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by partiallypro 10y ago
That's not what I said, I said the licensing didn't carry over. Of course Beats Music was included in the purchase, but the deals Beats had with the music industry (licensing agreements) were nullified during the acquisition, from
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by partiallypro 10y ago
First off, Apple bought Beats for their headphones, not their failing music service; but secondly if Apple had bought Spotify they'd be under the anti-trust microscope.
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by partiallypro 10y ago
From my understanding the rights from Beats Music did not carry over with the acquisition, and Apple Music doesn't use Beats Music in any form. The acquisition was for the headphones, which have insane margins and are a "status sy
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by partiallypro 10y ago
Oh, I agree with all of that. I amended my post to mention that too. Usually I've vote for a 3rd party though, but I agree that choosing to not vote is just as legitimate as voting. I don't agree with the sentiment of "you ca
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by partiallypro 10y ago
Not everyone should vote. This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but democracy only works with informed citizens. If you have a bunch of people that are not informed on the issue voting you're probably going to have an outcome that
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by partiallypro 10y ago
Does anyone Else's Firefox absolutely slow to a crawl on this page? Edit: just doesn't load at all on Edge. Does load in Chrome/Opera and surprisingly IE 12 but doesn't load the logo's font.
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by partiallypro 10y ago
I prefer Firefox to Chrome, Edge is still unstable but I do like some of the direction they are going in. The lack of extensions I think killed it out of the gate. It's also odd to me that Edge doesn't update through the Windows S
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by partiallypro 10y ago
The US doesn't fund terror groups so that they will commit acts of terror; it's usually much more complex of a relationship. I don't deny your claim, because it's true, but it has entirely different aims.
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by partiallypro 10y ago
The Jewish population in Iran is down nearly 95% in just the past two decades. And they the Ayatollah makes the real rules, the democratic side is largely for show. I mean, this is a headline from just today out of Iran: http://w
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by partiallypro 10y ago
Just because we made a deal with Iran doesn't mean they are our ally, and I'd hardly call them our "natural" ally; their regime is only marginally less bad on human rights than Saudi Arabia. Iran still funds terror group
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by partiallypro 10y ago
Bill Gross, Carl Icahn, Mark Kiesel, to name a few
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by partiallypro 10y ago
There's plenty of analysis available, people have been sounding the alarm for the past 6-8 months. Not a bunch of nobodies and doom and gloom blogs either, big money movers have been saying this. If you don't think it only takes o
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by partiallypro 10y ago
One thing the article ignores about a bubble popping, saying it's "mostly people who can afford to lose money" and "rich people" is that...rich people, much like everyone don't like to lose money. So in order t
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by partiallypro 10y ago
Ever heard of Communist China, Communist Russia, Nazi Germany, North Korea, North Vietnam, Serbian Genocide, Iraqi slaughter of the Kurds, Trail of Tears, East Germany, Bulgaria, The Sudan. I can keep going. Just in the past few years ~200,
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by partiallypro 10y ago
I don't use Google, and prefer they not keep tabs on me all the time...but I think governments have a much...much worse track record on suppressing people than corporations. Google can be wiped from the earth by merely a new invention
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by partiallypro 10y ago
Your topic is broad; but as a precursor, I have a bias, in that I'm a free speech absolutist. There's a difference between having a meet-up or speech on campus on specialized topics and blocking all dissenting opinions because of
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by partiallypro 10y ago
> At a general level is that not the point of education? If people who have studied economics dont understand economics, the benefits and perils of different economic policies and activities, better then those who have never thought abou
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by partiallypro 10y ago
To start off, "liberal" is hard to define, really. I identify as "classically liberal," but that can greatly differ from modern liberal, progressive, etc. Friedrich Hayek tried to answer this in the 40s, when "intel
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by partiallypro 11y ago
It's not a common metric, however, when you free lance right you are often told, "I need a piece about x & y, 500 words long." So based on that 500 words, let's say you make $200. So you just made 40 cents a word. Bu
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by partiallypro 11y ago
You clearly don't know how business operates in China. China doesn't care about tax revenue or deficits, they want capital investment and capital expenditures (especially in light of recent record capital outflows.) They have stri
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by partiallypro 11y ago
I am pretty sure this has nothing to do with inversion and has a lot more to do with appeasing the Chinese government with a capital investment. http://www.eweek.com/mobile/apples-tim-cook-heading-to-china... Tim Cook
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by partiallypro 11y ago
Here's hoping that Microsoft adds Cortana to SwiftKey, this looks pretty exciting, but I don't own an iPhone...and I don't particularly want to use Google services.
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by partiallypro 11y ago
The article actually mentions this (and an Israeli defense contractor is a one of the few that's lobbying for it.) I think the key difference, from my understanding, is that it has never been deployed onto a convoy. Also the "Iron
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by partiallypro 11y ago
Automotive is a low margin, high liability industry. I think Google is approaching this correctly in staying out of the hardware (for the most part.) Apple developing a full car that has to meet x & y regulation from every single differ
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by partiallypro 11y ago
Economic and market predictions are practically impossible to get right in timing. We can only really see us trending towards something, but that trend could last long enough to lose some serious money. That's why Buffet ignores the no
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by partiallypro 11y ago
"Our product is our stock" - quote from HBO's "Silicon Valley" Basically, this. Start-ups and their investors are looking to cash out. Imagine if Apple or Microsoft had been bought out by IBM in their early years, i
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by partiallypro 11y ago
Yeah...the problem with your analysis is that Icahn was never really "short" the market when he said those things. He owned big momentum stocks, as a matter of fact, Apple, Netflix, etc. Now he has a massive short position in the
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by partiallypro 11y ago
I use GitHub for my public repos, but use Visual Studio Online (poorly named, since it is not actually Visual Studio) for my private ones (also unlimited, but free.) I know a lot of others that use Bitbucket, etc because of GitHub's pr
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by partiallypro 11y ago
> I usually point out that oil&gas get a tremendously larger amount of subsidie Oil and Gas do not get direct subsidies, they get to write off capital expenses. That's completely different. You can downvote me all you want, but
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by partiallypro 11y ago
Everyone that knows about Peter Thiel knows he's an outspoken libertarian, critic of the GOP and DNC, and that's he's homosexual. The surprise isn't that he's not a Democrat (everyone knew that) it's that Trump

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