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by jonknee 8y ago
This is unchanged from the previous model (and probably model before that, Apple has been at it a while).
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by jonknee 8y ago
You can pay people less if they already live in Wisconsin, very few people want to relocate to rural Wisconsin.
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by jonknee 8y ago
It's cheap, widely available and addictive?
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by jonknee 8y ago
A loan that the company knows about is not embezzlement. It's a perk designed to make Rubin's life easier which is worth more than money to both Google and Rubin. He could of course arrange his own loan, just like an average Googl
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by jonknee 8y ago
> I'm dreading having to pay more for something that most likely won't be as reliable Toyota's are still very reliable, even more efficient and a lot safer... You'll be fine.
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by jonknee 8y ago
I'm not an expert, but I don't think there are a ton of qualified short term tenants out there. Cutting the rent to have some fly by night operation in and then not being able to sign a long term lease with someone else seems not
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by jonknee 8y ago
Also at least 99.99% less potential customers, but hey.
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by jonknee 8y ago
It seems like a perfect fit for Twilio, if they were expanding into something well outside their core offering that would be concerning. If you're a customer of Twilio there's a good chance you'll also find Sendgrid useful an
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by jonknee 8y ago
On the second quarter call this year, Elon Musk stated: > “We’ll not be raising any equity at any point... I have no expectation of doing so; do not plan to do so.” Issuing new shares would be a disaster. Far more likely is they come up
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by jonknee 8y ago
Any source for this? The Supercharger network is no longer free (at all for Model 3, 400 kWh in annual credit for Model S/X), but either way it was and still is a heavily marketed feature of Tesla vehicles so you can't ignore the
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by jonknee 8y ago
Instagram's harassment problem is like many others and is a problem for young people and women (and especially young women!). I'm a guy in my 30s and post pictures exclusively of landscapes, harassment is obviously not a problem f
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by jonknee 8y ago
Anyone who has eyes can see that there are lots of Tesla vehicles on the streets wherever there are lots of wealthy people. That has never been a question or something that headlines suggest. The problem is Tesla sells these cars for less t
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by jonknee 8y ago
> They can cover it with cash, issuing stock or a combination of the two. They're convertible notes with a fixed conversion rate, Tesla doesn't get to decide on what the noteholder wants. If the stock price isn't high eno
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by jonknee 8y ago
But this is Facebook we're talking about, they'll just use that for creepy advertising targeting and not take the harassment seriously.
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by jonknee 8y ago
That is not the case, from the article that you criticized: > The first time it was used, the ultrafast camera broke new ground by capturing the temporal focusing of a single femtosecond laser pulse in real time (Fig. 2). This process wa
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by jonknee 8y ago
Bitcoin itself is all about mining arbitrary puzzles, there is really no more fitting way to give it away than this.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Or Chrome, or Android, or YouTube, or Maps, or News, or Docs, or Translate or anything else that has a large number of users. Google Reader had some big fans, but never a large number of users. They don't get rid of stuff with lots of
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by jonknee 8y ago
> never depend on anything from Google They're shutting it down precisely because no one was depending on it. How would anyone depend on a social network without any users?
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by jonknee 8y ago
Of course, but without any software. Microsoft has done some interesting stuff in that regard so maybe there is an easier transition than getting all third party developers on board, but it's a tough nut to crack.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Because that's how capitalism works? Walmart still has plenty of competition despite their giant purchasing and pricing power.
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by jonknee 8y ago
The reason they don't have them in laptops is not because of performance, it's because they don't have an OS. A laptop that only runs iOS is called an iPad and it doesn't have the software I want to run.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Almost everything on a plane is regulated (for good reason!), I think we'll survive.
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by jonknee 8y ago
The costs are so high because people are expensive and it requires a ton of skilled labor. Medicaid also spends a crazy amount on it.
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by jonknee 8y ago
> If you're replacing cars every 3 years like an average westerner, given the age of cars I see on the road, you are doing extreme harm. Those 3 year old cars aren't just scrapped, the used car market is much larger than the
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by jonknee 8y ago
It's like having a nice house with a shitty front door. It's definitely worth getting right.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Well I guess you should let these excited employees know that they should be upset: https://twitter.com/davehclark/status/1047071466787889154
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by jonknee 8y ago
There are billionaires who regularly post here, the impressive part to me is the self-filing not the $6,000.
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by jonknee 8y ago
It's not absurd precision, it's just what happens when you multiply something by a percentage.
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by jonknee 8y ago
For those curious, inflation adjusted $3,000 in 1994 is $5,173.99 and the budget $995 HP would be $1,669.23. Source: https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
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by jonknee 8y ago
How is a parking minimum artificial scarcity? If anything it seems like it's an artificial excess.

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