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by qq66 12y ago
I don't know about A's for effort. All I know is that I spend 10 hours on my Surface Pro 2 for every hour I spend on the iPad.
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by qq66 12y ago
When one person posts something, it reminds other people of other things they've read on similar topics.
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by qq66 12y ago
This page has a link to an Excel spreadsheet that calculates optimum speed as a function of fuel price and other factors: http://www.intertanko.com/Members-Information/benchmark/Opti...
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by qq66 12y ago
Ships actually use very precise algorithms to calculate the relative cost of labor vs. inventory getting delayed, using factors like the depreciation of the cargo, the spot price of fuel, and even changing interest rates in the market. Oil
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by qq66 12y ago
If net neutrality is gone for good, the telecoms don't even have to bother entering the streaming business. They just have to look at Netflix's profits each year and charge (profits-$1) the next year, letting Netflix stay barely i
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by qq66 12y ago
Drones aren't great "because the US has them," drones are great because of the widespread civilian applications of them. Precision agriculture, logistics, law enforcement, meteorology, mapping, search and rescue, the list gro
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by qq66 12y ago
It takes a lot more skill and capability to be a creator than a consumer. I would like someone to make a movie about two time travelers who chase each other through time like a car chase. However I have zero filmmaking skill and I don'
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by qq66 12y ago
No, but I would argue that regular internet is approaching an essential service. Nobody needs FiOS but lots of people need access to email/web browser/etc.
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by qq66 12y ago
Ensuring universal service is something that governments try to do for things considered "essential": electricity, water, postal service, and broadband Internet. The reason that Verizon signs contracts to serve all of a city like
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by qq66 12y ago
Well, you know that the admonition about buying a parrot is in there because it happened at least once. Nobody thinks up that case in advance. Overall the rider seems pretty reasonable for someone who travels so much and asks so little for
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by qq66 12y ago
Pinterest makes literally no money today. Facebook made a billion dollars in profit this quarter. Who, exactly, has the "highly uncertain financial future"?
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by qq66 12y ago
Well, they're not making any money yet, and to do so, they'll have to start selling something to someone.
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by qq66 12y ago
Sometimes that feedback is impossible to give though. If I was a judge in a chocolate cookie competition, I might really like all of the entries. But I'd pick my favorite. What would I tell the other bakers? I really enjoyed their cook
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by qq66 12y ago
Everything in existence ignores the needs of someone (except maybe air and water). Even the closed-captioned version would ignore the needs of the blind.
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by qq66 13y ago
Hmm, I don't think of Apple as anti-user when I plug in my iPad in the dark without having to look at it.
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by qq66 13y ago
If someone buys every house around yours, do you lose the right to traverse their land to get to and from your own?
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by qq66 13y ago
Not really. That blog is about whitewashing failure and disregard for user data while this company seems to be upfront about it and doing the best they can for customers.
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by qq66 13y ago
The problem with this reasoning is that it's based on the incorrect assumption that one can "own" land completely and outright. This isn't true since land ownership itself is something that can only exist with the consen
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by qq66 13y ago
Apple has held onto many proprietary interfaces in the face of much more widely adopted standards, but usually the products have been better off for it. Sure, the one-button mouse is horrendous, but FireWire was better than USB, the Lightni
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by qq66 13y ago
Multinational corporations have adopted the CEO firing as a customary response to major scandal. It lets them publicly demonstrate that they're changing, while simply replacing the CEO with a near-equivalent.
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by qq66 13y ago
That's the marginal cost of the raw components. That doesn't even begin to describe the total cost of parts (validation/tooling/inventory), which itself doesn't begin to describe the total cost of manufacturing, whi
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by qq66 13y ago
There are definitely consumers who are willing to pay 2x the market price for a job exceptionally well done. However, they're not going to assume that because someone juggled exceptionally well that they'd do an equally good job a
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by qq66 13y ago
You don't need to pay them $250, you can download your data at 1MB/sec or so. I just needed my data ASAP and paid them to overnight the disk.
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by qq66 13y ago
Backblaze has worked very well for me. It took two months to upload but now it stays synchronized. When I had a disk failure I had them overnight a HDD to me for $250.
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by qq66 13y ago
There are thousands of people out there who are desperately looking for a "technical co-founder." Most of them will never find such a co-founder because the numbers are stacked against them. You have an advantage here -- you can h
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by qq66 13y ago
It's not that they should try to be Reddit -- it's that they should try something different. Big companies attack other big companies all time time, and it almost never works when the attack is head-on at the point of the competit
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by qq66 13y ago
The real-name policy itself was only known by a small group of people. However, the idea that G+ would be a place for a your One True Identity was directly attacking Facebook, which is not the way in which Facebook was vulnerable. If they h
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by qq66 13y ago
50% of people live in below-average accommodations.
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by qq66 13y ago
I love it when a comment fits a username so perfectly.
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by qq66 13y ago
The presidency is by FAR the most dangerous job in America. Out of 44 presidents, eight (18%) have died in office, four by assassination. The next-most dangerous job in America is logging, with a death rate of 128 per 100,000 workers per ye

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