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by shingen 15y ago
"So maybe, just maybe, if we truly want to end this system, some of us will have to risk our lives." Or you could just elect Ron Paul. The powers that be would have to assassinate him to stop him from legalizing most drug use.
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by shingen 15y ago
Almost 20 years and running, I don't know if I'd go with that whole transitional part. We could change its name as specs evolve, but the idea of (and demand for) an information browser will remain so long as humans find it desirable to not
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by shingen 15y ago
"black, thin, rectangular, with text and video displayed on-screen" He better stay away from rounded corners.
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by shingen 15y ago
5 million manufacturing jobs is a lot, particularly given that we'd be exporting huge amounts of goods with those robots, which would keep more of our wealth domestic rather than exporting it to improve other nations. Those robots need to b
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by shingen 15y ago
Yep, you're talking about today. I assume you understand the revolution going on in robotics right now; from the software, to the materials to the process intelligence to the motors and fine manipulation. We're at warp 1 about to accelerate
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by shingen 15y ago
The west definitely needs to get back to manufacturing. You get rich making things, and poor buying them. Robots will, in the next few decades, wipe out all the labor benefit that China has. Their huge population base value will shift to be
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by shingen 15y ago
I don't believe that success is a life long habit for most people. I think successful people learn how to be successful through trial and error. There are formulas for success and failure. Some people learn faster, some people learn slower;
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by shingen 15y ago
I assure you that's not limited to the college drop out, street musician and starving artist. I don't think most people are taken seriously until they're successful. You're typically going to be valued based on how other people value you. I
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by shingen 15y ago
It's embarrassing what passes for journalism these days. Worse, this is slander on Sarah's part. The notion that he's a rip-off artist has a distinctly negative impact on his name and good standing as a developer. Particularly when it's the
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by shingen 15y ago
I'm working on #2, but the solution I've found is not exactly what Paul suggests. I ran into a need while working on my latest startup. I'm in bed with a large tech investor for my current company, and I'm working on this tech on the side.
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by shingen 15y ago
The iPad has no more of a moat around it than the iPhone does. The iPod had a moat around it courtesy of the extremely difficult dynamics of dealing with the music cartels. Apple broke the cartels and came to dominate them; nobody else was
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by shingen 15y ago
Who owns Taiwan's future? Which huge country doesn't regard Taiwan as being separate? You don't have to like it, but the answer is: the same country that now owns Hong Kong. Foxconn is a Chinese company. It's why they're given special privi
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by shingen 15y ago
krschultz - We're talking about the arguments coming out of the people championing Apple products, not what the company has a responsibility to do. Who ever said Apple wasn't going to try to maximize profit? I certainly didn't say that. So
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by shingen 15y ago
Because the traditional arguments, going back 30 years now, have strictly been in favor of Apple's design and product purity, not that they could get the most cash out of their customers with the highest prices.
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by shingen 15y ago
Completely different market dynamics. Consumers don't all want to own the same smart phone, in fact quite the opposite: consumers are completely unwilling to all own the same smart phone. Then to top it off, the smart phone market is roughl
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by shingen 15y ago
Yes I'm well aware of the constantly reiterated technicality that Foxconn is a Taiwanese company. They're a Chinese company. Period. If China believed differently, they wouldn't be allowed to do what they do in domestic China. China is nati
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by shingen 15y ago
Of course the Android sales dominate the cheaper end of the market. Apple dominates the expensive end of the market, as I said (lower market share, high margin). I always find it fascinating how the Apple arguments now center almost exclusi
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by shingen 15y ago
You mean China's manufacturing processes. Foxconn isn't going to hand Apple a permanent monopoly over efficient processes to the detriment of their domestic buddies. That's not how China works. Every day that goes by, Apple's lead will erod
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by shingen 15y ago
I hope you will. The assumptions by the slate article defy the nature of constantly improving hardware with falling prices. The iPad, unlike the iPhone, doesn't get to benefit from the carrier subsidies that hide the real price from consume
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by shingen 15y ago
This: "Because Apple has used its plentiful cash to corner the market on key tablet components—like touch-screen displays—many competitors will find that the only way to make a tablet with comparable features but a lower price is to sell it
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by shingen 15y ago
Well there's a pile of hubris a mile high.
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by shingen 15y ago
I don't think the issue is with Chris at all. It's with what he's buying and trying to do. There's a track record in publishing, where new money has an itch they want to scratch in old media. The last decade, this has happened in magazines
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by shingen 15y ago
YC doesn't have any anti-dilution clauses in their terms? Surprising given their small stakes. All I've seen are the surface features of the YC deals, so I'm not up to speed on the specific terms they get.
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by shingen 15y ago
New money learns how to lose money in an old way.
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by shingen 15y ago
Assume they got 5% of the company for $20k. It's very plausible they walked with between $500k and $1m. That's an awesome return on $20k.
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by shingen 15y ago
Hasn't succeeded... that's one way to frame the extraordinary disaster of death and mayhem that the 'war on drugs' has been. If we had to tally the financial toll, the community toll, the prison toll, the fiscal toll, the death toll --- you
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by shingen 15y ago
I thought it looked like a great concept for someone in their early 20's, just starting out, that didn't need much space. Somewhere I'd have been willing to live at 22, while trying to start a company on a shoe string. Then I saw the price.
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by shingen 15y ago
He mentions that his investment in Twitter is a lot riskier than Facebook, because they haven't found a way to monetize. I'd say that the biggest risk to Twitter's business isn't monetization, but replacement (dying like MySpace). Both risk
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by shingen 15y ago
Their economic measurement is pure B.S. $300 / month? Ok, so - 1) how many people buy, due to HN, that they can't directly attribute to a HN follow-through click? 2) what has the exposure been worth, for literally everything they do (from p
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by shingen 15y ago
The fascinating thing about their claimed 20 layers of security, is also that a failure by any single layer can result in a terrorist attack succeeding. They surprisingly don't point that out. (har har)

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