wegs2

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by wegs2 5y ago
For business continuity: open source > proprietary > proprietary with activation servers > SaaS All of those have bins within them too. For example, Google SaaS, or bootstrap startup, will be lower continuity than vendors known for
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by wegs2 5y ago
I can spend $30 casually, and I wouldn't spend $50-$70 casually, which means Pine64 is exactly at my price point.
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by wegs2 5y ago
I think a lot of that can be managed with messaging and expectation-setting. My experience hasn't been that volume is manufacturing-limited. A frobitz costs $50 to make, ship, support, etc: - I know I'll sell 200 - I think I might
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by wegs2 5y ago
A comment to all companies: With current shortages, PLEASE include "pre-order" rather than just "out-of-stock." There are a lot of items where I don't mind waiting, but I WILL forget. Here, the sealed watch is avail
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by wegs2 5y ago
Perhaps. I think the key question is how quickly the cost of alternatives goes down relative to oil. But if Greenland is the last reserve of oil left on the planet, the value of that oil will be astronomical. Holding off on drilling during
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by wegs2 5y ago
I think, in this case, the rich encroach on my privacy enough that it seems proportionate. It's not okay to shoot your neighbor. It is okay to shoot your neighbor if they're shooting at you. When the rich stop trading my data, I&#
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by wegs2 5y ago
In the US, marriage is bound by laws created by an active divorce lobby. Divorce is a huge industry. In my state, divorce, for a men, generally means paying roughly 1/3 of your income in child support, and splitting child-rearing expen
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by wegs2 5y ago
Most of this is nonsense, but I'll point out a few things: > "Infringement and damages are unrelated concepts" No. They're the same concept. Infringement is okay if there are no damages. That's how a lawyer reads
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by wegs2 5y ago
You're reading it wrong. If we were to read this like a piece of computer code, the incompatibility would be mutual. GPL code does not permit further restrictions. "You cannot remove Apache 2.0" would be a further restriction
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by wegs2 5y ago
There is a whole slew of problems. 1) There is still an expectation women will marry up, and men will marry down, in terms of income potential. If the woman is a little bit ahead, it's okay, but e.g. a doctor marrying a nurse is percei
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by wegs2 5y ago
IANAL, but you're obviously not one either. A lot of what you said is false. You don't read legal text like a piece of code. Contracts and licenses don't work like that. It took me a long time to wrap my head around this. Con
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by wegs2 5y ago
I drove a revisiting like this in more than one organization. Fitting decisions like this around the status quo makes no sense. It's exactly actions like this which change the status quo. I'm happy to say there are dozens of organ
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by wegs2 5y ago
I don't think AGPL is a perfect license, but I do think it's the best. The flaws it has are things like the poorly-written patent clause, verbosity, ambiguity on concepts like linking, and general lack of elegance. It runs into a
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by wegs2 5y ago
I'll have dinner with virtually anyone, and I'll try to understand them. I also have a lot of historical books, including one written by a genocidal dictator who killed a lot of my countrymen. I try to understand him too. If you&#
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by wegs2 6y ago
What's been a bit amusing is seeing a string of startups go through the same lesson about Google Cloud. I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that the mistake Google made was failing to recognize and focus on its core competen
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by wegs2 6y ago
Making an EV is easy. I can buy a Power Wheels EV for $400. Making a good EV is hard. The set of technologies required is still unknown -- bear with me for a little bit. In the early days of the PC; anyone competent could make a perfectly c
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by wegs2 6y ago
The question isn't about current margin; the question is about long-term margin. Running at a loss to build out market share, technology, branding and economies-of-scale is a standard startup strategy. Tesla is still in that stage. The
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by wegs2 6y ago
My hypothesis is different. Margins. GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota, etc. are competing with a commodity product in a commodity market. There's no big difference between a Toyota Yaris, a Honda Fit, a Kia Rio, a Ford Fiesta, and similar cars
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by wegs2 6y ago
Profit = number of users x number of sales (Minus costs, which are low for a web service) There's a point that maximizes profit, and my point was that $4,500 might be a bit beyond that for a personal CRM.
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by wegs2 6y ago
I'd totally pay for something like this, but not $90/year. I'd pay $90 per year for an all-in-one-service to replace Google, but with open source and privacy. It seems like a tough business model, to try to sell a one-off uti
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by wegs2 6y ago
(1) In an efficient market, all the companies are one segment are no more and no less likely to be either rubbish or overvalued than any other segment. The risk is random. (2) You manage that with diversification. I'd never allocate mo
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by wegs2 6y ago
I've found two successful strategies: 1) Index funds. 2) Buy/sell where you have unique expertise. If you work in the toilet hardware industry, buy/sell stocks related to that industry. I do #1, since consulting generates hig
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by wegs2 6y ago
People gave Facebook my stuff for free. RMS explains this much more eloquently than I do. He doesn't have a Facebook account, but he's all over Facebook, without any control, desire, or influence. Many people set up Facebook accou
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by wegs2 8y ago
Author claims a frame up. Now that is something I've seen at MIT. The Institute has unique means to crash and burn people's reputations so most people fold.
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by wegs2 8y ago
Or they think it's an acceptable risk... $50 liability limit.
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by wegs2 8y ago
That's not how FOIA works. It's a good thing too. Government employees almost always fight FOIA requests. There aren't many subjective tools (e.g. overbroad) and you're certainly not required to say why you're makin
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by wegs2 8y ago
Nice! MIT and a lot of the other elites would cover up. I'll be interested to see if the professor keeps their job. I suspect so. A little fraud is rarely met with more than a wrist slap at the elite schools.
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by wegs2 8y ago
Power is somewhat diffuse. Ultimately, there are channels for real power. It's a corporation with a small number of officers with signing authority. Ultimately they, in a very real sense, own and control the Institute. The Institute ow
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by wegs2 8y ago
The incidents I know about haven't been publicly exposed. If I spoke about them in specifics, the Institute would retaliate. One I can bring up -- since I don't think it exposes me -- is email. In essence, if you use an institutio