Doesn't seem right as plenty of institutionals get cooked.
He claims loyalty with long-term holders who trust him (read:less nagging and more license). I suspect it's also more convenient for his IR team to avoid worthless meetings with super shareholders.
Ecommerce itself involved exploiting government regulations around sales taxes. Amazon didn't charge sales tax for over a decade because it had no physical location outside of WA. That alone gave it a massive price advantage over every other retailer. When the laws finally caught up, many competitors had already closed down, the biggest of them being Circuit City and Borders.
Thanks! Really happy with its current state but it'll be further fleshed out a lot more in the near future with dedicated pages for each major feature set, e.g Bookings, Safety Management System, Simulator Management etc.
Whilst that might true as per your observations, I've also seen people do zero research, take a substance in the wrong place/frame of mind, and subsequently had a more turbulent experience than they were expecting
We often attract certain types of people, and have a wealth of experience with that type.
We probably all take this as obvious knowledge. But only when I uncomfortably enter a group of people unlike me -- and feel totally alienated not just by their norms and assumptions, but their misunderstandings of my own -- only then do I truly confront the implications in a visceral, non-academic sense :)
As someone who thought smart homes were just a gimmick but now has a reasonably complex HA setup; these are some of the things I use it for:
* Controlling items I don't have easy access to:
* AC in baby's room (as well as checking on temperature) while baby is asleep
* Subfloor ventilation fans and set up clever timers for them (I'd have to crawl under the house)
I also have a motion sensor connected to a light for the hallway which has logic that is a bit more clever than the out of the box motion-controlled-lights (e.g. it stays on if people are in the vicinity).
Other than that, the rest is pretty much gimmick:
Every blue moon I will change the light in the living room to bright purple for fun.
When making LearnTheWords[1] I had to wait 6 weeks for approval from Google. They weren't happy with how I documented what this testing process was like. I had to wait 3 rounds of 2 weeks between submissions, writing ever more kafkaesque descriptions of the insights i gleaned from the definitely-not-paid-for test users that i'd required.
I wasn't expecting it to be easier to launch on iOS than Android, but here we are.
It's crazy to have to pay someone to do this, particularly because Google don't want you to use paid testers.
The idea was to stop spammy apps, i believe. But they've really thrown the baby out with the bathwater here, making it really hard for small-scale innovation.
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