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961.
by smackfu 12y ago
Twitch already rolled out their own ContentID-styled system, pre-acquisition.
962.
by smackfu 12y ago
They also have their own TV box, Amazon Fire TV.
963.
by smackfu 12y ago
It seems like on the ground in Scotland, the sides are just "YES" and "NO" at this point.
964.
by smackfu 12y ago
OTOH, if their sample size is the same as the population size, their data is by definition statistically significant.
965.
by smackfu 12y ago
All the Lego blogs just use "brick" in their name instead.
966.
by smackfu 12y ago
So that's how you want to spend your retirement years, as a babysitter?
967.
by smackfu 12y ago
>Google, Apple and Microsoft, all have the power to delete those apps from your device Where does the article say that?
968.
by smackfu 12y ago
A 4S supports iOS 7 and 8. Are you still running iOS 6? I think that's a very small group of people at this point.
969.
by smackfu 12y ago
Which doesn't exactly make a ton of sense, unless you are trying to restrict to liquid assets.
970.
by smackfu 12y ago
>#1 is cheapest, but ties the family down to where the grandparents are. Both parent jobs need to be located relatively close by. Also, it's kind of shitty to your parents. Is watching your kid from 9-5 on weekdays really what they
971.
by smackfu 12y ago
Same thing with millionaires. A million dollar net worth is not the same thing it once was.
972.
by smackfu 12y ago
Rich is such a meaningless word that people can argue all day over who is rich. Using salaries is an especially terrible choice though. Disposable income is a much better match for what we think of as rich.
973.
by smackfu 12y ago
Investing more is certainly not a way to "stretch a six-figure salary." Not sure why they included that part. Investing in your own retirement (vs. a pension) is probably a big reason why salary money doesn't go as far.
974.
by smackfu 12y ago
That's got to suck finding an undiscovered Mayan city, and then it turns out to actually be a discovered-but-lost Mayan city. Sure makes you appreciate GPS though.
975.
by smackfu 12y ago
Ah, good point. We are in a bit of a grey area at our current location. We don't really have UberX in this town (Middletown, CT), but we live near to the interstate that a lot of UberX drivers are on going to and from a metro they do
976.
by smackfu 12y ago
5. They have loyal customers. "Brand X has bad produce" is knowledge handed down between the generations. 6. They have pretty low margins on a lot of their inventory.
977.
by smackfu 12y ago
Mainly because they don't actually license them unless the local authorities force them to. They do vet them, in theory. And to follow-on, the practical difference is that they are a lot less terrible than most existing cab / car
978.
by smackfu 12y ago
Uber provides the drivers with a locked-down iPhone to get the ride requests, so it's not that simple.
979.
by smackfu 12y ago
To be honest, every buyer should push you on cost, otherwise they aren't doing a good job of representing their company. I push you on cost, you give me a break, my company makes more money. No harm in trying either, since most selle
980.
by smackfu 12y ago
My preference is for apps to just have a directions link, and then the various providers can plug into the central OS maps. The odd thing is that Uber isn't integrated into the iOS Maps app as a transit provider. So you can't act
981.
by smackfu 12y ago
Besides the other comments, it seems like a mistake to compare purchase price to investor valuations. Buying control of a company is worth a lot more than buying part of it.
982.
by smackfu 12y ago
It's a lot harder to grow a hardware company. Especially if the market for your services is limited, so you need to develop new hardware (like the Falcon Heavy) in order to expand the market.
983.
by smackfu 12y ago
The bizarre thing is that ActiveX is about letting your run native code from a web browser, so it should have a better platform-matching UI than a JVM or a web app.
984.
by smackfu 12y ago
This is more meant for rural riding, but the tech is getting there: http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2014/07/hands-on-backtracker-rada...
985.
by smackfu 12y ago
It would only work if you had an untraceable link between the smart people selling the app and the dumb people using the app.
986.
by smackfu 12y ago
Yes, I would rephrase that as, "there's hardly any evidence that this happens at all." It's almost impossible to tell why a thief robbed a particular empty house unless they are caught and confess.
987.
by smackfu 12y ago
They seem very slow, given that the videos are 40x. That's not frustrating for students?
988.
by smackfu 12y ago
Eh, I think the biggest problem is just right-of-way issues. It's easiest to build high-speed rail if you are starting from scratch, instead of trying to work around an active commuter rail line and an existing Amtrak service. But ob
989.
by smackfu 12y ago
And even Chicago to NYC is pushing it. It's 800 miles, so four hours by train at 200 mph vs. two hours by plane.
990.
by smackfu 12y ago
Yes, the old experience of, "just show up at the train station and buy a ticket for today at the window" has just become a good way to overpay.

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