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by bedhead 11y ago
Solicitation is a serious crime in itself.
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by bedhead 11y ago
I'm not snobby enough to never go to McDonald's (a McMuffin aint too bad in the morning after a long night out) but I agree that most of the menu, specifically the burgers, taste artificial. I joke that their burgers don't ta
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by bedhead 11y ago
I think it depends on a few things, but perhaps two of the most important are these. Be 100% honest with yourself about the situation. Has your performance been demonstrably good? A consistent record of good reviews, raises, bonuses, prom
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by bedhead 11y ago
It doesn't have to be, but it probably will be. I'm in Chicago and even our second airport, Midway, is showing signs of pressure. I can think of a handful of other second tier airports in major cities in similar positions. I think
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by bedhead 11y ago
I disagree. Airports are already a bottleneck that will only get worse over time. There has only been one major airport built in the US in the last 30 years. It's nearly impossible to expand many airports (both gates and runways) for v
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by bedhead 12y ago
This is straight from the prospectus. The first bullet alone makes me want to buy shares. Culture and Employees If you have ambitious goals, you need an equally ambitious team. Shopify is composed of hundreds of highly talented, deeply cari
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by bedhead 12y ago
I interpret the author's use of "ships" to mean "gets shit done" - which I agree 100% with. It's too easy to get seduced by the dazzling technical mind, and in my experience these folks are great on paper but
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by bedhead 12y ago
I think Slack is kinda neat but stopped using it. Do any non-tech startups use it? I get the feeling that its usage outside SV is verrrry small.
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by bedhead 12y ago
I can personally confirm this after an incident from 15 years ago that I wont get into...but know that I'm from Chicago, and our paths most definitely crossed. I don't think the man has a single redeeming quality. Many more storie
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by bedhead 12y ago
They are such idiots for not having the picture of the device in the palm of a hand or something. Marketing fail.
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by bedhead 12y ago
This show is so profoundly good that I could care less about the resolution and aspect ratio. I got so lost in the show that I never would've noticed. The game is the game. Always.
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by bedhead 12y ago
Actually, this comment is stupid and more broadly indicative of why we have today's current tech bubble: not a second of thought about profit. Revenue is the goal, no consideration to the underlying business model. God forbid one of th
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by bedhead 12y ago
Personally, I think that the act of lumping everything into the advertising bucket is part of the problem. Google basically has free license to do anything they want no matter how silly it is, then claim it's all an effort to get paid
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by bedhead 12y ago
"Burn" is definitely a proper word to describe what they're doing with their cash.
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by bedhead 12y ago
I know a guy who was personally bankrupted by this trade. Got bought in at the top. It was sad.
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by bedhead 12y ago
Damn beat me to it.
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by bedhead 12y ago
Disclaimer: I am a hedge fund manager. Here's the definition of a hedge fund: an investment firm with extremely high fees whose investment strategy probably falls outside the scope of the vast majority of accessible investment funds. M
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by bedhead 12y ago
Okay, so the price of the Thiola is ridiculous and unjustified. Who's agreeing to pay it??? I don't know how this works, do insurance companies simply roll over any time a company raises the price of some obscure drug by ten fold?
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by bedhead 12y ago
It's both...it's a problem of incentives. The government guy aint getting stock options or a real bonus or whatever for a job well done. And he's probably close to impossible to fire if he does poorly. So what does he care? A
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by bedhead 12y ago
I'm just talking about UberX, not regular old Uber that fetches a licensed taxi, which I use and love.
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by bedhead 12y ago
Chicago. Live and work in the city. Took Uber this morning (pouring rain...I normally ride bike) as a matter of fact. Uber is great...it's just the rideshares that are a problem.
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by bedhead 12y ago
No. They are NOT competing fairly, because they figured out (or simply fell ass backwards into it) how to hack the rules. Rideshares have a wildly unfair cost advantage because they do not need to purchase medallions, have commercial auto i
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by bedhead 12y ago
I agree, except the problem is that by-and-large, regulated taxi services work perfectly fine. How are they even close to dysfunctional currently? So people can't find a cab in mid-town at 5pm on a rainy day, I mean, come on. I'm
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by bedhead 12y ago
This being a techie-oriented site I'm sure I'll find myself in the minority here, but here goes. I think that Uber, as someone else noted, is a company run by assholes. Rideshare services like UberX and Lyft are going to get more-
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by bedhead 12y ago
Why exactly do you describe trying to best position your daughter for a happy, healthy, successful life as "unfair"? Is this what the world has come to, is this the degree of our guilt, that simply being a good parent and using mo
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by bedhead 12y ago
Yes, this is true and I excluded it for a reason. UAE has no personal income tax, property tax, or capital gains taxes. My guess is that it all evens out and then some.
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by bedhead 12y ago
The US corporate income tax rate is the highest in the world - literally. If it was something more in-line with other developed nations, call it 20%, I don't think you'd see the current wave of inversions and no one would make a b
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by bedhead 12y ago
Well this is going nowhere. I don't know why I try sometimes.
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by bedhead 12y ago
No. One's supply limited by the government, the other's is not. At the end of the day they both just transport people from point A to point B. Owners of planes have gone bankrupt 1,000 times since 1980, while owners of taxis have
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by bedhead 12y ago
While this is true, what makes taxi medallions so unique is the price discovery. This is one of those rare things where you can see, quite unambiguously, the direct effect of the monopolistic behavior. Other things like zoning tend to be ve

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