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by hylaride 8y ago
Credit Card issuers get a percentage of everything you spend, so Apple gains that.
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by hylaride 8y ago
There are several reasons why flying can be so cheap in Europe: 1. The discount airlines have become masters at turnaround times. When the planes are sitting at the gate, they're not making money. They slashed these as much as they c
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by hylaride 8y ago
Lack of competition? The A320neo (which has 6,501 orders) is what caused Boeing to update the 737 into the 737 Max. Boeing wanted to build a whole new plane which would have taken years, but Airbus released the neo and would have gobbled
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by hylaride 8y ago
Microsoft does all of that now, but ~6-8 years ago when the initial cloud pushes were happening they most certainly weren't.
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by hylaride 8y ago
Any plans on dealing with Slack's/Electron's memory footprint?
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by hylaride 8y ago
Reminds me of a startup I once worked for. It was failing and the CEO (who had money from a previous company) had the VP of sales take a photo of the emtpy office at 6pm to complain how we weren't "all in". This despite the
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by hylaride 8y ago
Hard to understand why someone would pay for that over the other services out there where the upstream bandwidth scales with the downstream. Shipping, airplanes, and people/companies otherwise in the middle of nowhere (eg remote mine
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by hylaride 8y ago
Yes, it's the 2nd largest economy because it's got over a billion people. Per capita GDP is about 1/5 of the US. But that's not evenly split. Leave the east coast of china, and it gets poorer fast.
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by hylaride 8y ago
I wonder if it's because men are much more likely to smoke and drink heavily...