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by bb2018 8y ago
Apple does a lot of things well with app purchases. You have to give your password to confirm each time and the information is obvious and they send an email. However, it boggles me the number of steps you need to go through to cancel subsc
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by bb2018 8y ago
It would be great if a superior alternative existed but other search engines don't come close. I love Google Search and imagine every internet user in the English speaking world does. What are the issues with Google search (other than
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by bb2018 8y ago
Technologically maybe - but I think it did define the idea of a social network being primarily (if not entirely) phone/camera based. I had been off social media for years but found Snapchat fun and interesting enough to rejoin (for a f
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by bb2018 8y ago
The number is still a bit confusing for an outsider though, no? Twitter is worth 20B. Facebook is worth just five times this and also has Instagram and Whatsapp. Is this worth as much as Instagram which has a huge and wealthy audience?
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by bb2018 8y ago
A few favorites that come to mind. - Betting on Zero. A documentary on the billion dollar short on Herbalife and whether or not Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. It is definitely biased towards making Bill Ackman look good (the guy who made it
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by bb2018 8y ago
Agree to disagree! Maybe no one will buy them because the business plan is crap!
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The flaw to that argument (from my perspective) is that if a company wants more capital they can find lenders, issue bonds, or even issue new shares. If Kodak has a real way to pivot they could have raised money. Instead, it is pretty clear
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by bb2018 8y ago
Could you provide an example where this was the case? I'm not familiar with any companies with a sound business model that were hurt by shorts.
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by bb2018 8y ago
I think you are right but when combined with the loan issue commented above it adds to the cost. If students had the choice between dorms and living at home with 15 extra k many would choose to live at home. However, because it is part of t
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by bb2018 8y ago
None. If you're relatively young, have an emergency fund, and have a job I'm not sure there is any real value in keeping any funds in cash or low-return assets.
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That was my instinct too.
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Yeah exactly - everything they were proposing (either directly or indirectly) through marketing suggested they were making a device that could take a drop of blood, analyze all results, and give results almost immediately. If it didn't
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by bb2018 8y ago
No. Just invest some of your paycheck whenever you get paid. Over the years you will achieve average results (which is very good - close to 7%) If you have a lump sum and little to no money currently invested AND you are nervous then split
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by bb2018 8y ago
I am not a fan of Warren or Bernie would do have some practical questions for how this might function for someone who believes this is a good idea. I am skeptical but open-minded. - Does every employee get an equal vote? Is it weighted at a
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by bb2018 8y ago
Black Edge is on one the largest insider trading cases ever prosecuted. There was no real hacking or advanced cyber crime (maybe just some social engineering) but was an interesting case of how some bad hedge funds operate. There are some g
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by bb2018 8y ago
I'm not sure exactly why buybacks get so much more hate than dividends. If these stock buybacks didn't happen the profits would have been returned to investors in the form of dividends. This would not have increased worker wages e
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by bb2018 8y ago
I agree 100% with this. Maybe there are some slight advantages in some edge use cases - but if someone came out with a company that was "modified public SQL database technology" would people be investing their money and declaring
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by bb2018 8y ago
As others have noted the number for Jackson seems wildly inflated. I suppose that figure and also the $7100 for cost of a spot lead me to believe this is either a poorly done study or a study done by someone with a vested interested in gett
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by bb2018 8y ago
It's not quite that simple for some of the games. This one was able to slip in codes for some rather significant games: https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/investigations/... He gave the tip to
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by bb2018 8y ago
A judge in NH recently ruled that the winner of the lottery doesn't need to come forward and be a part of lottery press and therefore their name does not need to be released. The reasoning is good on the surface that people who just wo
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by bb2018 8y ago
I'm a bit confused by a lot of the metrics in this piece. First, it tries to use city population as a metric to get per capita cost. It seems to suggest that households are on the hook for a significant portion of these spots. First, a
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by bb2018 8y ago
It's a pretty sizable miss. And it's not like people think it's not valuable - it's still up more way more than 50% in the year.
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by bb2018 8y ago
Sure - but is anyone complaining that companies are getting rich off options? Buybacks increase the share price and that is why board of directors prefer them over dividends (since their bonuses may be tied to them) but this is simply an al
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by bb2018 8y ago
I'm always a bit unclear on how stock buybacks get reported so badly, though I suppose it is in the complexity of the transaction. If that $437B was in dividends I doubt anyone would think twice about it, yet that is in essence what th