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by tooltalk 9y ago
Meizu has been using Samsung's Exynos chips for years now. I think there are plenty of radio modem makers/competitors now. It's not to say that it's easy to make your own chips, but the real problem here is that Qualcom
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Samsung is the largest customer and licensee of Qualcomm chips and patents. The problem here isn't that Samsung doesn't want to license Qualcomm's patents, but that Qualcomm DOES NOT license their patents to their baseband co
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Sure, that's what I thought -- because I don't know of any monopoly that didn't benefit from gov't subsidies or explicit protectionist policies.
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Knowing so little about the situation in Colorado, why can't they just allow more competition in the city, instead of running it themselves?
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by tooltalk 9y ago
They both were built in the name of defense and national security during the cold war. You are not suggesting that we be in a permanent state of wars to promote gov't funding of R&D?
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Are you referring to the fact that SV was initially founded by the defense industry -- which was in turn all funded by the gov't -- in its early days?
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Do you have any examples of monopolies arise naturally in unregulated market?
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by tooltalk 9y ago
I think the companies you cited are not very good examples of monopolies or monopolistic behaviors: I've always viewed FaceBook as a fad, just like MySpace that once dominated the social space. Or is there any particular behavior that
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by tooltalk 9y ago
so there would be cars just cruising around on their own without any drivers or passengers?
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Can you elaborate on Samsung and Huawei's favorable tax and public policies under which they operate? Are you saying that their tax rates rates are lower?
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by tooltalk 9y ago
hate to be a nitpick, but Apple doesn't have a license with Qualcomm. Instead Apple chose to outsource all their manufacturing and licensing to Foxconn whose licensing with Qualcomm predates Apple's iPhone release in 2007. In t
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Apple would still have to pay Qualcomm, Nokia, Ericsson and other wireless patent holders whether they make their own chips or not. While Qualcomm's chip sales (QCT) isn't small, most of their profit comes from licensing (QTL).
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Does Intel have a license with Qualcomm? Why did they then go to KFTC and USTFC complaining about Qualcomm not licensing their patents to competing baseband makers?
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Qualcomm's problem is with their patents licensing respect to competing OEM's, not necessarily with chips sales, which is really a side business, IMO. One regulator, KFTC, has found that Qualcomm's "no license, no chip&
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by tooltalk 9y ago
It seems like the type of monopoly mentioned in the first article is "public monopoly" which is deliberately created by regional gov't. The telecomm industry is also heavily regulated, as is the finance/banking.
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by tooltalk 9y ago
I think you got a couple of things mixed up: 1) McCain and Rogers's policy views are close to those of neocons (aka, cold-war liberals), best known for their hawkish foreign policy and efficient, smart gov't. They both are suppor
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by tooltalk 9y ago
I thought Ruby is/was mostly known for the Rail framework. I know that both Chef and Puppet are written in Ruby, but is there any particular reason why Ruby is better as configuration management/system automation language?
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by tooltalk 9y ago
I think you meant to say statuspage.io, not statuspage.com
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by tooltalk 9y ago
You mean "write-only" language? I had a lot of junior folks complaining about "un"readability of my Perl codes back when I used to work in finance. There were a lot of seasoned Java and C++ programmer on the business sid
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by tooltalk 9y ago
This has been going on for almost two decades, or as long as eBay has been around. Back in the days, once you unknowingly bought a fake SD card, you not only had to prove that you had a fake, but also ship it back to China to get a refund!
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by tooltalk 9y ago
how about Ingvar Kamprad of IKEA? Of course, he moved to Swiss in early 1970's to avoid Sweden's high taxes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2015/11/02/how-ikea-...
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Well, it's interesting to see that the USNews ranks Harvard ahead of UCBerkeley. Back when I used to work at a quant shop in NYC, Harvard wasn't even considered for hiring -- they only recruited from MIT, CMU, UIUC, Berkeley, Sta
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by tooltalk 9y ago
From what I remember, the overall smartphone sales in China is stagnating and Apple's marketshare is shrinking.
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Well, I think it's absurd to compare the post war (or the Korean war) tax rates to that of today. I think the effective corporate tax rates during the Reagan era would be more appropriate -- which then got whittled down again during t
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Samsung has already done this to a couple of competitors before. HTC had to switch to TF-LCD display back in early 2000's when Samsung wasn't able to supply enough OLED. Samsung's dominant share of mobile OLED (as the larg
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by tooltalk 9y ago
huh? Facebook and Google are monopolies?
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by tooltalk 9y ago
with AT&T, there is tethering fee on everything. I'm glad that I'm no longer with AT&T though. I switched to Tmobile last summer -- my bill went down from $200/month to $130/month for three unlimited line with 1
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by tooltalk 9y ago
Sure, and our current social contract says you pay less in taxes if you are super wealthy. There are places in this world where the rich are taxed to death, you are free to leave and settle in such utopia. Is that what you are saying?
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by tooltalk 9y ago
I haven't read the Piketty's. Can you cite specific chapters or data?
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by tooltalk 9y ago
What does that say about Microsoft stashing away much of their profit in oversea tax heavens to avoid paying that? Is that also the will of the people? Much of Gates's wealth is also protected in his own private trust so as not to be

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