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So, we're gonna be where people come after the disaster?
Yeah. There's bound to be money in that
Huh. Just gotta ask -- wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't ask -- How much did the Superdome people make off that whole thing? Cause I can't see us beating their volume.
Don't listen to the Analysts. You guys are every bit as good as Amazon. But what's the one thing Amazon's got that you ain't got? DATACENTERS!"
The whole thing seems like an April Fool's joke, until you realize that these are the people who thought that buying K-Mart was a good idea.
I work with a health IT company that's trying to give doctors better tools to solve and treat disease.
That's cool. I'm between jobs right now, so I have a lot of time on my hands. But the bright side is that just a few dollars from my unemployment check will buy a whole bunch of eggs, so I'm cool.
Say, why don't you tell me where you live, and I'll come over and we'll talk about that disease treating thingie you're interested in.
Trade secrets, such as formulas and manufacturing processes are the responsibility of the individual companies to protect, not government.
I would agree that it's up to them to protect themselves from other companies. But individual companies don't stand a chance of protecting against attacks from the resources available to a nation-state. It is reasonable to expect our government to take action to prevent hacking by the Chinese military and other government sponsored efforts, in the same way that we would it expect it to protect some office building in Hawaii from being burglurized by Chinese special forces.
What they need to "invent" is a messaging *platform* that does it all for you (i.e. collects the message data from different providers on a server and streams it together where it can be read by any number of compatible clients)...
Where the hell is that dripping sound coming from? Oh. Never mind. It's an army of "Terms of Service" laywers all salivating in unison.
At some point the 'haves' need the 'have nots' to have money. Filthy rich people don't continue to get filthy rich off of one another.
But not all the 'haves' see things this way. People tend to measure their wealth by comparing against others - typically their peers, rather than against an absolute standard. An american with a small house, a used car, and only one TV will tend to tell you that they're not very well off, despite the fact that as a percentile of the world population, they're very well off.
The economy is a game. But it's a funny game that is meant to be played forever. But the problem is that we're approaching having people "win" the game. And they want to win it. Have you ever badly beaten a child at the game "Monopoly"? It's much the same thing. And you run the risk of the losing player becoming so frustrated that they simply toss the board from the table. And they destroy your hard earned houses and hotels in the process. This metaphore scares the hell out of me.
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