthy and that is a serious issue of character -- not just some flaw in an argument to be
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by fnid2 17y ago
No one better to do that than a room full of hackers who are frustrated with the alternatives. Post a link.
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It's favorite investment, Zynga, is a notorious ripoff artist and he has supported them before and after it was made apparent that their revenue model was a scam.
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by fnid2 17y ago
I don't even waste my time reading this guy's blog anymore. He's illustrated to me that he is corrupt and supports revenue models that are fraudulent ripoffs of his startups' customers. As hackers who want to create a better web, we should

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