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by beambot 5y ago
Simple... digitize the dollars, e.g. through some crypto token. For every 1x physical dollar on hand, I will create 8x-30x crypto dollars to lend out and earn interest. I shall call this a "fractional reserve" system.
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by beambot 5y ago
Android was effectively launched in 2008, per Wikipedia: "It was unveiled in November 2007, with the first commercial Android device, the HTC Dream, being launched in September 2008." In this case, I'm not sure how to square
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by beambot 5y ago
Haven't read the S-1, but their gross margins appear pretty solid, so they're probably spending aggressively in SG&A and capex-heavy depreciated assets that will hit COGS over time. Eg growing from 3 stores to 22 in two years
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by beambot 5y ago
Since you brought it up, it seems fair game to ask: do you work on climate solutions? I always find it odd & off-putting when people demean or pass judgement on others' professions -- eg social apps & rocket ships -- especially
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by beambot 5y ago
Just wait until the HOA gives them a massive "Special Assessment" for the urgent repairs while the true liabilities get tied up in the courts for decades. No thanks!
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by beambot 5y ago
Huh. I was always told that Vancouver was a staging ground for Amazon & Microsoft folks who didn't want to or couldn't immigrate to the US.
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by beambot 5y ago
This plays out all over the place. Take San Mateo, California: * Median pre-tax household income: $103k * Post-Tax: $70k * Median home price: $1.6M (~$1200 USD per sqft) * 400 sqft: $480k (note: this is without the 20-30% premium you'
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by beambot 5y ago
> Pragmatically, when you have enough complexity that explaining the fraud is difficult, it's still fraud but they're likely to get away with it. This is why you have subpoenas and discovery. It seems likely that an internal em
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by beambot 5y ago
$500k in sensors per vehicle is off by a substantial margin -- nearly an order of magnitude. I also seriously question your $5k / km "napkin math" without any elaboration. I would also point out that there are 2M truck drive
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by beambot 5y ago
The wages paid to professional drivers is also staggering. If amortized cost of hardware + backhaul & processing costs < professional driver wages, then the model works. This is especially true as tech improves and wages increase. T
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by beambot 5y ago
I have two dozen patents to my name and know dozens of others who hold as many or more than I do. I also know just as many successful entrepreneurs. Not one had ever said "I would commercialize <x>, but for the patents", nor
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by beambot 5y ago
The federal government can and should suspend patent coverage for key climate-related innovations -- just like what was done for COVID vaccines.
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by beambot 5y ago
They also cooperated on illegal recruiting practices to stifle tech wages: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust...
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by beambot 5y ago
Too true. For example, compare the 2-meter long root ecosystem of prairie grass that holds water exceptionally well to that of wheat: https://images.app.goo.gl/PHmVUNRwwBg8oUKv7
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by beambot 5y ago
Most of these companies offer a BYOD option where you explicitly agree to co-mingle work & personal use of your phone -- upto & including paying your cellular bills. This frequently means signing waivers permitting surveillance, ins
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by beambot 5y ago
> The terrorist watchlist [...] could be used to oppress, harass, or persecute people on the list and their families. So... what was it actually used for? Wasn't this the same list that results in extra scrutiny at airports & w
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by beambot 5y ago
Service industries do not follow the same quality-cost trends as consumer electronics... E.g. the cost and quality of your average bus driver has not changed appreciably in 4 decades.
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by beambot 5y ago
According to this source, Russia killed 137 Grey Whales in 2019: https://iwc.int/total-catches Sounds like there might be a simple way to offset the die-off...
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by beambot 5y ago
> just have all cars limit their speed to the speed limit. The devil is in the details... GPS may not provide sufficient resolution. Construction zones. School zones with variable hours. Tunnels. Adverse road conditions. Changes to the
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by beambot 5y ago
Unless your private shopper is paying cash, your privacy is probably still illusive.
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by beambot 5y ago
> new oil and gas exploration Ugh... Positive feedback loops.
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by beambot 5y ago
Cue the annual Flu & COVID "vaccine as a service" business model, and BioTechs can join the dystopia too!
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by beambot 5y ago
Distribution could help on the demand side... Would love to see more PBS content appear in Netflix and Amazon Prime.
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by beambot 5y ago
I'm not advocating for the cessation of mortgage forbearance nor eviction moratoriums. All I'm saying is that they distort the labor markets and will continue to do so until we reach a new post-COVID steady state. (Don't know
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by beambot 5y ago
Plus mortgage forbearance and eviction moratoriums... So you have more money in monthly unemployment and a pause on peoples' #1 expenses. Until these programs end, I wouldn't even speculate about the future state of labor markets
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by beambot 5y ago
We also have public libraries with pretty amazing inter-library loan programs...
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by beambot 5y ago
Purely anecdotal, but many of the older Software Engineers I know in the Bay Area "retire" or "FIRE" in their early-to-mid 40s -- i.e. they are financial secure and they choose to either (a) move to a LCOL area and stop
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by beambot 5y ago
One solution is to have a unique URI per file that is independent of DNS. Decentralized file storage (e.g. FileCoin / IPFS) might serve this purpose...
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by beambot 5y ago
Plenty of plebes trading options through Robinhood...
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by beambot 5y ago
Forward contacts and SPVs are two ways of encumbering share ownership without (necessarily) conferring all the rights of the underlying shares.

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