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by gdilla 8y ago
That is the music industry. The rights holders and creators (IP owners). The distro channels are part of it, but wouldn't necessarily change (you want to distribute everywhere you can). If google bought all the music IP in the world, t
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SF Protestors block tech buses with piles of scooters(businessinsider.com)
2 points by gdilla 8y ago|0 comments
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by gdilla 8y ago
Vacancy rates are units that are un-rented or unsold. The problem is parking money (using real estate as a bank account and not actually living in the community) - popular in Vancouver and NYC. The condos are literally 50% dark all the time
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by gdilla 8y ago
no? they're just a retailer of music. I'm talking about the music industry - the people who make and distribute and market music.
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by gdilla 8y ago
Google could literally buy the music industry with cash sitting around.
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by gdilla 8y ago
The disparity exists because each scenario has different risk profiles. It's much lower risk to be an employee (you dont' have to look for work, worry about payroll, benefits), so you're salary reflects that. Similary, the em
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In praise of Factfulness(timharford.com)
2 points by gdilla 8y ago|0 comments
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by gdilla 8y ago
That's total comp. Salaries top out at what you'd expect. It's bonuses, stock grants and discounted stock purchase programs that can push you up there.
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by gdilla 8y ago
i agree with you. it's a two way street. pay people if you want them to produce some product that takes more time than the interview.
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by gdilla 9y ago
those are pretty much tongue and cheek. how often is anyone near a crab that's not in captivity or that you're about to eat?
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by gdilla 9y ago
Not widely known - MSFT was throwing around cash at developers and brands to make apps for windows phone. Even providing developer shops to code it. MSFT handed us a check and a dev shop to pay with it. We designed the app in their ui parad
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by gdilla 9y ago
It's not that they were missing the mark, it's that they were WAY late to the game on all fronts. When you have stockpiles of cash, this isn't necessarily a horrible strategy (they ran xbox for 10 years in the red before maki
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by gdilla 9y ago
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/03/21/no-obama-didnt-empl...
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by gdilla 9y ago
yeah, that's fine. I was just saying it's gonna happen way less than you think. Kids have routines, are picky, need attention, and parents can't always tolerate guests often because of that. Every family is different though.
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by gdilla 9y ago
Is it? The opportunity cost of that $2.5B is what to compare to. You could have acquired instagram for half that, for example.
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by gdilla 9y ago
DINK life is nice until your social circle is filled with people with kids. You can hang with younger couples, sure, but it wears out fast. The opportunities to hang with people your own age at some regular frequency greatly diminishes (cuz
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by gdilla 9y ago
what happens to infertile couples? adopt?
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by gdilla 9y ago
you talk like there are no big tech companies in Canada. Every US tech company that's a household name (and many more than that) has offices in Canada with engineers in them.
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by gdilla 9y ago
Twitter has wracked up 2.5B in losses over like 11 years. Only now have they turned a profit. That is a failure in the time frame of its existence. http://time.com/4241716/twitter-losses-twtr/
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by gdilla 9y ago
Intellectually honest 'conservatives' who identify as republicans who aren't actively trying to reform their party and are aligning with the current anti LEGAL immigration, anti gay, white-christian identity politics of the m
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The Silicon Valley Giant Bankrolling Devin Nunes(thedailybeast.com)
2 points by gdilla 9y ago|0 comments
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by gdilla 9y ago
Celebrities are their own brand. They have followings that are big (some bigger than others). That is the difference between them and no-names. Celebrities often have proven talent. Conan has decades of bankable funniness as a writer and en
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by gdilla 9y ago
Not shocking at all - follows a pattern we've seen before on wallstreet and anywhere else men think they're amazing cuz they're rich. It's just cute that SV has the lifestyle choice spin on it.
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by gdilla 9y ago
Not only is my 6 slow as molasses since upgrading to 11, i've seen it display a 30% charge and then shut itself off, claiming no charge in the same breath. Standing in line, infact, waiting to show a ticket barcode to get into a show,
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by gdilla 9y ago
sure if they disclosed it and said, live view count is just an estimation or for entertainment purposes only.
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by gdilla 9y ago
If you have kids who watch netflix, it's interesting how they recoil in disgust at advertising interrupting a show. And it carries over to YouTube too - if they see pre-roll they skip as soon as possible. It'll be interesting when
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by gdilla 9y ago
Hasn't Twitter racked up 2.5B in losses and yet to turn a profit (though reportedly close to doing it for the first time ever). 2.5B in losses for a platform you could build and scale for what, $10M now. Very questionably successful -
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Digital Product Stack Monsters(medium.com)
1 points by gdilla 9y ago|0 comments
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by gdilla 9y ago
Learn new things, sure. If you're a company willing to hire someone with aptitude to learn, might as well hire younger only because they're generally much cheaper. To you, and any experienced person I know, I say, jobs and opportu
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by gdilla 9y ago
With NLP and ML any company can know who wrote what review if they wanted to. They have all your emails and thus writing style is easily ascertained.

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