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by bedhead 9y ago
Same reason people don't move from Amazon to Wal-Mart, or Apple to Android, or Netflix to...I don't even know what. Spotify is objectively better as a service, people love it, and we are creatures of habit. There are other factors
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by bedhead 9y ago
I think this has a good chance of being a good long-term investment for one simple reason. Spotify has something that few companies have but all dream of: pricing power. The other week, my kids were watching TV and my wife and I were in the
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by bedhead 9y ago
We are likely at the point where if Google withheld its map app from iOS, they would quickly find themselves on the wrong end of a DOJ lawsuit. I am basically counting down the days until Google is the recipient of a major FTC enforcement a
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by bedhead 9y ago
Yeah you have to love people who construct the rules of a conversation up front so that they can be the only person who is right.
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by bedhead 9y ago
This is an absurdly rich guy (obviously) who is just bored out of his goddamn mind.
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by bedhead 9y ago
They are worse than useless: they are lame. I won’t define that. It’s like Potter Stewart - I know it when I see it.
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by bedhead 9y ago
Abolish tenure. Problem solved.
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by bedhead 9y ago
The right has Obama birth certificate conspiracies, the left has Russian election conspiracies. Different sides of the same stupid coin.
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by bedhead 9y ago
There are exceptions, but even then they're not only few and far between, but also occupy a vague area where it's all one big counterfactual argument about whether someone else could've done the same thing and whether the die
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by bedhead 9y ago
Equifax has existed since 1899. It's in an oligopoly business that is completely unassailable, for better or worse. It would be fine with or without Richard Smith, who has been CEO for the last 11 years. He will have made something li
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by bedhead 9y ago
My prediction is that Chamath will use this SPAC to purchase Social Capital's VC investments. The conflict of interests are simply too great and I've seen this stuff before - it's almost always by design.
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by bedhead 9y ago
Well, it's also a financial reality...
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by bedhead 9y ago
Heck, if I recall, Google hasn't even disclosed what exact part of their own code of conduct Mr. Damore was in violation of. Kind of important, don't we think? I suspect these things are purposefully written to be so vague that vi
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by bedhead 9y ago
"You know those guitars that are like, double guitars?" [APPROVED]
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by bedhead 9y ago
Sounds great until you realize that their "Hate Algorithm" or whatever will end up erroneously shutting down your computer one day.
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by bedhead 9y ago
Well, if Uber needs some serious earnings manipulation, errr, management, Immelt is certainly the guy. And boy do they need it. Guy made something like $300-400 million during his tenure - GE stock did nothing.
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by bedhead 9y ago
It's increasingly uncomfortable to realize that a handful of tech companies are in many ways more powerful than the government. I don't like the direction anything is headed in.
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by bedhead 9y ago
That's what she said.
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by bedhead 9y ago
And Truecar
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by bedhead 9y ago
Yeah, and Google also reportedly offered to buy Groupon for $7 billion, a year before it went public. Not sure what kind of consolation that gives to shareholders now...
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by bedhead 9y ago
Rich guy here. 2.9 undergrad gpa from a mediocre school. Academics were never my thing. Grit gets you farther than anything else in life.
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by bedhead 9y ago
Can we stop using the word "currency" with these things? They are trading sardines. https://www.thestreet.com/story/11064384/1/kass-trade-the-ra...
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by bedhead 9y ago
This is a misguided, myopic decision done out of sheer desperation. It's a symptom, not the disease.
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by bedhead 9y ago
Yeah it's funny. Anecdotally, I think most people would agree that other countries, particularly Western European ones, seem to just care more about transportation infrastructure. Maybe it's just a cultural thing. But there is s
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by bedhead 9y ago
I would argue that a large reason why infrastructure tends to fall into such sorry states of disrepair in the US is because of the vast misalignment of interests between politicians and the services. When the person responsible for this stu
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by bedhead 9y ago
The minimum wage is always $0
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by bedhead 9y ago
I don't attempt to reason with people who are unreasonable.
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by bedhead 9y ago
This kind of hyperbole is absolutely and demonstrably absurd. What a disgrace that this is the top comment.
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by bedhead 9y ago
Without having read this, I would imagine healthcare costs among a prison population would be higher by orders of magnitude.
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by bedhead 9y ago
The creepiest part is that Harvard goes all stalker on its admits in the first place. It's creepy AF.

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