jhall1468

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by jhall1468 8y ago
Every open marketplace is always going to list counterfeit goods as a business risk, because it is. That's not the same thing as implying that their reputation is damaged. On the contrary, Amazon's horrible reputation for counterf
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Blowing millions of dollars on an investment that will take decades to pay off isn't good business. Google decided, rightfully, that the answer was webpass. It's a better revenue generator, and has considerably lower barrier to en
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> The fact that you would even state such a fallacious comment makes me question YOUR educational background. I'd advise you avoid resorting to personal attacks when you disagree with a non-personal statement, as it really does lead
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> They lack the ability to commit to a space and cultivate it That's because states, entrenched providers and in some cases local governments made every inch of work cost a mile of time. The cost was making Fiber a non-starter... IS
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The failure rate of startups is drastically higher than Google products, so it's only unusual in the sense that they have way more success than the industry as a whole.
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That didn't seem to be the point, since you were implying that EU students are already better and now they are working on getting (to quote you) "more better". Like I said it's hard to quantify educational programs, but
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You do realize that the top paying employers in the EU aren't "the next Google" or "the next Facebook" they are actual Google and actual Facebook. In fact, the top tech employers in the EU by average annual comp
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Going to need a citation on that. The US presently dominates the tech sector. Rankings of programs are generally to be taken with a grain of salt, but MIT, Stanford, UCB and Carnegie Mellon all rank the top 4 on almost any list you'll
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It's not controversial that different topics are difficult for different people, but the idea of "innate" understanding is absurd. And the idea that code quality has a direct causal relationship to code quality is even more a
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> For some reason most people seem to be born without the part of the brain that understands pointers Well, that's just false. Everyone can understand pointers given both time and interest. I realize Joel likes to think him and peop
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I'd like to think comparing a VC-funded company to one of the largest public companies on earth the very definition of underdog.
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While I agree that they didn't handle it well, I'm mixed on this. While I think putting a miner on a site covertly is unethical, I also think blocking something that's not an ad in an ad-blocker is equally unethical. I think
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> Which is why I said, literally, "their behavior crosses into anti-competitive." Yes, and I'm saying that it isn't true. Merely owning majority market share doesn't make a company anti-competitive. Anti-competit
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> And the cost of entering a new market should be relatively low for a company like Lyft. That's 100% incorrect. Entering new markets is insanely expensive, because they can't get drivers unless they guarantee income until the
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> If a company controls a certain % of marketshare, that behavior crosses into anti-competitive. That's just incorrect. There's nothing wrong with controlling 100% of the market share, as long as you don't use your positio
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> Anyone can spend $1 to make $0.50. And very few can scale it to spend $0.50 to make $1.00. We aren't talking about a company selling a product for half what they pay. They are investing overwhelming amounts of money into growth. &
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For starters, Horan is not a "transportation expert", he's never worked outside of the airline industry. His entire claim to fame is writing a multi-part story on why Lyft and Uber are never going to profitable, long before h
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It's 100% the same thing which is why this entire argument is so weird to me. This has been going on for decades.
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Right, and Walmart only allows products in its store under their terms which is far more restrictive, so I'm failing to understand how this model is worse for competition than Walmart's. And what happened with PopSockets didn&#x
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> Watching the fanboys defend their favorite tech giant is incredible. These companies are not behaving in the markets or people's best interest and they are way too big, at a scale that dwarfs most of the worlds organizations. It&#
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> If Google would be just search I wouldn't have anything against them, but they are notorious for using the market position of one of their products to push another. So does every department and grocery store in the US, and they ha
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> How is that different than a department store? If you go into housewares at Macy's you'll see their own branded stuff along with other brands. So at issue is not the practice itself, but rather that the digital marketplace ma
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Maybe we can just assume people are allowed to have different opinions, rather than implying anyone that disagrees with you is one of the "sheeple" huh? I don't think we need to break up any of these companies. Particularly w
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I'm going to guess that many, like myself, have no idea what the existing Project Zero is, and I would venture a guess the people that named this were in the same boat. I'd even surmise that it's not a particularly unique or
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Amazon went public in 1997 and posted it's first quarterly profit in 2002. So while it wasn't for 2 decades they were absolutely bleeding money until then. Their stories are not entirely different, they are extraordinarily simil
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> But businesses do throw around money for the wrong reasons, and keep on doing so if that's the status quo. No one gets fired for buying IBM. Businesses are wasteful because that's the natural status of a bureaucracy. They are
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No offense but Amazon did exactly this for nearly 2 decades. I don't know why you think Lyft is somehow an exception to the rule. They aren't. Hyper Growth is not the stage you start looking at P/L statements. If they were ge
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All of that is ignoring payroll taxes (for your new, very large staff), shifting all of your tax-deductible operational expenses into tax limited capital expenses. Businesses don't flagrantly throw around money just to upset people. Th
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The whole reason it's subscription is to avoid advertisers. CR doesn't have to answer to manufacturers so their reviews are very reliable.
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BMW went that way very recently. It wasn't that long ago that their model numbers were very much explicit. A 328i was a 3-series chassis with a 2.8 liter. The i and d stood for fuel-injected and diesel respectively.

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