stefan_kendall3

I've seen a lot of broken window fallacy recently. I've heard it a lot in the past few days, mostly with respect to Syria.

Sounds like the market is demanding UberX, and Uber is responding.

I'll keep using UberX in cars that don't need $80/day in gas.

I agree with you. Tools are serious business.

Selling consumer lollipops? Use all the whimsy you want; it's part of your marketing.

I don't expect the beams of a trestle to spell "LOL WTF". I expect a bridge to be built by a person who does-not-fuck-around. My life depends on it.

Uber drivers make a lot more and most aren't full-time. I workout with a guy that loves it. For him it's just extra cash, and it's extra serious cash.

Narcolepsy?

It's the welfare programs that usually get split 50/50 with employer that you must pay 100% yourself.

http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...

Medicare which I don't use, because I buy insurance, and social security which I'll never be able to collect.

I'm mostly interested in specialty/niche sports/fitness applications. All of the built-in stuff is great for people who think running is where fitness ends or need to be reminded to walk every day, but not so great for someone looking to improve a 600lb deadlift or cut their 40m time.

I also think a handful of other fun apps could be profitable, like using the local communication thing to send shock images/reaction gifs/dumb sticker packs.

The first IAP Tamagotchi-type game will make a million dollars easily.

I'll probably stick to focusing on health and performance, but plenty is possible.

I don't like taking out my wallet and dicking with cards mixed with insurance cards and IDs and other stupid things I need to keep on me in case I'm stopped by the gestapo.

My phone is already out anywhere I'm buying things. Makes sense to pay with that instead of fishing for something else.

I'm buying at least 2. One for me, and one for my girlfriend. I may also get one for my mom.

Mine is for development. I see 10x returns easily, possibly 100x.

Agreed. I just don't see why anyone would buy an iPod when the Rio Pearl is half the price and stores more music.

My friends and I love the stickers on messenger. On a new sticker day, it's like the highlight of the day. They're fun and sometimes terrifying, and it adds some fun to group conversations.

Maybe you're not the target audience.

They're also 100% human, and they all tend to breathe at least twice a day.

Guys I just broke into some guy's house that's known to be suuuuuper litigious. Check out all my selfies!

US, yup. I'd like to be able to support a family, and that means something like $1100-$2000/mo mortgage, likely 2 cars/insurance going something like $500, utilities around $300/month.

And that $10k isn't $10k. It's more like $6k after taxes.

So with food and miscellaneous expenses, things start to get tight pretty quickly. Health insurance for a self employed person for a family will easily be $2000+/month. So on top of the high taxes, which are even higher for being self employed, you're getting a non-employer-paid health insurance plan.

...I think my "$10k/month" was probably a bit low, actually.

I'm doing an android port of my app right now. Very little code (aside from functional code) is re-usable. The view model is incredibly different.

In a few cases, it's a lot better. In most cases, it's significantly worse. It just seems to take longer to do everything.

I don't have a family, and I wouldn't even dream of going indie with revenue like that, and my side revenue is about 3x+ that.

Until I'm clearing 10k/month, quitting isn't even a remote possibility. It would probably even need to be more with health insurance and self employment tax to consider.

Edit: I wish you the best of luck. Maybe I just lack the stomach for betting on something that isn't a sure bet.

Dear god finally.

I can't wait to start filling out time sheets (or maybe you have the convenience of a punch card?) to make sure I "get my hours in".

Fuck off getting things done: we've got hours to complete!

Gandhi had no real impact on the world. The American Revolution did.

Colonists had to murder plenty of police and military.

Fear. Fear indeed.

Teachers become excellent with this one weird trick.

10 things you've been doing wrong for years.

etc.

I wish you luck, but I don't see how this is sustainably profitable. People think their junk is worth way more than it is, and "minimum price" will wreck this.

+1 power imbalance. I had to listen to a cop tell me how shitty his day had been for 10 minutes once while pulled over for no reason.

To be fair, he had had a really shitty day, and was 23 hours into a work shift, but there was nothing I could do to exit the situation without causing a serious problem aside from listen and wait.

I listened and wait, comforted him, and then I was allowed to leave.

Yeah, because corn, wheat, and soybean are inelastic goods, am I right?

I can't go 3 days without that sweet sweet soybean oil, or I will literally starve to death.

I'd actually draw the supply and demand curve and what would happen to the various suppliers and buyers if the subsidies were removed, but I'm afraid I would get labeled a dirty Randian and branded a heretic.

Yes. But in that case, GitHub would likely fight an obviously fraudulent copyright claim, as it would wreck their business.

They're not hurt at all by popcorntime going down.

Would you like more war or more war?

If you don't want war just choose one of those options.

A company has an API FOR A CAR, and discussion devolves immediately into which characters should be at the start of the HTTP request.

Paying for things you want, and not paying for things you don't want?

It's called the "free market", and it is the antithesis of government.

I can't make it through a movie without peeing at least once, if not twice. The app works well.

Several people have commented about a "housing queue".

In much of the USA, we have a mechanism that matches the supply of goods and the demand for those goods, such that there is never a shortage or surplus without externalities.

Funny how you can't legislate away the laws of economics.