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by netsp 17y ago
I never said sites don't have shops. I'm saying Facebook are not going to monetise by adding one.
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by netsp 17y ago
A good way of making money is to sell things. But that is a way for a business to make money, not a site. It has never completely gone away, but there was a time when instead of having ads, people thought sites should have shops. Newspapers
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by netsp 17y ago
go through the motions (cargo-cult style,) produce copious evidence of work, and be sure to meet the project requirements in some literal sense so you get paid. As for quality, as for whether you produced something that the client could ac
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by netsp 17y ago
Maybe this implies that the current state of the Indian market is temporary.
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by netsp 17y ago
Test it yourself. Any studies or advice is likely to tell you 'it depends.' Any advice you get gere will be 'we do this' or 'I like that.' Can't beat real data that applies.
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by netsp 17y ago
The anecdotes come from bank tellers. They 'talk' to a lot of people.
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by netsp 17y ago
Leasing is a replacement for the buy new, sell after 2-4 years model. That's not an uncomment way to own a care, some places more common then others. That job, it does reasonably well.
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by netsp 17y ago
I've heard anecdotally that the majority of people with assets (not necessarily a huge amount) hide assets from their spouses. That can be cash/stocks, but very often it's property or even companies.
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by netsp 17y ago
Nothing of value in what sense? It's clear that there is value to the buyers of the gold, they pay for it. It costs something (player's time & computers) to accumulate, they forgo value to create this.
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by netsp 17y ago
I don't think that it has gotten to that point or near it very often. These guys with guns also use other things like media & information to project their power. There have been many confrontations between governments and emergent media
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by netsp 17y ago
Very possibly. When I think about it, it's surprising that some form of virtual currency (it's interesting to actually think about what that term means) hasn't gained a stronger foothold. So many of the products we buy are virtual. I think
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by netsp 17y ago
I don't think you represent the average. Also, publishers try to deter this sort of activity by publishing updated editions every 2-4 years. This messes you up if you get holding the ball or if this year is the first edition. It also discou
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by netsp 17y ago
Or lets your lecturer distribute their own for the $2.50 he claims is all he's actually making on each one.
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by netsp 17y ago
On the other hand, it's relatively easy.
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by netsp 17y ago
Even bigger: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=f... *If we had 'list of companies not acquired by anyone', or 'list of companies quietly making a reasonable profit', we could compare.
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by netsp 17y ago
There's sort of a catch 22. If they made money by selling them to anyone who wanted one, that would imply that people who could afford one might want one. It would imply that these are viable to produce for a market. In that case, what do w
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by netsp 17y ago
If on-a-stick becomes widespread, another interesting side effect could be bundling applications & operating systems.
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by netsp 17y ago
I have always been sceptical of OLPCs grand strategy for two reasons: 1 - They don't seem to be relying on being so good that they grow like mad. They seem to want to make deals with ministers of education. If the laptop is such an affordab
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by netsp 17y ago
Often, when laws are changed, some people lose out. Easier entry/certification. Changing trade laws can put whole industries out of business. Zoning laws can make your property double of half in value quite easily. Emission controls can mak
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by netsp 17y ago
I wonder who owns these places.
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by netsp 17y ago
I'm not saying none exist. I have a windows machine that I use mostly for IE. But (a) I didn't buy it for that purpose, it already existed and (b) I would probably want to use sites I work on in IE even if it worked perfectly. It's the most
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by netsp 17y ago
Microsoft doesn't want IE to render the same as its contemporaries because then you don't need to test on IE anymore, which means you don't need Windows anymore. Are you implying MS are purposely breaking IE in order to sell Windows licen
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by netsp 17y ago
That's a good point. But defining equality your way (relatively) also creates problems.
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by netsp 17y ago
They want people to either pay or not listen. Not listen & pay if you can. They want music to be the same as milk or shoes. You either buy it, or you don't have it. They want the laws, which are on their side, to be enforced to the poin
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by netsp 17y ago
A purpose of fines & other punishment is to .deter Very broadly speaking, two things go in to deterrence: (perceived) Chance of getting caught * (perceived) Cost of getting caught = deterence. To improve deterrence you need to increase
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by netsp 17y ago
Me too. I think China's approach is censor so long as costs are manageable. Shutting down the internet is too a big deal. I think they are willing to accept a certain leakage. If you are really motivated to learn about Tiananmen, you can. Y
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by netsp 17y ago
Sounds like twubble.
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by netsp 17y ago
I like this idea beter: # It solves the inventory conversion problem outlined below. # It solves the creativity doesn't scale well problem outlined below. # It allows people like you, who think that they can sell creativity, to have a go.
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by netsp 17y ago
In defence of the dotcom bust, it had very little time to embed it's make believe assets into other parts of the economy. Perhaps if it had inflated slightly slower, it would have managed to affect non internety investments.
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by netsp 17y ago
It seems like reality has outgrown the individual states sales tax regime. The current tax system sounds like it contains ridiculous levels of distortion. Seems like time to rewrite.

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