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What would a realistic large spaceship look like?(quora.com)
3 points by aresant 7y ago|5 comments
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by aresant 7y ago
Anazon is better than ever for brand name, known buys. Eg I recently ordered a UHD bluray movie, took about 15 seconds end to end and arrived in a day. They are terrible for everything else. Eg I bought a reading light. Which was a 10 minut
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by aresant 7y ago
I would pay good money for a supply chain based “consumer reports” so I actually know what’s in my products eg - medicines! - supplements - food - clothing Clearly in the USA their is gigantic demand for organic / harmful chemical fre
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WeWork considers IPO valuation of as low as $10B(reuters.com)
190 points by aresant 7y ago|219 comments
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by aresant 7y ago
Softbank has $12b+ up so far into WeWork. (a) So are they better off supporting the IPO price by exposing themselves another $3b (20%), writing down the IPO by 50% which likely is at least $3b in losses, or delay? And muddying their view, a
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by aresant 7y ago
It's one of two things: 1) That the consensus is wrong and this is an amazing, misunderstood business. Stratechery has the most balanced view IMO of this possibility - https://stratechery.com/company/wework/
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by aresant 7y ago
If you want to expand this greed-driven view to how absolutely whacky and double dealing this IPO is going to be add in the following: 1) If WeWork does NOT raise at least $3billion in this IPO they will be in default of a contingency with
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by aresant 7y ago
Here's a question - has anybody designed a platform yet that can break down and reconcile Amazon purchases? I've given up on every single household budgeting / tracking solution due to the huge volume of Amazon orders our fam
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by aresant 7y ago
This is a massively complicated and nuanced issue that has kicked around the Supreme Court in the UK. Here's the game: 1) There are taxes levied on business users of commercial office property in the UK. 2) Independent small businesses
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Ambrosia Software, maker of Escape Velocity apparently out of business(reddit.com)
1 points by aresant 7y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 7y ago
Judging by the comments in this thread & the way the media is writing headlines this makes it sound like Hasbro is buying Peppa / a one-off cartoon studio for $4b When in fact what Hasbro is actually buying is Entertainment One (EO
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by aresant 7y ago
An incredibly good point is made by a user on Twitter that I hope is taken to heart by Jeff. A better quality visual experience could be delivered at near zero additional cost / complexity with basic technical hacks - eg faux shading &
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Segway-Ninebot introduces an e-scooter that can drive itself to charging station(theverge.com)
2 points by aresant 7y ago|0 comments
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by aresant 7y ago
One item in particular you note is that Recruiters are "Not Worth It" But also disclose that you got scared off of the $15k/fee and haven't tried that route. In my experience the right recruiter can combine the utility o
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by aresant 7y ago
Thank you for your response, aka why I love HN we can have discussions not pissing contests. You are probably right about my bs martyrdom on this topic, HN is better informed. I am on planet earth although head in clouds :). But really look
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by aresant 7y ago
1 - I am not heavily invested. 2 - Misinformation poisons and I’m trying to surface facts that are being overrun by a narrative. 3 - Misunderstanding one of the largest entrepreneurial & capital efforts in our lifetime, especially on HN
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by aresant 7y ago
1 - “desperately search for profitable business” - UBERs core business is a breath away from profitability. And trending quickly in the right direction. Looking at their corporate overhead and new market bets it’s clear they could cut their
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by aresant 7y ago
1) Note that 80%+ of IPOs last year were for companies that were unprofitable - why does the market tolerate this? Shorthand - because many companies IPO to raise capital to build towards profit via scale, capital investment, etc. 2) A way
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by aresant 7y ago
The sentiment on UBER recently is that they are only surviving by subsidizing rides and are out of control / there's no future business there. But that is not an accurate portrayal, here's what's going on when you look a
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by aresant 7y ago
To qualify your comment: The line item in Uber's results you want to look at here is "Excess Driver Incentives" which covers: "Cumulative payments to a Driver could exceed cumulative revenue from a Driver as a result of
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by aresant 7y ago
Uber laying off 400 two weeks ago felt like a leading indicator that they were going to deliver a weak quarter, I'm surprised this wasn't priced into the stock (which is now down ~10% after hours after finishing today's sessi
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by aresant 7y ago
“Google/Apple invest their cash hoard very conservatively, in things like short-term treasuries, because of which their returns are very low” This is actually wrong. Apple alone wholly owns one of the world’s largest investment funds -
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by aresant 7y ago
FYI this site employs 3 sophisticated ad networks and several other deep tracking scripts. No reason to expect that the information you fill in here on your actual income, etc doesn't wind up in an leaky ad profile.
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by aresant 7y ago
I 100% agree. I originally started banging out a comment saying forget the trees, build more nuclear power but didn't want to invite a downvoting brigade, which I effectively walked into anyways :)
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by aresant 7y ago
The articles I linked expand on this and there are many resources to research this. Short of cutting the tree down yourself, hauling it yourself, and then processing & building it: The C02 cost of harvesting, hauling, and processing tre
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by aresant 7y ago
Fair point. But convincing the entire population of the world to set their thermostat 1 degree higher during the summer months would have a 1000x multiple impact on a 40x shorter time scale than if every one of those people planted a tree.
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by aresant 7y ago
Maybe sounds too much like spouting from the climate change denier camp? Which I am the opposite of. There are a lot of flower & daisy soft solutions to C02. Drive to the suburban forest in your SUV, plant 100 trees that will inevitably
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by aresant 7y ago
No easy way to plot this - planting trees to sequester CO2 may or may not have a net positive impact at scale for a variety of reasons: 1) The timescale is very long - a single tree to drive carbon neutrality is MOST optimistically pegged a
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by aresant 7y ago
A really simple way to think about this. The promise of software at scale is that the marginal costs of selling one single additional unit are basically $0.00 As a result if your product sells for $500 you can spend $495 and still make mone
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by aresant 7y ago
(1) What’s your take on the sustainability of these subsidized rides? -=> The gigantic and unsustainable CAC numbers experienced by Uber, Lyft, and others is due to the present level of competition for these drivers & customers. This

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