There are limits to what a business can accomplish, and it sounds like you've reached a fairly hard boundary. If your shareholders don't understand that, they should piss off or sell - sounds like you don't need additional capital at this point anyway.
Specifically, a pay-per-use search engine that only indexes personal medical records. Want to deny coverage? Want to reject a job applicant? Want to filter your next Tinder date? MediSnoop them!
By which I mean, they're not environmentally sustainable. The current volume of Bitcoin is $9 billion, and it's estimated that the power used to mine the coins and keep the currency afloat requires the full output of a mid-sized nuclear power plant. There's no reason to think the Ether would be any different.
The cryptocurrency that wins is the one that uses "proof of useful work" instead of "proof of work" to secure the blockchain. One such scheme is REM, but even that requires trusting Intel.
You could be right, but maybe Amazon is playing the long game, hoping to kill brick-and-mortar by the time its retail division needs to start showing profits (and raising prices).
In theory, you're correct. And that might explain why there are so many "opportunities" to tip in the Bay Area. Every single food truck, coffee shop, and non-chain fast food restaurant puts tip jars (both real and digital) in your face. I don't blame them, and I usually tip, but it's a manifestation of the wage pressures due to NIMBYism.
Uber has consistently sent the message that the government doesn't matter and the law doesn't apply to them. Governments tend to react very badly to that message. The only thing Uber could have done worse (in the eyes of the feds) is to not pay their taxes.
From the looks of it, their office seems to be more of that open-plan nonsense. No wonder no one shows up. Open plan has been shown again and again to result in less productive and more unhappy employees.
Seconded. Imagine how those filmmakers must have felt when their by-the-numbers campaign documentary turned into a bizarre psychodrama right while they're filming.
$50 billion per month is $600 billion a year. Not $18 trillion. It should have set off some alarm bells in your head that proposed UBI for a fraction of the population exceeds the current product of the entire country.
The robotics stuff is merely a news-friendly stunt to fluff their market cap when they IPO. Non-savvy investors will hear all about self-driving cars and buy Uber as a "technology" stock.
Seconded. I had the first-gen Vivoactive and loved it for the same reasons. I even developed a tide prediction widget for it and a simple watchface. Now I have a Tactix Bravo, which also has the 10-day battery and ConnectIQ, with the added bonus of doing GPS readings while swimming. It's amazing that companies like Samsung and Apple seem not to get what smart watches need to be, but much smaller "old tech" Garmin does.
This assumes that startup companies have all the cash they could possibly need. They don't. Giving options is what they do because they have to conserve cash. You're right that they'd rather not have to grant options, but usually they have no choice.
It is true, though, that many companies structure their options in a way to screw the employees.
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There are limits to what a business can accomplish, and it sounds like you've reached a fairly hard boundary. If your shareholders don't understand that, they should piss off or sell - sounds like you don't need additional capital at this point anyway.
Specifically, a pay-per-use search engine that only indexes personal medical records. Want to deny coverage? Want to reject a job applicant? Want to filter your next Tinder date? MediSnoop them!
You would be crazy to run a VPN service anywhere within federal US jurisdiction. For now, that includes California.
For once, Snapchat is copying a "feature" from Facebook, instead of the other way around.
"To me that was clear that all the friendliness was because of money, not because they liked me or they where nice people."
I hate to shatter your happy little delusion there, but most waiters are only in it for the money. Not because they like you.
By which I mean, they're not environmentally sustainable. The current volume of Bitcoin is $9 billion, and it's estimated that the power used to mine the coins and keep the currency afloat requires the full output of a mid-sized nuclear power plant. There's no reason to think the Ether would be any different.
The cryptocurrency that wins is the one that uses "proof of useful work" instead of "proof of work" to secure the blockchain. One such scheme is REM, but even that requires trusting Intel.
May I offer you a seat on the board of Uber?
You could be right, but maybe Amazon is playing the long game, hoping to kill brick-and-mortar by the time its retail division needs to start showing profits (and raising prices).
The janitor can live in East Palo Alto. The engineers can live anywhere between Redwood City and Santa Clara.
In theory, you're correct. And that might explain why there are so many "opportunities" to tip in the Bay Area. Every single food truck, coffee shop, and non-chain fast food restaurant puts tip jars (both real and digital) in your face. I don't blame them, and I usually tip, but it's a manifestation of the wage pressures due to NIMBYism.
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Uber has consistently sent the message that the government doesn't matter and the law doesn't apply to them. Governments tend to react very badly to that message. The only thing Uber could have done worse (in the eyes of the feds) is to not pay their taxes.
... with an utterly brilliant and highly effective system: make shows and films so god damned awful that no one will bother to pirate them
From the looks of it, their office seems to be more of that open-plan nonsense. No wonder no one shows up. Open plan has been shown again and again to result in less productive and more unhappy employees.
Seconded. Imagine how those filmmakers must have felt when their by-the-numbers campaign documentary turned into a bizarre psychodrama right while they're filming.
$50 billion per month is $600 billion a year. Not $18 trillion. It should have set off some alarm bells in your head that proposed UBI for a fraction of the population exceeds the current product of the entire country.
Another fun statistic: nearly 2% of climate scientists agree with you!
"The next generation of fascists will not love geometric sans serifs as much as Mussolini did. They won’t be threatening journalists in blackletter."
No, they'll be telling us all what fonts to use lest we be considered racist.
Which stories in major news outlets about Trump were false, though? Name one.
How does that "free VPN" make money? Or even just cover their costs? I'd be suspicious of them.
http://villains.wikia.com/wiki... I think this explains a lot.
Well played, most excellent troll! I laughed a hearty guffaw, and for that I thank you.
The robotics stuff is merely a news-friendly stunt to fluff their market cap when they IPO. Non-savvy investors will hear all about self-driving cars and buy Uber as a "technology" stock.
Seconded. I had the first-gen Vivoactive and loved it for the same reasons. I even developed a tide prediction widget for it and a simple watchface. Now I have a Tactix Bravo, which also has the 10-day battery and ConnectIQ, with the added bonus of doing GPS readings while swimming. It's amazing that companies like Samsung and Apple seem not to get what smart watches need to be, but much smaller "old tech" Garmin does.
This assumes that startup companies have all the cash they could possibly need. They don't. Giving options is what they do because they have to conserve cash. You're right that they'd rather not have to grant options, but usually they have no choice. It is true, though, that many companies structure their options in a way to screw the employees.