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by guyzero 4y ago
The money doesn't come from search quality, it comes from selling ads and Apple is a long way away from building up ad inventory and an ad salesforce like Google's. They absolutely are making money on ads today, but they're a
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by guyzero 4y ago
Clearly the answer is to run high tension cables
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by guyzero 4y ago
I agree with your first statement but per the data on aggregate miles travelled I disagree there's actually a demand increase. Ultimately the Fed can't control either supply or demand directly but they try to indirectly control de
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by guyzero 4y ago
Gas prices are significantly higher than 2019, total vehicle miles travelled are about the same ( https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M12MTVUSM227NFWA ) so there must be a reduction in supply or just straight price gougin
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by guyzero 4y ago
Per other commenters less money in the economy reduces aggregate demand. Per previous inflationary periods where interest rates were raised basically by putting people out of work.
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by guyzero 4y ago
It's an unexpected result that shortages of core consumer goods - specifically gas and food - cause a rise in prices due to demand but this has become more decoupled from underlying input costs thus... high corporate profits in these a
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by guyzero 4y ago
By reducing demand. I guess.
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by guyzero 4y ago
She should show her confidential requirements docs on screen? Film internal meetings? it's clearly much, much worse to record her actual work. This is such a weird complaint.
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by guyzero 4y ago
I'm disappointed this isn't a new voice agent from Apple.
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by guyzero 4y ago
Sadly I can only upvote you once for using "off-piste"
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by guyzero 4y ago
Yes, inflation is good for debt holders. Unfortunately higher inflation is usually accompanied by higher interest rates making for higher debt payments.
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by guyzero 4y ago
2005 BC more like
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by guyzero 4y ago
This is a lot of words for HYOH
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by guyzero 4y ago
Sure. Garmin is still $5B in sales annually. Which is peanuts next to the iPhone, so you wonder why they even bother going after it. AirPods are a bigger business than that.
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by guyzero 4y ago
Most people in the groups you mention probably already own a dedicated emergency locator device. AAPL may very well take a lot of their business, but maybe not. An inReach is going to survive a much bigger fall than an iPhone.
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by guyzero 4y ago
Note that in the US SAR services are not always free and if you have an inReach or similar device you probably also need supplementary SAR insurance. It's cheap, but you still need it.
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by guyzero 4y ago
This raises BOM costs and has significant operating costs. How many users are likely to continue to pay for this service once the two years are up? It's a great feature but it's far from a guaranteed money maker. This could just a
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by guyzero 4y ago
They got scared by what happened to IP v5
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by guyzero 4y ago
They can mandate whatever they want but if there's another wave everyone will quite rightly stay home again. And the current wave is on the downslope, but it's far from over.
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by guyzero 4y ago
They didn't so much stop as they got stopped - incumbents fought hard to keep Google Fiber out and they won.
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by guyzero 4y ago
Yep. I was a small town paperboy until '89 and I'm not sure if my immediate successor was an adult in a car but it definitely went that way pretty quickly. It's not like it paid a lot, but then again I only worked for an hour
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by guyzero 4y ago
They mostly rely on income from their labour, which makes them some strata of middle class. A law firm partner who doesn't do any work could be upper class, but those new law school grads are definitely not upper class.
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by guyzero 4y ago
But doctors and lawyers are upper-middle aren't they?
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by guyzero 4y ago
"They define upper-middle as a household earning between 75k-127k." I get that the SF Bay Area is its own little universe, but what? You're borderline homeless on that income.
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by guyzero 4y ago
For new car dealerships I think the reason is mostly just historical precedent but much like how movie theater owners make their money by selling popcorn and all the ticket sales go back to the studio, car dealerships make their real money
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by guyzero 4y ago
> Why aren't dealerships just consignment stores for cars? Presumably because people prefer getting less money now to getting more money later. Also most dealerships essentially "flip" cars (like those people on HGTV flip
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by guyzero 4y ago
I really don't understand the love people have for ${literally anything}. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug.
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by guyzero 4y ago
You'll be surprised of the first commercial deployment of Fuchsia then: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/18/22630245/google-fuchsia-o...
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by guyzero 4y ago
try to get your cancer treated in 1960 and let me know how much you like 2010
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by guyzero 4y ago
They've shipped 23k devices but their Kickstarter sold 38k, so it may be a while.

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