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by GDC7 5y ago
> Exploiting space is "impossible" because rockets can't economically lift the whole mass of the Earth's crust? Let's go smaller scale then? How many players need CCTV like surveillance down to 50m resolution fro
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> It's about what I hope the future It's about time to be very clear about this. This sentiment based on hope for the future and the entertainment of seeing the rocket land on its butt is not unlike the one experienced by the f
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> I just want a piece of the dream As I said many times, space has become a religion for people who identify themselves as atheists. And Musk is the techno-utopian Pope, with stock ownership in one of his scam companies becoming a form o
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by GDC7 5y ago
Apple is the luckiest company among the FAAMGs Without the DOJ there is simply no Apple Inc. anymore, or at least they are relegated to irrelevancy.
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> To me, a "social movement" is a large group of people trying to change society to be closer to a political ideal they believe in. Once you remove the libertarian component of crypto and people who don't want to pay taxes
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by GDC7 5y ago
You'll never learn how to do that, nobody ever does. Those who are successful are just good at trying many times as the conversion ratio is very low. So the answer to that would be: Want to learn how to pickup girls? Learn on how to b
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by GDC7 5y ago
I read the thing but what the author describes just pushes the problem one step down the road, it doesn't solve it. At some point you got to assign a probability to the events that the author mentions. You can't just assign equal
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by GDC7 5y ago
Can you even read? old 20th century stuff such as old pentium Desktop that we throw in landfills are a treasure for those in subsaharan Africa and it's the first PC they get their hands on right now in 2021. For sure they aren't g
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by GDC7 5y ago
> And that aside, do you not like going to a restaurant because you knew you could as soon as you earned the money to buy the meal? Maybe it's not the same as eating a fish you caught yourself, but it's still enjoyable isnt it?
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> A man manages to get a win? Typo, I meant a "yes". > What does that even mean, are you talking about the probability of convincing a women to have sex with a man? I mean a sexual encounter of any kind, real or virtual, rea
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Many men make it their entire identity to make sure everyone knows they wouldn't pay* for anything related to visually sexually stimulating entertainment, but the analytics data shows a very broad distribution of society of every
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Tesla does ship cars, you not seeing them in the street Are you a car person? They are as rare as Land Rovers or Lotus or Alfa Romeos or Fiats. What's the marketcap of those companies? It's in the millions because those compa
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by GDC7 5y ago
Google overpaid for Youtube, for sure. Facebook could have negotiated harder for Instagram but 600M or 1B doesn't make a huge difference for a giant like them. Facebook also paid 20B for Whatsapp which is nuts. The thing with Musk is t
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by GDC7 5y ago
> There is one parked in my street OMG! ONE! In a well off European street. You might want to check how many BMWs and Benz and Land Rovers are also in your street. If you are a car person you'll get this: Teslas are as niche as Alfa
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by GDC7 5y ago
For sure, Jeff Bezos who is the world richest man has said many times that he wants his legacy to be: "World oldest man" It never stops, for sure in the back of his mind he has the goal of delaying death as much as he possibly can
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A bigger fool in terms of acquisition cost can be great at execution. The 2 are not mutually exclusive. Ebay was a bigger fool as it overpayed for PayPal but their execution was brilliant in making PayPal a platform that is actually used by
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Saying Musk is a fraud is very much "trendy" these days, but I feel like it ties in a much wider social transformation where for some reason we can't separate the artist from the art. There is a huge discrepancy between
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by GDC7 5y ago
> At least 47% (3.6 billion people) don't use Internet My premise was: I am not a subsaharan farmer. > Looking at the 50 largest companies[0], at least half of those are companies that I've never had any kind of interaction
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Yeah the people who bought PayPal for 1B at EBay must be kicking themselves over that acquisition it is only worth 240B now. What does the current market cap have to do with Musk? He has not been at the helm of PayPal since 2000 This i
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Investing in PayPal.. C'mon Forbes he made the Business. He made the business sink....so much that the board had to fire him and install Thiel instead, who did the only sensible thing: clear the deck, secure the hatches, give it a
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It's the internet. The Internet is amazing!* *As long as there is a ban on discussing people , once you start discussing (and most importantly) advertising people on the internet , it's over. Endless comparison ensues and anxiety
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> I don’t understand why people think tesla will keep growing at this rate They are young and blinded by the optimism which the cult leader...ehm the CEO feeds them. If they studied history they'd know that even Microsoft, AKA the u
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> Lots of talk about balking at this valuation, and that is probably a reasonable reaction, but as others have said, I want to point out that companies are valued based on their future and projected growth, not how much they are worth to
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How it performs that function matters though
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I think sticking to raw materials is the answer The periodic chart doesn't lie. Each and every element on that has a price. If there is sand in the cogwheel that transforms raw materials into products that is surely of social nature an
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by GDC7 5y ago
> Wider: Many of the posts you have made here today are very thoughtful. Keep up the good work! :) Hey Thanks :)
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> If you’re finding yourself surrounded by rampant drug use and alcohol consumption in a work context then you are in a very abnormal place I think one has to differentiate between established companies and startups. Startups are constan
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The thing about this that always shocks me is that when they calculate prices to then compute inflation they always forget to report on quantities sold. It's not the case with inflation, but for example with deflation economists are ve
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For sure! People are in for a huge surprise when they'd find themselves on their deathbed not due to glamorous climate change but due to the old "boring" heart failure and cancer and alzheimer.

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