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by adrr 4y ago
What about all the clients that lost their money? This is a zero sum game, if someone loses $10b, someone is making $10b on the other side.
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by adrr 4y ago
I think most people want a bank that they can trust with their assets. I don't want to store my assets on a hardware wallet that can break or lose and I have to store the backup key in a a safety deposit box. Do you know how hard i
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by adrr 4y ago
This highlights issues with crypto. Ecosystem is filled with scammers so you need to hold your money in the proverbial mattress aka hardware wallet.
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by adrr 4y ago
Teflon(brand) coated pans don't use PFOA or PFOS in their manufacture and PFOA is banned in the US for cookware.
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by adrr 4y ago
Azure has some of the biggest outages like when they went down on Feb29th for the whole day. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/summary-of-windows-az...
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by adrr 4y ago
Because merchant account is a contract with you and the bank. You get an individual merchant account that If any card provider doesn't like you, they can ban you. Stripe, you're using their merchant account. If banks ban that me
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by adrr 4y ago
Or you could just get your own merchant account for payment processing and do all the diligence and requirements upfront. And you get to talk to someone and explain what you're doing to resolve issues upfront.
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by adrr 4y ago
I challenge you to find deodorant for under $10 on Amazon.
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by adrr 4y ago
Because Amazon Basics is the bottom of the barrel. Their cables do not last. You can buy Anker cables for around the same price. Their batteries are also terrible. It’s not like Costco’s Kirkland signature.
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by adrr 4y ago
There’s a whole industry based around arbitraging price differences between Amazon and brick and mortar merchants. Just search YouTube for “get rich with FBA”. How would Amazon know if it was stolen or retail arbitrage?
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by adrr 4y ago
Amazon puts good components in their Echos. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Amazon-Echo-tear...
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by adrr 4y ago
Hardware is very expensive. Alexa dot is $14 on Amazon.com right now, i bet they are selling it at a loss for that price.
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by adrr 4y ago
Never once as a retail investor have i needed any of those features. Blockchain a solution looking for a problem.
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by adrr 4y ago
So execs don't bounce. I left a company because they didn't offer a secondary and i was 3/4 vested with no exit in sight. I had a job offer to another company that promised an IPO in a year. If i would have been paid, i
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by adrr 4y ago
It isn’t even that high. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/interest-rate
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by adrr 4y ago
Secret is to not take the pitch meeting seriously and play league of legends.
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by adrr 4y ago
Leaking documents is indicative of a a toxic environment where the trust has broken down in all directions.
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by adrr 4y ago
How much shareholders capital did FTX lose? I assume they lost billions of investor capital.
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by adrr 4y ago
You need to explain how a hedgefund or market maker makes money off retail investors?
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by adrr 4y ago
How ia a market maker robbing retail investors? Is that even possible?
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by adrr 4y ago
So is this a copyright agreement or a EULA? Copyright agreements only cover distribution and if you something internally, it doesn’t cover your usage. Only if you distribute the code does it come into play.
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by adrr 4y ago
Issue isn’t that he got billions in investment. He didn’t raise money from public markets so he stole money from the rich who had the means to actually due diligence but never did. Still blows my mind that he was caught playing league of l
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by adrr 4y ago
My knowledge of what happened is from reading the book bad blood. It doesn’t portray her as a victim and she’s much worse than Sunny and directly caused someone to commit suicide.
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by adrr 4y ago
My guess she’ll get 5 years and Sunny will get 15 even though both committed the same crime. Edit: context for my guess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentencing_disparity#Evidenc...
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by adrr 4y ago
They aren’t custodial accounts if you have to wait for bankruptcy proceeding to get your assets back assuming they have your assets.
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by adrr 4y ago
I had to Google this because that is some straight up Silicon Valley show stuff. https://www.businessinsider.com/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-league...
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by adrr 4y ago
I'll bet they lost 90% of that money in the last 7 months. They were probably doing fine during the bull market.
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by adrr 4y ago
Good investment. Steal from customers and use their money to prevent prosecution.
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by adrr 4y ago
They paid the WeWork founder $1.7B to step down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Neumann
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by adrr 4y ago
Why both deposits and withdrawals? They risk spooking their customers by preventing withdrawals. If you wanted to mitigate risk, wouldn't you just prevent deposits/buys?

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