tayjohno

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by tayjohno 3y ago
> Wow. That's a new low standard for journalism. Whatever happened to keeping opinions and news separate? I mean, it's Techdirt.com. Nowhere do they claim to be doing journalism, it's just a "tech blog". This is
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by tayjohno 3y ago
I am on the side of the author for this one. Especially when it comes to series that are complete, you can often find them for extremely discounted prices. For example Amazon is selling the complete "The Office" DVD set for about
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by tayjohno 3y ago
Most I've used have a very small selection, maybe 30 total options, but a lot of those can be out of stock. If you have any sort of criteria (like I'm often looking for movies we could watch with our kids) there might only be one
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by tayjohno 3y ago
Liquidity ≠ value. There are plenty of highly liquid investments that are quite speculative, like gold, but you can at least make some reasonable assumptions and say "Would people still pay for a gold ring if it cost $1,000/oz? $1
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by tayjohno 3y ago
Agreed. I remember as a teenager when the first generation Macbook Airs came out, my friend realized you could reliably crash them (brand new, the demo models sitting out at the mac store) just by opening all the apps on the dock in quick s
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by tayjohno 3y ago
I have to imagine that these have been for sale throughout that time. I can see an argument that 8 years is a long time, but imagine if you purchased it last year, that's now a 2 year lifespan. We're going down a bad road with obs