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by rortian 16y ago
I think you making a totally fair point about the symmetry of the situation. However, I think his attitude (and by symmetry probably hers too) is an unhealthy one. He can always think, "were it not for her attitude I, errr we, could be more
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by rortian 16y ago
I know they don't in Korea. Hangul lends itself to typing.
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by rortian 16y ago
1. Please show me a state with a per capta gdp that approaches one from the third world. 2. Your wife may be forcing you to stay in state to be with her. Either celebrate your marriage and don't bitch about how it's bringing you down or mov
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by rortian 16y ago
No it's not. I'm not exactly sure why, but issues are dated a week ahead. Visit your local bookstore/magazine stand if you don't believe me.
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by rortian 16y ago
Yeah because every time I say the f-bomb on the phone there party on the other end hears a bleep. Let's be serious about what the FCC could do when regulating the internet. Anything they try to do will have to pass 1st amendment muster.
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by rortian 16y ago
When do people here go to the Google home page? I only use Chrome and Opera so I never need to visit a url to do a web search.
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by rortian 16y ago
I was glad to see this announced, but please never try to convey news via the wsj opinion section.
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by rortian 16y ago
Sadly, it's extremely hard to see that happening. Write once, run anywhere was a basic attempt at undermining the importance of Microsoft; oddly, it seems to have undermined differences in server OSes. CLR will always be a framework that ma
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by rortian 16y ago
Interesting to hear. I'm sure many people would be interested in certain things not taking place on their network, but do you really think it is appropriate for Comcast to make that call? Also I'm trying to stress that you can only jump pro
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by rortian 16y ago
Insurance, a heavily regulated industry with many competitors, huh. You suggest that regulation always hurts competition and that is simply not true. Bundling is an interesting topic and in some cases it not necessarily malicious. However,
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by rortian 16y ago
Read your econ. Regulation is hardly the only barrier to entry in a market. The huge barrier to entry for cable, water, electricity, and telecommunications (for now excluding cellular) is building the infrastructure. There are good reasons
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by rortian 16y ago
Several things. You ramble on about an insane version of the origins of the term Ponzi scheme. I asked what quantity you were taking a quantity of, you explain that in fact you meant to allude to Speed. You could have said revenue or costum
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by rortian 16y ago
I don't know if you are trolling or just extremely happy to be alive, with possible assistance from certain chemicals (not something I condemn in all cases). However, please try to be coherent. >irremediably tainted by the vileness of B
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by rortian 16y ago
>(in this sense it's not quite entirely a ponzi scheme, but there is no closer idea) Why not just say, "I'm super ignorant. Sorry about this post." A lot of companies have made statements that in retrospect, and maybe even at the time,
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by rortian 16y ago
No, it's actually really horrible. In a Ponzi scheme you: 1. Fraudulently promise returns. 2. Payout imaginary returns with other people's money. >at a certain level a Ponzi scheme is any business that lives entirely off a positive and
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by rortian 16y ago
It's not apples to apples. They are totally different tasks and frameworks. They are probably having the same issue Rails 2.x has on it. Each request needs to have several libraries loaded. Scala is probably just using servlets fairly direc
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by rortian 16y ago
Alright but for your information that post is almost a year old and GAE/J is now much more mature. IMO, a developer should just use what they are more comfortable with. Sadly, it looks like the groovy framework has not been tweaked to work
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by rortian 16y ago
I hope you don't think this site demonstrated this. The python site was a proxy. The java/scala websites did more than trivial things.
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by rortian 17y ago
Google Voice lets you send and receive text messages for free. TextNow let's you send free text messages, and if you integrate with Google Voice you can receive them as well. Operating an SMS gateway is expensive and I'm sure there are not
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by rortian 17y ago
I hope you realize how simplistic you are being. Does Apple give its shareholders all of its profits? Hardly. It is interesting to theorize what a stock price for a firm that cannot be purchased by another firm (at least extraordinarily unl
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by rortian 17y ago
Yeah, but as others have pointed out, you haven't paid Google anything (you could have but probably not). It would be nice if facebook were public. Then we would know how much/if they are losing money on each user today.
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by rortian 17y ago
That's a good point and I should have stressed that this was in the past. It's fair to say the have reached a critical mass (in terms of members, photos on the site) where they could raise more revenue now but won't see a huge loss in usage
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by rortian 17y ago
Where did this $750M come from? Traditional capitalists. What rubes right? I have a hard time with someone trying to assert facebook isn't a success. However, if you think success is 'profitable in 2010' then far out they are a failure. Thi
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by rortian 17y ago
>c) If the advertising market ever tanks, they're screwed. You know that has happened recently right? People at facebook, and prominent investors like Andreessen, have pointed out repeatedly that they could raise a lot more revenue. How
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by rortian 17y ago
Poor VCs not getting quick cash from their investments. They truly are victims for getting a stake in a hugely successful company. VCs are not private equity. I'm sure they didn't mind quick cashouts during the late 90s, but expecting to ge
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by rortian 17y ago
If I had to guess, 'good' or reputable attorney in this area probably do not price for people in your situation. They probably have plenty of wealth clients that give them more than enough work. You probably will do fine with a tax attorne
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by rortian 17y ago
Bummer this was downvoted; I laughed. Perhaps you could use Wesley Snipes jokes here to greater effect.
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by rortian 17y ago
Nope, there were serious legal issues. Edit: Just to be clear, these two firms would essentially own the mainframe market (sure IBM does pretty much already but that doesn't mean you let the acquire more market share)
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by rortian 17y ago
Talks didn't break down, there were big anti-trust issues.
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by rortian 17y ago
Probably because that was the only thing possible at the time.

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