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No, value to the business only sets the ceiling. The floor comes from the labor supply side of the market. (i.e. can the company find qualified people willing to do it at X rate)

>how society decides salaries. It seems pretty arbitrary from my perspective. Society doesn't "decide". It's a decided by the labor market. Nobody wants to pay programmers six figu…

No it's not. Actors are meant to pretend to be different people. The CEO isn't supposed to be pretending to be a different person.

No, long before AWS, Amazon intentionally re-invested all of the excess revenue that would be reported as profit back into the business instead (expanding capex and opex).

The number of new cars, new iphones, large houses, and other luxury purchases suggests otherwise.

>No, because at this point the barrier to entry is substantial. Not really. Unless the product has a powerful network effect, people can easily enter. If that weren't the case, sta…

>After doing this for a while, you can use these relative effort estimates to project completion dates for new projects. This doesn't work. The problem is that you get periods wher…

>absolutely destroyed Bush at Weird. I thought Bush finished out his term.

>They also pay 0.005% tax in Europe, sure it's legal, but is it morally ok? Yes. How would you decide on any other number and justify overpayment to the shareholders? >They certain…

Not related? Tapping an undersea cable doesn't compromise encrypted traffic. Unless it looks like the NSA gets Apple and Google to put in back-doors, the products are still signifi…

>It’s not an analogy at all Then why are you talking about a garbage company? Your whole comment is building an analogy. >Although I’d like to know which step in my story stops qua…

> Could you find one economist that would say that an unpriced externality is not a subsidy? All of them? >This isn't a tortured analogy, it isn't an unconventional use of the term…

>I personally appreciate the headline saying "town" in a colloquial sense But that's the problem. It's not a "town" in a colloquial sense for anyone who grew up outside of major me…

Two things: - data costs for bandwidth costs hasn't gone down at the same rate - A big chunk of an ISP is labor costs, which do not go down over time

There is no difference. Regular debt is also discharged in bankruptcy.

>Thoughts? Don't preempt people that might disagree with you by claiming they are in cognitive dissonance.

People use the word NULL and in all caps as well, in particular in bureaucratic processes like those you would encounter at the DMV. NULL & VOID, etc. It is entirely reasonable tha…

>what I wished existed when I was learning said details. This isn't what 'pedagogical focus' means though. Just writing down the stuff that helped you out very rarely covers what i…

None of this is how this stuff works. >Huge amounts of cheap debt allow companies to buy lots of stock, driving up prices. Companies don't use debt to buy stock. Taking on the debt…

Kubernetes is still quite exotic for 99% of businesses.

Not really. The difference in the land cost is effectively negligible. At this point (and it has been this way for many years), the limit in solar deployments is cost of panels and…

No. A decrease in Google's share price doesn't increase Facebook's share price. These companies are mostly in the same boat of being large tech companies with significant amounts o…

Because hottest month on record isn't scientifically interesting? Yes, climate change is happening, no, we didn't forget. The article isn't even about any attempts to do something …

> but something that's viewed to be scientific fact. By who? Do you seriously read an HN comment that states something you didn't already know with a citation you don't bother to c…

>"data" (whatever THAT means) Holy shit. Observable evidence.