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by objclxt 13y ago
> You, the founder, keep a % of the company throughout this time, but you'd only see it translate to real money in the case of an acquisition/IPO/sell off If Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy weren't taking $10 million+
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by objclxt 13y ago
GitHub do say in their post: > These addresses were used to slowly brute force weak passwords or passwords used on multiple sites. ..."multiple sites" could possibly refer to a compromised list, like Adobe? Of course, it does
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by objclxt 13y ago
I think the right direction would be to have a system of inter-bank transfers that was instantaneous, and didn't suck. The banking system in, say, the UK isn't perfect by a long shot, but at least I can move money from one bank
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by objclxt 13y ago
It's not a random guess - it might surprise you just how low the yield actually is on CPUs. Yield is inversely proportional to die size, so the larger the die, the lower the yield. Yield is also lower on newer manufacturing processes.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> It doesn't really fit in Amazon's universe. Surely Dropbox must be one of AWS's biggest clients? It may not make sense for Amazon to buy them, but the more money Dropbox makes the more money Amazon make (at least whils
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by objclxt 13y ago
I would say their branding isn't as good, and for personal use Dropbox is a lot easier to get started with. However, Box has far more functionality than Dropbox, with an emphasis on corporate (I use Dropbox personally, I used to use
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by objclxt 13y ago
The $100 million sounds slightly less impressive if you take it to mean controller R&D across the entire Xbox One project. Let's assume that Microsoft started work on the console in 2007, two years after the Xbox 360 launched. Our
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by objclxt 13y ago
> As for why they'd funnel a lot of money into a controller that is nearly perfect- well, they have the money and they want to win. Isn't that enough explanation? The problem with regards to Microsoft's R&D budget is
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by objclxt 13y ago
I don't think it's the affordability that's the problem - or rather, I know plenty of people at Google / Facebook / Apple / any other company in the valley who make the choice to commute not because of any cost
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by objclxt 13y ago
> it's just some weird UK puritanism or something It's politics. The Conservatives (David Cameron's party) are in coalition with the Liberal Democrats. We can debate the merits of the coalition (many do), but the upside
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by objclxt 13y ago
It's a pretty crappy story, given nothing has been announced yet (I assume someone leaked something to the Metro in an attempt to get a good PR boost at the start of the week). I would say it is highly unlikely that whatever legislatio
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by objclxt 13y ago
I feel compelled to point out that comparing share price alone is terribly, horribly wrong . To illustrate, the phrase "BTC is the price of an Apple share" could, by some people, be taken to mean "BitCoin is worth more than
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by objclxt 13y ago
Of course, you could also say... > A lot of fast growing start ups are terrible places to work, because of the very virtue of what they are. The size of a company has a little to do with its culture. Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft all em
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by objclxt 13y ago
Many countries have pretty aggressive anti-hacking laws. The UK, for instance, has a very similar piece of legislation that in theory makes URL manipulation illegal.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Why try to put a not even born yet business down if you are not even competing against it in the first place? Because if we all just blindly praised every new business that came along and never gave them our true opinions we'd h
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by objclxt 13y ago
I have no confidence they will be able to support EMV cards. I'm sure they'd like to, but consider that Square hasn't managed to yet and their business / funding / engineering talent is considerably larger than Co
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by objclxt 13y ago
> so it's a for-profit enterprise. Or not, given that Motorola has been operating at a loss for quite some time now.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> The user generated content literally disappears in 10 seconds, and you are left with... nothing It doesn't disappear, and whilst it might disappear off their servers I can guarantee that won't be the case in the future. A
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by objclxt 13y ago
> Is SnapChat's product really worthless? To Facebook, yes. Facebook managed to throw together a Snapchat clone (Poke) in a couple of weeks. There is no IP, no technology worth acquiring, nothing that couldn't be done in hous
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by objclxt 13y ago
That's the Harvard start-up.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> I'd expect this sort of thing from an app where people are sending private images, against the initial intent/design. But Snapchat? The thing about Snapchat is that it's basically held together with sticky tape and stri
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by objclxt 13y ago
I don't think Saudi will miss your custom - unless you're a Muslim (visiting for Hajj) or coming in on business you're going to find it near impossible to get into Saudi anyway. The only country it is harder to get tourist vi
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by objclxt 13y ago
I agree with most of your points, except for these two: > Britain [has] less interference in policy from religious extremists [than the US] This seems a slightly rose-tinted view of British history. I would argue Britain actually has
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by objclxt 13y ago
> This seems to be doable workaround. This could be possibly even automated, perhaps start-up idea? I am guessing you haven't actually worked in Qatar or Saudi Arabia, the two Middle Eastern countries that retain exit visas. I have
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by objclxt 13y ago
> I'm truly impressed by the PR skill of Mr Musk and his team It's certainly a bold strategy, but perhaps a little risky. They must be confident it's not really a problem though, because if there was a real risk of fir
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by objclxt 13y ago
I don't really understand the point you're trying to make. Firstly, you're posting a Harvard FAS resolution, but Harvard isn't even mentioned in the NYT article. I don't know why you bring it up. Secondly, I think
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by objclxt 13y ago
> I always thought HTC and Samsung were exempt from these royalties by releasing their own Windows Phones Samsung definitely pay a per-device royalty to Microsoft for Android devices, the latter even put a press release out about it a
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by objclxt 13y ago
> the gag order is categorically illegal - a law which abridges your freedom of speech. Surely that's gotta stand up in court? Or what good is the Constitution? A lot of people have a misconception that the Constitution guarantees
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by objclxt 13y ago
I don't think it's a logical fallacy: he's making a general point that the wife of his subject is not going to be particularly impartial.
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by objclxt 13y ago
> So do the economics actually favor moving some manufacturing back to the US now or is this a token measure Haven't Apple always sourced their glass from the US? I thought Corning made most of their stuff in Kentucky, but perhap

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