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That term refers to software applications made available in a browser. That's how I view Facebook.

Why do you think they should be classified as a media company? Is it to apply the relevant regulations?

In my eyes, Facebook is a company of software and hardware engineers. They produce software as a service. That sure sounds like a tech company.

If regulations are what you're after, new ones should be created for their specific business.

Thanks for clarifying. That makes a ton of sense.

Are they really the same? It's hard for me to believe that. Seems like fast food chains would have the things you list + many other bad things.

Do you think the limited sanctions will be effective? If I were China I don't think this is significant enough for me to stop my plan. Maybe it's intended as a warning.

I don't like trump at all. But I agree with defending our country. And overall, the less we can rely on China the better.

There's merit in competiton itself. This product does something that both Anki and Memrise do. That's a unique feature, is it not?

It would be interesting to see a line item breakdown of that bill. I'd wager Oracle got a good $50 mill out of it (multi year).

The closet incident I could remember was when a Facebook co founder did this. Looks like he still had to pay a tax https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin

Hmmmm. Your statement makes me think you don’t know much about Singapore.

It is a tiny city, but it has a massive role in Southeast Asia. I have lived there before and lived a great life without being rich by US or Singapore standards. The national language is English. They are by all means a capitalist country. It is a modern high tech society. Very western if you ask me.

The only way they aren’t that I can think of is that they are not a democracy.

Singapore is a western (like) country and has no capital gains tax. Though as some other commenters have noted, i don’t know if the IRS would consider it legal for a US citizen to bail and not pay the tax.

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Judging by the graphs I think we have some more time to buy before the bottom of this Valley is reached.

Isn’t it fair to report a massive drop, just as it’s fair to report a massive spike?

Yeah I wonder what they could do, if anything. Especially if it was on private property with owners consent. It’ll never happen but fun to think about.

That’d be cool if citizens just did this to make a point. Could the cameras be small or discrete enough to install in several places in DC, so that even politicians walk by a website is updated? There has to be enough video training footage for them in the public. What’s the legality of this?

Comcast is more comparable to amazon. Both have a mix of employees, both including a large amount of low skill/ grunt jobs.

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How does that point still work? Where does it come from?

As a side note, I’m not sure if you’re aware but you’re coming off very argumentative. People are trying to give you feedback and you’re arguing to change their minds. The only thing you’re succeeding at is looking like you’re no fun to work with. If you’re trying to build a community of contributors this is not a good look.

Your last paragraph doesn’t quite capture the whole picture. Germany didn’t rebuild into an economic powerhouse on its own. I’m no expert but even with a little search it’s clear that there were many macro economic actions taken by the allies to rebuild the entire continent. Now, you can say that Germany people maximized that assistance. But their actions alone didn’t create the outcome. And is it true that they were the first to recover?

I think most of us could see that even with Hillary doing that, she would be a better president than Trump. Everything you list about Hillary can be applied to Trump several times over. Overall, it was two truly horrible candidates that we had to choose from; and the worst one won.

I don't know how any 'hacker' could argue right now that Trump is a better president than Hillary could have been.

WhatsApp would be around but the product would likely have had to adopt a business model by now. They were charging some people but i don’t think it was much.

Reading your last two statements made me think "Jobs would have never, in a million years, let that happen. Whole teams of people would be fired first."

It's a good lesson to the rest of us.

This is where the legend of Steve Jobs is validated. To see the progressive decline in quality of hardware, software, and overall experience leads one to believe that yes indeed it was Jobs responsible for what we came to know as apple quality. It’s sad it’s happenig. Like a slow mo accident. While they’re focused on selling iCloud my phone storage is magically filling up even when I delete gigs of data and load nothing more.

AWS is probably the biggest windows customer by now. Probably a lot of ideas passed between the two.

Thanks for sharing that. I wasn’t aware

I just uninstalled it. I do too many confidential things on my phone to even let this be a possibility. That's too bad because I was an avid Uber user. I hope they can shed some light on this and say it's fixed (and verified).

What's the cost/benefit of them doing that to Target? On the upside they could see what's selling well, what margins they have, etc. What's the net value of that information to their retail unit? I'd say it's probably very small.

On the downside, they could lose their most profitable business unit.

Check out all the audits they go through. If you're an enterprise customer with this concern you can get access to those audit reports and see if it's one of the things being looked at by an independent third party.

Besides, all Target has to do is encrypt the data. Boom, non-factor.

Chargebacks seem like one of the worst ways to deal with it. If you're that afraid of losing money this type of transaction probably isn't for you.

What seems to be the biggest failure with most of these companies is setting the expectations right. It also seems like a subset have good intentions, but lack the experience and/or ability to execute. And an even a smaller subset are actual fraud.

Edit: I would think that if it's proven fraud then some other form of legal action should be taken. It'd be interesting to see if that should be on Kickstarter or not. Perhaps they should step in on such cases to protect their customers.

I agree with you. I was simply trying to address the comment that it's "just an app".

There are certain industries and companies that you do really need to continue to innovate. If your product is a technology innovation, it has a life span. Eventually, something will replace it. History has proven this over and over again.

At this point of time, Uber is an excellent example. There is an innovation on the horizon that will completely change the taxi industry; autonomous vehicles. It's not a secret either. It's an inevitable future. The date of realization? No one knows, but we can see it's coming. Now, should Uber optimize on it's current product set and optimize until they are profitable on every ride? Or should they balance some part of that, with innovating on the future of autonomous vehicles? Travis seems to be working towards the big vision of driverless cars. What would Jeff do?

Fun stuff to think about :)

How do you know it looses money on every ride (genuine question)? Is there proof?

Could it be that there are profitable rides in some of its markets that inspire investors that it would eventually be able to make every ride profitable at some point?