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WooShoa
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WooShoa
7y ago
This is what happens when the internet is essentially taken over by the walled gardens of "platforms" where the only choices you have are the ones your masters in charge of the platform you have subjugated yourself to allow you to
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WooShoa
7y ago
Does anyone know what this $850,000,000,000.00 looks like in reality? Where was that value created? Did they sell that many more … what exactly? I am just trying to understand where that value is. Or was this essentially all stock buybacks
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WooShoa
7y ago
I find it interesting when people make a fundamental miscalculation like you did. They perform EXCEPTIONALLY well … when you start understanding who they are performing for. Gold rush … something, something … shovels. But I know. I know. I
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WooShoa
7y ago
This may be cynical, but I suspect this issue will be drawn out way longer, because Airbus (including maybe the nascent Chinese airline industry) will ... logically ... take any and all advantage of this self-inflicted flesh wound to keep B
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WooShoa
7y ago
The Homer car comes to mind whenever these kinds of convoluted and unchecked engineering adventures have the light shone on them.
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WooShoa
7y ago
That is not nearly the same issue. It is a relatively tiny few airplanes with very high numbers of legs, i.e., landings, which is the most likely culprit (exacerbated by hard landings of inexperienced, low cost pilots). And most of the gr