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What it seemed like to me reading over the stories of Mark Cuban was that he realized (with the help of some frugal advisors) that he just made a ton of money on paper and didn't want to lose out transferring that into real actual dollars in the bank. It just seemed he had different goals than everyone else: everyone around him wanted to get as rich as possible, Cuban seemed to want to have as much money in his bank account as possible. Two very different things.
Re:Where's my petabyte disk drive? on Sunday March 27, 2016 @09:10PM (#11372202)
>and in turn, demand for storage is slowed by lack of need for storage.

Are you talking about consumer storage? Because need for enterprise storage (which I sell), is only increasing. What is decreasing is the revenue/profit per TB (naturally).

Re:Fight on Sunday March 27, 2016 @07:13PM (#11371928)
I've read that bare knucke boxing has lower death rates compared to traditional boxing due to the addition of gloves.

FORCE = MASS X ACCELERATION.

The extra mass is something the skull and brain cannot take. Also, the protection of the weapon (hands) assures fights go on linger than in bare knucke boxing. There is conflicting evidence however.

Re:ADHD Is Fuel for Adventure on Thursday January 28, 2016 @09:42AM (#10988381)
What are your coping methods?
Re:Years You Have Left to Live, Probably on Thursday September 24, 2015 @04:55PM (#10274668)
I wish you many more continued blocks of happiness mate!
Re:Why I'm walking away from one of the best jobs in academia on Tuesday September 08, 2015 @11:56AM (#10186427)
To further your idea, I believe there needs to be a healthy balance of both. Blanket statements, policies etc tend to raise more problems after the solve the initial problems it set out to solve.

Take my username- Fdanconia pays homage to Francisco d'ansonia, one of the protagonists from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. It reminds me that I used to think "pure capitalism and no government" was an answer. Now, I believe that a healthy mix of both regulation and competition is essential to our society.

Re:The 21-year-old building India's largest hotel network on Monday September 07, 2015 @10:45AM (#10181590)
I wonder how he is profitable or expecting to be profitable. The article states that Oyo pulls in roughly $3.5M/month but has to pay 1,500 employees.
Money amplifies who you really are.
Re:Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615M on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:13AM (#9762747)
For what application?
Re:Dollar Shave Club Is Valued at $615M on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:56AM (#9762699)
I'm almost surprised daily when I see what businesses are doing well, DSC for example. Just about a few hours research a 3 years ago (admittedly too long) and I created a wet-shaving kit that has saved me more than DSC can.

I guess if I really want to create a great business, help people be lazy and not think, only do.

Re:Housing.com CEO gives his entire stake to employees on Thursday May 14, 2015 @09:08AM (#9544885)
That's what I was thinking. Albeit incredibly altruistic, the CEO's job is to steer and control the direction of the company. Most of the time that it done due to his position, but sometimes that power is wielded due shares owned in the company.

This man does not sound like he should be the CEO.

Re:GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack on Sunday March 29, 2015 @11:44AM (#9285220)
Well let's brain storm! How can one improve on what is currently out there? Faster recognition and diversion of traffic flow?
Re:Peter Thiel AMA on Friday September 12, 2014 @06:42AM (#8307385)
How much money would that be precisely?
Re:Man buys $27 of bitcoin, finds they're now worth $886k on Tuesday October 29, 2013 @11:56AM (#6635072)
Worth $886K to whom? It's worth nothing if you can't find a buyer (a la what happened temporarily in the housing markets).