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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> 2018 The Saudis should have had come through. In a rare moment of clarity Musk self-diagnosed and understood that he can't be trusted with a public company. He takes the stock price (and generally everything that impacts or percei
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> it is unreasonable to consider the only risk of US debt to be default and you have to consider the inflation loss. The Fed mandate says "stable prices AND maximum employment". It says nothing about setting the fed fund rate i
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> This decision tells us nothing about the safety of the Mercedes system compared to its competitors Mercedes is just taking notice that grandstanding and PR worked for Tesla, so they are doing the same thing. Everybody who is serious ab
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> Yes, we all want better investment opportunities, in real dollars. But the Fed can't control this. Better means an optimal risk-reward profile, meaning that you don't lose principal while looking to allocate that capital in s
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Pretty hard being the act to follow Win95 3.1> Win95 is the biggest leap in the history of computing
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
When you account for total revenues by sector it's the commodities trading business which comes out ahead though. Just adding up Vitol, Transfigura, Cargill and Koch Industries you get to 665B in revenues. Commodities trading is a behe
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Show HN: World's Largest Private Companies(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago|3 comments
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Every verb it's always about "-ing" with Musk supporters....never "-ed". You can shake Gates or Bezos hand and say to them that they transform-ed the software and online retail business respectively. Tesla cars acco
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> The internet is only available in like 60% of the world While this is true, people coming online are not targets for advertisers because they have a very low disposable income/wealth and for the same reason they would never be abl
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Musk got to #1 in the Forbes 400 by saying things to people on twitter and becoming a techno-utopian cult figure This is like Kim Kardashian buying E! to make sure they can never cancel "Keeping up with the Kardashians". Musk want
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
But this is not a pie getting bigger. It's always the same pie, only the size of each serve as well as the number of serve which changes . That's at least the intuition I get it from the famous phrase "2 ways of making money:
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Don't ever trust US publications with 0-60 times. They do those trials at quarter mile tracks. There is barely any asphalt left there it's all tire rubble which increase the grip especially on launch. The real data is from UK&#x2F
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
No doubt they are there, but they are there by chance/habit (I think) not because the platform serves them well. TikTok has all sorts of time limits and you can't even upload professionally shot content lasting more than x seconds
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> even as things like TikTok are percolating up into media consciousness The problem with TikTok is that it's essentially just for actors, musicians and dancers. On Youtube people can Vlog, it's impossible to vlog on TikTok. I
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
To me it's the total opposite. Globalist politicians/leaders are setting the stage for Americans to dominate the social scene should they decide to WFH or retire in Mexico, Costa Rica, Vietnam, Philippines...and actually not be ha
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> At this point, it's all geared toward maximizing ad revenue Well, you have to make money somehow and users will never pay for social media after having been spoiled for 15+ years by free Facebook , not to mention the 20+ years of
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
AKA "The failing, fake-news publishing New York Times" This is what happens when you surround yourself with yes-men and synchopants. People who don't worship you are seen as enemies of everything that is true and just in the
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> Funny thing is the well-known company of Warren Buffet / Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway, is in between stocks and ETF, and the modularity clustering put it in the ETF community. Well BRK is very diversified and very value orie
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Ask HN: Has social media reached its saturation point?
54 points by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago|70 comments
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> non-career politicians that care about the average American instead of growing America's influence worldwide. Wasn't W. a carrer politician? The prototypical one considering his dad was President? Also with whom do you think
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
It's the reason why IIRC Server still has the old Start button which emerged in Windows 95 . Consumers version are plagued by the new menu but you can cure it with a free software called "classic start menu" or something like
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> Economically it is infeasible to politically play, social engineer, or bribe thousands of reviewers in a publicly inspectable web of trust Elon Musk hyperloop whitepaper pipedream...he made it in one night, probably on heavy drugs. It
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> Every other rich person is constantly trying to align themselves with the political left like it's somehow the correct moral choice Politics is about ideas and policies, but also characters and decorum. The right has produced W. w
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
> The whole idea of a journal should be obsolete. > A tenured professor is still a highly respected position despite the fact that the actual job of being a professor has a lot more to do with politics than it does with academics It s
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Musk is a revolutionary thing because for the first time you can invest or divest in a celebrity/politician, and in a very direct and liquid manner . Tesla stock price is a function of Musk "approval rating", celebrity status
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
I am not surprised that such profiles are supporting Musk. I would not be surprised if Marc Andressen and Graham joined forces too. They are all very into social trends and politics. Everybody in SV (and the country in general) seem to be a
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
Windows GUI you just can't attack it. Billions of kids grew up with the start button as a gateway to their favorite game, and billions of adults sees it as the gateway to their productivity tool
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
It's true though. Modern day China looks nothing like the 80s. The speed at which they eradicated poverty is unprecedented. Of course if you expect Beijing or Shanghai to be as free, safe and clean as Zurich, Amsterdam or Copenhagen th
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
This guy managed to socially short the only billionaire that you can actually short on financial markets and there is lots of liquidity. Whatever you think about Musk he's the only celebrity/cult-figure on which people can bet in
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by I_DRINK_KOOLAID 4y ago
It's really interesting that an asset which should only prompt the question: "Will it go up or down?" generates the question "Do you believe?" instead. The secular parts of the country are completely exposed to such

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