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2 points by tooltalk 9y ago|1 comments
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by tooltalk 9y ago
I'd like to know who those 9,000 American suppliers and manufacturers are. Other than Corning who supplies the Gorilla Glasses for almost all smartphone makers, I can't really name any significant domestic suppliers who would mak
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is it cheap and fast because they are run efficiently? or because they are subsidized by taxpayers or they are not burdened by the same rules that potential competitors have to hoop through? Having worked for a small gov't agency in NY
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Sure, I see where the confusion might arise. I guess most folks don't take Linkedin seriously -- my LinkedIn profile there is also outdated. When I dropped out of college to work a few years in industry, I indicated years I attended, r
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IMO, there should be automatic sunset provision in every law passed in this country, like the one existed for the Patriotic Act, and reviewed, renewed or expired every 5 or 10 years.
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He never lied about having a PhD. He was in middle of his PhD program when he decided to drop out and join Google -- nowhere in his his LinkedIn page, did he falsely indicate that he finished his PhD. Da'More must have completed at le
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Firstly, you won't hear about banks botching major IT projects and wasting $$ because it's their money they just wasted. The public doesn't have any stake in those private institution's decision making or their wallets
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Not sure about slowing down, but I'm afraid to update my mid-2012 rMacbook anymore. High Sierra crippled my external 32" monitor earlier this year; I spent a whole weekend downgrading it to El Capitan. Now my bluetooth devices s
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Red herring. It doesnt cost arms and legs to maintain what we have, and last I checked, infrastructure is a small fraction of our federal/state budget. We get crappy subway and infrastructure b/c of the efficient public sector wo
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America has been sending a lot of dangerous manufacturing jobs to oversea competitors for decades now. The data likewise show that about 2/3 of all occupational fatalities are caused by transportation incidents ("road incidents&q
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I don't know any modern slavery that pays over $200K/year in total comp, generous pension, health plans. Are you a citizen of Kuwait, Brunei, or perhaps Norway?
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Who says overnight service is an essential element? We could keep bus services all night -- and only if there is a compelling argument for it -- but having worked over-night shifts for a couple of years in college, it's waste of money
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This does not help prove your point. On the contrary, this dispute between Verizon and the City of New York precisely demonstrates the artificial barrier and impossible terms and conditions (ie, FIOS to every home) the city gov't crea
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what smart, humble people did he personally pick? Jobs and Woz were high school buddies and what bonded them together was their knack for pranks. Later in early Apple days, Jobs hired Sculley who eventually recognized Jobs's immatur
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There are no used-car sales folks in India? The father of Mac, Jef Raskin, had this to say about Jobs: "While Mr. Jobs's stated positions on management techniques are all quite noble and worthy, in practice he is a dreadful manag
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In NYC, there's weekly subway, road service disruption & delay every weekend due to maintenance. In Brooklyn, where my parents used to live, there is no weekend service for a good part of the year. On the other hand, most Verizon
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No, what he means is, in NY for instance, cable operators must agree to state, city franchise agreement to do business there and that's how we end up with the communication monopolies/oligarchy locally. It's an artificial bar
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Right, this comes after numerous lawsuits and one humiliating defeat for AT&T and FCC in 1956.
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Sure, but didn't AT&T continue to gouge consumers under their agreement with the gov't? and it wasn't until Thomas Carter, a private entrepreneur, challenged AT&T's monopoly in telephony that started shaking dow
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by tooltalk 9y ago
> ... everyone ELSE agrees to accept them for goods and services. It's circular. If you think about it, there is nothing circular about US dollar's supremacy. If you reside in the US, you are bound by the Legal Tender law -- m
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You mean like AT&T? Wasn't AT&T's monopoly in telecommunication propped up by gov't from 1910's all the way through 1980's?
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Sure, and you don't have the choice to get another ISP, because of, as the author notes in his article, the problem of regional monopoly created by local gov't regulation.
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On your first point, I don't think most (fiscal, small-gov't) conservatives would have much problem with tax incentive for electric vehicles, or anything that generally reduces taxpayer burden. But they are typically vocally agai
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by tooltalk 9y ago
LOL! First: I'm pretty sure what you meant to say was I employed a logical fallacy called appeal to ignorance to make my case, not the DK effect -- which is more about lack of self-awareness. Having studied econ and math in college,
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Well, in NYC, senior execs at major multinational companies and top surgeons aren't the only ones making $400K. https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/10/04/why-shoul... Yes, these are bl
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AT&T initially had a monopoly, but when their patents expired in early 1890's, they quickly began to lose their dominance to competitors. Between 1890's and 1913, AT&T lost telephone market share by about 40%, from 95% to
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Why is that so difficult to believe? https://nypost.com/2015/07/16/heres-why-your-subway-fare-kee... I used to work for a far less offensive agency in NYC, a public library system, and IT managers there make
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wasn't AT&T a regulated monopoly -- at least since 1913? FCC effectively barred competition and AT&T's pricing and policies required approval from gov't. It wasn't until late 50's and 60's when a relen
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Well, I guess that depends on the content of whatever you are viewing. I tried the same on my 5-year old rMacBook Pro: youtube.com: Firefox ~6%, Safari ~0% news.ycombinator.com: 0%, ~0% amazon.com: ~2%, ~2%
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Qualcomm's wireless patents are Standard Essential Patents (SEP) and FRAND (Fair Reasonable Add Non-Discriminatory) encumbered. In other words, Qualcomm voluntarily declared their wireless patents to Standard Setting Orgnizations (SSO)

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