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by fred_durst 12y ago
I'm not quite sure about that. From my understanding you can do it in a way where eventually you lose the trail. Because of the legalities of what information each country shares, if you get it in the right order you can prevent it fro
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Its generally a collection of companies in various countries. They take advantage of the fact that each country has unique laws. By stringing them together you can eventually make it impossible to track to it's original source. It&#x27
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by fred_durst 12y ago
I think they may be referring to the oringinal Yahoo Stores aka ViaWeb.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
I've actually been in that meeting where it was discussed about when someone would die. So I wouldn't be surprised. Either way, I can assure you it's part of the revenue forecast.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
But when you realize that these moments are built into the profit model when deciding to fund films, it is a bit sad.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Top Selling: Dead Poets Society ): Nothing sadder than profiting off death.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Can you try at least for one or two comments to dial down the snark. Seriously, I don't live in the Bay Area anymore so my tolerance for it is pretty low these days. Anyhow, it's not a threshold business. The idea that there will
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by fred_durst 12y ago
The network effect starts with the drivers. Whoever can become the reliable service by always having a driver nearby will become the first app opened. Right now consumers are going to where the drivers are, but eventually that will flip for
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by fred_durst 12y ago
The FedEX UPS example doesn't apply because their services are limited by physical infrastructure. The have to buy/lease trucks and distributions centers. Uber and Lyft have no physical limits so the larger one can always undercut
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Because having enough drivers with their own cars available to pick up rides is totally not a network effect business. See I can make snarky sarcastic comments too.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
I think you are a bit naive to believe that both Uber and Lyft with survive long term. In a network effect business its typically winner take all.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Free markets make men do amazing things.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Do mean that EU regulations require you to monitor the plants once you sell them? Possibly to prevent an enterprising young man from planting 1,000s of these in the woods behind his house in order to have the coolest rave ever?
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Indeed, I found this bizarre as well. How did he get into this multi-platform quagmire? The #1 thing that makes you successful in software consulting is limiting and predicting scope. By far. 2 months into that multi-platform hell, at the v
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by fred_durst 12y ago
I completely agree with that. I do not mean you should ignore those close to you, but instead meant that they should not be used as an excuse to have a negative impact on the world outside of that inner circle. Thank you for explaining that
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by fred_durst 12y ago
The author of this post made some terrible business choices. The constant multi-platform time and money sink is what tanked his company. But who paid the price? The lowly worker, who had little to no say in those choices. How is the author
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by fred_durst 12y ago
> Tell me why are random strangers just as important as my family and friends? Yours, too? Because if you think you are more an important that the greater world around you, you become a liability to the rest of the world. The rest of u
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by fred_durst 12y ago
While that is a noble assessment, if we look at similar industries to gaming we see that quality is rarely enough as well. Music, movies and writing have been under this model for many many years and proven that the reality is that no one r
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Maybe most people realize that games are not really that important in general. That's why its so important to get them addicted as opposed to making a great game. People will pay a lot more to feed an addiction than they will to be ent
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by fred_durst 12y ago
> I can make life for family and friends better You realize that that is also selfish, right? Why are your family and friends more important than anyone else's? I understand that many people these days don't feel any need t
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Welcome to 2014, where people gladly and boldly proclaim their love of greed and selfishness. Some people work for the government to make the world a better place instead of finding ways to make people more addicted to Facebook or clicking
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by fred_durst 12y ago
> This will get it pretty close to the company’s data center in The Dalles, Ore., and give that facility a better connection to Japan. That seems like enough to me.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
By "higher level" do you mean people who can convince others to do things? That seems to me to be the last higher paid/skill position that will remain for some time. Which causes me to fear that all we will be left with is ag
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Managing people is absolutely, 100% for at least the last 10 years, being aggressively and successfully being reduced to low skill labor. For example, things like ordering inventory, scheduling staff, pricing products are all done at signif
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Exactly. McDonald's has never been afraid of automation. If this were really that viable, they would already be doing it.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
You're still only at $247,715 The reality is that the more the income gap grows between the servers and those served, the less profitable automation becomes. There is a reason low wages jobs are growing, not shrinking in the US.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Plenty of construction workers still dig holes. Plenty of movers still move big heavy objects around. I wouldn't be so sure as much has been replaced as you might think. And it's not hard vs. easy but cheap vs. expensive.
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by fred_durst 12y ago
There are others, including myself, that believe low skill work is too cheap to be replaced in the near term. The exact opposite can be said for many currently "High-capability" people. That's why it's "software is
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by fred_durst 12y ago
Agriculture is unique in that farmers will vary their choice season to season based on what is cheaper. It shows that low skilled labor is still very competitive, simply because of how incredibly cheap it is. There is much more incentive to
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by fred_durst 12y ago
You are leaving out a lot of the total cost of ownership. $30K is the sticker price. You should be calculating the EAC(Equivalent Annual Cost) of the robot. Things like, insurance, energy, maintenance, eventually upgrade/replacement. R

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