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by sah2ed 9y ago
I think the parent is talking about periodic internal audits i.e. conducted routinely but you are referring to forensic audits which are conducted occassionally when there is suspicion of wrongdoing (e.g. manipulated tax returns, inflat
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Applied this consistently, it's clearly a design decision. Perhaps the design decision assumes the separation is due to a divorce? In that case, keeping them separate is a reasonable decision since neither party would want to be f
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> What would make more sense in my opinion would be for Google to have a partnership with a big Enterprise player (or several in fact) and promote it loudly. They do: they have a Cisco partnership for Google Cloud. https://clo
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by sah2ed 9y ago
1. No, I meant Coke's recipe is a secret known only to a handful of anonymous employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca-Cola_formula#Current_ingr...
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I didn't downvote but I guess your question was a bit condescending since the narrator is likely not some helpless 10-year old still learning personal hygiene.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
The "ceo" typo in the "apple-ceo-jeff-williams" fragment from your URL initially threw me off. For a moment I thought there had been a change of guard at the CEO level.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Yes you can, by pricing according to their needs and not according to your costs. It's easy to forget that poor people are still people -- they have base needs like the rest of us: they need food, drink, clothes and of course shelter r
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Not always. High profits largely depends on the kind of competitive advantage (trade secrets, patents, market share etc) that can be deployed in one's sector, it is independent of industry. A few counter-examples that illustrates my po
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Who Nudges the Nudgers? (2017)(jacobitemag.com)
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Thanks for the link. I found some fairly interesting articles there.
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In addition to closeparen's point that such autonomous cars will be electric, they will also have much lower mantenance costs due to the lower internal complexity of doing away with the ICE.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
You forgot a very important factor many people fail to account for: a major inflection point or what Bill Gates characterizes as "eventually, the market will turn left".
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by sah2ed 9y ago
The classification as "developing" depends on what is being tracked. If measuring human development is a criteria to be evaluated, the UNDP tracks and computes since 1990 [0] the Human Development Index (HDI)[1] for several countr
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by sah2ed 9y ago
UNDP maintains data [0] on Human Development Index (HDI). [0] http://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi [1] http://hdr.undp.org/en/composite/MPI
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by sah2ed 9y ago
He has since capitulated -- Buffett now regrets [0] not buying Google for cheap when he had the chance. [0] http://fortune.com/2017/05/06/warren-buffett-berkshire-hatha...
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Sorry if my reply implied that the blockchain is somehow comparable to DRM -- they are not. I was merely talking about the effects of the blockchain. The outcome of using a blockchain is identical to the outcome of using DRM: they both ca
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> Besides which, when is turning abundance into scarcity a good thing? To limit the illegal reproduction of information goods (movies, TV shows, ebooks) which have zero marginal costs. This is why DRM was invented -- to offer control to
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by sah2ed 9y ago
MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Moxie Marlinspike [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15935583 [1] https://www.mobilecoin.com/whitepaper-en.pdf
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> With parental controls, kids do not have other ways of obtaining games ... Still possible outside the home or at school. Borrowing a device from the next door neighbor who could care less about parental controls is one way for kids who
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by sah2ed 9y ago
So you consider wireless headsets/ear phones utilizing BLE as an unworthy replacement for the headphone jack? That's fine. I'm not Apple or its representative, merely trying to help the grandparent see why Apple would do what
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> I solved it, was granted a relevant patent two days ago and I guess we'll see what happens in 2018. Patent link?
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Apple likes to set trends which means doing away with the past. The headphone jack is a 19th century invention and Apple feels that the time has come to make way for new tech as it has always done. Add to the fact that they obsess over maki
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Hard to attribute Ooma's choice to go with Butterfleye as solely due to price, I think a number of factors could have contributed to the decision to choose one over the other. If Amazon started courting Blink first, they'd have ad
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by sah2ed 9y ago
... 10 million units have been sold worldwide[0] so the total units sold in the US will undoubtedly be lower than that figure. [0] https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2017/12/12/16766332/nin...
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by sah2ed 9y ago
> (sorry, I tried to find a dot.boom company that sold oranges online so as to have an appropriate comparison, but failed.) Webvan? They did the online groceries thing, crashed and burned then got bought by Amazon.
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Uber appoints former Orbitz CEO Barney Harford as chief operating officer(techcrunch.com)
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by sah2ed 9y ago
The Bitcoin network doesn't do away with the concept of a middle man completely, it merely replaces one mutually trusted middle man (like the Visa card network) with several untrusted middle men (anyone that can afford a mining rig). I
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Sounds like you just invented the "pre-authorize hold" used by the credit card networks.
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Interesting. TIL of Chaumian e-cash and blind signatures. [0] Chaumian e-cash: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9544/how-does-ch... [1] Blind signature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by sah2ed 9y ago
Nope. That link has been posted around here since about 7 years ago! [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2453713

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