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by avalys 7y ago
No one really needs anything except oxygen, food and water. Everything else is a want. Sometimes people invent things that others want, but that others don't know about yet. That's what advertising is for.
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by avalys 7y ago
I dislike these articles that try to manufacture outrage by using emotionally-charged terms from the physical world - like “stalking” - in the context of targeted advertising, to make things seem more threatening than they really are. Someo
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by avalys 7y ago
> Most businesses that need the loans have been closed for 2-3 weeks now and it will most likely take at least another 2-3 weeks for them to see any money from those loans in their bank accounts[0,1], if they are lucky enough to qualify.
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by avalys 7y ago
Well what sacrifice are you willing to make, exactly? Do you actually think your share of the shared sacrifice should be - getting a discount on a new Tesla? Or, was it that when you referenced the idea of “shared sacrifice”, you were not
905.
by avalys 7y ago
Shared sacrifice would be you volunteering to pay more .
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by avalys 7y ago
I disagree with your thesis. When coronavirus was extant only in specific geographic hotspots, limiting travel makes sense. However, when it's present across the entire world at a low level - which seems quite likely to occur within th
907.
by avalys 7y ago
The SBA loans will be FORGIVEN if you spend them on rent and payroll. Please excuse the all caps, but I think it's very important that this be as widely known as possible, so that someone doesn't let their business fail because th
908.
by avalys 7y ago
If you owe the bank a million dollars, you have a problem. If a million people owe the bank a million dollars, the bank has a problem.
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by avalys 7y ago
I don't know how you can complain about "excessive profits" for entirely novel products that a drug company brings into existence, essentially, starting from nothingness. No amount of profit is excessive - the profit is the m
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by avalys 7y ago
So what? How does this harm me?
911.
by avalys 7y ago
It sounds like they would be eligible to apply on their own.
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by avalys 7y ago
Here is a link to a description from my CPA (I know their site looks like shit, but they are legit). https://wcginc.com/blog/paycheck-protection-program/ It is called the “Paycheck Protection Program.”
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by avalys 7y ago
Does your colleague know that he can get up to a $10M loan from the Small Business Administration, and that any of the principal spent on payroll and rent will be forgiven? This might be enough to keep him afloat until things start up again
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by avalys 7y ago
Bingo. If a landlord owns 50 restaurant spaces that are fully occupied and one restaurant starts having financial problems, the landlord doesn’t care, he can let them close down and find a new tenant. If all 50 restaurants start having prob
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by avalys 7y ago
Every small business owner in the US should check out the details of the CARES Act (the coronavirus rescue package, just signed into law). Essentially, the US government will cover your payroll, rent, and a few other things for the next 2 m
916.
by avalys 7y ago
Check out the details of the small business forgivable loan package just passed by the Senate. I think they took some actions to help sole proprietors and self-employed people also.
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by avalys 7y ago
Yes, this is a critical point. It’s one advantage of the fact that this is happening simultaneously across the whole nation. The entire commercial real estate market has no choice but to work out a single solution of some sort. “If you owe
918.
by avalys 7y ago
amazing1.com comes to mind.
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by avalys 7y ago
Don't forget "whopping."
920.
by avalys 7y ago
That's not a cost imposed on you - you're free to buy the generic off-brand.
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by avalys 7y ago
Ok. So we ban advertising. Now you have to spend your “attention tokens” earning money to purchase the content you were previously getting for free. Is that better? How about we let people make this choice themselves, just as we do now?
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by avalys 7y ago
Do you think it should be legal for health insurers to ask you about your dangerous hobbies, and charge you more? If so, are you really just upset about the idea of not being able to easily lie to them? If not, why do you think other policy
923.
by avalys 7y ago
Most (in fact, almost all) advertisements are not on “public space”, they’re on private properties.
924.
by avalys 7y ago
This is exactly the problem that highly targeted advertising solves. I see ads for relatively niche products fairly often.
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by avalys 7y ago
What’s the cost that advertising imposes exactly?
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by avalys 7y ago
So you’re saying your company has only enough cash on hand to cover 2 weeks of operating expenses?
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by avalys 7y ago
If the market drops by 50%, e.g. from 20,000 to 10,000, it will need to increase by 100% from that point in order to recover (from 10,000 back to 20,000).
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by avalys 7y ago
Insane that this is happening without federal coordination. The text of the order itself is not available. I hope it is not as poorly thought out as the article suggests. What about home maintenance providers - plumbers and electricians? Su
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by avalys 7y ago
If anyone runs into what seems to be a paywall written in German, click “Acceptiert” (spelling?) and you will get the English article. At least, this was my experience.
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by avalys 7y ago
Who determines what a serious need is? No ones needs a sports car. Or a 40” TV. Or to go golfing. Or Broadway shows. Movie theaters - for that matter, no one needs movies at all! Recreational international travel - totally unecesssary. Why

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