its_so_on

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by its_so_on 14y ago
Reading carefully affords one the privilege of reading less.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
It's actually just one example of my point - we don't really need to speculate on whether there's a market or if not, why not. It's like if entrapment convinces your performance-oriented daughter who's short on cash (to make this an analogy
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by its_so_on 14y ago
The reason I added that EDIT is because I actually hadn't read that far down yet - I was just referring to his first counterfeiting gig when I first posted the comment: inline search the article for "Kuhl’s counterfeiting career had begun
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by its_so_on 14y ago
This is the real Facebook secret sauce in convenient flowchart form: What's the most evil thing we can think of doing? V Candidate <-----<------- Think of the next-most evil thing we can do V
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by its_so_on 14y ago
If you read this article and have a halfway decent model of the world in your head, you will realize that police entrapment was the proximate cause of this real, talented artist low on his money becoming a counterfeiter: i.e. they made him
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by its_so_on 14y ago
>Russia is so corrupt, only a full scale revolution will have a chance at fixing the country. So you're saying there's a violent class struggle between the populist system and the oppressed business class - and that the only way the dow
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I mean that it's unheard-of for judges to be literally bribed as this implies. This guy is posting his research digging things up - a very interesting read: if he had found anything! But he didn't. The steps he took are worthless and don'
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by its_so_on 14y ago
He didn't investigate it. He said, "here's what I did" which fell far short of any investigation. He had no reason to post how far he got along in his little dirt digging campaign.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
This isn't a corrupt country (there is a specific list of corrupt countries, this is a pretty objective statement.) It makes 0 sense for you to post "how far you got" as you didn't get anywhere.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Let's dig into this and see what we find. What are your impressions of Apple's 2-3 year plans and prospects? I'll respond with my thoughts.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
smart. Spoiler/summary: they use a "leap smear" to keep code logic from breaking. Instead of making code encounter the same second twice or not encounter a certain second, they smear the extra second over several hours beforehand through t
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by its_so_on 14y ago
This is kind of lacking.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
People, this is about whether tomatoes taste bland! From the article: "But the new study, published this week in Science, found that the mutation that leads to the uniform appearance of most store-bought tomatoes..." If you don't get it, Sc
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by its_so_on 14y ago
ha - this was published in Science. This is serious business. You could win a McNobel in Tomatorie.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
No, I'm a fanboi. I want Apple to keep giving me something to be a fanboi to - I am looking ahead 2-3 years and their strategy is not doing it.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Please think a little more abstractly. The iPhone is less and less a well-differentiated premium offering versus its competition.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Maybe I need to spell it out for you, but if Apple allows Chrome it has to allow Firefox. Any and every argument that would apply to one applies to the other.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
This time it's different. This time it's failing by deciding to act as much as a beige undifferentiated manufacturer as possible. If you like I can send you a complete analysis.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I'm telling you what happens if Apple allows Firefox to dominate the iOS ecosystem. It's easier to target, it's easier to get right as a single app on an android device, and it crushes Apple's ecosystem and differnetiation. They've fucked
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by its_so_on 14y ago
more specifically, Apple is Apple for shutting down apps that usurp their markets. But don't worry - Apple won't be Apple for much longer, and it has given up on all premium differentiation by being idiots.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
they very much do care. If the only button anyone clicked on the home screen was "Firefox" and then did everything from there forever, pretty soon people would realize they don't really need an iPhone and would buy a far-less premium devic
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Ever think to link to a file (e.g. excel spreadsheet) for a forum, like you can for an image with imgur? other than Dropbox public url's the services that exiist have so many images with the word "Download" in the resulting link, all of whi
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by its_so_on 14y ago
If you don't host your data in several alternative dimensions so that the same events wouldn't transpire in all of them - why not assume you'll encounter the occasional outage?
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by its_so_on 14y ago
Be that as it may, I don't want to succeed and have my friends and family think of me as a hustler - an $80k job as a programmer beats that. Being CEO is, and ought to be, far more respectable. We should be happy that it's as "easy" as it
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I agree with all this, but isn't there a better word than hustler? (Which normally has quite negative fraudulent connotations that we're not tapping into here.)
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I just wanted to say thank you for the title change - this is far more clear and informative and makes my earlier comment moot. Actually it also made me click through to the paper, which also has this title. This is much better.
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by its_so_on 14y ago
I know - and I don't either. But we need to be consistent in how we talk about companies that have a revenue stream they create at a systemic cost to everyone: this is (from the companies') perspective, "building value."
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by its_so_on 14y ago
We're talking about the revenues the company creates for itself. (See my other comment.) I think the order of magnitude is right for the amount for-profit troll companies and troll legal divisions at bigger companies doing elective litigat
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by its_so_on 14y ago
All right: how much of the quoted sum do you think the (for-profit) patent troll companies book as revenue? I think the order of magnitude is right. (Remember that traditional comapnies can also play the game and book some of the settleme
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by its_so_on 14y ago
when a company claims to have "created $50m of value" they mean that that's what they're producing is "worth" as valuated by their customers. For lean companies like those featured here, their cost doesn't enter the picture.

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