Samwise
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It's an MP3 player with a salt shaker attached.
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"I have not actually recommended many games, and I'll go on the record here saying my track record is probably best in the industry." - schild
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HaemishM
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I don't even...
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schild
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Cyrrex
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maybe it shoots the salt straight onto your plate?
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"...maybe if you cleaned the piss out of the sunny d bottles under your desks and returned em, you could upgrade you vid cards, fucken lusers.." - Grunk
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Mandella
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Wasn't this, like, a Google April Fool's joke??
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Trippy
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schild
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calapine
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Thanks for pointing that channel out. That man is great, I am sure his kisses taste like WD40! As opposed to the founder of Juicero, who said things like: “Not all juice is equal. How do you measure life force? How do you measure chi?”
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Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
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schild
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Yea, I've watched about 30 of his videos since yesterday. He's fucking great.
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calapine
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Maybe lets have something no so serious? (image is link)Or maybe this is actually deadly serious?
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Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
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HaemishM
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I keep thinking all this IOT shit is just idiotic overcomplicated shit tacked onto devices that don't need it so that geeky types with money can feel like they live in Star Trek, without ever considering if the tech is good enough to justify both its own existence and the security risks it brings.
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Chimpy
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I gave my friend who is an engineer at Intel shit about 15 years ago when he switched jobs into their "internet appliances" division. I was like "what, you going to make a toaster connected to the internet?"
Now look at the shit we have.
Bastard is now one of the higher-up engineers in the IoT group at Intel.
I need to go back to Portland just to smack him around.
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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calapine
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in Star Trek, without ever considering if the tech is good enough to justify both its own existence and the security risks it brings.
Star Trek Holodec security protocols?
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Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
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Sir T
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I keep thinking all this IOT shit is just idiotic overcomplicated shit tacked onto devices that don't need it so that geeky types with money can feel like they live in Star Trek, without ever considering if the tech is good enough to justify both its own existence and the security risks it brings.
I think of it as a solution in desperate search of a problem.
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Hic sunt dracones.
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Polysorbate80
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The best part of the picture is the tag under the company name: "Penetration testing"
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“Why the fuck would you ... ?” is like 80% of the conversation with Poly — Chimpy
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Sir T
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"... and Security services." Kinky.
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Hic sunt dracones.
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MisterNoisy
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AvE is awesome. He's the guy that made me start subscribing to YouTube channels.
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XBL GT: Mister Noisy PSN: MisterNoisy Steam UID: MisterNoisy
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slog
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AvE is awesome. He's the guy that made me start subscribing to YouTube channels. Best part. According to that video, they were losing money on each unit sold
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Friends don't let Friends vote for Boomers
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schild
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AvE is awesome. He's the guy that made me start subscribing to YouTube channels. Best part. According to that video, they were losing money on each unit sold That's common.
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HaemishM
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Every console manufacturer sold at a loss except for Nintendo, which IIRC, they stopped doing with the Wii. All the Playstations and Xbox systems were sold at a loss.
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Chimpy
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Loss-leaders are not new in any industry.
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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IainC
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If you can sign people up for $20, single serving packs of vegetable juice, you can give the hardware away practically free.
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calapine
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If you can sign people up for $20, single serving packs of vegetable juice, you can give the hardware away practically free for $400. Or $700 for the early customers.
Fixed that for you.
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Restoration is a perfectly valid school of magic!
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slog
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AvE is awesome. He's the guy that made me start subscribing to YouTube channels. Best part. According to that video, they were losing money on each unit sold That's common. Yes it's common, but the whole idea of losing money on a 400 dollar juicer makes me chuckle.
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Paelos
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Loss-leaders are not new in any industry.
They will bury you though if you're doing it as a startup.
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Khaldun
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Amazon begs to differ.
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lamaros
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Uber would also like to have a word.
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Goumindong
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Amazon isn't/wasn't a loss leader.
Uber will fail.
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schild
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Amazon begs to differ.
Amazon started as a bookstore that while they operated on thin margins (below any other bookstore), they did not operate selling books at a loss. Also, dont kid yourself, Amazon has absurd purchasing power. They force OTHER companies to sell to them at a loss.
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HaemishM
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Yeah, Amazon started out doing one thing really fucking well, and provided a service that made brick and mortar stores almost obsolete by cutting their margins to barely keeping the lights on levels. Their patience was rewarded, but I don't ever recall them doing much of anything at a loss. Maybe they did so with the Kindle or the Fire/Alexa shit? By that point, they couldn't be considered a startup.
Uber can go fuck itself. It's going to run headlong into local regulation, and it's only selling point (lower prices than taxis) is not going to be able to withstand the nut punch those regulations will require. You know, things like liability for their drivers and passengers, not relying on that fucking horrible "self-contractor" bullshit that lets them get off paying their employees fucking dirt. I will gleefully cheer when they have to become just another taxi service.
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MahrinSkel
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When she crossed over, she was just a ship. But when she came back... she was bullshit!
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Free 2-day shipping, especially the first few years when it was for everyone rather than just Prime members, was a huge well of red ink for Amazon for a long time. They didn't sell the actual items at a loss, but they lost money on every sale nonetheless.
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Rendakor
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I don't remember free 2 day shipping for everyone; I know they offered free shipping if you spent more than $50 (might have the number wrong) but it was their standard 3-5 day IIRC.
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schild
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Free 2-day shipping, especially the first few years when it was for everyone rather than just Prime members, was a huge well of red ink for Amazon for a long time. They didn't sell the actual items at a loss, but they lost money on every sale nonetheless.
--Dave
Minimum price was required to get free shipping in nearly all areas. There were a handful of exceptions.
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Sky
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I almost feel bad for the UPS guy because he's down our block every day. A couple of my neighbors also abuse the heck out of Prime. I'll order a box of pencils and get it free 2 day, because I need pencils and why not. If I had Alexa and did stream-of-consciousness ordering I'd probably end up with multiple UPS boxes every day
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schild
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We left a literal 80lbs of cardboard on the sidewalk for the recycling guy this morning. He could barely fit it all in the truck. (it was only half of what's in the garage)
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