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robryan
12y ago
Fair competition is great. It isn't a level playing field though if Uber can do everything a Taxi can without the extra obligations that add to overheads.
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robryan
12y ago
To what end? Anyone with a car can start their own taxi service? I don't think it is in the public's interest to make taxi driving unprofitable which is what would likely happen without regulation and licensing.
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12y ago
Reminds me of Diaspora, which come about at the high of hate for Facebook.
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12y ago
With web startups it is probably more common that you will have a stack of 3rd party services you hook into of which may work in a way that someone else couldn't just plug their own credentials in and have it run.
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robryan
12y ago
I think it is more accurate to say that for each concept, there would be a great starting point for which they could then confirm.
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12y ago
Yeah true, I guess it is more that I have no interest in having a conversation about clothing, whereas talking about a hobby to someone who actually has an interest in it is very different. I also feel awkward where anyone is coming across
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12y ago
It depends, I think on the whole it probably is a positive bit depending on the store can be off putting to certain people. For example with clothes shopping I have avoided shops which in the past have tried to be overly helpful. I much pre
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robryan
13y ago
They already do that with fulfillment by amazon. There is a certain price difference for which Amazon will show you that fulfilled product vs a cheaper marketplace offer with slower fulfillment/ shipping.
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13y ago
If anything this might discourage picking up a lot of domain names. Instead of the somewhat standard practise of buying your name under say 5 top level domains with all these inclusions most companies will probably decide it isn't wort
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13y ago
Well, I think what they are saying is, assuming your opponent has equal game knowledge and practise and in general has a similar overall strategic decision making that a younger person can probably outdo you with the very short term decisio
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13y ago
I disagree, at the most basic level they are both about allocating resources most efficiently.
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robryan
13y ago
He is being downvoted because it is crazy to expect websites to work around the bugs in various 3rd party plugins. This is an issue for the plugins to fix.
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13y ago
Does it matter about everyone else though? Your company values rock solid encrypted communication and it willing to pay a premium to ensure this it remains rock solid. The fact that everyone gets it is just a side effect of that.
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13y ago
I think businesses that are giving retail me not a commission are largely throwing their money away. As described the vast majority of sales being generated are from people that have already started the purchasing process on your website an
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robryan
13y ago
The economics are in this area aren't at all good for someone new to come in. The price of the OS is trending towards zero and even the completely free to the end user linux hasn't made significant ground into the general desktop
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13y ago
I think it has a lot to do with the battery size. Last year there was I think 6 seconds of boost per lap allowed. Now it is something like 30-40 but they did need a bigger battery to support that.
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13y ago
I wonder if there is a difference between the CEO type role and a programmer. It is possible in the case of a CEO that you would be able to spend more total time. Sure your performance would still suffer but it could be that just being able
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robryan
13y ago
Sure it does. Value is created because companies are being pushed by the competition to continuously innovate and improve.
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13y ago
I agree, I have always disliked how Facebook has never taken advantage of a decent sized screen. Whether it would produce more engagement, who knows.
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13y ago
There is a crazy amount of money involved. I understand the whole not in it totally for the money thing but at some point the massive figure being offered becomes hard to ignore.
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13y ago
Because depending on your industry the vast majority of people have never used bitcoin and have no intention of working the whole thing out. Most of everyone interested in buying online though can use one of a credit card, PayPal or a bank
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13y ago
I think it is more akin to building a 18k email marketing list and then having to pay a fee for each subsequent email you sent to them.
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13y ago
It is convenient for Facebook that it is in the best interests of the users. Facebook in part become as big as it is today via the free advertising it receives on the vast majority of business advertising which includes a Facebook page link
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13y ago
The issue is the tangible results. You could put a lot of money in science and end up with a lot of dead ends. I think it would be better to think of it as investing in the cutting edge of science that has already been researched being impl
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13y ago
I assume you could probably hit the water at an even lower speed than that without stalling the plane before you got there?
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13y ago
Group/ state with low morals wanting a plane seems reasonable to me. Obviously if you were attempting to make a point with hijacking a plane there would be someone out there loudly claiming responsibility.
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13y ago
I guess with the no interest company that they make enough given the discount they purchase them for and the no additional interest helps get more of them paid back.
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13y ago
We pay for 100gb, I got notification that we were automatically moving to the cheaper rate.
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13y ago
The tenant is also aware of the legal status of the unit. The rental laws seem to be very restrictive over there. Here in Australia you are often given a one year contract which can then go to month to month with a months eviction warning i
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13y ago
So by the same logic the woman should have never taken up the lease in the first place given the illegal nature of it.
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