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by tomkarlo 13y ago
That's a potential nightmare of self-dealing that I don't think is Bezos (or Amazon's) style. You'd have to get some third party to come in and validate the transaction price as fair, etc. Amazon's done a number of
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
There's an argument that a lot of branding is simply an attempt to "de-commoditize" a product and thereby justify a far higher margin due to its perceived uniqueness. This seems like a particular case of that strategy. It&#x2
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
The S4 size tends to do poorly with women (not just anecdotally, but based on market surveys.) It's large enough that it won't fit into their pockets. But if you go even larger (Galaxy Note) then women start to find the larger siz
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Perhaps. But that's speculation about the future, which needs to be separated from the current facts. Don't blame people for things they haven't done yet.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
(1) conflates services and infrastructure, which is sloppy / oversimplified. Google mostly gets from 1 to 5 by getting folks to use its services, not via its infrastructure directly. The infrastructure is primarily there to ensure that
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
It's also the source of an unbelievable amount of time-wasting and poor decision-making (due to questionable modeling.) I used to be 100-hr-per-week Excel driver and I do not miss that program, having not used Office in about 3 years.
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
So if I'm interpreting this right, they did $853 of sales on two product lines that probably had about an $700 and $1200 average sales price (including accessories like the keyboard that attach at time of sale.) It depends on the mix,
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Only very popular restaurants require a CC on OpenTable. One of the nice things about OT is that it's very easy to cancel (one click) which I suspect also helps restaurants maximize their yield, since they don't have to keep a tab
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
You're assuming restaurants look at it as a one-time transaction. But most good owners put a lot of focus on repeat, neighborhood customers, because those are the folks that will come in and dine on a Tuesday or Wednesday evening and h
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
From their site: "We welcome walk-ins on a first-come, first-served basis and set aside about a third of our seats for those guests every night, including our chef’s counter and several tables in the dining room. "
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Raising prices is the wrong way to address this behavior. Ultimately the restaurant wants to maximize yield, not just average meal price. Open tables are wasted inventory. So the priority should be to stop bots from grabbing reservations fo
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
One thing that's not being mentioned in these stories: at least at it's height, SAC trading (reportedly) represented several percentage points of NYSE / NASDAQ volume on an average day (which is huge considering their AUM and
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
This isn't even the same as devices that always require AC power but don't show a cord. It's basically a method of providing backwards-compatibility with HDMI ports that don't provide power, but if you're using the
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Except you don't necessarily have to do 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 with this. It either has controls over lock screen or in the notifications tray depending on the app. (and most users don't use passwords anyway. So really it's just a m
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Well, for any service supporting the SDK, which presumably will continue to grow. (Play movies/TV as well, btw.) I don't think "downloading a movie" is a use that they've shown or discussed. It seems primarily like
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
At this point, that's basically a closeout price. It's been out of production for a while. http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/barnes-noble-discontinue...
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Once the Chromecast starts playing a stream, you don't need to keep the controlling device turned on (or even in the house.)
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Actually, if you're a heavy YouTube user, the AppleTV interface is terrible and out of date. It's hard to search, hard to access your playlists, etc compared to using the web site or the apps. (I have an AppleTV and it's a co
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S.E.C. Says Texas Man Operated Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme(dealbook.nytimes.com)
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The poster's confused, but I'm not sure it's necessarily true that the city of Detroit should have a value that's greater than zero. If the current cost of paying pensions and the cost of maintaining (underused) infrastr
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
This is nonsensical. Bailing out Detroit wouldn't give Google (or anyone else) any incremental sway over the auto makers. Nor would it give them some kind of carte blanche to act as a benevolent dictator and make changes to legislation
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
No, because even a relatively large severance package is still worth far less than the expected value of ongoing employment. Especially for senior executives, who will generally have to spend longer searching for the next job than a more ju
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Even poor performance is the fault of both the company and the employee to some degree... unless something changed, the company hired them for something they weren't suited to do, or failed to develop them properly. And generally, othe
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Not every employee who loses their job does because they performed poorly. There are lots of situations (especially at startups that are evolving rapidly) where you might hire someone to do a job that is no longer necessary, or has been mad
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It's not that we don't believe it, it's that our brains are wired to focus on perceived threats and can't differentiate between hearing about a threat from a friend (with small, local distribution) and hearing about it f
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Let's not fall into hyperbole: there's a few places that have banned Glass, out of well, the entire world. That's a long way from "most of the time" or "many places." There's a lot more (and by that,
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Maybe if he was using Google to host his site, it would still be up. (Yes, I'm being glib, but with a point - there are real downsides to moving away from services like Google that have industrial-strength cloud services behind them. J
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Agreed... he lost me as soon as he cited that idiotic Kodak to Instagram concept. The idea that the 13 people at Instagram are the effective replacement for all of Kodak's business (while ignoring the 500K-odd people involved in buil
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There's a lower bound price where it's just not worth making and selling a computer of that price point because your per-unit price won't justify the inventory costs, design effort, risk and support costs. Right now, it seems
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by tomkarlo 13y ago
Both lotteries and casino gambling are heavily regulated in terms of their returns to consumers, and there are reasonable methods of recovering value if they fail to perform as promised, because the entities are generally still operating. Y

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