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anomatopoeia
8y ago
Yes this was and remains my thoughts since the fund was first announced - this whole thing very much echoes the previous strategy in certain respects. Two key differences: 1. Stage of investment Last go round Son was writing a vast number o
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anomatopoeia
8y ago
Similar situation, our sick child was passed off by initial doctors as having something minor. We were fortunate to try a different ER where a nervous young doc took a more skeptical approach and ran down the checklist fully before correctl
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anomatopoeia
8y ago
Xi seems to have overplayed his hand over the past few years. Instead of China quietly amassing power as it had done since the early 90s, Xi pushed China into a much more assertive role before it was necessarily ready. The US and others had
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anomatopoeia
8y ago
Yes this is critical - free trade benefits the economy/country as a whole but the benefits do not accrue evenly across society. Laymen have basically been saying this for years while being ignored by the ruling elites but economists ha
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anomatopoeia
8y ago
Interested in seeing where the funding is coming from at that valuation. Potentially the biggest buyout of all time? Other buyouts of such scale involved companies with huge cash flows/profits - think RJR Nabisco, Hilton, TXU (big US u
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anomatopoeia
8y ago
The world is quite lucky that the current batch of terrorist orgs are relatively unsophisticated - mostly using small arms and driving cars into crowds. The mass terror potential from even just slightly more sophisticated methods is chillin
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anomatopoeia
8y ago
Not at all cost competitive for my brand either. Contacts are a commodity item - whenever I need to reorder contacts I do a lazy 2 min search for the cheapest price online and order there. Customer experience is same everywhere. Not sure wh
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8y ago
I have long believed that the real solution to Boston's housing crunch is high speed transit to Worcester, Fall River, Lowell, New Bedford etc. Build HSR out to these areas and drop in lower cost high density density housing. Essentia