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by boh 7y ago
For what? Making other airlines after the existing ones fail?
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by boh 7y ago
From an economics perspective FCF is a company's failure to make efficient use of capital. They can just as easily pay more taxes. Individual shareholders have a limited capacity to efficiently allocate capital when compared to larger
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by boh 7y ago
There's a whole society that exists outside of these shareholders and they need airlines to travel.
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by boh 7y ago
Buybacks are a way for companies to let the market know they are no longer capable of making efficient use of capital, and so they give the money back to shareholders instead. The recent trend of buybacks within various industries presents
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by boh 7y ago
> We already have too much regulation that for some fields it's impossible to start a business without jumping through many hoops. > If you don't like it, you move somewhere else These two statements contradict each other. Y
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DoorDash Files Confidentially for IPO(wsj.com)
5 points by boh 7y ago|0 comments
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Apple’s privacy software allowed users to be tracked, says Google(ft.com)
31 points by boh 7y ago|5 comments
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by boh 7y ago
More ad competition doesn't mean lower ad fees, since the success of another search platform would depend more on the number of users, not the price of the ad. Suggesting lower ad fees somehow benefits users is a huge stretch. The succ
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by boh 7y ago
Also a difficult case to make. They're dominant because users have chosen to be a part of their network, and advertisers want to reach those users. It's difficult to argue they engaged in anti-competitive behavior by making a high
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by boh 7y ago
There's no reason to assume Democrats are more likely to support anti-trust suits vs Republicans. Tech companies and the wealthy individuals that created them tend to provide a great deal of donor support to the party. Whatever the rhe
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by boh 7y ago
There's no such thing as "real" minimum wage since the factors that result in having minimum wage must be included (taxes/regulations/cost of living etc). Just as looking at the wages of illegal immigrants doesn&#x2
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by boh 7y ago
Currently the prevailing legal arguments against Uber attempt to categorize drivers as employees, not contractors.
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by boh 7y ago
Uber does not pay drivers. Passengers pay drivers who pay Uber to use their platform (otherwise they'd be employees which Uber is fighting to avoid).
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by boh 7y ago
They increased their share of the passenger revenue, taking a greater percentage. Uber defines drivers as consumers of their app, not employees.
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by boh 7y ago
Uber's own P&L. An article regarding the P&L: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/12/can-uber-ever-delive...
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by boh 7y ago
It's becoming abundantly clear the real innovation from on-demand services (including ride-sharing companies), is their ability to transfer more money from labor to capital with complex pay structures. For many if not most of these com
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The technology pushed into schools today is a threat to child development(americanaffairsjournal.org)
323 points by boh 7y ago|283 comments
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by boh 7y ago
The author is comparing two different things, forming an LLC vs initiating/executing transfers. Banks are highly regulated with tight fraud/AML restrictions. The risks are severe enough to demand caution over client experience. I&
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by boh 7y ago
Shame should be a key element in combating this behavior. The guy from this article shouldn't have his username or profile pic pixelated, we should be able to see exactly who this is.
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by boh 7y ago
I don't get what this argument is. Blockchain is software so you can just build layers on top of it that cover whatever business need you may have. If I look at the just the database layer of the current system, it'll also be &quo
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by boh 7y ago
Then Libra will also plunge. It's tied to USD/EUR.
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by boh 7y ago
Adding the words blockchain and cryptocurrency to this new Facebook initiative gives it an air of "innovation", the sort that reacts to criticism with "this is too new and innovative for you to understand", and "sto
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Libra Cheatsheet(ftalphaville.ft.com)
1 points by boh 7y ago|0 comments
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by boh 7y ago
There's actually nothing illegal about procuring non-public information in general (see Mosiac Theory). Satellite images are not considered material since they alone don't provide you with enough information to trigger any market
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by boh 7y ago
Yes it would. You'd make money in the theater and then get preferable terms from Netflix. Look up Kevin Hart for examples.
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by boh 7y ago
Does paying for Google (G Suite) count as de-Googling to some extent? Supposedly I own any data within the Suite core services (which ironically doesn't include search, so DDG for that).
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by boh 7y ago
Give a random website my name, address, email and account number?? Yes please!
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by boh 7y ago
The consensus on Wall Street has WeWork nowhere near its $47B valuation. Like Uber/Lyft, its size is more a consequence of VC investment, rather than organic growth. Plus the management isn't particularly scrupulous with how they
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Google Buys Looker(looker.com)
2 points by boh 7y ago|0 comments
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by boh 7y ago
Space X relies on government contracts and government funded research not the tax savings of tech billionaires. And yes I read the rest.

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