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"In 2016, Netflix spent $5 billion on original programming. Netflix plans to spend $6 billion creating 1000 hours of new content this year, more than doubling its 2016 lineup." That's a little bit worrying : double the content, with only a slightly higher budget. I wonder what impact this will have on the quality of the shows. No advertising is great but meaningless when the content is rubbish.

It's a start. It's better than nothing, unfortunately.

At the current burn rate, they will be bankrupt long before the widespread deployment of autonomous cars is a reality. Even if that takes only a decade, good luck finding the funding to keep covering the losses.

There's a big difference between a poor neighborhood and a bad neighborhood (bad for whatever reason: crime, drugs, blight, population decline).

Here's a good example how a lot of the $1,000 homes, and the surrounding neighborhoods, really look like: https://youtu.be/IuJFLJ0JApA . In the description there's a link to a follow-up video 3 years later. It's not a pretty picture. But then again, who buys properties on auctions without inspecting them first?

Agree. However, I wasn't talking about 40k homes here, but about $1,000 homes in risky neighborhoods, with the obligation to renovate to code, potentially costing ten thousands of dollars in the process.

There's a reason why the value op the property, including home and land, cratered to $500 or a few thousand dollars. It's the state of the neighborhood that dictates the value and it can change rapidly, faster than in regular neighborhoods.

It's not an investment I would recommended for inexperienced investors or people with limited savings who put all eggs in one basket. And sadly, the low prices attract quite a few of them.

These conditions are crazy. Requiring in investment of ten thousands of dollars in a home in a high risk neighbourhood within six months after purchase is borderline preying on the gullible.

A street in Detroit can go in a downward spiral within months. All it takes is one bad apple (home) that gets boarded up or goes down in flames near your investment and your purchase becomes a super high risk gamble, most probably with a very unhappy ending.

Add the high property taxes, completely out of touch with the current values of the properties in such neighbourhoods. And don't forget the back taxes from previous owners that you're often required to pay.

You lure people with a limited income, attracted by the low auction prices, force them to invest a significant sum to renovate a property to code within a limited time frame, saddle them with a mortgage and then you slap them with high taxes.

I'm not saying investing in such properties in Detroit is a bad move, you can make a lot of money with it, but it's not for the inexperienced or someone without a buffer to overcome setbacks!

Ah, that makes so much more sense now!

In an alternate universe, Altaba Inc propably translates to Detroit Online. Once the center of The Web, now a shrinking core surrounded by blight.

Are there somewhere market share statistics available for desktop and mobile operating systems combined? The separation between desktop and mobile devices feels a bit outdated. How does Windows relate to Android or iOS, for example?

I'd rather have a faster horse than a skinny, old horse with a touch bar.

Maybe because your accusation that Slim steals money to fund the NYT? Yes, his telecom company charges more for a crappy service than it possibly could if Mexico had a better regulated market with more competition. Is that stealing? No. Is it moral? Probably not, depending on who you ask. But that's what you get when you mix free market with government corruption.

I don't know if using Twitter on a smartphone is a reasonable infosec strategy. More than a few Twitter accounts have been hacked or taken over with social engineering. And he's using a Samsung Android smartphone, so you don't know how up-to-date he is with security patches.

But then again, according to Trump himself: “I know a lot about hacking." And he also knows “things that other people don’t know. And so they cannot be sure of the situation.” The man could be a brilliant hacker for all I know.

There's somehow a contradiction between the service you're offering and the name of the service. Postcard BOT feels impersonal, cold and automated, while you associate a postcard with something warm, handwritten, personal. There's a risk that your target market (postcard lovers) might get turned off by the name (bot).

I routinely replace my smartphone battery after 1 year of use, occasionally a few months later. The brand of smartphone doesn't matter: after one year of daily recharging a battery has seen it's best days. The hardest part is finding an original battery, especially on Amazon.

Like others already mentioned, Quiver (http://happenapps.com/#quiver), but it is Mac-only. Your a Mac-user, but I don't know how often you work with clients using another platform. That could be a problem.

For Windows and Linux, there's Cherrytree (http://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/). I'm not using it myself, it's just something that I found when looking for Evernote alternatives. It has syntax highlighting and can handle images.

