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by shingen 15y ago
Apple has the most to lose in a patent war, specifically because they're the cash king. $100 billion in cash and soon to be $40 billion a year in profit, up for grabs by patent lawsuits and trolls. When you have all the money, and only 3% o
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I didn't say anything about it being bad to enjoy your craft or what tools you use. I've been dirt poor. Painfully, not actually scratching by, live off of ketchup packets poor. Let's talk about only seeing green some time eh. No matter the
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by shingen 15y ago
I really don't think the issue is judging something based on revenue at all. There are numerous ways to measure the success of a product. It depends on what it is meant to accomplish. The real point is: it does not matter what tools you use
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by shingen 15y ago
There absolutely is a finish line: as in, launch the product. In fact, there are countless finish lines in business and product development. You're constantly running a new race every development cycle. Trends change, competitors change, th
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by shingen 15y ago
These debates are always silly at best, and painfully indicative at worst. Indicative of what exactly? A certain type of nerd (emphasis that I mean a sub group) that is likely to never accumulate wealth or create anything particularly succe
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by shingen 15y ago
Legitimately hilarious.
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Also, I think it needs the comment count. If a story doesn't seem interesting at first on HN, but the comment count is high'ish, it might change my mind about reading it and diving into the conversation. Or if the comment count is just plai
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by shingen 15y ago
I like what you did, congrats on the productive weekend. The only issue I might have with it (depending on how it functions or updates), is due to the lack of a linear flow, it might be difficult to quickly find a story / link again without
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by shingen 15y ago
Uhm, what? The entire modern biotech lab was practically founded in San Diego. Qualcomm was founded there. It might as well be Biotech Valley. There are over 400 relevant biotech companies located there.
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by shingen 15y ago
That's a radical exaggeration to put it mildly. First of all the notion that just because one person didn't develop something, therefore it would not exist (ie someone else would not have done it), is a false premise. Second, you're flat ou
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by shingen 15y ago
Well don't get me wrong, there's no reason to cover up what Welch was responsible for. He was obviously no saint (few are). And I don't doubt for a second that he played a role in the broad direction GE Capital took. His reputation deserves
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by shingen 15y ago
Your ignorance is showing. Jack Welch wasn't responsible for the increased leveraging, and horrific choices made after September 2001. Jeff Immelt was. Under Welch, GE Capital was not highly leveraged into subprime mortgages; under Immelt,
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by shingen 15y ago
Yes, the real world can be distasteful at times. I spent years refusing to play the game; preferring to stay strictly idealistic about ability and hard work paving the way. It got me nowhere fast as an entrepreneur. The minute I stopped fig
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by shingen 15y ago
Google is psychotic about AdSense and very hard to deal with. They make billions from their platform, but refuse to provide even a basic level of support. They could charge for tiered support and that would be perfectly acceptable; take a f
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by shingen 15y ago
I'm saying that our own evolution is now directly in our hands. At the current rate of change, much less a further acceleration, what we'll be able to do to ourselves engineering wise in just the next 50 years will be dramatic. Normal evolu
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In Soviet Russia envelope eat you
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by shingen 15y ago
One case where the rant should have continued. That they don't spend as much time and effort trying to disprove their owns theories, is the prime indicator that something is wrong with the conclusions being drawn.
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by shingen 15y ago
Humans won't be around in 1,000 years. Our shelf life is nearly at expiration. We'll become some other configuration of life.
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by shingen 15y ago
That headline meme sounds impressive: corporations hoarding cash. Until you dig deeper and find out that US corporations are accumulating debt at the fastest pace in world history. Their cash is required to continue to offset the massive de
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Maryland wants a download tax(washingtonexaminer.com)
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by shingen 15y ago
I've yet to see a large company that wasn't illegal, immoral, or anti-competitive by the utopian-fairy-nerd standard. That standard is more immoral than anything Microsoft ever did. It requires companies to kill themselves once they achieve
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by shingen 15y ago
He didn't do anything particularly offensive while running Microsoft. He shouldn't apologize. Competition on that big of a scale for that big of a prize should be very competitive, it should be painful and brutal. Gates didn't use a gun, he
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by shingen 15y ago
Not an improvement. Whoever designed that needs help on the design side of things. The sponsored posts section disrupts the site and wastes massive space by utilizing only the top fraction, but requiring about 1/3 the width. The site should
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by shingen 15y ago
In the not so distant future, people will pick the state they choose to live in based on Internet freedom.
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by shingen 15y ago
To the beast in DC, it has absolutely nothing to do with the arguments you posit. You're talking about logic; it doesn't apply to their decision making. It's about the money. That's why big oil has always been a target, it has been the most
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by shingen 15y ago
I wonder how long it's going to be until the monster in DC wants a bigger slice of Apple. Big oil gets targeted constantly for windfall tax proposals. As Apple marches toward $50+ billion in profit, it seems impossible the government will j
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by shingen 15y ago
Watch out for Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, the motivated, sometimes creative, sometimes brilliant thief that can take your idea further than you ever dreamed. There's a huge potential value in some types of 'theft' (maybe not according to Xer
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by shingen 15y ago
You just said that the culture is rotting. The relations between the people of a nation is a massive part of the culture of a nation. What people place value on, and consequentially how people relate to eachother, how they value eachother,
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People incorrectly focus on trade deficits. It has become universal wisdom that being a net exporter is the key. America ran trade deficits during the fastest period of its growth, almost the entire 19th century. So how did we accumulate so
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by shingen 15y ago
Well if you like things that are state owned, the government system in America owns 45% of the entire US economy (roughly $7 trillion in spending between local + state + federal). Surely that makes it possible for our economy to plan really

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