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steviecleveland··on Taxpayers Should Never Subsidize Stadiums
I don't know about that. Why else would building a colosseum in Civ 1 make three unhappy people content?
steviecleveland··on Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (2017)
January 2017 article.

That said, Ted Nugent called and he still wants his shirt back.

steviecleveland··on The End Is Near for Mobile Apps?
Yes. And in particular:

> He talks about apps in general and how we have 100 installed but use max 30, so the rest 70 are useless, so apps are dying.

Mobile app usage is (likely) Pareto-distributed which makes it... just as alive as every other such phenomenon.

steviecleveland··on My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler
> you should invent some performance metric

profitability and growth

steviecleveland··on My company signed up for a $1000/year subscription-based water cooler
Yes, in terms of sanitation like 2500 years ago with that SaaS company called "the Roman Empire."
steviecleveland··on WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
You might be able to win an argument with smart, but you'll never win an argument with stupid. t_d has arrived, so the correct response is:

FREE JULIAN!

steviecleveland··on Trump Issues Order to Block Broadcom’s Takeover of Qualcomm
Don't care about the point of your post, and I made no value / moral / ethical judgment in my reply regardless.

You just agreed to a bet. I said "bet you a dollar he did" and you said "sure."

steviecleveland··on Trump Issues Order to Block Broadcom’s Takeover of Qualcomm
So, are we betting a dollar or not?
steviecleveland··on Trump Issues Order to Block Broadcom’s Takeover of Qualcomm
> First, you're assuming that Trump had sex with Stormy Daniels. Maybe he did, maybe he didn't, but it is very difficult to differentiate between 'please go away with your bullshit because it is distracting' agreement, and a 'here is some money so you don't talk' agreement. If you have special insight into this matter that has not been reported on, please do share it.

I'll bet you a dollar he did, happy to negotiate terms.

> Second, you're saying he is 'completely devoid of ethics and morals' because he allegedly cheated on his wife when she was pregnant. Has no one with morals or ethics ever cheated on their wife? Do you lose your ethics and morals by cheating on your wife, or are they just never there?

Equivocation.

> Finally, let's assume this did happen. Do you know the relationship status of Donald and Melania? What if they both agreed to have a sexually open marriage before they got married? It wouldn't be too out of left field - Trump was a known playboy.

Everyone knows it was and remains a business transaction.

steviecleveland··on Trump Issues Order to Block Broadcom’s Takeover of Qualcomm
Wasn't Broadcom founded by a few UCLA folks in the early 90's?
steviecleveland··on Show HN: Hacker News Classics
Very cool! Reminds me of the Ezra Pound quote, "Literature is news that stays news."

Ezra was a... complicated man, but he had keen insights.