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by imagist 10y ago
That's symptomatic of the problem, not causal. Despite leadership changes, Twitter has build a solid infrastructure, raised money, etc.--all the things that would make them a profit if their business model were at all profitable. Leade
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> Be careful conflating "never made a profit" with not having a business. At 10 years in, this isn't a conflation--these are just equivalent. > Early stage startups often get 50x that or higher. ...and this makes sense
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> The cost to embed your brand in the minds of Americans like that would be far greater than $10B. Just because something costs money doesn't mean it's valuable. Being at the center of the zeitgeist definitely seems like it wou
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This is the wrong question to ask if you're investing, and I've already explained in the parent comment why this is the wrong question to be asking. Usually these things are indicators of profit potential, but they aren't in
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In the long run, I don't think that Twitter's problem is one of competition from FB or any other competitor. They have enough users that they could turn a profit even if they could monetize those users, regardless of competition.
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Given Twitter's complicity in freedom-of-speech curtailing activities in the US, France, Israel, and Turkey, Twitter's non-monetary value only goes as far as that non-monetary value provides them monetary value. I don't think
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The only reason revenue, users, scale, investor love, patents, staff, infrastructure, etc. matter is that they usually are indicators of potential for profit. Profit is the entire point of investing in a company. But the greater indicator o
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Personally, I think empowering individuals to control their own lives is an inherent good, so within my personal definition of morality, it makes the world a better place from the start. However, I'm well aware of the tradeoffs--en mas
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> You are woefully misinformed if you think that police in the US are taught that violence is the only tool in their repertoire. "There have been too many lives lost to police killings. Too many phone calls telling families that the
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IMO, Twitter is the poster child for the tech bubble. They have users, which is their only claim to viability, but notably, they have never made a profit. Currently valued at around $10 billion with 350 million active users, that's a
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In many cases, law enforcement presence is what causes the violence. Cops in the US are people with guns who have been trained that force is their only tool. The idea that cops will ever decrease violence is deeply misguided.
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This isn't necessarily a problem--open source apps could be made configurable to aid people in controlling their behavior toward almost any goal, with focus on goals that fall into forms of morality. The most basic forms of this are
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"Success" is meaningless without goals to be successful at, so...
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> But it is the biggest factor; without your health, you have nothing. That's simply not true. That may be your priority, but it's not everyone's, and the assertion that "you have nothing" is ridiculous. If I c
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> All I have said is that you don't need an MBA to be successful. If that were all you said, we wouldn't be disagreeing. But that's not all you said. It's ridiculous to claim that all you said was that you don't
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> First, you assume that the $200 laptop is slower than the macbook Air No, I didn't assume that at all--hardware speed has literally nothing to do with my reasoning. Hardware speed slows you down slightly, but it's a negligi
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> I may be of the minority here but I am definitely not the minority in the real world. I disagree. I think huge numbers of people take nootropics frequently if not daily (caffeine and prescribed mood-altering drugs) and I'd bet tha
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> i've found that "microdosing" works even better than taking the "normal dose" of 2-3mg. I found a supplier in the Netherlands who sells 300ug pills and they have worked wonders for me ! works just as well as t
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A $200 windows laptop is enough to start learning, but it's definitely going to slow you down compared to a better tool. You can make up for it with hard work, but I think investing the extra $800 in an MBA is well worth the money if i
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You can learn to code on a lot of machines, and indeed I've used a lot of machines in the past few years. However, I'd assert that a Macbook Air is the ideal machine for development because: 1. Unlike most default configurations,
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Meh, I think "professionalism" just means "following the social rules corporations want you to follow", so I don't much care. I don't really think there's a good "professional" way to handle this
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There's a difference between selling parts to a community of people who use them to make things for fun, and selling pre-made things that some people would make for fun if they weren't already pre-made.
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If we included all the uninstalls that people do (or try to do) of of the bloatware that comes installed with phones, I wonder if we'd hit a negative number.
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So you're claiming that people are working on smartphone-controlled candles for fun? Because LuDela seems like it's a startup trying to make money, not a group of people trying to have fun.
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Yes, they can donate to political campaigns. :)
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America, where corporations are people but foreigners aren't.
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> It's not at all clear that Clapper committed perjury. He took an oath long before he testified at that hearing to not reveal certain secrets to unauthorized people, and that oath was backed by laws passed by Congress. This is true
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You're looking at it by statistical comparison, but the difference in capability may not actually be that large. Indeed, it's my perception that latent intelligence is far less important than knowledge gained through learning&#x2F
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Everything worth doing involves some risk.
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> First of all, I don't believe I made any such logical leap of 'display gun' -> 'get shot by a cop'. You said, "If you display a gun in the presence of law enforcement, you have an altogether different s

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