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by vonklaus 11y ago
Many people want gun laws to change. For better or worse there will still be millions of guns on the street. So if you don't want "bad guys" to use guns or encryption it would be pretty impractical to go back in time and prev
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I am encouraging everyone to vote throughout 2016. For approximately $605.7142 per person we could buy verizon, and likely gain a controlling interest with limited participation. Voting is super important part of being American, or in a cou
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> If you're mad about the ebook market concentrating on Amazon, you should be absolutely furious at Apple over agency pricing. Pretty consistently, when I am not fucking about on here and trying to have a good sense of humor about v
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> The only "reason" why temporary price dumping is bad, is if it is being done for the purpose of raising the price in the future. > Amazon wins by having prices as low as possible, and beating everyone else at the cost cutt
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by vonklaus 11y ago
i actually have been doing this a bit. I asked on hacker news and someone else I found online. Told them I would help them/lend them my core skillset for theirs. I think it would make sense as a community, it does e.g. HN, or maybe an
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Look, im not making the claim it was a shining moment of free market triumph. However, prices are just information and witnout enough data, you don't know what the price is. So you have amazon selling at 9.99 and a fragmented group try
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Amazon controlled 90% of the market share and was price dumping. It is dubious that they colluded too much, as they were buying from the sellers , which is literally how markets work. Amazon, and I am not joking, in an article called Am
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I was claiming you didn't read the bloody article mate. I am not trying to be rude, but if a sworn statement by the people selling books[0], who have the receipts, to the highest court in the land doesn't convince you Amazon itsel
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by vonklaus 11y ago
> If I'm in a physical community where the loudest, and most controversial members are making it a terrible experience for people inside and outside that community, and the leaders refuse to deal with it, I think a fair assessment i
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11240961 edit: just to be clear, that is a link to this thread, which references the article we are discussing. That article includes a link to the amicus brief filed on Apples b
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by vonklaus 11y ago
It is pretty relevent. I am not being sarcastic here, I will elaborate. Outside of the 1970s in switzerland when an influx of capital poured out of Russia into banking safe havens, there has not been many negative interest rates. So typical
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by vonklaus 11y ago
This makes limited sense. While Apple did fix prices, 90% of control of the market of a highly elastic good was controlled by a single entity engaged in dumping, which drove out all other competition. If Adam Smith believed in supply and de
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Makes sense. Apple gets sued for charging more than a retailer that owned 90% of the market in an Anti-Trust case and is fined $450 million. Verizon is a common carrier that manipulated the traffic in the service it provides from its govern
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by vonklaus 11y ago
Verizon took a pretty big gamble in 2015[0] and bought spectrum covering more than half of America. So even though taxpayers pay for a lot of the infrastructure so they can be a common carrier and deliver services without manipulation, it w
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by vonklaus 11y ago
You might very well be correct. However, (and I don't love FB) when is the last time someone in real life called you over to look at something on linkedIN? Professionally, it is dangerous as you can't show coworkers the great job
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by vonklaus 11y ago
This is a big victory: > 16. Termination of Investigation. In express reliance on the covenants and representations in this Consent Decree and to avoid further expenditure of public resources, the Bureau agrees to terminate the Investiga
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by vonklaus 11y ago
While I don't want to be presumptuous it sounds like you are ostensibly just super talented and, at this point, have some solid accomplishments. So while linkedIn may have opened doors, it is pretty unlikely through something like HN o
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by vonklaus 11y ago
slack needs to sell asap. edit: to expand. Slack has 0 technology moat. The reason Github has been so successful and has gone many years without significant competition, is that it is an open platform in the sense that I have my personal,
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I don't want to be rude, but this is pretty elitist. Essentially: "Can't you all just run your startup companies and make 220,000 a year like me?" Some people are overvalued by the market, working in a good space, being
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by vonklaus 11y ago
AT & T, coming in publicly in favor of congressional oversite. That is a big deal. I respect them for doing this, and will taper the cynical part of my brain, and simply say: "At&t, we haven't always seen eye to eye on wha
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I'm American. This makes sense, if anyone was going to order awhat seems like a range extender, for a device that just brings you stuff you were too lazy to type, it would be Americans. Googleglass problem. The interface is me yelling
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by vonklaus 11y ago
It isn't clear what the above comment actually means by"customers". If they are talking about perceived value to a customer who is the advertiser, and they are selling them your value, I sort of follow the point. In whateve
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I came here to raise this. On balance, I think it is reasonable if done openly, as is "turn off adblock or pay" initiatives. The fact of the matter is, we have optimized paying carriers rather than the actual item. Essentially we
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by vonklaus 11y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merise Interesting this is helpful. I am looking for a conceptual model and inplementation. I have done small prototypes with crud, but I want to make sure I build with intent. Another c
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by vonklaus 11y ago
This is true, both my bosses worked for a larger well respected endowment about a year ago. The firms are not doing well and at least this one is not and there is talk if going to the strategy here. Basically a fund of funds with a bunch of
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Tell HN: I will help solve your roadblock/s for 1 hour of your time
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I agree with your initial appraisal to some extent. However, forking bitcoin/ethereum or modifying some other coin for a hacketspace would likely be a learning excercise so the tech/coin used should be related to their interests.
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by vonklaus 11y ago
while this is regarding the domain, and also a cheeky comment, consider that broadly: * there is friction in the market * information is distributed asymmetrically * improvements can be made quickly with technology * value is different for
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I see your point and agree rampant speculation is a problem but most societies do this. it is problematic for example that 3/4 of the Chinese stock market is owned by regular people IF (and many were) they buy on speculation and borrow
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by vonklaus 11y ago
I'm with tptacek here. I think the point is to try different things, especially for dif use cases. For learning, get a holistic view, for production consider X instead of Y. I found react to be really complicated and heretical personal

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