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by arbuge 7y ago
> WeWork is probably legitimately in the $15B range How do you arrive at that number? I've seen comparisons to firms like IWR / Regus that imply a much lower number would be appropriate, even if WeWork was as profitable as thos
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by arbuge 7y ago
> It's blamed on the population living longer, yet the average lifespan has been decreasing recently. The government failed (or ignored) the fairly obvious result of modern medicine making people live longer and did not plan for it
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by arbuge 7y ago
Are there any such regions to begin with? If they were uninhabitable, mosquitoes themselves would be absent, given that they require a blood supply.
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by arbuge 7y ago
I was charged $50 for 2 tylenol when I had my appendix taken out. The CVS down the street would sell you a 24-pack for $5. Of course, that was just a minor component of the final $50,000 bill ($4k for me after insurance), but it still stick
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by arbuge 7y ago
Agreed, 100%, and certainly hoping there is no last-minute action. The change is sorely needed and long overdue.
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by arbuge 7y ago
> whether you believe it or not, it is a fact Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Where's yours?
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by arbuge 7y ago
That would still leave it massively overvalued compared to conventional players like IWG (Regus). Those players also don't have unusual corporate governance concerns.
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by arbuge 7y ago
> renewable electricity has a short-run marginal cost of zero This seems to be the crux of the argument. It certainly doesn't make sense to me. Obviously oil would find it hard to compete with electricity if it was free, but amortiz
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by arbuge 7y ago
We have an ecommerce website in straight php we haven't redesigned since 2011. Works fine, very fast, and capable of handling very large traffic spikes without missing a beat.
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Kuandinsky Bridge in Russia(dailymail.co.uk)
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by arbuge 7y ago
https://blogs.harvard.edu/bugeja/2018/09/16/the-strength-of-...
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by arbuge 7y ago
He is not making any macro statement about the economy. If anything it's a statement about large cap stock valuations. Warren Buffett likes to pick value-priced stocks, and there just aren't that many of them around anymore after
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by arbuge 7y ago
Be careful about jumping to conclusions before you read the full article. "The high consumption of America’s “poor” doesn’t mean they live better than average people in the nations they outpace, like Spain, Denmark, Japan, Greece, and
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by arbuge 7y ago
I think there is too much simplistic analysis of the Amazon's net CO2 contribution in the popular press which is besides the point here. Destroying a vast amount of the world's ecosystem is a really bad idea for many reasons besid
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by arbuge 7y ago
> new evidence strongly suggests that these people met their deaths in multiple different events at the lake across the centuries. If the area's geography and location makes it prone to violent hailstorms, I would think that those m
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by arbuge 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roopkund "The studies of the skeletons revealed a common cause of death: blows to the back of the head, caused by round objects falling from above. The researchers concluded that the
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by arbuge 7y ago
Actually he bought $3m worth two days before the report came out, and another $2m after the report came out, for a total of $5m. Other GE executives/directors likewise bought more stock after the report came out. More significantly tha
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by arbuge 7y ago
WeWork != Coworking Coworking will grow and prosper. WeWork, I don't know. I don't know how long any company can survive the egregious investor-fleecing WeWork's founder seems to wantonly engage in. Perhaps if a clear stop is
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by arbuge 7y ago
It seems to me he is being paid by hedge funds to come up with research that supports their short positions. I see no evidence anywhere that he's shorting them using his own personal funds and even that would not necessarily give me an
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by arbuge 7y ago
An alternative viewpoint: https://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-flat-out-sill... As Charlie Munger says, always look at the incentives to understand people's behavior. Markopolos' sponsoring hed
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by arbuge 7y ago
Meanwhile it appears that leather is piling up unused: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-09/america-s... The cows are still being slaughtered for their beef, which appears to be profitable enoug
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by arbuge 7y ago
> Social Security numbers are the keys to the kingdom. In this country, people get a unique number when they’re born, and the Social Security Administration tells them it’s secret and valuable. Then we use that number to pay taxes, to ge
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by arbuge 7y ago
As others have pointed out, this article really needs to be backed up with sources. > Software - up more than 3x, Software is a perennial category. Automating expensive internal processes in novel ways is Levi’s 501 jean of the startup w
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The Billionaires Behind the Secret Tech Mecca in America’s Heartland(forbes.com)
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Show HN: Publicemails.com – Publish blog posts online by email(publicemails.com)
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The World’s Wealthiest Family Gets $4M Richer Every Hour(bloomberg.com)
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by arbuge 7y ago
It's bad all the way, including the $3.9 billion, which is a massive sum. As Warren Buffett says, "if stock-based compensation isn't an expense, what is it?".
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by arbuge 7y ago
I think this is the correct approach. The full-stack hacker building the MVP is the lead technical guy in the first stage of the company when formal titles have yet to be defined. That person should probably become CTO in the next stage, un
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by arbuge 7y ago
> synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuel manufactured on shore using renewable power. Whether the liquid hydrocarbon fuel is synthetic from renewables or natural (dug out of the ground), burning it will still give off greenhouse gases. Synthe
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by arbuge 7y ago
It's typewritten. Corrections were more incolved back then.

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