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by mimixco 7y ago
If you're a company like Ford with 30,000 Windows desktops, you might look at it differently.
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by mimixco 7y ago
It's worth pointing out here that, thousands of years ago, Colorado was under water. While a case can be made for human-influenced climate change, it's still a fact that the earth's climate also changes on its own. If we&#x
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by mimixco 7y ago
Indeed. Ideas are worth nothing. Only execution matters.
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by mimixco 7y ago
I don't understand it, either, but somehow they blew through $740 million on this last year. It seems ridiculous and only underscores my argument that they aren't really a tech company. If I pitched needing $740 million to creat
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by mimixco 7y ago
It's the first step. No one has successfully deployed a Linux desktop to the mass market and I've outlined how MS could. And I think they will. It's actually a Very Good Thing for Linux because it cements its position as the
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by mimixco 7y ago
Entrepreneurship is amazingly cool and arguably the basis of the history of the United States. Sure, it's hard, but it offers many rewards that working for someone else can't touch.
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by mimixco 7y ago
A high school student could write the Uber app. Has it been replicated? Of course, by Lyft, for example.
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by mimixco 7y ago
Uber spends far more on app development than any taxi company ever spent in radio dispatch. There's no economy there. Uber is a great example of a company that sounds great but, in practice, has no economies to offer. It's worth
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by mimixco 7y ago
You don't need a CS degree to see that it's simple. The Uber app has only a few basic functions: Get the user's GPS location. Get the GPS locations of nearby cars. Pick the closest car. Collect payment. Send a dispatch messag
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by mimixco 7y ago
I predict that MS will be the ones to finally bring about a Linux desktop with mass market adoption. They'll do it by making it look like Windows, act like Windows, work with Windows files, and run Windows apps through emulation or vir
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by mimixco 7y ago
Interesting! Whatever you optimize for in human (or machine) behavior is what you get.
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by mimixco 7y ago
Uber's app service? As far as apps go, it's very simple.
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by mimixco 7y ago
What part would be driver-owned? The elephant in the room here is that the economy of scale from a taxi company comes from owning and maintaining a fleet of cars at a lower cost than a single vehicle owner would pay. If "cooperative&qu
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by mimixco 7y ago
So, taxes, then? You can see where the problem is here. Sure, there's always work to be done. But who wants to pay for it? You said business doesn't want to. So it would have to come from the Treasury. I don't think you&#x2
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by mimixco 7y ago
Yet many posts here suggest socialist principles. There's one today about guaranteed employment. So suggesting socialism is ok but countering that isn't?
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by mimixco 7y ago
Why should people be guaranteed employment if they don't offer skills employers want? Out of kindness? If you own a business, would you like to be forced to hire someone because the government says you have to? If you pay taxes, would
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by mimixco 7y ago
Ultra click-baity title. The Y chromosome isn't going anywhere. This smells like a man-hating "toxic masculinity" argument wrapped up in the pseudoscience of one person's opinion.
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Topics Verboten on HN
2 points by mimixco 7y ago|2 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
Wait a minute... Apple ships phones with default settings that let random people send you pictures? Who approved that?
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by mimixco 7y ago
As a software developer (not a pilot), I think this misses the mark. Airbus has succeed in commercial fly-by-wire because their system provides protection over the full flight envelope of the airplane (the specs it can withstand without cra
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by mimixco 7y ago
This is the same company that puts cigarette ads on billboards next to schools in third world countries. I would take any suggestion that they want to "reduce youth smoking" with a big heaping spoon of salt.
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by mimixco 7y ago
IMHO, FB has a problem worse than their scale. It's their complete lack of morality of any kind. The fastest way to fix it is to permanently delete your account.
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60 Minutes Australia Exposé of 737 Max (Full Episode)(m.youtube.com)
20 points by mimixco 7y ago|0 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
So much for the next "open source" miracle.
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Everything Apple isn't telling you about its new credit card(marketwatch.com)
4 points by mimixco 7y ago|1 comments
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by mimixco 7y ago
Glad to see that HN'ers are seeing this for what it is: another Google idea that's sold as "benefitting users" when the only real beneficiary is Google's ad revenue and control over eyeballs. I'll echo the many
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by mimixco 7y ago
Smartphones didn't reduce the cost of dispatch. Look what Uber spends on app development! The big costs in taxis are maintaining the fleet, a cost which Uber externalizes to its drivers, some of whom now have to sleep in their cars.
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by mimixco 7y ago
Ok, then, let's just give up and obey our robot overlords. Geez.
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by mimixco 7y ago
Maybe we're getting tired of being misled by tech giants. Android used to be open source, too, but in practice it's anything but (Play store, etc.) So forgive me if some us are less than elated at the "don't be evil&quot
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by mimixco 7y ago
Another fantasy from Elon. With so many projects of his going so well (cough, cough), why not?

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