Not enough people are paying attention to this economic trend
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#2The Secret Economic Trend the Celebritites Use to Stay Thin!
(this link-baity title is beneath HN, c'mon)
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#3I object to the clickbait-ish nature of the title.
Titles should provide a summary, not a teaser.
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#4TL;DR: Bill Gates reviews one of his new favorite books, "Capitalism Without Capital". The book extends economic principles to measure value of intangible goods (such as software and online services), which were previously not correctly incorporated in economic models.
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#5I object to the clickbait-ish nature of the title. Titles should provide a summary, not a teaser.
I'll be sure to let Bill Gates know you disapprove of his blog titles, next time we're hanging out.
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#6The Secret Economic Trend the Celebritites Use to Stay Thin! (this link-baity title is beneath HN, c'mon)
The author is Bill Gates. He's earned deference on title drafting from the HN crowd.
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#7> [the ipod] combined Apple’s MP3 protocol, miniaturized hard disk design, design skills, and licensing agreements with record labels.
Apple's MP3 Protocol?
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#8I object to the clickbait-ish nature of the title. Titles should provide a summary, not a teaser.
I'll be sure to let Bill Gates know you disapprove of his blog titles, next time we're hanging out.
Based on currently wide-spread practices, IMO it's quite reasonable to assume that this is click-bait verbiage, not the title of a post from a well-known author.
Because of that, I think it would make sense to find different wording for the HN title.
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#9He's pretty much describing why Microsoft has been a great investment
That's why large information technology companies have profit margins of 20+% and seem immune to business cycles and macro factors. They just keep printing cash even as other sectors ebb and flow. Microsoft, google, facebook, have huge profit margins and have been good investments.
It’s a sunk cost. If your investment doesn’t pan out, you don’t have physical assets like machinery that you can sell off to recoup some of your money.
But you can sell intellectual property.
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#10Instead of the headline from the site, I propose editing the HN title to "Book Review: Capitalism Without Capital". It's a neutral statement about the article's contents, and also conforms to the Gates Notes url: Books/Capitalism-Without-Capital.