markpundmann

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by markpundmann 12y ago
It's kind of ironic how condescending you are towards amazon stemming from what seems primarily based upon them not being a "tech company". In school, you probably had the jock type people looking down on you, and now that y
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by markpundmann 12y ago
A cushy introduction to living by oneself. My school built a new $60 million dollar gym two years ago that blows other gyms out of the water. I've got nice library's and computers to study on, cheap world class sports that can e
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by markpundmann 12y ago
What your talking about is commonly referred to in economics as diminishing marginal returns. The first $1000 is much more useful than the second. Also, your interpretation of "expected impact" is what we call economic utility,
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by markpundmann 12y ago
Price drop speed has already been examined: https://gigaom.com/2014/04/19/moores-law-gives-way-to-bezoss...
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by markpundmann 12y ago
Your example has 3 locations in it. Of course it isn't hard! Try doing that for a billion locations.
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by markpundmann 12y ago
Trust funds can grow faster than the economy depending on the assets. I cannot remember where I read it, but warren buffet said stocks return on average about 7%. 2% for inflation, 3-4 % for economic growth, and the rest from dividends.
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by markpundmann 12y ago
I wonder how long it will be until amazon gets brought up for abusing their market power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_bundling
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by markpundmann 12y ago
Does this remind anyone else of Peter Thiel's notes on value systems? The entire time, I was thinking about how Peter was emphasizing that finding the right size market was key. Too big, and the competition erodes your profit away.
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by markpundmann 12y ago
Classic case of Adverse Selection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection
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by markpundmann 12y ago
I've seen a bunch of these kinds of posts about how software engineers don't get paid enough and it seems to me that a lot of people have this misconception about software engineers. We are part of the labor market just like ever
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by markpundmann 12y ago
Your acting just like the old factory worker who's pissed that his profession is starting to become more automated. Wake up and smell the coffee, developers are getting more productive and you have to adapt to the decreasing demand th
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by markpundmann 12y ago
->The only reason coders' computers work better than non-coders' computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don't beat them when they're bad. HAHAHA so true
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by markpundmann 12y ago
I have read a lot of thoughts on the supposed "singularity", and something I still have yet to see is for someone to realize that every person who believes in the singularity disregards economics. They all seem to think that this
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When should you strive for radical innovation?(markpundmann.blogspot.com)
1 points by markpundmann 13y ago|0 comments
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Review sites are underutilized(markpundmann.blogspot.com)
1 points by markpundmann 13y ago|0 comments