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It's kind of ironic how condescending you are towards amazon stemming from what seems primarily based upon them not being a "tech company". In school, you probably had the jock typ…

A cushy introduction to living by oneself. My school built a new $60 million dollar gym two years ago that blows other gyms out of the water. I've got nice library's and computers …

What your talking about is commonly referred to in economics as diminishing marginal returns. The first $1000 is much more useful than the second. Also, your interpretation of "exp…

Price drop speed has already been examined: https://gigaom.com/2014/04/19/moores-law-gives-way-to-bezoss...

Step Four: Bro Down!

Your example has 3 locations in it. Of course it isn't hard! Try doing that for a billion locations.

Trust funds can grow faster than the economy depending on the assets. I cannot remember where I read it, but warren buffet said stocks return on average about 7%. 2% for inflation,…

I wonder how long it will be until amazon gets brought up for abusing their market power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_bundling

Does this remind anyone else of Peter Thiel's notes on value systems? The entire time, I was thinking about how Peter was emphasizing that finding the right size market was key. To…

Classic case of Adverse Selection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection

I've seen a bunch of these kinds of posts about how software engineers don't get paid enough and it seems to me that a lot of people have this misconception about software engineer…

Your acting just like the old factory worker who's pissed that his profession is starting to become more automated. Wake up and smell the coffee, developers are getting more produc…

->The only reason coders' computers work better than non-coders' computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don't beat th…

I have read a lot of thoughts on the supposed "singularity", and something I still have yet to see is for someone to realize that every person who believes in the singularity disre…