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by blawson 6y ago
I just use a dedicated email address for newsletters. Easy as a separate iOS Mail account, read from the mail app. Works well and I sort of find it calming having an email address that only gets (so far anyway) a handful of emails a day, th
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by blawson 6y ago
Another huge challenge about dealing with the drug trade - people with guns and power probably aren't just going to go away because you've changed the dynamics of their most profitable market: https://www.latimes.com&#x
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by blawson 6y ago
The mountains create a sort of trap for pollution in the air I believe.
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by blawson 6y ago
States pay for higher education systems as a part of their budget. From https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article239... , $800 million from North Carolina tax payers to universities it sounds l
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by blawson 6y ago
Domain knowledge isn't always valued the same by those writing the checks, whereas 50% cheaper is far easier to quantify.
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by blawson 6y ago
I'm surprised OpenTable or something similar doesn't yet allow restaurants to include delivery as an option yet. For restaurants that already offer delivery (pizza places), avoiding the food-delivery middleman seems like a win?
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by blawson 6y ago
A previous article on them stipulated that through December 2019 they were still up vs the market. “After the March payday, its flagship Black Swan fund has produced a mean annual return on invested capital of 76%* since the firm was create
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by blawson 6y ago
It may still be happening? https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomiogeron/2011/11/16/coupa-caf... I would guess you wouldn't expect to walk into a random Vienna coffee shop in the late 19th century an
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by blawson 6y ago
Inflation hurts the poorer the most - they don't have assets that are being priced up due to inflation, while the cost of everyday life goes up.
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by blawson 6y ago
Always loved Benchmark Capital's website design: http://www.benchmark.com It's great to be able to say "we are so good all we need is an unsecured landing page from the 90s."
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by blawson 6y ago
I think the point is how can April be a busy month when it gets less than the naive expected number just from averages.
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by blawson 6y ago
The article says they were ahead of the S&P 500 up through December 2019 so they weren't simply waiting around for the big one.
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by blawson 7y ago
https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/428914681911070720?lang=en
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by blawson 7y ago
The BBC has (and has been made fun of for having) a text box at the bottom of a lot of their articles requesting input from readers on how they are impacted: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51949243 Making fun
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by blawson 7y ago
I took a Russian friend there, and her comment was basically that - "we all grew up like this, what's the big deal."
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by blawson 7y ago
I think the point is that these are good tools to use anyway. So VC companies have produced lots of valuable companies and products.
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by blawson 7y ago
Because to build the system you need to sell the employees to come join. The power dynamic starts from the get-go.
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by blawson 7y ago
Agree with this! I’ve been thinking it would have to start with publications that aren’t the massive sources, using this as an advantage, and see the reward of subscribers as big publications get caught for these sorts of practices.
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StrandHogg: Serious Android vulnerability leaves most apps vulnerable to attacks(promon.co)
4 points by blawson 7y ago|0 comments
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by blawson 7y ago
Water molecules are smaller than air though, so a surface can be airtight and not be watertight.
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by blawson 7y ago
And passed that wealth along to their descendants?
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by blawson 7y ago
Bose announced they will be shipping wireless noice cancelling earbuds. Next year though. https://www.bose.com/en_us/better_with_bose/new-headphones.h...
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by blawson 7y ago
My mistake, I interpreted the $(...) values as being negative losses.
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by blawson 7y ago
Also looks like they are already profitable, and growing like crazy. EDIT: my bad interpreting the loss format, they are not profitable.
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by blawson 7y ago
It's pretty close to Slack's revenue per employee (1,502 as of Jan 31, on $400 million estimated 2019 revenues).
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by blawson 7y ago
Shopify grew revenue by 50% in Q2, eBay by 2%.
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by blawson 7y ago
Reminded of this old tweet: https://twitter.com/patio11/status/936629780719419392
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by blawson 7y ago
Efficient indeed - 1,212 employees equates to around $250,000 per employee per year based on their first half 2019 revenue, which I understand is great for SaaS.
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by blawson 7y ago
Seems like a really impressive number, based on the 170% compounded annual growth rate referenced in their last funding round[1]. Huge assumption but if they started at 1,000,000 ARR in 2015 (which seems generous if sales just started then)
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by blawson 7y ago
Maybe at certain sums much larger than individual depositors concern themselves with, you can't just "hold the cash". Like banks might say there is no way we want your $10 billion in cash to look after. Either invest it yours

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