We are in the midst of a massive trend towards automation and robotics. Every year, we are seeing more tasks and more jobs successfully completed by robots, and more and more robots completing "work" tasks more…
It is true. Apple has a 70% profit margin on sales that they reinvest. Just because revenue is reinvested doesn't mean it isn't revenue or a margin. And, seeing as Apple has >$100,000,000,000 of cash and near cash, your…
Actually, the part where you invent a bad strawman solely for the purpose of labeling me an asshole makes you an asshole. You couldn't even quote me. You couldn't even use my words. You just invented a pathetic little…
Hey, step out of the 1980's! I have used telecommunication services for over a decade now, and I have never once done business with AT&T or a Mabell company. Perhaps it's YOU who needs a sense of proportion. It isn't…
Instead of arguably, I think "currently" works better. We are currently much better robots at these tasks.
Your entire rant completely forgets that Apple runs, on average ~70% profit margin ($700 phone costs about $200 to make). Samsung's profit margins aren't AS high, but still are massive which help drive profit. Your…
Kent described anarchy as law and freedom without force, and a republic as force with law and freedom.
I'm sometimes amazed how otherwise competent adults believe that one investor focused for profit corporation isn't capable of behaving just like another investor focused for profit corporation. When I look at Google…
"In my opinion, the best way to deal with these unsolicited emails is to use the unsubscribe link, delete the email, and then swear at them on Twitter or find their CEO's email and send them goatse or something. Fuck…
Personally, there are a select few brands from whom I enjoy reading unsolicited emails. They have proven themselves to me and I like them on an irrationally human level. What bothers me, however, is when the other 99.9%…
"Personal vendetta" Hahaha! YES! I have a personal vendetta against unsolicited email. If you send me an email that I am not expecting, then I will flag it as "unsolicited". I do not care if you provide other mechanisms…
I would point out the recent fun little study showing that the class we are (those who work for a salary) have less say in policy outcomes than the rich (those who do not require a salary). They bill it as "The US is…
Surge Pricing is illegal in Berlin, and probably other European countries. And I imagine the illegality of price gouging ("surge pricing") while also skirting taxi regulation will be expanded dramatically in the coming…
There is nothing we can do, really. Money is very close to power, and obviously the relatively poor (those who rely on a salary) have far less say and control than the extravagantly paid (those who do not require a…
I apologize, I believe it's functionally untrue. I believe functionally that Intuit has approximately 0% effect on tax reform. I was being glib in saying that they do have an effect, because to me a 0.01 - 0.05% level…
A billion dollars has already been raised in the 2014 midterms. A non-presidential year, 6 months before the election, and a billion has already flowed in. So yes, your millions are a very tiny fraction of the money…
That's wholly untrue. Yes, the tax preparation industry has made token donations to efforts to preserve the current tax code. But I would argue that the failure of tax reform is not so simple. Major tax reform is a…
>"What? No, we don't do anything like that. What on Earth are you talking about?" I mean that if you view a gfycat it's a totally white page, if you view a mediacrush your logo and navigation are all over the page.…
"MediaCrush is an objectively better service in almost every way imaginable. " I disagree. You're very protective of your work and obviously deluded to the quality. It's a shame. As a reddit user I will continue to use…
@Sir as a long time reddit user, your total blameshifting of your services inability to compete with gfycat, coming right after listening to you blameshift on why you couldn't compete with imgur, stinks to high heaven…
How is it bad for the car? Are Tesla's accepting OTA updates while driving, and updating firmware while the vehicle is moving? If so then you're right, they've made a terribly unsafe decision. But if you have to stop…
"So, neither MS online mail products, nor online office systems can be trusted any more! Any business owner should know this and withdraw from usage of any MS owned online systems" FYI: Google and Yahoo have similar…
We are in the midst of a massive trend towards automation and robotics. Every year, we are seeing more tasks and more jobs successfully completed by robots, and more and more robots completing "work" tasks more…
It is true. Apple has a 70% profit margin on sales that they reinvest. Just because revenue is reinvested doesn't mean it isn't revenue or a margin. And, seeing as Apple has >$100,000,000,000 of cash and near cash, your…
Actually, the part where you invent a bad strawman solely for the purpose of labeling me an asshole makes you an asshole. You couldn't even quote me. You couldn't even use my words. You just invented a pathetic little…
Hey, step out of the 1980's! I have used telecommunication services for over a decade now, and I have never once done business with AT&T or a Mabell company. Perhaps it's YOU who needs a sense of proportion. It isn't…
Instead of arguably, I think "currently" works better. We are currently much better robots at these tasks.
Your entire rant completely forgets that Apple runs, on average ~70% profit margin ($700 phone costs about $200 to make). Samsung's profit margins aren't AS high, but still are massive which help drive profit. Your…
Kent described anarchy as law and freedom without force, and a republic as force with law and freedom.
I'm sometimes amazed how otherwise competent adults believe that one investor focused for profit corporation isn't capable of behaving just like another investor focused for profit corporation. When I look at Google…
"In my opinion, the best way to deal with these unsolicited emails is to use the unsubscribe link, delete the email, and then swear at them on Twitter or find their CEO's email and send them goatse or something. Fuck…
Personally, there are a select few brands from whom I enjoy reading unsolicited emails. They have proven themselves to me and I like them on an irrationally human level. What bothers me, however, is when the other 99.9%…
"Personal vendetta" Hahaha! YES! I have a personal vendetta against unsolicited email. If you send me an email that I am not expecting, then I will flag it as "unsolicited". I do not care if you provide other mechanisms…
I would point out the recent fun little study showing that the class we are (those who work for a salary) have less say in policy outcomes than the rich (those who do not require a salary). They bill it as "The US is…
Surge Pricing is illegal in Berlin, and probably other European countries. And I imagine the illegality of price gouging ("surge pricing") while also skirting taxi regulation will be expanded dramatically in the coming…
There is nothing we can do, really. Money is very close to power, and obviously the relatively poor (those who rely on a salary) have far less say and control than the extravagantly paid (those who do not require a…
I apologize, I believe it's functionally untrue. I believe functionally that Intuit has approximately 0% effect on tax reform. I was being glib in saying that they do have an effect, because to me a 0.01 - 0.05% level…
A billion dollars has already been raised in the 2014 midterms. A non-presidential year, 6 months before the election, and a billion has already flowed in. So yes, your millions are a very tiny fraction of the money…
That's wholly untrue. Yes, the tax preparation industry has made token donations to efforts to preserve the current tax code. But I would argue that the failure of tax reform is not so simple. Major tax reform is a…
>"What? No, we don't do anything like that. What on Earth are you talking about?" I mean that if you view a gfycat it's a totally white page, if you view a mediacrush your logo and navigation are all over the page.…
"MediaCrush is an objectively better service in almost every way imaginable. " I disagree. You're very protective of your work and obviously deluded to the quality. It's a shame. As a reddit user I will continue to use…
@Sir as a long time reddit user, your total blameshifting of your services inability to compete with gfycat, coming right after listening to you blameshift on why you couldn't compete with imgur, stinks to high heaven…
How is it bad for the car? Are Tesla's accepting OTA updates while driving, and updating firmware while the vehicle is moving? If so then you're right, they've made a terribly unsafe decision. But if you have to stop…
"So, neither MS online mail products, nor online office systems can be trusted any more! Any business owner should know this and withdraw from usage of any MS owned online systems" FYI: Google and Yahoo have similar…