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   by qq66 12y ago

   They must have had something unique, or Carmack would have probably created his own company instead of joining Oculus...
2. 752.▲
   by qq66 12y ago

   Except the heinous physical connector.
3. 753.▲
   by qq66 12y ago

   The thing that initially attracted me to Quora (to the point of being one of their power writers in 2012) is that it's a way to publish things online that feel evergreen, without having to worry about maintaining or marketing a persona
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   by qq66 12y ago

   I just drove the new Tesla, it's really nothing more than a battery, a motor, and wheels. Really nothing that couldn't have been done 100 years ago :)
5. 755.▲
   by qq66 12y ago

   Splitting EMC and VMware doesn't make as much sense as eBay/PayPal or HP/HP, since EMC and VMware have pretty much identical customer bases. HP Consumer and HP Enterprise have of course mutually exclusive customer bases, and
6. 756.▲
   by qq66 12y ago

   Of course it should be slower, it's routing everything through a third-party service.
7. 757.▲
   by qq66 12y ago

   I guess the same could be true of travel planning, as well? Even though frequency of purchase is low (although not as low as a house), I can imagine the right kind of escapist travel planning site bringing back people every week to plan dre
8. 758.▲
   by qq66 12y ago

   The problem with travel planning isn't frequency of use: as other people have pointed out, Zillow and Cars.com are used infrequently but make money. The problem is generating a consumer willingness to pay. Kayak has a commission on eve
9. 759.▲
   by qq66 12y ago

   Is it any surprise that companies act like this? They're rarely punished for malfeasance, and when they are the penalty is barely noticeable. It's like putting someone in front of a big trough of money and allowing them to take as
10. 760.▲
    by qq66 12y ago

    Itunes got labels to accept $2 per album per user rather than $10. Spotify got labels to accept 2 cents.
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    by qq66 12y ago

    Yes, Spotify's value proposition to rights holders is "we're paying you something, it's better than Grooveshark." Another situation where a nominally powerful entity makes a major concession to avoid even higher los
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    by qq66 12y ago

    Kind of crazy to think that humans made a bomb 1/4 as powerful as the Krakatoa eruption.
13. 763.▲
    by qq66 12y ago

    This does not read like it was written by a VC, at least not in an investment context. An investor would not express concern that a user-generated content company was not sharing economics with its contributors. In fact, a company's ab
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    by qq66 12y ago

    I have a routine for being pulled over by the police: 1) Immediately slow down and apply right flasher. 2) Pull over into the far right lane. 3) Before coming to a full stop, lower the window, turn on the dome light, and turn off the radio.
15. 765.▲
    by qq66 12y ago

    Are you against demand-based pricing for other things? Such as eBay auctions, fluctuating gas prices, etc?
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    by qq66 12y ago

    If well-phrased heartfelt apologies got companies off the hook legally, there would be even less corporate accountability than there is today. I don't know the details of this case, but apologies and explanations after the fact shouldn
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    by qq66 12y ago

    http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2013/11/19/salesforce-c...
18. 768.▲
    by qq66 12y ago

    Things are more than what they do; they're how they do them. A Kia Soul and a Mercedes-Benz S500 basically have the same feature set. But they're very different experiences.
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    by qq66 12y ago

    I think treating it as something of value is a meaningful type of support. If they seized something like a broken DVD player they'd probably just dispose of it, and if they seized illicit drugs they'd destroy them. Auctioning them
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    by qq66 12y ago

    Why is this surprising? The Secret Service is notoriously difficult to get into -- its acceptance rate is 1% compared to Harvard's 6% -- but the majority of the requirements are not assessed by a written test. It's somewhat like t
21. 771.▲
    by qq66 12y ago

    When I first started reading this comment I thought you were using the phrase "anti-PC haters" to mean console gamers.
22. 772.▲
    by qq66 12y ago

    Not really. The US government has been quite supportive of bitcoin. They even auctioned a block of bitcoin to the public.
23. 773.▲
    by qq66 12y ago

    Obligatory: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/01/why-john...
24. 774.▲
    by qq66 12y ago

    Thanks for the honest response.
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    by qq66 12y ago

    I think that's actually a perverse case of survivor bias. You don't really get to be a significant oil or finance company without intimately knowing how to work with / play the regulatory system, so the ones you see still sta
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    by qq66 12y ago

    I'm not sure how much they save with deduplication. Dropbox is very expensive per GB, so people don't back up system files etc., and they preemptively block sharing of copyrighted files. What deduplication can they do on a large s
27. 777.▲
    by qq66 12y ago

    Courts and legislatures don't look too kindly upon flagrant violations of the spirit of the law. They view it as an end-run around their power. Although it happens slowly, loopholes do get shut (cf. Aereo). A startup that's trying
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    by qq66 12y ago

    Your grandmother buys you an ugly sweater. Six months later, close to death, she asks you if you like the sweater she got you.
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    by qq66 12y ago

    It might be expensive, but you could make the entire prison a Faraday cage (although not sure how that would work if people are allowed to go outdoors).
30. 780.▲
    by qq66 12y ago

    Well if we're just going to compare one-sided views: http://nypost.com/2013/11/02/nyc-on-track-to-be-nations-safe...