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by gamble 16y ago
Opportunity #2 isn't necessarily a win, if you're not careful. There is an industry out there ready to separate the newly wealthy from their wealth - the same one that convinces average people to dump their money into mutual funds with outr
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by gamble 16y ago
More interesting to me are the odds that this woman is colluding with a lottery insider or a crooked retailer to divert and cash winning tickets.
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by gamble 16y ago
Though most fads are not trends and most trends are not fads, there are the occasional instances like the Internet circa 1995 that are both fads and trends. The fallacy of youth is to treat all fads as trends; the fallacy of age is to ignor
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by gamble 16y ago
Do Android users buy even a tenth of the apps that iOS users do? If simply having the greatest number of handsets in circulation supporting a particular platform equalled victory, Java-based feature phones or Symbian handsets would have tro
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by gamble 16y ago
The issue isn't subsidies, but the fact that almost every carrier in the US and Canada refuses to lower your monthly bill when the subsidy has been paid off. Until that changes, the only sensible response is to get a new subsidized phone as
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by gamble 16y ago
I knew the Kin was doomed when the $70/month plans were announced. All that's surprising is how quickly they pulled the plug. Today's smartphone market reminds me of the airline industry prior to deregulation. Since all phones are sold for
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by gamble 16y ago
For high-volume routes the Chinatown busses compete very successfully, but Greyhound's real competition is Southwest, Spirit Air, Amtrak, or just driving yourself. Greyhound has become so bad that their clientele is down to folks who litera
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by gamble 16y ago
Much as I like the Roadster, I'm extremely pessimistic about Tesla's chances. Established auto companies with much deeper pockets would have trouble bringing the Model S to market. Tesla hasn't been very successful selling the Roadster, a c
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by gamble 16y ago
No. It's only because we feel so much affection for Apple's products that their business practices provoke so much outrage. In comparison, when was the last time anyone got really worked up about Microsoft?
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by gamble 16y ago
"We've come to realize we don't really want most employees for the whole of their careers. We want their particular set of skills when we need them — but then things change so fast, we don't need that particular skill set any more." But job
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by gamble 16y ago
The best thing an employee can do is ask themselves "Will I be happy right now if I take this job?" Working for a company because they've promised you stock, or career advancement, or a mission in life is a surefire way to guarantee disap
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by gamble 16y ago
There are reasons to be cautious about Apple, but not in this list. Most of the OP's concerns boil down to a perception that Apple has been 'too' successful, and it's due for a failure. On the one hand, Apple's valuation is extremely high.
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by gamble 17y ago
YMMV, but in my experience resumes with 'top-shelf' names like Google or Microsoft on them almost always get a second look during the hiring process, even at startups. Hiring is an inherently uncertain process - association with success is
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by gamble 17y ago
For most people, joining a startup as an employee straight out of college is a pretty bad career move these days. Your first job has an enormous effect on what options will be available to you down the road. A brand-name company like Google
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by gamble 17y ago
Speculation is one thing, but knowing exactly what your competitor will be selling two months before it hits the market is worth a lot more than $10k to the right people.
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by gamble 17y ago
I agree, paying for the 'lost' prototype seems rather dubious. The story about finding the phone in a bar may simply be cover to protect the finder's identity, but assuming it was true, who's to say that it was 'found' and not pick-pocketed
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by gamble 17y ago
I was very skeptical of the Engadget shots, but it's hard to argue with the depth of detail in this article. If it isn't the final design, I can't see it being too different. OTOH, if the prototype is legit I wonder if Gizmodo will come to
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by gamble 17y ago
It's a pathetic fake I would have thought beyond even Engadget. Error level analysis on the backside shot indicates that the logos and text were 'shopped. Also, the montage they added to the original post has a backside with a completely di
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by gamble 17y ago
Wait until an update breaks something. Desktop Linux is better than it was, but the user-friendliness is still only an inch thick.
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by gamble 17y ago
I think the OP may just have felt uncomfortable with American gun culture, not literally in fear of his life. Americans' relationships with their guns are far more intense than anything you'll find in Canada. I live in one of the most conse
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by gamble 17y ago
The point of arbitration is that it's biased in favor of one party. We have a system to arbitrate disputes between parties with a minimum of bias - it's called the civil court system. If you could 'fix' arbitration, it would be indistinguis
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by gamble 17y ago
Handguns are far more restricted in Canada than the US. You can own them if you get licensed, but you need a permit to transport them between (and only between) your home and a specific shooting range, locked in a case in your trunk separ
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by gamble 17y ago
Considering how long the App Store has been like this, I think it's fair to assume that Apple wants the approvals process to be opaque. Objective, published criteria would make it harder to justify rejecting apps that threaten their busines
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by gamble 17y ago
Exactly. The real problem with the anti-Apple arguments is that - for the moment - Apple's behavior hasn't hurt them. The iPhone still has more apps, and iPhone owners are far more likely to buy apps. The Android app store is still a wash,
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by gamble 17y ago
Apple designs a product knowing it will sell millions of copies, so it makes sense for them to spend the time to get it right. PC manufacturers have greater volume, but no individual product is anywhere near as ubiquitous as a Macbook Pro o
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by gamble 17y ago
This may not apply to private institutions, but public schools are subject to boom-and-bust cycle of generous government funding in economic booms and budget cuts during recessions. It's easy to justify almost any project when you know that
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by gamble 17y ago
$200 is what the average person pays up-front for their phone. But my point is that you can't save a significant amount of money by buying one of the iPhone alternatives.
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by gamble 17y ago
Cost of a decent computer in 1990: >= $2000 Cost of the best smartphones in 2010: <= $200 "Good enough" is a tradeoff someone makes when they're forced to drop a significant fraction of their yearly income on a product. Smartphones
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by gamble 17y ago
Strikes me as a few years too late to be competitive with full-fledged smartphones. I'm also a bit wary of any product marketed toward people who "don't need" a fully-capable device. Kin might do well if it was targeted at the younger "pay-
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by gamble 17y ago
Desktop Linux is worlds better than it was when I last used it seriously ten years ago, but it still has plenty of issues. I'd be reluctant to recommend it to anyone non-technical. Case in point: I recently bought an EeePC 1005PE and instal

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