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by adventured 7y ago
It has been very widely covered in US news since the protests / riots began. CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, CNN, WSJ, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, NY Times, Washington Post, USA Today. All have had regular coverage of it. 6 days ago,
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by adventured 7y ago
Not necessarily, no. Biotech companies, as one example, frequently can't sustain themselves when they IPO. They IPO as a means to raise capital to pursue sustainability, to grow the business - develop product etc - using investor money
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by adventured 7y ago
> Yes it bounced back off of the lows but it’s still not close to profitable and well under the IPO price. The primary concern is long-term survival and growth, not immediately getting to profitable. They have plenty of cash at $2.2 bill
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by adventured 7y ago
An extreme exaggeration that ignores the extraordinary wealth holdings of the US middle class, which is wealthier than their peers in Germany or Sweden. That is despite heavy middle class demographic change from Latin America immigration th
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by adventured 7y ago
First, I appreciate the comment you made, which is fortunately at the top of the thread right now. I don't understand why HN hasn't banned the America Bad comments by now given their prevalence in so many threads. It would not be
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by adventured 7y ago
I think it's a lot more simple than that and has everything to do with the privacy environment today. People in tech really, really, really dislike it when the products/services they use attempt to track them (generally speaking).
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by adventured 7y ago
The last stage of building the thing (say there are four stages), which always seems to take me at least 50% of the total build time. That involves force-grinding my way through many of the things I enjoy the least, some of which I intentio
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by adventured 7y ago
You correctly point out the non-trivial nature of $1,900, including for many millions of Americans, based on duration just to earn the $1,900 in terms of income. It's even more dramatic than that however. The person earning minimum wag
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by adventured 7y ago
Your premise doesn't align with the facts . Poverty and homelessness are near all-time lows in the US right now, comparable to Canada. You wouldn't know that by looking at the streets of San Francisco (or Los Angeles for that mat
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by adventured 7y ago
They've recently made the process intentionally more annoying. You used to be able to exclude a site you control via a robots.txt file. That wouldn't actually delete archived content and would merely hide it from viewing. They no
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by adventured 7y ago
And all those TSLA-short clown types on Twitter et al. and their endless posts showing the empty lot in China, mocking Tesla about how they'd never actually build a factory there. Reminds me of all the statements about how Tesla could
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by adventured 7y ago
You can still do some extraordinary things in the physical space at warp speed in the US. SpaceX is doing exactly that right now with their new Starship rocket. An entire automobile manufacturing plant of that size, in a major economy? Toda
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by adventured 7y ago
> The system where we reduce interest rates to spur spending to stimulate the economy (probably) don’t work when interest rates negative. Sure it will. We're just in the early stages of the government abusing the Fed & USD for
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by adventured 7y ago
That's based on Son having a paper net worth of ~$85-$90 billion at the peak of the dotcom bubble and seeing all but about $3 billion of it vanish, peak to trough. You can move the numbers a bit (eg debate over the peak figure), howeve
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WeWork's Adam Neumann offered package worth up to $1.7B to step down from board(cnbc.com)
69 points by adventured 7y ago|68 comments
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by adventured 7y ago
I would say it's absolutely based on China not being an open market, operating primarily by relationships and permission (which can be revoked at any time for any reason). If you want to do business in China at scale over multiple deca
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by adventured 7y ago
> Tesla is one of the only companies that really seems to be successful in China. > Am I wrong? If so, please explain. GM has, over time, made an enormous business out of the Chinese market. They got in early and printed a lot of mone
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by adventured 7y ago
Only? ~33% is a high number that is also not reasonably close to being correct (as your supposedly is correctly suspicious of). I saw that figure on the Russia Beyond site, it's heavily misleading. Russia is rather notorious for having
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by adventured 7y ago
> Why is Russia pushing so hard to spread Internet access in such a situation? The authorities fully recognize the utility value of it, in terms of productivity, communication and economy broadly. So in line with that they're simult
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by adventured 7y ago
Outline: https://outline.com/nDEM3d
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by adventured 7y ago
That's a spot on point about the various types of luck. The common derogatory saying about smart / rich (referenced in the title) reveals more about the person saying it, than it does the person that it is directed toward. It&#x27
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by adventured 7y ago
Saudi Arabia has no economy except for fossil fuels. They've been trying for decades to build an alternate economy and every initiative has failed. The situations aren't remotely similar. The US controls the global reserve currenc
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by adventured 7y ago
That's a poorly representative chart of the current situation. That data is from 2017, showing that exports hit 1.1 million barrels per day. Here is what it looks like now (hit 3.1 million barrles per day in June): https://w
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by adventured 7y ago
My first thought was that it's amazing we're still routinely pulling coffins out of the ground in Egypt. My second thought was that 10,000 years from now some follow-on replacement for humanity will be staggered at the 30 billion
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by adventured 7y ago
> If a dual-class share structure allows the CEO to divert 100% of dividends into his personal bonus > Does an investment with those properties sound like a good investment to you? It's plainly obvious you don't hold an inve
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by adventured 7y ago
> became the one of most valuable companies in the world I don't follow the premise. Amazon became so valuable because of AWS, not because of their retail operations. Its hyper low margin retail division might be worth $120-$150 bil
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Charles Schwab to Allow Investors to Buy and Sell Fractions of Stocks(wsj.com)
2 points by adventured 7y ago|0 comments
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by adventured 7y ago
It is in fact an authoritative list. It's extraordinarily difficult to hide $3-$5 billion in personal wealth (enough to land firmly on the Forbes 400) in the US. The companies - both public and private - that can contain or produce tha
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by adventured 7y ago
It's interesting to see this valuation on search as a service, given the leader, Elastic, is in obvious valuation trouble. The market is unimpressed: the Elastic stock hasn't net moved higher since mid January (so most of the time
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by adventured 7y ago
Then it doesn't censor your email at all. You can freely view the emails in your spam folder, with one click. You can optionally move the emails to your inbox and train Gmail ("not spam" button) not to place them there in the

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