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541.
by boh 6y ago
The price of stocks decrease if everyone sells them. Your examples are incompatible.
542.
by boh 6y ago
According to the SEC, XRP isn't a currency, so it does have a market cap.
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by boh 6y ago
> This is often repeated but not necessarily true. This is always true. It doesn't have to go to zero to qualify as plummeting.
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by boh 6y ago
That's easy to say in retrospect, but Apple stock would've also taken a hit buying what was a failing company at the time. It would've also demanded more resources and a strategic pivot on their part. Apple makes long-term, i
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by boh 6y ago
In all fairness there is a legit service provided by underwriters. Most companies offering IPOs aren't well-known tech companies with an informed market ready to buy. They're more likely totally unknown and lack investor interest.
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by boh 6y ago
I think their ability to perpetually generate gains in productivity and master client service are the bigger factors of their success. The steamrolling no doubt contributes to the success of certain aspects of the business, but it's do
547.
by boh 6y ago
Any way you slice it, Apple made the right choice.
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by boh 6y ago
Markets don't actually move the tokens from one wallet to another, the network specific to the currency has to do that. Since Ripple is centralized, if the company goes out of business, the network does too. You will not be capable of
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by boh 6y ago
Or XRP can just evaporate since the infrastructure required to actually distribute it will no longer be available once the company goes bankrupt (having to pay the various fines and lawsuits that follow).
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by boh 6y ago
Because you'd get charged with insider trading if you do.
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Thiel-Backed Bridgetown SPAC Weighs Up to $10B Tokopedia Deal(bloomberg.com)
1 points by boh 6y ago|0 comments
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by boh 6y ago
The real test is if this is still true by mid-Jan. The 2017-18 peak had a similar trajectory--Oct to Dec spike then fell by Jan--suggesting some weird tax related activity. I'm curious to see if things play out the same way.
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by boh 6y ago
The expectation that the EU can have this much influence over American firms, to the point that they can break them up and change their business models is a pretty shocking development. We're beginning to see the limitations of globali
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by boh 6y ago
> People should appreciate the template of conformity that allows them to find a place in the world and not let advertising, that often leverages the idea of uniqueness to sell things, diminish the value of their mediocrity. Being medioc
555.
by boh 6y ago
The only thing I'm suggesting is that freedom doesn't spare you from mediocrity. Real oppression, an experience the US professional middle class is largely spared of, the type experienced by the citizens of Venezuela or the people
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by boh 6y ago
I think you have too much optimism regarding the value of people's earnest expressions. Children are children and so their earnestness is cute and endearing (in most instances)--adults are far less charming and far more petty, self-ind
557.
by boh 6y ago
This is kind of a straw-man argument. The reason MBA-zation is a thing is because companies are forced to permanently grow and cut costs to indulge investor expectations. If you hire non-MBAs they will be tasked to do the same thing and you
558.
by boh 6y ago
A letter from four people "urging" something isn't blatant censorship. Blatant censorship just happens--there's no asking in between (see China for more). Google is making a strategic decision. Despite what you may hope,
559.
by boh 6y ago
So I guess SpaceX, Tesla, Intel, Apple aren't tech companies.
560.
by boh 6y ago
No. This isn't a software company.
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by boh 6y ago
Most companies prefer logistics/pricing models to be profitable. Being a pump-and-dump for VCs isn't something they can license out.
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by boh 6y ago
Is it possible that just having an app doesn't make you a tech company? Anyone else ready to think Uber might just be an overvalued taxi company?
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Uber abandons dreams of self-driving domination, sells self-driving unit(arstechnica.com)
3 points by boh 6y ago|0 comments
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by boh 6y ago
Honestly, I'm going to take the risk that this comment might not age well, but... I feel bad for Steve. Promoting crypto-networks have gone poorly for pretty much every pseudo-celebrity that's done it. This company is run by a bu
565.
by boh 6y ago
Not sure why the writer inaccurately lumps many of these shows into the ambient tv category just because they're "slow" or too simple (maybe because they're somewhat popular right now). Streaming services like Netflix ha
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by boh 6y ago
This reminds me of a section of Slavoj Zizek's book Violence. Here he refers to Nikolai Lossky who was sent into exile by communists, the general idea can easily be attributable to Marie Antoinette as well: >While Lossky was without
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DOJ likely to file Google antitrust suit with no Democratic support(politico.com)
2 points by boh 6y ago|0 comments
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by boh 6y ago
I would think it wouldn't be the same product in 5-10 years.
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What Years of Emails and Texts Reveal About Your Friendly Tech Companies(nytimes.com)
6 points by boh 6y ago|2 comments
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by boh 7y ago
Lumping airlines and restaurants in the same category might make sense for the efficient market section of an economics textbook, but food trucks aren't "stepping in" for "front-line" businesses. For the past centur

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