aerosmile

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by aerosmile 5y ago
Mate Rimac from Rimac Automobili claims [0] that engineering a car is far more complex than engineering an aircraft, because: 1. the expectations the manufacturer places on the operators are wildly different (eg: car drivers won't deal
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by aerosmile 5y ago
It appears that most people are considering the following two scenarios: 1. most employers will pay the same regardless of where I live, and my job security will be the same as before. 2. most employers will pay a bit less if I work remotel
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by aerosmile 5y ago
I think you might be touching on a taboo that nobody will ever admit publicly: having a baby is no walk in the park, and in comparison sitting in a cubicle and answering a few emails can seem like a massive upgrade.
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Phew! For a split second, I thought you were suggesting that the government should regulate this.
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Could we get a reference for that attack on PG? Ideally with a direct quote as well, so that we know where exactly you’ve seen that behavior.
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Nailed it.
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Elon Edit: lol, this will be the most downvotes on a char count basis I've ever received. I thought it was generally accepted that for better or worse, he does not mince words.
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by aerosmile 5y ago
For every instance that results in a win against a patent troll, there are many more instances where people just pay - you just don't hear about them. More recently the portfolio of companies I am a part of has seen an uptick in demand
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by aerosmile 5y ago
The beauty of being the first in the market. All the manufacturers with the shiny new EVs will have a higher marketing cost because Tesla is able to get the free PR and the best co-promotional deals like this one.
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Many people are wondering where Hertz found the money to make this purchase. > it will be interesting to see what people think after they have rented one They will absolutely love it, just like I did when I rented one on Turo and then bo
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by aerosmile 5y ago
After four years of Trump, I know where you're coming from. But you're projecting the moral and ethical values of one person to millions of people. Here's the thing - I've run startups that had a strong business, and tho
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by aerosmile 5y ago
This comment explains all I needed to know about why so few people in this country are taking this crisis seriously. The understanding is that this is the Amazon drop shippers who are whining, so why bother? There are countless counter argu
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by aerosmile 5y ago
I don't disagree that the US made a huge mistake when it outsourced its production (for all the reasons you mentioned). But the solution is not to rip off the bandaid and view millions of businesses as collateral damage. You'll no
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by aerosmile 5y ago
You're missing an important point here - if US customers cannot get their Xmas gifts on time, they won't buy them (nobody is going to order Xmas gifts if they will likely only arrive in January of later). Facebook has about 5 mill
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by aerosmile 5y ago
I am sure you noticed that Ryan gently exposed those in charge of not doing enough by repeating the ship captain's comments that Ryan's team was the first to ask to get a tour of the port from the ocean side. Granted, perhaps thos
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by aerosmile 5y ago
The guy is a bad ass. If he wanted to run for President, he would win. I am really not exaggerating - I had a chance to meet him a few years back, and at that time he was the most impressive person I had talked to in person for an extended
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Everyone's focused on Ryan's comments about stacking, and the subsequent win there. Amazing job, Ryan, and thank you Robert Garcia for being a man to take one on the chin (for this solution not coming from your team) and for then
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by aerosmile 5y ago
If Ryan's tweets had anything to do with this, my respect for him just went through the roof (and my disappointment with people actually tasked with figuring this out diminished proportionally).
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by aerosmile 5y ago
100% agreed!
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by aerosmile 5y ago
That average relative valuation is a good way to think about it. I would propose that most people don't believe in the exponential potential of individuals, so you'll find that people undervaluing the top CEOs outweigh those overv
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by aerosmile 5y ago
You're not wrong with the description, although I would counter that you don't have to be smarter than anyone else - even if just a fraction of people is undervaluing an asset, you can still make a profit. I think Elon is a good e
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by aerosmile 5y ago
It does seem that most of the prominent entrepreneurs of our age are focused on tech. Before that it was finance, and going back further, steel, oil and railroad. In the future, I expect to see more bioengineering.
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by aerosmile 5y ago
That's the whole point, you invest in people once they've had significant traction. I think Dustin Moskovitz is a strong candidate, along with Brian Armstrong and as mentioned earlier Max Levchin and Jack Dorsey. PG's YC and
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by aerosmile 5y ago
The mainstream strategy is to invest in highly diversified ETFs. Investing in just 4 companies would be considered exceptionally risky and contrarian by most people (I would personally also advocate going up to 20). Also, not to nitpick, bu
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Yeah, I've been going back and forth. Kind of leaning in at the moment.
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Seems like people are sharing their investment theories, so I'll add mine. Invest in 100x-ers, like Zuck or Musk. To be clear, a 10x-er is not good enough for this strategy to work. Those are the people who lead at SpaceX and make the
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by aerosmile 5y ago
> where I did my PhD in France almost all fellow PhD students in my group had parents that were high-ranking scientists You'll see this across all professional areas in the world. Medical students overindex on parents being doctors,
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by aerosmile 5y ago
How does this metric compare to other countries? Certain European countries I am familiar with don't have a strong emphasis on stocks as a wealth builder (as wrong as I personally think that is), and instead overindex on real estate.
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Decades ago, if you wanted a work-when-you-want lifestyle and no boss, and you didn't know how to start your own business, becoming a cabbie was the obvious career path. And cabbies do occasionally experience unpleasant customers with
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by aerosmile 5y ago
Not at all. Most companies are not in the business of making the world a better place, and therefore they are not going to be optimizing their info access policies against that target, but instead they will be optimizing for shareholder val

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