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by mediaman 15y ago
Limited range cars with long recharge times would be a poor operating fit for economics that favor high utilization. There'd be too much downtime during peak times of day. Maybe it could be coupled with swappable battery pack stations that
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by mediaman 15y ago
I respect the particulars of your situation but it is not standard. I own a manufacturing company with >100 employees, a mix of manufacturing and office/service jobs, and I don't expect answers from home from anyone except a couple top
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by mediaman 15y ago
I watched Bezos unveil the Fire, and I wasn't really impressed with his presentation skills. Not nearly as good a story teller as Jobs.
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by mediaman 15y ago
Samir, I read through your site and the sample video and it looks quite impressive. Put a good-looking front-end to it and I don't know how anyone would differentiate it from Siri, except for some differences in what API 'verbs' the system
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by mediaman 15y ago
The rate of buying products online isn't going to be the same in every state, and it's reasonable that it would be slightly higher in CA than in other states. And on use-tax: have anyone ever met someone who paid use-tax on goods purchased
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by mediaman 15y ago
I agree. If you're an executive, you get pitched every day with stuff that will "improve your bottom line by 20%". Most of those numbers are smoke and mirrors. It's hard to decipher fiction from reality, which requires often a detailed unde
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by mediaman 15y ago
It may not be for you, unless you have a some operational complexity behind your web apps. Otherwise your favorite web analytics service will do the job well. It's ideal for manufacturing companies, companies with some complexity in their s
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by mediaman 16y ago
This works better when the subsidiary does not rely on the parent's infrastructure. In this case, if the subsidiary relies on the parent's pipe to each household, it's easy to imagine the boss of the traditional cable division constantly lo
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by mediaman 16y ago
The majority will likely state they prefer to see points, because people will systematically underestimate the (negative) influence the data have on their decision making, much like people cannot accurately estimate their own ability to dri
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by mediaman 16y ago
Many degrees are not meant to train the holder in a specific set of trade skills: rather, they're meant to help train a mind that can take on many different complex real-world situations. For example, I have a degree in economics. Literally
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by mediaman 16y ago
LPs care about IRR and liquidity. That causes VCs who are concerned about satisfying their LPs to also care about fund IRR and liquidity. Sometimes, there is a tradeoff between liquidity and IRR. Groupon could have sold for $6bn, or perhaps
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by mediaman 16y ago
Chailette doesn't say they would withdraw money from startup accounts: "angel/vc investors start to panic and withdraw from the market" presumably means that startups could be deprived of the next financing stage, which, if they're still bu
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by mediaman 16y ago
True, but I think the model differentiation is more apparent from immediate visual inspection: for example, a shopper may not know any meaning behind BMW's 3 series, 5 series and 7 series, but it's obvious upon looking at it that 5 is a big
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by mediaman 16y ago
I don't understand the revulsion against banking. I do understand resentment towards some of the financial engineering that occurred in the past fifteen years, especially in areas of exotic securitization in which systemic risks were made o
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by mediaman 16y ago
Yes, but market forces did not solve that problem. Should we not worry about Facebook because government will solve it?
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by mediaman 16y ago
Like contracting, there is a lot of non-paid work: finding the next job, doing back-office stuff, paying a manager, etc. This is why individual contractors charging $100-200 an hour are not actually making $250-500k a year.
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by mediaman 16y ago
But part of being more "efficiently utilized" is improving labor productivity, which all else being equal reduces the demand for sysadmin labor. Although it might make for a more interesting sysadmin job for those that remain.
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by mediaman 16y ago
I'll second this -- Innovator's Dilemma is a great read, and after having read it, I see it happening in practice all the time.
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by mediaman 16y ago
That's odd; Felix Salmon writes almost exclusively for the financial industry, and used to run his own blog. Reuters hired him for his finance industry audience. It's surprising that he would make elementary errors regarding his industry of
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by mediaman 16y ago
Nobody here proposed using that as a tactic.
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by mediaman 16y ago
In finance-speak, industries with rapid change that are difficult to forecast should be valued at very high discount rates. This requires even more extraordinary growth rates to justify a given valuation, since future cash flows become wort
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by mediaman 16y ago
With all due respect, you do not appear to have understood my reply. I specifically state that it does, in certain situations, create wealth. There is a tremendous amount of economic research to support this. Of course, I agree with you tha
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by mediaman 16y ago
Printing money does, in fact, create wealth, in some limited contexts: 1. GDP growth requires printing money, or else it will create a deflationary environment, which is dangerous because it creates an incentive to delay business purchasing
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by mediaman 16y ago
That would create big headaches with existing apps though, which is worth it for major improvements in resolution (e.g. the Retina display) but probably not for more minor improvements in resolution. Also, the scaling would be awkward, bec
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by mediaman 16y ago
That's unnecessarily harsh. But I do agree that editing serves a purpose. There is a reason that good writers' essays, such as PG's, for example, are so durable through time: they have been finely honed, eliminating wasted words and poor an
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by mediaman 16y ago
If you want to call it cronyism, fine -- but if you want to be successful in business, learning to give yourself an advantage by creating influence with opinion leaders is an important part of becoming recognized and trusted. Those who refu
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by mediaman 16y ago
You are being downvoted because the parent comment expressed a personal belief -- that he enjoyed a particular way of expressing the concept of "Golden Rule" (from a Spanish saying) -- and you are apparently questioning his need or personal
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by mediaman 16y ago
There are still many remote parts of North America that do not have Internet access, either. I've had friends spend weeks on trips to rural Sierra Leone, and guess what? There's no running water, much less Internet access. That's not the sa
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by mediaman 16y ago
The point is that it's a variable cost, and that, depending on the total quantity of talent (i.e., project scope multiplied by various specialty skills required), it can make more sense to rent than to employ that talent. Most outsourcing i
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by mediaman 16y ago
Disagree about the iPad's business uptake. I just ran into a fellow passenger on a flight who works for a startup in the Bay Area that makes portal software for corporate boards of directors (to securely share info about the company). After

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