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by robryan 10y ago
Is that really the consensus for small artists on Spotify? If I get a band recommendation or stumble across someone (online or happen to see them live) the first place I am going to look for more of their stuff is Spotify. Sure a small act
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by robryan 10y ago
I think that they only have one customer lined up which actually needs the heavy? And hopefully being able to do the red dragon mission in 2018.
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by robryan 10y ago
Typically though once you get to that stage the continued maintenance of keeping it on the road is going to quickly run more than the value of the car. If that work would get you another 5 years it would be worth it, usually though somethin
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by robryan 10y ago
This isn't what usually happens though. If advertising drove negative value to a brand over time it just wouldn't be purchased. Not many companies can take off purely on the quality of their product, especially in boring industrie
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by robryan 10y ago
Isn't that what Heroes of the Storm is though? It doesn't seem to have been very successful at pulling players away from Dota.
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by robryan 10y ago
The actual innovation in Dota 2 was on the esports side. From setting up the $1 million International before the game was even released spawned an industry of professional players, sponsors, casters, personalities and production companies.
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by robryan 10y ago
To be fair it is pretty half hearted compared to the usual acquihire spiel.
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by robryan 10y ago
It is no different to a human driver deciding to speed.
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by robryan 10y ago
Is there any data out there on variations? It would be interesting to see how other strategies compare such as buying the next 100 largest market caps outside the S&P 500, also not selling stocks that are removed.
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by robryan 10y ago
Same with Hong Kong, Uber have started up there but I think they will struggle.
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by robryan 10y ago
In Australia what I hate is when people stand outside supermarkets or on shopping strips and say anything to try and get you to stop so they can sell you on something. This might be okay if it was someone trying to tell you about a cause th
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by robryan 10y ago
Perhaps this is just convenient for employers. The real problem could be in shift change procedures but they aren't incentivised to fix this and lower shift times.
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by robryan 10y ago
$25 a month is such a minor cost for our company that cost doesn't come into it.
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by robryan 10y ago
Most spacex dates slip. Sure they are wildly optimistic but the end result is still much faster than anyone else.
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by robryan 10y ago
Why wouldn't they price at a rate that would generate some sales? Given that nearly all of the costs associated with the book would have already been paid?
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by robryan 10y ago
Would many investors preferred this course of action at the time that she was hired?
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by robryan 10y ago
Hard problems though might involve making a 5 or more year bet and investing billions with no guarantee of a return. Much more of a risk than bumping the iPhone specs.
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by robryan 10y ago
Often it is a bit more complicated. The last one I did it had say a $30 monthly phone charge with a $15 rebate. I guess so they could make the pone look cheaper while just building the rest of the phone cost into the service cost.
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by robryan 11y ago
What is the difference though between them being paid for unproductive work for the sake of having a job or being paid a basic income?
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by robryan 11y ago
Depends on the resulting market size.
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by robryan 11y ago
How does that work? If credit card fees are well under 5%.
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by robryan 11y ago
Typically though most retailers are on there. Granted the current incarnation is much better for retailers in that it doesn't always make the cheapest price clear.
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by robryan 11y ago
Do you want your address actually verified or a feature that makes AVS useless?
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by robryan 11y ago
You can also get a 5 day Shenzhen only visa at the border for a lot cheaper than the regular Chinese visa. (Although only from the Lo Wu crossing).
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by robryan 11y ago
It depends a lot what you are after as well. Do you want someone who is able to rigidly enact a customer service manual and is hopefully understandable on the phone to your customers? Or do you want someone who is easily understandable and
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by robryan 11y ago
I would make that argument. What specifically makes PHP less developer productive than Ruby?
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by robryan 11y ago
Making them illegal hasn't stopped anyone.
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by robryan 11y ago
You should have an intuitive idea around complexity and when it makes sense to optimise. I don't think though you need to know that for example fastsortx is n log n in the best case off the top of your head in an interview situation. Y
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by robryan 11y ago
Surely this isn't worth it in the long run for Yelp. I understand if someone was constantly absent in a way that looked like they were abusing goodwill. Surely though, the loss of morale from fellow employees over an incident like this
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by robryan 11y ago
We are already at that stage. Apple is going to have to push out some very inefficient new software before my 5s is too slow and needs an upgrade.

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