January 2012
A Tale Of Two Catalysts →
parislemon:
Amazon will announce their earnings later today. As I outlined in October, the results this past quarter will highlight the difference between Apple and Amazon.
Writes Tricia Duryee:
Here’s one data point: For the holiday period, Apple’s gross margin was an impressive 44.7 percent, up from 38.5 percent a year earlier. Meanwhile, analysts are estimating that Amazon’s operating...
darioschapiro asked: I´ve read your Lumia post. Let me first tell you that I work for Microsoft. You state that the lack of front camera is Microsoft´s fault. Why is that? I´m not currently on the Windows Phone division, but for what I know, the latest Windows Phone update (Mango) brought front facing camera support for any hardware. The Lumia has Mango. And, by the way, there is some hardware out...
WatchWarren Buffett and his secretary go on a tour to explain that it is unfair that he pays 17% tax on income of $60M and she pays twice the tax rate for a fraction of the income.
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Fifi cherche WiFi - Best Fon ad ever! by Belgacom
Belgacom (powered by Fon) has created an awesome campaign to advertise its fonspots. A dog called Fifi whose innate talent is to smell for wifi hotspots. In the middle of 2011, we announced the agreement between Fon and Belgacom and two months ago we reached 100.000 hotspots. Nowadays, we have 300.000,. Here you can see the video. The story would be as follows: Jean has a dog called Fifi that...
Lisa Randall and how science is on the defensive...
I just heard a great presentation by American theoretical physicist Lisa Randall at DLD 2012 in Munich. It was a fantastic talk on the challenges that physics faces and how instruments like the Large Hadron Collider helps solve them. In this talk I learned more about the inner workings of the collider and what a feat of engineering it is. There is enough material on the internet that explains...
I used to think Israel was different from its neighbors, but lately less and less so. My religion is better than yours is no formula for peace in the region. As a secular Jew I would feel so uncomfortable if I lived in Israel with a government who makes comments like this. It is also understandable how Europe, which is mostly secular, feels alienated from Israel now and USA which is mostly...
This moved me. It is a make believe restaurant in Vigo in which unemployed parents in Spain take their children to “eat out”. They take turns as volunteers. It is really a charity that makes children believe that their parents can afford to take them out to a restaurant. I felt so bad about for those parents. If you don’t live in Spain and you come here and go around you would...
Costa Concordia, what I think happened
When Spanair flight 5022 had its fatal accident in which most passengers died I said in my blog that most likely the accident was because the pilots made the tragic error of forgetting to take off with flaps. I mentioned that I was a pilot myself and could see how the pilots paid for these horrible mistake with their lives and that of most passengers. As you can see then some people criticized...
Nobody in my family gives a f*#ck about TV
We are 12 people at our home in Jose Ignacio, Uruguay, many teenagers. We have WiFi, computers, tablets, smartphone, Kindles, books but no TV. And I just realized that nobody gives a f… about TV During this vacation, nobody mentioned that we should buy a TV until recently a broker said we should have one for a tenant who comes in February. A tenant could not rent a house as this one without...
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