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dbuder··on Amazon wants to control third-party sellers’ product pricing
It is an antitrust issue when discoverability of non sold by Amazon products drops etc.
dbuder··on The We Company S-1
Well at least their management does something, REITs look like cushy ticket clippers to me (from the outside).
dbuder··on The We Company S-1
I've disliked WeWork from the beginning, it pretends to be a tech company but it's just an old school real estate play. I still wouldn't short it, especially early on.
dbuder··on The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence (2012)
And google won't let me tag those pages that don't have the datasheets as useless.
dbuder··on The “terrible” 3 cent MCU – a short survey of sub $0.10 microcontrollers
At a certain point the packaging is the biggest cost of production.
dbuder··on We Made Amiga, They Fucked It Up (2015)
But they are expensive and the teachers didn't know how to fix them. At my school it was a similar setup, getting access to the computer lab was guarded like the crown jewels and the one guy who could program never said a word to me. I got a 486 the year after and at that point couldn't care less about the old boxes we had to school. Pity they didn't even brush on programming, it was all word processing making and bad computer art (easy to mark, the winner got to print theirs out in colour!).
dbuder··on Microsoft Screws Azure Customers and Its Own Advocates Alike
Plenty of companies use Azure and MS all the way, media/marketing people think Linux is nerdy and too hard and those nice folks from MS came by and bought them lunch last week, would be rude not to go with them...
dbuder··on Protests Put Hong Kong on Collision Course with China’s Communist Party
Most people on the mainland are probably unware of what is going on in HK.
dbuder··on The Honey Trap on East 71st Street
It is cui bono and Epstein gets views and there are enough inconsistencies to warrant speculation.
dbuder··on Click farms: a shadowy internet industry is booming in China
No, they are traitors.
dbuder··on Ask HN: How to Self-Study Integrated Circuit Design?
search youtube for Onur Multu, he shares his lectures.
dbuder··on A History of Singapore in 10 Dishes
Genuinely good Vietnamese is hard to find in Vietnam! and near impossible in Sydney - and most of the 'good asian' is white people fusion, there are two good ramen places (same guy). Singapore at least has proximity to the genuine ingredients.
dbuder··on Showing the world how real soy sauce is supposed to taste
The best vegetables I've ever eaten were from a street stall in Mumbai, beetroot is actually delicious (I've always disliked it). +1 on your comment about olive oil.
dbuder··on What can I do about climate change?
It is strain on the grid they are worried about I think.
dbuder··on High Crime in the Cocaine Industry
As someone who deals with cokeheads every week I think it attracts self centered people and enhances that trait.
dbuder··on E Ink Waveforms are a closely guarded secret
It is not new and rarely mentioned in advertising or product information. The memory LCD I've seen are too small for a normal e-reader but if you are doing a large production run you can have something custom made.
dbuder··on What the interns have wrought, 2018 edition
> and I had to stop talking to him because he makes $10k a month while I make $8k in my full time job I don't know what to say to get through to you, but this kind of thinking is holding you back more than intellect, connections or anything else.
dbuder··on Someone Uploaded What Look to Be Apple’s Internal iPhone Repair Videos
You're drinking the kool aid on this one, it is about money, the whole electronics industry (and others) runs on the basis that you will replace your goods regularly. Apple has strong brand loyalty and many customers that will buy every upgrade, they are just shifting the rest of the repurchase curve up. They have never had a good reason for all their proprietary cables either, well other than gouging for them.

Oh your 2 year old laptop is broken? That's old tech anyway, you should buy a new one!

dbuder··on Ask HN: How will it go for Raspberry Pi in the coming years?
This was recommended in a previous HN post. https://www.digikey.com.au/product-detail/en/atp-electronics... I would consider using a SBC with onboard eMMC/NAND flash, such as the beaglebone or orange pi.
dbuder··on OpenDUNE – An open-source recreation of the game Dune II
This was the first strategy game I played, I think on a Windows 3.1 486, and I was generally awful and had to use very cheap tactics for almost all the levels beyond the first few, usually go around the map and pop up and attack the important buildings.

I did manage to finish it as Arteides though, I had a line of sonic tanks for defence and would make a mobile construction site and hide it behind my base for when the missile hit (which I never knew the name of bc I never got far enough in the other campaigns to use it). I had to wait until all the spice on the map was depleted and then go and mop up the enemy bases. I was never that proud, but my older nerdy friends always reacted with shock and disbelief that I had finished it.

dbuder··on Shutting Down Forum (GDPR)
I read the other day that it applies to EU citizens that are not in the EU at the time.
dbuder··on Google quits selling tablets
Can you point me towards some information on the google approved keyboard controller, I couldn't find anything except the layout differences on google.
dbuder··on How Not to Negotiate a $6.1B Deal
Companies should die off from competitive pressures. It is hard to build a company and many thousands of people rely on a company like Xerox for their welfare. I think there is a problem with the wanton destruction of companies so that a small group can take dicerolls on whether or not capital can pay down debt over the short to medium term. I'm all for activist investors, but Icahn has always been more of a vulture. His self dealing in the TWA fiasco was particularly egregious.
dbuder··on How a Pentagon Contract Became an Identity Crisis for Google
They already have that.
dbuder··on Vevo could have been ‘an existential threat’ to YouTube, but YouTube won
Youtube's " 15,000-strong salesforce"

and non existent customer/producer support

dbuder··on Interview with Deliveroo couriers appealing bargaining-rights decision
Lack of options, obviously.
dbuder··on A New Look Inside Theranos’ Dysfunctional Corporate Culture
The term unicorn and the search for unicorns has never been so appropriate.
dbuder··on Federal Judge Says Embedding a Tweet Can Be Copyright Infringement
How is tweeting not considered putting it into the public domain, it's open broadcast.
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