EricBerglund

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Reddit and r/politics are not the same thing. Subreddits are user-created forums moderated as those creators see fit. Each subreddit chooses what it wants to see, how it wants to be moderated, and who will moderate. A particular sub community not welcoming you or your ideas is completely different from site-wide moderation.

EricBerglund

14 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

The issue I have with framing it as spending vs investing is that the main issue with capital gains revolves around the super rich, not people making $200k a year.

Sure, a tax rate difference might influence Sally or Frank to spend or save, but Warren Buffet is not going to go on a billion dollar spending spree rather than invest his money if the capital gains rate goes up 5%.

I guess my question is what would the super rich do with their money other than invest it?

EricBerglund

15 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

As someone who's actually making an analogous opposite switch (learning vim rather than using Sublime), I'd love to hear your reasons for preferring Textmate over vim (I haven't used Textmate myself).

EricBerglund

15 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

Really I think her point is best summed up by "It’s never about the technology or impact it’s having, it’s about the game of entrepreneurship; getting users, funding and exiting as quickly as you can."

Her complaint seems to be that startups aren't trying to be successful businesses, they're trying to be successful startups, which aren't necessarily the same thing.

EricBerglund

15 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

What do "software" and "hardware" even mean in the context of the brain? All of what you call "software" is just the result of combinations of neuron patterns and chemicals, all of which could be included in a simulation.

EricBerglund

15 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

As mentioned elsewhere in this thread it's likely because a significant portion of that $37B is overseas and cannot be brought back into the US without paying US taxes on it. It's quite likely cheaper to take out a bond to raise more money in the US rather than bring overseas cash into the US.

EricBerglund

15 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

True, but Open/Libre Office is freely available and can save to Word formats.

EricBerglund

15 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

It might be because a movie reference that's relevant to the conversation at hand can be humorous, but a movie reference in response to another movie reference is just regurgitating a script. The child comment doesn't really add anything to the conversation other than "I saw that popular movie as well."

EricBerglund

15 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

This is true in a market with few existing regulations and a low barrier to entry, in other words the complete opposite of the mobile market.

EricBerglund

15 ปีที่แล้วdiscuss

The thing is that people think of browsers as a single market with all browsers competing directly with each other.

In reality, I think we're starting to get to a point where browsers are differentiating and targeting different groups of users. Chrome uses automatic updates to drive innovation and chase after the "power user" types who care about HTML5 and having the latest and greatest. On the other hand IE needs to maintain its core user base which is enterprise and business users where stability and support are far more important than <canvas> support. Automatic updates would be a horrible idea of IE because it would alienate these users.

Hopefully people are starting to realize that there is not one "best" browser, there are a number of different browsers, each with their own perks and downsides, and it's down to each individual user to pick the one that best suits their needs.

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