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For business continuity: open source > proprietary > proprietary with activation servers > SaaS All of those have bins within them too. For example, Google SaaS, or bootstrap start…

I can spend $30 casually, and I wouldn't spend $50-$70 casually, which means Pine64 is exactly at my price point.

I think a lot of that can be managed with messaging and expectation-setting. My experience hasn't been that volume is manufacturing-limited. A frobitz costs $50 to make, ship, supp…

A comment to all companies: With current shortages, PLEASE include "pre-order" rather than just "out-of-stock." There are a lot of items where I don't mind waiting, but I WILL forg…

Perhaps. I think the key question is how quickly the cost of alternatives goes down relative to oil. But if Greenland is the last reserve of oil left on the planet, the value of th…

I think, in this case, the rich encroach on my privacy enough that it seems proportionate. It's not okay to shoot your neighbor. It is okay to shoot your neighbor if they're shooti…

In the US, marriage is bound by laws created by an active divorce lobby. Divorce is a huge industry. In my state, divorce, for a men, generally means paying roughly 1/3 of your inc…

Most of this is nonsense, but I'll point out a few things: > "Infringement and damages are unrelated concepts" No. They're the same concept. Infringement is okay if there are no da…

You're reading it wrong. If we were to read this like a piece of computer code, the incompatibility would be mutual. GPL code does not permit further restrictions. "You cannot remo…

There is a whole slew of problems. 1) There is still an expectation women will marry up, and men will marry down, in terms of income potential. If the woman is a little bit ahead, …

IANAL, but you're obviously not one either. A lot of what you said is false. You don't read legal text like a piece of code. Contracts and licenses don't work like that. It took me…

I drove a revisiting like this in more than one organization. Fitting decisions like this around the status quo makes no sense. It's exactly actions like this which change the stat…

I don't think AGPL is a perfect license, but I do think it's the best. The flaws it has are things like the poorly-written patent clause, verbosity, ambiguity on concepts like link…

I'll have dinner with virtually anyone, and I'll try to understand them. I also have a lot of historical books, including one written by a genocidal dictator who killed a lot of my…

What's been a bit amusing is seeing a string of startups go through the same lesson about Google Cloud. I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that the mistake Google made was f…

Making an EV is easy. I can buy a Power Wheels EV for $400. Making a good EV is hard. The set of technologies required is still unknown -- bear with me for a little bit. In the ear…

The question isn't about current margin; the question is about long-term margin. Running at a loss to build out market share, technology, branding and economies-of-scale is a stand…

My hypothesis is different. Margins. GM, Ford, Honda, Toyota, etc. are competing with a commodity product in a commodity market. There's no big difference between a Toyota Yaris, a…

Profit = number of users x number of sales (Minus costs, which are low for a web service) There's a point that maximizes profit, and my point was that $4,500 might be a bit beyond …

I'd totally pay for something like this, but not $90/year. I'd pay $90 per year for an all-in-one-service to replace Google, but with open source and privacy. It seems like a tough…

(1) In an efficient market, all the companies are one segment are no more and no less likely to be either rubbish or overvalued than any other segment. The risk is random. (2) You …

I've found two successful strategies: 1) Index funds. 2) Buy/sell where you have unique expertise. If you work in the toilet hardware industry, buy/sell stocks related to that indu…

People gave Facebook my stuff for free. RMS explains this much more eloquently than I do. He doesn't have a Facebook account, but he's all over Facebook, without any control, desir…

Author claims a frame up. Now that is something I've seen at MIT. The Institute has unique means to crash and burn people's reputations so most people fold.