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by stocknoob 3y ago
But what’s the opportunity cost of dealing with BigCo politics while your soul withers away in a meeting? There’s other goals beyond money, most bootstrappers want to live life on their own terms, even at a salary cut.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Short term yes, but long term, life's too short. Pursue FI, especially if you're a craftsman, so you can work on what brings you joy, without an expiration date. "Cattle, not pets" may be a good way to run a business, bu
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by stocknoob 3y ago
I wonder how those people feel about gas stations.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
In the private sector, you have to invest your higher salary and try to reach Financial Independence. Then you’ve bought yourself tenure, more or less.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Compare the source code at https://todomvc.com/ to see what various frameworks bring to the table. VanillaJS is generally much more code.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Don’t bother trying to convince people who think Apple’s product success is some marketing ploy that no one else has figured out how to replicate. Their worldview is the products are a priori inferior, so some magical reason must explain th
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by stocknoob 3y ago
https://www.holloway.com/g/venture-capital/sections/how-vcs-...
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by stocknoob 3y ago
That wasn’t phrased exactly right; the point is that those who benefit from formal education are those generally motivated to seek knowledge on their own. (Similar: it doesn’t matter what parenting book you read, the fact that you wanted to
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by stocknoob 3y ago
I wonder if the environmental studies account for the impact of using cars and planes for 15 years instead of trains.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Banks have a reserve ratio. The money lent suboptimally to you at 5% has an opportunity cost.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Unfortunately there’s no discord equivalent of <product review> site:reddit.com
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Thanks for the reminder: Zune. You think iPod belongs in the same breath as the others? Random protocols aren’t products. Surface is a strategic failure because it didn’t define the tablet market a decade ago, and iPad / Chromebook is
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Dell, HP and the enterprises that buy them don’t really care about UX.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
WinCE? Windows phone? TabletPC? Their non-vertical integrated devices sucked. Microsoft lost an entire platform, and yes, that was a problem (they’ve since recovered with other bets).
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by stocknoob 3y ago
It’s not a device for most people.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Thank you. It’s amazing how people think Apple is somehow mind controlling everyone to buy their products, and mind controlling them to have huge customer satisfaction ratings and resale value. Maybe, just maybe, the products are actually g
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by stocknoob 3y ago
You don’t make money targeting those without money to spend. By that logic, Tesla shouldn’t be the top selling car, why would you buy them instead of a 25k Corolla? Many are willing to pay a premium for a best-in class-experience, which is
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Who will develop software for wealthy users willing to spend money on new experiences?
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Once people get an AppleTV, do they go back to a chromcast/roku/firestick/media pc? It has a higher MSRP than the others, but once you get one…
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Apple makes money by not targeting products to people without money. I’d say it’s worked out pretty well for them.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Arranged marriages work in the same sense that 98% of people found deep satisfaction in their career as a peasant farmer 300 years ago.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
As an investor, you want to put your money where the growth is. A high profit margin means people value the product highly and you don’t have competitors driving you into a commodity business. If you made something for a dollar and sold it
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Just curious, what’s your definition of “orders of magnitude?” Toyota sells 8x the cars to make 2x the profit. Tesla has way better profit margins.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Are language and communication skills, timezone, cultural willingness to disagree with bad decisions / report bad news, diligence, and UX skills are fungible? Either they are, and every company has somehow overlooked them, or they aren
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by stocknoob 3y ago
From today, it lets a hobbyist create better home automation than trillion dollar FAANG companies can provide: https://www.atomic14.com/2023/05/14/is-this-the-future-of-ho... The novelty is asking the machine
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Yeah, I don’t think a machine that generates novel genius ideas 1 out of 3 times is useful either. Creating a new idea is exactly as hard as curating them.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
You probably didn’t mean it this way, but that reasoning emphasizes bringing beings into this world to avoid your own bad emotions, and not so they can experience their own good ones.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Next thing, you’ll tell me Apple wanted to charge $5k (inflation adjusted) for their new products in the 70s, and we know how that went. People simply don’t pay for new, powerful technology.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
You can include vue with a cdn script tag, no build required. No reason for jQuery anymore.
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by stocknoob 3y ago
Profit motives drive all creation. For example, without a profit incentive, we wouldn’t have human-written encyclopedia articles.

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