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If he really doesn't believe he can fire this guy, he has a succession planning problem that needs to be solved.

I don't think that's going to attract much in the way of customers, or investment.

I don't wish them ill; but they really need to stop digging, and they haven't figured that out yet.

As of 25 minutes ago, they were still publicly trashing her in Twitter.

    The first time people look at any given ad, they don't even see it.
    The second time, they don't notice it.
    The third time, they are aware that it is there.
    The fourth time, they have a fleeting sense that they've seen it somewhere before.
    The fifth time, they actually read the ad.
    The sixth time they thumb their nose at it.
    The seventh time, they start to get a little irritated with it.
    The eighth time, they start to think, "Here's that confounded ad again."
    The ninth time, they start to wonder if they're missing out on something.
    The tenth time, they ask their friends and neighbors if they've tried it.
    The eleventh time, they wonder how the company is paying for all these ads.
    The twelfth time, they start to think that it must be a good product.
    The thirteenth time, they start to feel the product has value.
    The fourteenth time, they start to remember wanting a product exactly like this for a long time.
    The fifteenth time, they start to yearn for it because they can't afford to buy it.
    The sixteenth time, they accept the fact that they will buy it sometime in the future.
    The seventeenth time, they make a note to buy the product.
    The eighteenth time, they curse their poverty for not allowing them to buy this terrific product.
    The nineteenth time, they count their money very carefully.
    The twentieth time prospects see the ad, they buy what is offering.

There are some added bonuses if you happen to be using other AWS services, but even without those, I think Route53 is one of Amazon's better offerings.

If, for example, they plan to generate revenue by selling leads based on individual's browsing histories, then they need view-only users to have accounts. In that hypothetical case, it wouldn't be terribly surprising if they found the expertsexchange model to be a good fit.

That said, it's unclear what problem they're actually trying to solve, so it's understandable that we're all coming to different conclusions.

Phones aren't phones anymore. They're pocketable computers with a phone app.

I'm not sure how or if to address this, but after ordering I got to a receipt page, and the confirmation took a few minutes to arrive. I found myself wishing I could save the confirmation page, in case I needed to refer back to it.

That said, it was easy for me to find the game I was interested in, easy for me to find tickets, and checking out went better than expected given that I was on a mobile device. Thanks.

Systematically overcharging customers strikes me as a valid tort.

I'm not comfortable with that.

Further, it doesn't mean that it "must be true" but rather that it is more likely to true.

If they were just offered jobs, then it's not an acquihire. It's just a dead startup and some jobs.

This is an innovator's dilemma situation, where the incumbent technology (PCs) are delivering far more value than some users need. As such, "worse" technology (tablets, phones) are acceptable replacements for PCs for some of those users.

To you, that extra value is important, but many people just want Facebook, Email, Internet, etc. Those people are often totally happy with a device like an iPad that doesn't have as much overhead or complexity.

I've seen Gangnam Style covered in places like the New Yorker, the Economist, and the Wall Street Journal. These are places that don't generally spend time discussing pop music, but that also felt Gangnam was worth consideration.

Musical tastes vary, and nothing says you have to like it. But PSY's hit seems to be indicative of a global increase in cosmopolitanism, and that's a trend that affects many entrepreneurs and investors.

I've seen so many startups that took customer money even when they knew they probably wouldn't deliver the anticipated value. It's wonderful to see somebody who winds down a business with such concern for every stakeholder.

Good fortunes to the Tiny Speck team. I hope our paths cross someday.

FB is an amalgamation of everyone the user has met. Twitter is a collection of people who interest the user.

I'm planning to loop back and investigate how restoration would work, but it seems like a potentially great way to have another layer of backup.

I can't believe the CEO thought this was a good idea.

Well, sadly I can. There are a lot of firms that succeed in spite of their management, not because of them.

Silver also publishes projected margins of victory (with margins of error), and he does so for every state and every senate race, not just the battleground ones. As such, it's possible to do a fairly substantial review of his model against actual results.

Statistics are never perfect, but his predictions are far more transparent and verifiable than anything else on the market.

Tesla has done a magnificent job of making electric cool and sexy, and that's almost absurdly important with a purchase as emotional as a car.

He hacked for profit. He traded in stolen phone cards and turned in his compatriots for reduced sentence. He ran a "premium" phone number scam. He ran a pump and dump scheme to defraud investors. He evaded prosecution by jumping jurisdiction. He tried (and failed) to run a fake hedge fund. He sold pirated software. He committed insider trading.

He's not a self-made man. He's a career criminal and a con man.

I find it shocking that so many people are eager to lionize this sociopathic asshole.

Screw Kim Dotcom.

If I can't find the original research, I try to treat the information as tainted, because even honest and intelligent writers often oversimplify concepts when presenting them to a lay audience.