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Re:Ask HN: How much would you pay for an American made iPhone?
on Monday February 23, 2015 @02:47PM (#9096531)
American employees are too expensive, and have too many rights. You can't compete with child slaves in China when you have a federal minimum wage and labor laws. They're even cheaper than robots.
Re:“Citizenfour” Awarded Oscar for Best Documentary in 2014
on Monday February 23, 2015 @02:05PM (#9096227)
We mustn't allow the clarity of truth to be muddied by facts.
What are you, an NSA puppet or something?
Re:Walmart ups pay well above minimum wage
on Monday February 23, 2015 @01:01PM (#9095762)
Doubtful. Wal-Mart would have no problem finding customers regardless of the purchasing power of its employees.
This is just an attempt to counter bad PR by paying their employees only slightly more than as little as possible. It's still a terrible wage.
Re:Magic: How to launch a product so no one will ever use it again
on Monday February 23, 2015 @10:55AM (#9094942)
If it creates buzz and makes money, it's viable. A few unsatisfied customers should be irrelevant in the greater scheme.
Re:Bug finding is slow in spite of many eyeballs
on Monday February 23, 2015 @10:20AM (#9094710)
You can apply that attitude in general to open source software as well.
Most people using open source software trust it as implicitly as they would have to trust closed source software, they have to, because reviewing and comprehending all of the code running on any typical machine is impossible. Most people simply use open source and don't care about (or aren't capable of) dealing with the code, and of the ones that do, there is no guarantee that they're going to be competent.