nopriorarrests

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   by nopriorarrests 9y ago

   >How do you square the two things? Very simple. For everything that could be produced in China or, say, Vietnam, you have, essentially, a deflationary backstop. No matter how many mp3 players you want to buy, chinese will deliver without
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   by nopriorarrests 9y ago

   there is a difference, but it's not black and white. sure, state is much more powerful. however, state plays by the rules, and if the rules (aka laws) are changed, state will leave you alone. And laws could be changed. good luck trying
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   by nopriorarrests 9y ago

   Exactly. But knowing some berezovsky folks back in early 00's (i'm russian), well, making it into 68 is an achievement, tbh. Folks were enjoying life.
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   by nopriorarrests 9y ago

   He was 68. Folks die without Putin involvement sometimes. Especially Russians who lived thru the nineties, with all the excesses of that time.
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   by nopriorarrests 9y ago

   in some cases agencies really add value and have competencies which are not that easy to insource back. some examples: for smallish advertisers (this is not P&G, I understand) agencies can negotiate much better terms, because agencies a
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   by nopriorarrests 9y ago

   I think that contractors explain HOW it happens, not WHY. Let's say in some city the factory was closed due to outsourcing and 3K people are now jobless. They are not applying to be a security guards in city hotels -- there are no vac
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   by nopriorarrests 9y ago

   Interesting. I wonder if 50c/km includes gas or it is just car depreciation alone. Because here in Moscow, Russia it's very close to what you usually pay when you use Uber, no surge premium. If that's real cost, it means that
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   by nopriorarrests 9y ago

   OK, let's imagine he we will re-run the study with optimistic assumptions and the result would be that Uber drivers are compensated lavishly (and if we take more moderate assumptions, they are making adequate money). And with another s
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   by nopriorarrests 9y ago

   >The goal of democracy is not good governance, it is civil peace. This is an excellent point. On the other hand, though, it was 8 years of GWB, which was resented by the half of the country, then it was 8 years of Obama, which was resent
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    I would say that ROI on influencing /r/the_donald subscribers with any amount of propaganda is precisely zero. They are Trump voters, period. It's like trying to influence NRA members trying to make them think that guns are c
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    I do not see how subsidizing work is "ruining life of people". I, for one, receive competitive salary from market and would love my work be additionally subsidized by VC. Ruin me all you can.
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    US show of force sends Russia a message in Black Sea "You get ships up in the Black Sea, that makes them feel more threatened," the official added. https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/19/politics/us
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    I wonder if non-compete agreements actually matter. I mean, come on. Lewandowski landed at Uber after Google. Does anyone cares if some dude from burger king will join KFC? Will BKing really sue him?
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    Pay raises lower the stock price. Buybacks raise it. CEO compensation depends on stock price. That's all.
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    So, abundance of supply, because young people want to make AAA games?
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    And the boss could get away with ignoring the law of supply and demand? How so?
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    >The difference here is that presumably fewer record companies have the money to fund the development of their own streaming service. They don't need it. With Apple Music, Google Play and Spotify majors can afford to destroy Spotify
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    IMHO, in America political faction identity trumped national identity already. Small example. I was browsing news site recently, dailywire IIRC, and saw an ad for some merch they are selling, like coffee cup or something, with "Liberal
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    I would disagree. I think Spotify is in much vulnerable position. Twitter is selling user generated content, which costs nothing and not going anywhere. Twitter is as popular as ever. Trump, et al. Spotify is selling something that belongs
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    Excuse me, but Spotify is not profitable, or I miss something? "For the years ended December 31, 2015, 2016, and 2017, we incurred net losses of €230 million, €539 million, and €1,235 million, respectively" How is it better than T
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    Spotify Technology files for IPO of up to $1B – SEC filing(twitter.com)

    1 points by nopriorarrests 9y ago|0 comments
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    As I commented in other thread, your argument about people having all they need could be re-phrased as a "lack of innovation". Last thing we have invented which consume electricity is home PC. And it was 40 years ago. Without this
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    Lack of breakthru innovation, IMHO. The last device invented which is used by almost any household and consumes non-negligible amount of electricity is home PC. Which will turn 40 years soon. In the meantime, even older devices, invented ea
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    This thread (50 comments as of now) utterly amazes me. I mean, I haven't seen americans with different political views talking to each other in a level headed manner for a long time. Heck, on reddit they just use different subreddits,
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    Well, if your average pension fund planned 7% yearly returns back in 2005, then boom, zero rate interest policy arrived, with 2.5% coupon on 10 year treasury bill, they had to dig into more risky assets. corporate debt, more exposure to sto
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    this handy twitter bot sends a message every time new tethers are issued -- https://twitter.com/tetherprinter
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    Bloomberg: Crypto exchange Bitfinex, tether said to get subpoenaed by CFTC(mobile.twitter.com)

    18 points by nopriorarrests 9y ago|3 comments
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    Well, it's a complicated question, and I'm not that well educated. To my best knowledge... 1. You can't make a single cent if your bot visited facebook.com 100 million times. You can make some serious money if your bot visite
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    yeah, good point, but it's hard to differentiate between malicious ad and, say, some widget displaying real-time NASDAQ chart. Sometimes I want some pages (or even iframes in those pages) consume my CPU and be as smooth as possible.
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    by nopriorarrests 9y ago

    I do not think that metaphor holds at all, if "water" is open web and "chugging" means spending advertising dollars there. I don't have a link on hand, but GOOG and FB captured something like 95% of digital advertis