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by mdasen 9y ago
For the standards, the patents would almost assuredly fall under FRAND licensing terms (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory). Apple would still have to pay the license fees, but they already pay those. As it stands, Apple already pays
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by mdasen 9y ago
I think the worst case scenario is that they can't muster the money to continue on in the face of seemingly endless losses and setbacks. Many companies think that the economics will work out for them once they've achieved a certai
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by mdasen 9y ago
I think the issue is that there aren't any profits, just billions in losses. I think where a co-op would fail is that it would have to charge higher prices as the drivers wouldn't want to sustain (and pay for) losses for many year
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by mdasen 9y ago
Gigster has found a sweet spot in providing experts in fields like machine learning and blockchain, where talent is hard to come by — and so too are full-time jobs, Dickey said. I think that's where it breaks down a bit. Full time j
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by mdasen 9y ago
You can actually detect the issue in Trusting Trust: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_tr... If you have two compilers and one is open source (and you've read the source and
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by mdasen 9y ago
> If they stop doing that, they'll lose their market dominance. That's precisely the issue. It can be illegal to use your market dominance in one area (search) to reinforce or create market dominance in other areas. Microsoft
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by mdasen 9y ago
I think it's harsh to call it extreme paranoia. I've heard that one of the reasons Amazon won't use Slack for its chat is because it isn't self-hosted. I'm sure many major companies won't use Gmail. I don&#x
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by mdasen 9y ago
It looks like Morningstar has the same article, non-paywalled: https://www.morningstar.com/news/dow-jones/retail/TDJNDN_201...
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by mdasen 9y ago
The difference is the ability for new firms to compete. With centralized planning, there's only one source. If that source is inefficient or corrupt, that inefficiency and corruption stays around. You can try to regulate, threaten, a
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by mdasen 9y ago
Kotlin was an easy win for Google. They didn't really add support for it, but merely bless the support that already existed (and with that blessing comes some assurance that things won't break for Kotlin in future versions of And
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by mdasen 9y ago
I think the issue goes beyond sleazy sales tactics. There are issues of inventory, sales preferences, model cycles, etc. If you're Volkswagen and just came out with a brand-new Golf, there's excess demand that's been waiting
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by mdasen 9y ago
IANAL, but it does seem like a claim that won't hold up in court. I thought I remembered one item that had Judge Alsup noting that Uber could require Levandowski to testify as a condition of employment. If Levandowski refuses to testi
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by mdasen 10y ago
It isn't really a way to get $10k out of an employer at all. The point is that some people genuinely don't want to live in the Bay Area and this offer could give them an opportunity/incentive to leave. There are plenty of n
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by mdasen 10y ago
You're right that it's was a bit unfair to compare a flexible FaunaDB to Spanner which you'd need to provision for peak traffic. But even if it's an order of magnitude more, $16M vs $630M is still quite a gap. It reall
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by mdasen 10y ago
I feel like I need to note the pricing. $0.01 per 1,000 queries. That doesn't sound like much, but it adds up. Let's say you make 1,000/sec. $0.01 * 60 seconds in a minute * 60 minutes in an hour * 24 hours in a day * 30
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by mdasen 10y ago
I'm not that impressed because they're based off the Snapdragon 4xx series processors. The Nokia 5 has the same basic hardware as a Moto G4 Play, but costs twice as much ($200 instead of $100). You're paying double for a pos
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by mdasen 10y ago
Shorting seems to often be about the short-term prospects of the stock. Long term, Tesla looks like it will be a reasonable company. But will it justify its stock price? Tesla is a $45B company right now. Toyota is $188B (4.1x more valuab
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by mdasen 10y ago
Because the price differential will make ownership a luxury. In fact, your comment alludes to that. For you, a self-driving car is an opportunity to make a leisurely, personalized, homey space. That's wonderful, if one has the money
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by mdasen 10y ago
So, theoretically, you could start a wireless company by getting some spectrum from a TV station and then showing that the emissions will be similar enough that the FCC will be fine with it. The problem is that to provide competitive wirele
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by mdasen 10y ago
Of the 84MHz that's going to be cleared, 14MHz of it is going to be for unlicensed use ( https://www.fcc.gov/about-fcc/fcc-initiatives/incentive-auct... ). To be fair to the wireless carriers, they're payi
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by mdasen 10y ago
I don't think the issue was that the vehicle had problems. I think the issue was more about how Tesla handled those problems. The first failure was while they were away from home and had to convince the service manager that a week was
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by mdasen 10y ago
I don't know about their situation, but US Citizenship doesn't pass down from parent to child in an unlimited way (though it is often thought to). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law#..
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by mdasen 10y ago
I don't care much for language battles, but maybe I can shed some light on this. The former VP of Platform Eng at Twitter said in 2015, "What I would have done differently four years ago is use Java and not used Scala as part of t
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by mdasen 10y ago
For me, it feels like the article could have been a lot shorter. "San Francisco housing prices have gone so high that people can't afford to have kids here." It never really delved into many of the underlying incentives and
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by mdasen 10y ago
When the LTE standard was created, all of the companies agreed that their patents would be available under FRAND (fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory) terms. If they didn't agree, they'd be left out of the standard. Qualcom
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by mdasen 10y ago
It's a bit complicated, but I'll try to address the issues. First, let's say that you want to make an isosceles triangle on a sheet of paper with the base parallel with the bottom of the page (as part of a triangle standard).
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by mdasen 10y ago
Go memory usage will definitely not be an order of magnitude less. This is something that cannot be emphasized enough: the idea that a Go program of any substantial size would use an order of magnitude less memory than a Java one is comple
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by mdasen 10y ago
It still seems expensive compared to what I can get at a local bike shop. I got a Trek 7.2 from a bike shop for that price and it was assembled and came with some free tune-ups. Similarly, one can get a Fortified Bike 1-speed for $399. B
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by mdasen 10y ago
It totally is a great experience. The page loads fast without too much crap. But it's also sad that something not-quite-open is taking over an important part of the web. AMP is this Google-wrapped version of a part of the web that tr
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by mdasen 10y ago
I loved Nokia too. I think it was a bad idea to pick Windows Phone. I still think that by November 2011, Nokia wasn't going to become a great smartphone company regardless of their OS choice. Nokia wouldn't have been able to com

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