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by nika 16y ago
Thats the thing about integrity. You never know if someone has it until it is tested. This same question could be asked about any hosting company that hasn't been presented with such a request. I'd be interested in hearing about hosting com
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by nika 16y ago
Not that I'm aware of, but I have long since graduated from seeking such advice. I think the best source of investment insight comes from studying Warren Buffett's methodology. Mary Buffett wrote a book called "Buffetology" which is really
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by nika 16y ago
Thank you, that second link was very useful.
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by nika 16y ago
Can't beat a major corporation already spending money doing what your tool makes easy for validation. Glad to hear. I think that there's an opportunity for the response to have a tiny URL that leads the customer to a site which might make
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by nika 16y ago
Back when I still deigned to work for other people, I had an extensive and successful resume. I started out with a one page resume, and kept it that way for the first 5 years of my career. Then at some point, I kept getting asked silly qu
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by nika 16y ago
I gotta give Amazon props for extending their products along the lines that their customers clearly want. The only problem is, given the wikileaks affair, I don't trust them. Maybe this is silly. It is certainly not like they're likely to
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by nika 16y ago
I sometimes "just don't get it" so don't take this as a flame. But who is the target audience here? Regular consumers, or businesses? In the article the example is given of best buy trying to provide support, presumably for random people.
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by nika 16y ago
What school of economics is this perspective from? I'm not aware of it. Isn't a tax on "Externalities" simply using some politically correct claim as an excuse to take money? EG: if the government puts a tax on production for "pollution"
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by nika 16y ago
The US is far from a pure capitalist society. Between 1800-1900, despite a civil war and the massive economic damage involved in such things, we went from being a backwards third world country to being a world power in a nearly pure-capital
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by nika 16y ago
No fair. Gotta move the camera to the left at the end a little bit so it is clear how he built it. Maybe the structure is actually fairly flat, only a few inches off the floor at the highest point, but laid out, with shadows painted on the
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by nika 16y ago
I've been in this position many times. I remember when I first heard of Amazon in 1994. I remember when Google went public. I knew google was a great company, because I was in the search industry, but I didn't invest. I didn't feel it was
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by nika 16y ago
Call me a dog, but fast is not even on my list for reasons to choose a NoSQL solution (namely Riak) 1. Operations. I do not want to spend my time doing this, at all. 2. Linear Scalability. Scalability is not about performance for me, it i
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by nika 16y ago
People continuing to use my product are now a source of profit, that's why I'm ecstatic. One of the things we've done, for various reasons, is to not spend any money or effort on ongoing marketing or advertising. We run experiments to see
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by nika 16y ago
So, you're arguing against someone claiming that people will game the system by talking about how people gamed a similar system?
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by nika 16y ago
The fund only backs businesses "contingent upon service to the state". Literally it is in the fact sheet that his money will go to "disadvantaged" (eg: politically connected businesses that can be counted on for electioneering) and to "cle
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by nika 16y ago
It is a freudian slip, since Amazon takes %30-%80 of the money. Apple's flat %30 is cheap compared to the Amazon Android Store, and Apple lets you set the prices (whereas Amazon controls the pricing, so they could sell your app for %90 off
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by nika 16y ago
This is an expression of the broken window fallacy illustrated by Fredric Bastiat (I believe). You see the advantages to your company in the economy as a result of the program, but you do not see the damage to the economy that the program
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by nika 16y ago
When you borrow money, you create a bond, right? So you have the money you borrowed (the principle) that you spend into the economy, and yet there's also this new bond out there. That bond is an asset. That bond is an increase in the mon
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by nika 16y ago
There is no mechanism currently on the AppStore for doing a SaaS strategy for Apps. In app purchase is set up for one time purchases, not for recurring subscriptions. This is a brand new feature, and it dovetails right in with the SaaS bu
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Tell HN: Why I'm ecstatic at Apple's subscription model.
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Tell HN: Why I'm ecstatic at Apple's subscription model.
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by nika 16y ago
Not only that, but he implies that, if they're successful, this incentivizes making things worse for regular businesses so that they are more beholden to their "representatives". Absurd, I know!
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by nika 16y ago
When this was first announced a couple weeks ago, I read the "fact sheet" posted. In it they talked about an emphasis on putting the money into "disadvantaged areas" and "focusing on innovative technologies like clean energy". So, your c
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by nika 16y ago
Apple didn't get away with anything, because there was nothing to get away with. I know android fans hate to hear it and will likely pound me into oblivion for it, but the reality is that the antenna on the iPhone 4 is better than all the
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by nika 16y ago
The android operating system and UI is a direct ripoff of the iPhone. Before the iPhone was announced, Android was a blackberry styled UI. Apple contributes very significantly to the open source community. Yet for doing so they are consta
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by nika 16y ago
I find it amazing that global warming proponents who, frankly, never seem to know anything about the actual science are so snide whenever they encounter someone who does know the science and who points out holes. If science really were on y
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by nika 16y ago
You are the one calling him names, and you are the one engaging in ad hominem, and you are not even being honest about what he said. (eg: he never said "climate research is wrong") In fact, you jumped in here, depsite knowing nothing about
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by nika 16y ago
Apple designs the software, the hardware industrial design, the circuit boards, the processor and even the screens. Samsung merely manufactures things, and does not design the software (for android phones) or the CPU etc. But of course wha
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by nika 16y ago
They can't. And they really are quite liberal in their screening for the most part. But they are trying to provide a good experience for their customers.
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by nika 16y ago
No, the parent propagated the dishonest claims about Apple that android fans like to spread, and for pointing out the truth I am downvoted and for attacking me personally, you are upvoted. Frankly, if your ideas were superior, you wouldn't

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