thenewbtg

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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 efficiently than hu
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 "r
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 fantasy an
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 1984
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
Instead of arguably, I think "currently" works better. We are currently much better robots at these tasks.
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 analysis preten
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
Kent described anarchy as law and freedom without force, and a republic as force with law and freedom.
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 services, I se
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
"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 'em. Tha
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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% of the brands I inte
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
"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
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 more of an oligarc
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 years, all
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 salary). It is a fundamen
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 of effect is negl
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 flowing in.
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 massive, massive leg
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
>"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. Gf
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
"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 g
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
@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 from here. At wha
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by thenewbtg 12y ago
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 the vehi
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by thenewbtg 13y ago
"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 policies and s