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by bedhead 10y ago
I would assign a small chance to Bridgewater being a ponzi scheme. I am not the first person to be skeptical of the firm and there have constantly been rumors about them.
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by bedhead 10y ago
Yes, I am.
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by bedhead 10y ago
Uber's valuation in particular worries me. Uber's product is 90 pixels on your phone - that's it. Behind that is computer code and an admittedly powerful network effect among drivers and riders. But I have to wonder about tha
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by bedhead 10y ago
Pretty interesting comparing the reactions to this and Snowden.
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by bedhead 10y ago
Man I bet it would be fun to be in the M&A/strategy group at Apple.
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by bedhead 10y ago
Only 80%? Shocked it's not higher.
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by bedhead 10y ago
Of all the household name tech leaders (Brin, Bezos, Musk, Jobs, etc), Zuckerberg really does strike me as the least substantial and most likely to be inauthentic. Obviously this is just a personal opinion but Facebook seems so laughably in
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Under Fire, Theranos CEO Stifled Bad News(wsj.com)
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by bedhead 10y ago
My god, how can Apple be this bad at services that they need to acquire a garbage product like Tidal?? Tidal is junk, an elitist music streaming service that does more to screw over any artist not in the top 25 grossing than Spotify ever co
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by bedhead 10y ago
Isn't the issue that a Kiva system is more scalable since it allows for rapid handling of far more SKUs? A key part of Amazon's retail strategy is that it's the first place you go to look for something because you know they h
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by bedhead 10y ago
Can someone explain one aspect of their business model to me? Their cost of goods sold is rather high at 45% and hasn't shown much operating leverage - no bueno. They explain that this is mostly payments to "network service provid
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by bedhead 10y ago
Actually if SolarCity used a realistic discount rate to measure the value of their future cash flows which extend 40 years out, the company would be massively insolvent. Ahhh, the beauty of non-GAAP accounting...
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by bedhead 10y ago
@internetofshit is a great follow and pretty quickly illustrates just how absurd the IoT rush has become. Solutions in search of problems.
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by bedhead 10y ago
Thank you for posting. Reminds me of the NYT article that bashed Amazon and Bezos a while back. Didn't take much digging to conclude the author/organization has a preconceived bias against the subject.
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by bedhead 10y ago
You took the words out of my mouth and I'm glad someone else feels the same. It's a difficult thing to articulate but I think he crosses a line into unbearable preachiness and pandering. It's a bummer because I think the guy
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by bedhead 10y ago
Can't companies and products simply hit a natural limit? There are inherent limitations to any given "thing" and perhaps Twitter has found its own terminal velocity.
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by bedhead 10y ago
It's evident that this was not only an isolated incident but one that seems to have more than a decent amount of justification. How so many people have managed to extrapolate this into tech robber barons taking over the galaxy is hyper
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by bedhead 10y ago
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by bedhead 10y ago
It's the single largest thing that gets lost in this whole discussion: the idea of preference.
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by bedhead 10y ago
I'm kinda torn on this. On one hand it's noble and nice to see a rich guy who's interested in things like this as opposed to kickin it on his yacht with models all the time. On the other hand, I hate saying this but the use o
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by bedhead 10y ago
Their CFO at the time has since gotten fired for among other things, getting Walgreens into this without doing a lick of due diligence. Evidently he bungled a number of other things, hence getting fired. That kind of laziness strangely exis
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by bedhead 10y ago
It felt like Icelanders made sitting in a hot tub a national sport, which was fine by me when I visited. My son and I walked over to Vesturbæjarlaug a few times and it was great.
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by bedhead 11y ago
This is why us road bikers absolutely can't stand tri guys.
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by bedhead 11y ago
Shhhh, that's not consistent with the "narrative"
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by bedhead 11y ago
Well put. Job creation as a goal is sort of like when public company CEO's have revenue as a goal. Look, if all you want is revenue, that's easy - we can buy companies, underprice business, do all sorts of uneconomic stuff, etc. S
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by bedhead 11y ago
"Hey baby, want to speed up evolution through beneficial mutation?" Definitely trying this one.
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by bedhead 11y ago
Look no farther than Bombardier, a relatively small but nonetheless very experienced company that's sadly nearly bankrupted themselves by simply trying to develop 787-like version of a regional jet. It doesn't appear like this kin
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by bedhead 11y ago
Yes. Socialism/communism are inherently unfair and unjust, hence breeding a truly staggering amount corruption (almost by necessity).
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by bedhead 11y ago
The unimaginable corruption (as opposed to our run-of-the-mill corruption) is a symptom of a communistic/dictatorial government.
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by bedhead 11y ago
"They"??? No, not they. You. Me. Us. Give me a break with this sanctimonious drivel. Ship owners don't drive around the oceans aimlessly for fun. They are facilitating global trade. The computer you wrote your post on was pro

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