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by switch11 6y ago
The answer is very simple Amazon didn't want to expand on Kindle functionality because 1) They were scared people would stop reading books 2) They were scared of it becoming something they couldn't control 3) They have their heads
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by switch11 6y ago
There is a very interesting article on how App stores lead to the prostitution of developers I can't find it at the moment. If you can then do read it He speaks to points very similar to what you are saying Every free market with infin
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by switch11 6y ago
This is very easy to do when you are a person When you are a company (I speak as having worked in a trillion dollar company, a $10 billion one, and running a startup right now) 1) Office leases which you can't get out of 2) Server cost
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by switch11 6y ago
guess the Judge was honest and didn't accept a bribe
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by switch11 6y ago
Could someone please explain to me what the value in this article is? It's written by a 18 year old who has never started a company So, as someone who has started multiple companies and currently running a profitable albeit small start
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by switch11 6y ago
Perhaps something people are leaving out ENTIRELY 1) It's not the Social Network is toxic OR Chasing engagement is toxic 2) Perhaps the TRUTH is that people themselves are FLAWED DEEPLY what does Political Correctness and
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by switch11 6y ago
10 to 14 hours a day HOWEVER A) Around 4 hours of this is on 'must do and not very productive work' B) So in effect there is just 6 to 10 hours of work a day on vital stuff
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by switch11 6y ago
You are, sort of, missing the point These Apps and Services are for 1) People who want 'to feel good' i.e. they did something for their fitness 2) People who want to transition from knowing nothing about fitness, to knowing someth
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by switch11 6y ago
this is such a beautiful comment. So very true
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by switch11 6y ago
this is so true
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by switch11 6y ago
very well put
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by switch11 6y ago
Here is an example of the type of anti trust stuff Google does One of the industries we work in is a classic New Startups Vs Established Silicon Valley Company/Companies type of industry In this case the Established companies are Googl
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by switch11 6y ago
This article is rather pointless India has been independent for only 73 years For Context: US has been independent for 244 years It's the 2nd inning and people keep writing articles assuming we're in the 7th inning stretch Give it
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by switch11 6y ago
Yes There are lots of cons and a few pros It's best to think of Reddit as a giant grouping of millions of subreddits Some very good some good Many terrible some absolutely terrible 1) Use old.reddit.com the new site is terrible 2) The
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by switch11 6y ago
agreed 100%
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by switch11 6y ago
this is very interesting -When Unreal 4 swapped out UnrealScript for C++ it went into overdrive in terms of performance and clean. why do you think this happened? why was C++ so much better
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by switch11 6y ago
agree with your comment Also, a genuine question Are Amazon, Twitter, Google, Facebook really doing any very technically amazing things? mostly they are building platforms to collect more and more data and spy more and more that's hard
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by switch11 6y ago
I agree with you 100% I run a completely distributed company and no one in their right mind would argue that a completely distributed company or even a partially work from home company can be as good as the same people working TOGETHER in o
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by switch11 6y ago
Interesting. Thought Facebook didn't screw over its own employees seems they are getting inspired by Amazon
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by switch11 6y ago
Wikipedia is a very useful resource and at the same time it does have its biases I'll give an example that should illustrate this ONe of my close friends belongs to a royal family The Wikipedia editors who control the article will not
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by switch11 6y ago
If they can raise so much money, then perhaps honest people like us should focus on What skillset did they have that allowed them to raise so much money with a model that is not viable or sustainable And learn to raise money ourselves Inste
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by switch11 6y ago
Google, Facebook, Whatsapp (part of Facebook now), Amazon are all basically spy companies They are 'America's Edge' Let's consider the narrative -> That one corner of the world (Silicon Valley) is so good at technolog
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by switch11 6y ago
Felix Dennis in his book has a quote related to committing to becoming rich The people who suffer most are the ones closest to you It's meant for family and friends It also applies to an extent to your work colleagues If you pursue exc
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by switch11 6y ago
Please see the earlier comments Then see what WalMart's ecommerce growth was before Marc Lore and what it is now after Marc Lore Perhaps the single biggest factor that it is growing fast is that they got the CEO/Founder of Diapers
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by switch11 6y ago
came on here to see when someone would catch this Marc Lore was doing a great job with Diapers.com but ran out of money and had to sell to Amazon that must have been a painful 2 years working for the guys who beat you now WalMart has him an
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by switch11 6y ago
I actually like your website It's very direct and no nonsense I'll get in touch with you. Let's see if we can do some work together
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by switch11 6y ago
you are not missing anything Most AI 'experts' take things that are very specifically NOT INTELLIGENCE such as Machine Learning Big Data Evolutionary Algorithms Neural Networks and pretend they are 'the machines becoming sent
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by switch11 6y ago
I agree with your sentiment I'm Canadian and I've seen that the US tends to let companies do anything, provided they funnel enough campaign funding to politicians via lobbying basically legalized bribes
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by switch11 6y ago
perhaps you could explain what your stance is are you French? why do you think it is harmful to French citizens? What qualifies you to share this opinion
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by switch11 6y ago
Its not that easy We are a small startup and we were outpacing 2 of the 4 giants They resorted to outright illegal stuff manipulation of search engine results not delivering our emails when it was to their email service hacking attacks clic

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