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by pinaceae 11y ago
so billions for FB/Instagram/CocaCola/Tesla - all justified. same for something that is a product that takes billions to develop and get approved, plus saves actual lives? how DARE I!? resources in a capitalist society get al
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by pinaceae 11y ago
"scrappy" biotechs are the backbone of pharma innovation. genentech as the best known grandpa in that league. biotech is the other big startup area of the modern economy. full of VCs, unicorns and abysmal failures. but, their bloc
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by pinaceae 11y ago
as someone who lost a friend last year to skin cancer and has a work colleague with end-stage breast cancer that has spread to her bones - bring it on. as someone working in life sciences - years off, even with FDA fast track. the incentive
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by pinaceae 11y ago
they also advocated for same-sex marriage - in 1996. their liberal, in the classic sense. their stance on various wars is often questionable though. supported the second iraq invasion.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
Love how the definitions of Millenials have different age groups - I am either a GenXer or a Millenial. Based on the stats in there, this has a massive effect on my attitudes. Social Science -_( )_-
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by pinaceae 11y ago
No, I pay for 40h of your attention. for things that don't fit into 40h there is either (paid) overtime or hiring, depending on frequency.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
because I pay you for 40h of productivity per week, not a fixed amount of output? for the latter, consulting/freelance exists. if you get paid for 40h per week, the expectation is to devote those hours to the benefit of the employer. d
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by pinaceae 11y ago
as long as you use a markup language plus styling language built for documents to somehow emulate app interfaces, the web will lose against native. the www is great for content. wikipedia. awesome. but it just sucks for apps. the constraint
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by pinaceae 11y ago
so you want iOS, but don't want to pay for it. great market for Mozilla to break into!
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by pinaceae 11y ago
FitBit is to Apple Watch/Android Wear as TomTom/Garmin is to Smartphones with GPS. They're fucked, erm, 'disrupted'.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
tweaking those features to something that makes sense would be the job of twitter's leadership. and if making money wasn't tricky, well, anyone could do it, no? :)
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by pinaceae 11y ago
this will go in the other direction though - drones are remotely controlled, fleets of trucks will be as well. one operator, 25 trucks, only need to take over for special tasks. depended on network coverage, yes, but most trucks move betwee
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by pinaceae 11y ago
the ad-based business model is as toxic for quality as being a public company dependend on quarterly results. if you have no other fallback revenue, you get pushed in a very specific, user-hostile direction. google search as case in point,
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by pinaceae 11y ago
so this means that the previous generation of distributors, african-americans who all went to jail, were simply ahead of their times. now that the whites have changed the rules, all big entrepreneurs in this area are white. note also which
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by pinaceae 11y ago
FUCK a truly open and free market. all it leads to is catastrophe, as witnessed over and over. a well regulated market, taking into account externalities like the environment, population density, cultural barriers, etc. is in the best inter
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by pinaceae 11y ago
laws exist to cover for the majority of use cases, not individual, well reasoned exceptions. start with hammurabi and read on, the worl of bureaucracy has a lot more background and sense than you imagine.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
visa restrictions into the US and EU exist to protect their own population, as voted and decided upon by their democratic systems. the world is a bit more complicated than your comment implies.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
does it take it into consideration that the US and Israeli passport make you active targets in certain parts of the world?
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by pinaceae 11y ago
madoff, enron, ... all without jailtime?
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by pinaceae 11y ago
where is the problem? which startup has been killed by patents? given that the US has the most successful entrepreneurial system - what exactly makes this a huge problem?
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by pinaceae 11y ago
disagree. Twitter's problem is that they invented a great communication channel with no clear way of monetizing it. Like inventing email. They're now trying to build walls around their protocol, shutting down APIs, etc. Imagine if
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by pinaceae 11y ago
given their eroding core business - nope.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
their strategy is to global for sure. right now, they're international. happy?
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by pinaceae 11y ago
I guess there is another, very big reason: The Non-US markets. The US is surely important, but Netflix has launched in Europe and faces a huge obstacle that very few US Americans know about - rights licensing is far worse. Selling content o
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by pinaceae 11y ago
http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/08/05/google-under-threat-... yup, China and India totally will save Google, AOSP is no issue at all.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
and, so far, they suck at it. search with ads is their core product, ages old. gdocs for enterprise makes some money. wave, glass, car - pie in the sky, detached from any real product or monetization strategies. once search tanks, and the t
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by pinaceae 12y ago
...and France is well known for its leadership in modern technology, especially software. the last big IT assets are being sold off, complete failures. europe as a whole basically is SAP plus its ecosystem. nothing else has survived. and ev
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by pinaceae 12y ago
no it isn't. it exists to weed out the absolute moronic and deranged. not everyone is a supervillain with an iq of 300. plus, i guess it also exists for legal reasons. lying to the question can be used against you. there is a lot of sm
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by pinaceae 12y ago
yes, it needs to cover the cost in development and getting it through approval. however, this also establishes a market - a competitor will now either come with something cheaper or something better (for the same or higher price). same thin
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by pinaceae 12y ago
bullshit. the big bad pharmaceutical industry is full of biotech startups that all race to find something new. it is not a monolithic cabal of lizard people. like this: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12&

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