jerrybee

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by jerrybee 6y ago
You’re absolutely right, I was being unrealistically conservative. In reality that many workers would almost certainly unionize and average labor costs could easily be $250-$300 a day or more.
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by jerrybee 6y ago
Foxconn employs about 1.2 million workers in China. In Shenzhen and Chengdu, a combined Foxconn workforce of 500,000 provides labour for Apple Inc. Daily wage is ~$5 per employee. [ https://www.facing-finance.org/en/dat
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by jerrybee 6y ago
Viewing a public tweet is not trespassing - its the point of the entire platform. US vs Jones determined that installing a tracker on a private vehicle is trespassing. As a tax payer, I would prefer my tax dollars are used as efficiently as
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by jerrybee 6y ago
Aren’t the tweets ingested by Dataminr public? I agree this would be problematic if they were using private data, but using data available to anyone on the platform feels like fair game.
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Covid-19 US Projections(covid19.healthdata.org)
2 points by jerrybee 6y ago|1 comments
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Social Distancing Scoreboard(unacast.com)
2 points by jerrybee 6y ago|0 comments
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by jerrybee 7y ago
Doesn’t bode well for their path to profitability.
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by jerrybee 7y ago
It’s not odd if you think that interest rates will go down in the future. If you believe that then you should buy longer term bonds to lock in the higher rate now.
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by jerrybee 7y ago
Not to mention they subsidize the winners they pick with billions of dollars of government money.
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by jerrybee 8y ago
I don't understand giving a keynote like this and then not launching the product for months. Apple figured it out long ago - way more power in "it's available now" than the alternative of forcing customers to wait an ind
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Slowing down a hurricane(vox.com)
1 points by jerrybee 8y ago|0 comments
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Inside the secret flying cars conference(wired.com)
2 points by jerrybee 8y ago|0 comments
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WTF is up with Ticketmaster(medium.com)
3 points by jerrybee 8y ago|0 comments