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by bedhead 8y ago
To my knowledge, and I'm in the industry, that is not a CRIMINAL act
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by bedhead 8y ago
I'm not sure what he could be criminally charged with - neither he nor anyone else at the company sold stock and profited from his idiotic tweets. I believe you actually need to profit from manipulation in order for it to enter the r
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by bedhead 8y ago
Surprised this comment is getting downvoted, because it is dead-right. The core "problem" is that the Bay Area has experienced a gold rush unlike any other in human history, and it's happened so quickly that some things can&#
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by bedhead 8y ago
The failure is a feature not a bug.
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by bedhead 8y ago
Who is going to lend tens of thousands of dollars to an 18 year old with no income, no assets, and no credit?
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by bedhead 8y ago
Wow it's almost like the free market could've solved this problem but government laws got in the way and distorted everything and caused more problems than they solved. Weird.
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by bedhead 8y ago
Jesus this is hyperbole...pure hyperbole.
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by bedhead 8y ago
Feel like underwriting that second, redundant infrastructure?
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by bedhead 8y ago
There is a natural follow-up question: why might other races get rejected at high rates, albeit not for racial reasons (similar to your point)? I think there are questions that many people simply don't want the answers to.
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by bedhead 8y ago
It was a comment about the quality of people that go into politics, nothing more. There is little incentive for smart, ambitious people to enter anymore.
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by bedhead 8y ago
Asians evidently are too smart to want to get involved in politics. Gotta respect that. (not joking)
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by bedhead 8y ago
One of my best friends just got diagnosed with colon cancer at 38. Surgery last week, hasn’t even gotten the pathology report yet. Anecdotal I admit but when it hits close to home you see things a little differently.
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by bedhead 8y ago
Maybe you haven't read but we're in the age where "personal responsibility" doesn't exist.
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by bedhead 8y ago
The government should've instead created a "fine" where they receive something like half of Wells Fargo's profits for the next ten years or so. Then cap executive compensation for the duration. Then force every board mem
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by bedhead 9y ago
Agree completely. I got rid of my employees and now outsource everything. I'll never have another full-time employee ever again, if I need someone they are going to work as a consultant and get a 1099. For every guy like this one at Ma
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by bedhead 9y ago
I swear that someone could cure cancer and there would be some asshole on the internet who would find a reason to shit all over that person.
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Amazon is acquiring doorbell video camera startup Ring(businessinsider.com)
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by bedhead 9y ago
Because that's where you spend your time. The advertisers are ultimately going to go where consumers' attention is...they don't have much of a choice.
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by bedhead 9y ago
We live beyond our means, have unsustainable quality of life. Gonna catch up one day.
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by bedhead 9y ago
Unions
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by bedhead 9y ago
I have far more faith that these three companies, more than the government, can improve the catastrophe that is our healthcare system.
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by bedhead 9y ago
"Yay it's time for HN pedantry!" Ha! Might be the defining characteristic of HN.
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by bedhead 9y ago
It's issues like this that make me deeply skeptical of Google's long-term future. For tech companies, I would argue that company culture is by far the single-greatest asset, so seeing these stories about Google it's not dif
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by bedhead 9y ago
Companies go public for all sorts of reasons. Facebook went public because it was almost being forced to by the SEC because of its size. Microsoft went public simply because other employees who were mega-rich like Gates wanted to cash out..
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by bedhead 9y ago
You're wrong. Including reinvested dividends, since 12/31/00, Seaboard's stock has compounded at 22.1% through 12/31/17, for a total gain of 2,890%.
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by bedhead 9y ago
I have a slight quibble with the first point, though I generally agree. There are public companies out there that simply don't care about Wall St, and are run like they're private. It requires an admittedly rare combination of fou
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by bedhead 9y ago
This is all just a symptom of a product that isn’t very good, or for whatever reason people just don’t want.
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by bedhead 9y ago
First of all, the "broke college students" quip is wrong. Generally, Netflix's subscribers are fairly well off (in the US anyway). Second, even if that was the case, I can assure you that said college students would suck it u
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by bedhead 9y ago
Sorry, not buying it. You don't grow to 60 million paying subs on a generic product that has little more than a first mover advantage. Their subscriber count grew 50% from Sep 16 through Jul 17 alone when everyone was competing aggress
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by bedhead 9y ago
Then why is Spotify so freakin popular? Why do they have more than double the subscribers as Apple Music which arguably has major advantages (resources, pre-installed, etc)?

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