Good luck with finding a solution.

I'd rather die from starvation than doing that. What's next on your job bucket list: operating the gas chambers in Auschwitz? If only it would pay a little bit better?

Github was founded in 2008. I think it's fairly reasonable to expect that an 8 years old company shows some kind of path to profitability, especially when you consider the popularity of the plarform an the amount of VC money it attracted. When you're near peak popularity and competition is heating up, being profitable or at least being cash flow positive is a good thing.

Why were you outraged that your government invested $1.2 billion in a significant upgrade of an important piece of infrastructure, beneficial for citizens and companies, now and in the future? Was it because you've jumped on the anti-government train that's so popular right now, like the overused term "taxpayers money" suggests, or did you really believe that building a national fibre network was the dumbest idea ever?

If you have a Synology NAS, you can use Synology Note Station.

https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/6.0/packages/NoteStation

Two wrongs don't make a right. The Arctic and Antarctic are two seperate ecosystems, it's not a balance.

>Pebble crowdfunded as an alternative to venture capital. The last time it was out of necessity, because there were no investors interested. And the way they did crowdfunding was basically selling their product at a steep discount, basically leaving a lot of money on the table. I don't know if that was a good strategy.

It's understandable you want to offer attractive perks with your Kickstarter, but at that time the Pebble brand among tech enthousiasts was big enough to limit the discount and stress the early adoper angle. You have several thousands of customers eagerly waiting for your next generation product, in that case there's no need to give steep discounts in the perks.

I guess the Pebble management was too focused to make the last Kickstarter another well-publicized runaway success, so that they could use that success to convince investors once again. But in the process they discounted their product, their brand and ultimately their chances of survival.

I came back after reading/seeing the photographs to post the same quote. My jaw dropped when I read it. Unbelievable, yet so topical.

You can take the "going to change the world" too far. They are bankrupt and still believe they're "Making Awesome Happen". Investors lost their money. Suppliers will not get paid. Employees are losing their jobs just before Christmas. Customers will not get their orders. Current customers are left without support and - in the near future - a limited functioning device. How is that "Making Awesome Happen"? A more humble attitude would be more appropriate.

“Most people I know end up sitting on the sofa, and half the time the TV is on when they’re working.” I know I get easily distracted, but I can't imagine you're being very productive or focused in such an environment.

But how often do people travel abroad? And Uber covers only major, well–known cities in select countries, a far cry from any place on the world.

Going digital is a big help. My legacy collection of books, CDs, DVDs or records still takes annoyingly much space and it's a pain in the butt when you move. Books are heavy!

I wish there was an easy way to instantly get a digital version of a book you own. Publishers always claim that you don't really own a book or record, it's just a license. I've already bought a license to read a novel or listen to an album, why can't I just transfer the license to a digital format without paying full price again?

And it's even more painful when you acknowledge that a lot of books are still unread, it's like a wall of shame of good intentions. Thankfully you can easily hide digital books in a subfolder.

I find the drawbacks section very refreshing and really appreciate their honesty. No obvious marketing fluff, you know exactly what you will get and can figure out for yourself if the service fits your needs without signing up for a money-back trial first. On the other hand, I do realize that the no marketing fluff is a clever form of marketing in itself.

Why stop at corporate taxes? Why not personal income taxes?

Maybe it's time to transform myself into a corporation. No more taxes, limited liabilities, easy bankruptcy (student loans), can't go to jail even if I make a real mess (financial crisis of 2007, Wells Fargo, BP), welcome at exotic tax havens, tax breaks to move to another region... The ultimate lifehack: forget cloning yourself, just corporize!

To make it even more obvious, we can left align the left/liberal posts, and right align the right/conservative news. Add a fun twist. In the middle, on the bottom of the screen there's you, Space Invaders style. You have to shoot your way through left- and right-aligned posts, until you get killed by the left or the right.

Great, but how many people online read, write or enjoy writing Haiku? If writing a Tweet requires as much time and (intellectual) energy as a Haiku, than I'm not surprised that the growth of Twitter is tanking.