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by T2_t2 9y ago
I couldn't agree more. In a town like SV where almost everyone is liberal, the problem is conservatives. Oh, do I need to state that was sarcasm? > This is like walking into a megachurch in Mississippi and complaining that no one wa
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Except gambling has the odds stacked in the house's favour. There is no such problem with a startup. Will revenue double forever? No. Will revenue double for 100 years? No. Will revenue double for 10 years? Hmmm. Will it double for a y
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Except... Growth. The (buzzword warning) hyper-growth startup model is in essence 2X revenue, 1.5X costs. Repeat until inevitably profitable - and I say inevitably because with enough time, 2X revenue, 1.5X costs gets to profitable. The onl
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by T2_t2 9y ago
The problem with property is that property uniquely spans the personal, the deeply economic (interest rates are used to mediate inflation and growth), deeply emotional (I own this), usually the single most important asset for the vast major
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Bah. Australia has segued from Japan to China. India is next. There are 3 billion people desperate for the sort of first world accommodation that only steel makes possible. We'll be fine. > We've built a number of great marketp
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by T2_t2 9y ago
I'de have no problem saying any of those things to another man.
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by T2_t2 9y ago
4. Hope no one takes further something that is a misunderstanding? I dunno where we are going here, and I'm not sure all this stuff isn't confirming the exact opposite of everything people are hoping for. I'm not sure why the
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Not the "traditional" TV of free-to-air stations. That is all reality shows and pandering to the lowest denominator.
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by T2_t2 9y ago
> Your expectations aren’t reality I think you miss my point. Even if the tax rates are the same, a state with a larger GDP - whether that state is South Carolina or Singapore - will have more money to spend on things like health, and go
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by T2_t2 9y ago
You could be right - it may affect smaller countries like the Uk as well. Probably Spain also. heck, even Italy has Lombardy separatist movement. Maybe it is just an issue when a country has more than one city, and solid growth? Singapore i
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Assuming SG is Singapore, that is a really specific example, because it is a tiny Island of 4 million people with a lot of very unique attributes - it is a major shipping and airport hub, as well as a financial hub in a notoriously corrupt
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by T2_t2 9y ago
And the incentives spiral downwards. If everyone cheats, the only sensible course of action is to also cheat. This is exacerbated in communist countries (like North Korea) that don't provide their people with enough via legit means. If
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by T2_t2 9y ago
> it turns off anyone with a brain. Exactly. So it has mass appeal :) That's the sad reality. The Kardasians aren't popular because of people with a brain. Mass appeal matters.
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by T2_t2 9y ago
...and you are likely on the front line of new things, and as such less important for Twitter's long term strategy, even as you were likely a reason for their initial growth. That's the issue for SM sites like Twitter et al: going
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by T2_t2 9y ago
I have been to one in Sydney and one on London. I gotta tellya, Sydney was unworkable (too many people talking and wanting to talk to you) but London was a dream. The English don't chat, and there is zero eye contact. From this, I theo
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by T2_t2 9y ago
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes... click the link from google.
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by T2_t2 9y ago
I've never worked at that scale - I doubt many have. I am sure that all manner of incorrect decisions are required to make that level of scale work. What is the reddit thread that almost broke them? This one I think: https:/&#x2F
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by T2_t2 9y ago
So... generic and not leading to a job? The problem is the proliferation of degrees, and thinking that hasn't caught up with the new reality (e.g. "getting a degree is good" -> "getting the RIGHT degree is good")
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Or a diesel generator. But that's an ongoing vs capital cost question I guess.
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by T2_t2 9y ago
How is that possible? What is the maths there?
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Depends what you think the lifetime value of a customer is, plus what the ongoing cost to retain them is. I ordered off Deliveroo in Sydney Australia, and they advertise on AdWords against individual restaurant names. If the Diliveroo brand
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by T2_t2 9y ago
The source of that article - https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/11/can-uber-ever-delive... - makes no sense to me. The cost of sales and operating expenses seem non-sensical. What are Uber's cost of sale? W
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by T2_t2 9y ago
So pick better charities: http://www.givewell.org/
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by T2_t2 9y ago
Not really. Buffett bought a jet, after calling it indefensible for years, and actually named it The Indefensible. I reckon it is a good investment for many CEOs. There time is worth FAR MORE to their companies than whatever a jet costs to
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by T2_t2 9y ago
> Let’s take the example of an African-American independent or Nigerian film (Nollywood) at € 3,000 per year of use. What about giving away shares for content? I mean, if Afrostream gave away X% of the shares, in return for the rights to
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by T2_t2 10y ago
Totally, and that's the problem with numbers like this - they are easy to manipulate without solving the underlying problem.
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by T2_t2 10y ago
Actually, he did that because he felt the public price was undercooked, and there was more value in the company people weren't seeing. http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-01/michael-de... is a
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by T2_t2 10y ago
As well as a diversity / community aspect. For every chef, barista, waitress, cleaner etc they hire, there is a chance to alter the hiring clique from (hyperbole) rich, snotty nosed, Ivy leaguers to include people with different backgr
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by T2_t2 10y ago
It is so weird to see an ideology proved correct (rape culture, toxic masculinity et al) with concrete evidence, and then see that evidence ignored because of the cognitive dissonance with their pro-refugee stances. The Muslim world also ha

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