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by ponker 6y ago
Outcomes are a monotonic function of talent, effort, and luck. One is mildly controllable, one you can control in quantity and quality, and one is out of your hands.
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by ponker 6y ago
Of course you can create white collar jobs and have your employees hate you. My claim was only that it's impossible to have your employees NOT hate you if you are the richest man in the world and they're doing blue collar labor fo
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by ponker 6y ago
Lolwut. Please. This kind of boundless credulity, which is unfortunately quite widespread, has sent innocent people to their executions. You are ascribing a "kernel of truth" to a completely unsubstantiated claim because the comme
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by ponker 6y ago
You being my “fan” is an asymmetric relationship, not one created by mutual consent. If I want you to have my medical information while I’m alive or after I’m dead I will execute the proper legal document with you to ensure that you have it
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by ponker 6y ago
Bill Gates had a non contentious relationship with employees. The key is to only create white collar jobs.
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by ponker 6y ago
It’s more that a poor man is much likelier to share his last loaf of bread with you than a rich man.
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by ponker 6y ago
Is “whala” an adaptation from the French “voilá” or of a different origin?
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by ponker 6y ago
That’s a different issue not related to the pricing model.
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by ponker 6y ago
I don’t need an “argument” to charge a specific price or business model. I’ve created something and am offering it to anyone who will pay what I’m asking. Why, as a customer, would you care about my “argument” for my price as opposed to the
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by ponker 6y ago
Ask nicely and Modi might give you a courtesy tap.
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by ponker 6y ago
Well yes, they can easily suppress anti-government writing from Indian residents with credible threats of violence. This law is to protect the government from critics abroad where the Indian government cannot reach.
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by ponker 6y ago
The AMA decides who gets to call themselves a doctor. Can’t imagine a more pivotal arbiter of trust.
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by ponker 6y ago
Does that mean my Echo Dot could be providing uplink to yours without my opt in? Jesus.
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by ponker 6y ago
The company doesn’t want you to not pay bribes — they just want to be able to say that they told you not to if you get caught.
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by ponker 6y ago
I would let anyone defend themselves with lethal force, but not extend that right to their property, whether yours or Apple’s.
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by ponker 6y ago
Why should Apple security have CCW permits? Why do they deserve them any more than a random person? They should not be able to defend Apple property with lethal force.
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by ponker 6y ago
Would love to find a way to try this in person because it lives and dies by the keyboard quality.
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by ponker 6y ago
What's a sound font? And do they have to use a computer to use it?
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by ponker 6y ago
Netflix doesn’t have ads.
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by ponker 6y ago
Sounds great. My 4 year old is starting to play two notes at the same time and clearly is frustrated that he can’t do it the way I do (he needs to use both hands for what I can do in one). A narrower electric piano shouldn’t be too expensiv
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by ponker 6y ago
You think Netflix is polluting people’s minds? What’s OK with you, reading Wittgenstein over backgammon?
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by ponker 6y ago
jedberg likely has a lot of cash to spend on random shit, he ran Site Reliability at Netflix which pays its entry level engineers $400K.
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by ponker 6y ago
Why couldn’t you host a web app on a phone?
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by ponker 6y ago
When there's a rich kid in town, everyone will turn him upside down to see what change falls out of his pockets. Apple is where Apple is because it doesn't put all of its features "out in the open." I don't want 500
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by ponker 6y ago
Flip side: what's so bad about Apple taking 30% of Zynga's iOS revenue? Why is 15% fair to Zynga and 30% not?
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by ponker 6y ago
If one player has millions and the other has billions, the poorer party can prevail. If one player has thousands and the other has millions, the larger player can just jam up the legal processes to make it virtually impossible to hold them
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by ponker 6y ago
Shows you how you shouldn't worry about this stuff till late. They saved $75 million while losing $3 billion of market value -- capturing market share is vastly more important than operational excellence.
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by ponker 6y ago
Why does an (American who earns $100K)'s right to earn $200K take precedence over a (Libyan who earns $20K)'s right to earn $40K?
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by ponker 6y ago
Did Apple do this for craven self interest? Yes. Does it benefit a lot of people who deserve it? Also yes.
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by ponker 6y ago
More like 5%. But the fact remains that "living alone" is considered aspirational in society, and that's not axiomatic. Plenty of American adults can afford to live alone, and do, but by pooling their resources with their par

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