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Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade

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Re: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade

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post #148

I make https://weedtraqr.com/ - we are operational in Washington and Oregon - and now apparently compete with MS. The company Microsoft is working with (Agrisoft) doesn't even operate in WA, or OR yet. And has been sold like two times in the last two years (first to Surna[0] then to Kind[1]) Additionally their "partnership" is really just Agrisoft getting free Azure hosting. The headline is very click-bait. [0] http:…

Microsoft may seem like a big scary competitor, but they've been dead for some time (1). If all they're doing it providing free hosting then they're not really competing with you. (1) http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

Microsoft is nowhere near dead, not in the short to medium term anyway - and if you're a startup, that is all that matters. MS can put a 100 million dollars into a product sphere and not bat an eye if it fails within a few years (see Nokia). I wouldn't discount them anytime soon.

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post #88

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Right, it depends on the judiciary.

only if stare decisis means nothing to them.

stare decisis is not a rule. Moreover, interpretation can and does change over time. The law is not absolute across a given timeframe.

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post #223

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only if stare decisis means nothing to them.

stare decisis is not a rule. Moreover, interpretation can and does change over time. The law is not absolute across a given timeframe.

Clarence Thomas agrees with you. The rest of SCOTUS does not.

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post #222

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Microsoft may seem like a big scary competitor, but they've been dead for some time (1). If all they're doing it providing free hosting then they're not really competing with you. (1) http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

Microsoft is nowhere near dead, not in the short to medium term anyway - and if you're a startup, that is all that matters. MS can put a 100 million dollars into a product sphere and not bat an eye if it fails within a few years (see Nokia). I wouldn't discount them anytime soon.

Yes, but startups execute faster than big companies. They also make bigger/riskier bets.

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post #129

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They kill more people simply because they're more popular. I don't think they're more dangerous per dose.

Think again!!! http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4311234/ Alcohol is incredibly bad for your body dose by dose compared to marijuana. Sidenote (not from this study): Mushrooms are supposedly the least harmful to the human body... Who'da thought?

I wasn't talking about marijana or musrooms. I was talking about for example heroin, which is schedule 1.
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