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by cascom 7y ago
Personal experience - I’m talking about the mass rich people with m >$20m <$500m in the US that are the target market for fractional jet ownership. Sure they might have a personal trainer (at their gym) or a house keeper or two that d
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by cascom 7y ago
What’s funny is that if time is really the motivator, there are so many more cost efficient ways of gaining time then corporate aviation. And most of the people who use corporate aviation, haven’t optimized their time in other parts of thei
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by cascom 7y ago
I’m not sure you actually save as much time as you might think if you are flying yourself when you factor in flight planning, pre-flight inspections, etc. Definitely airport pairs where this could be a huge time savings though.
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by cascom 7y ago
Bismuth and Tungsten are non-toxic alternatives with better performance than steel, though definitely more expensive. Stopping the use of lead would is a modest performance trade-off with a potential increase in cost
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by cascom 7y ago
My point is that if you buy something (a company in this case), financing ~29% of the purchase price with debt ($10t/($10t+$25t)) does not feel super levered. You point is valid as well, and the useful context (again not provided by t
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by cascom 7y ago
I don’t quite understand how one writes an article like this without putting the amount of debt into context, where is the critical thinking here? The S&P 500 market cap is like $25t, $10t in debt doesn’t sound crazy
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by cascom 7y ago
I’m sorry it’s obvious to anyone with a brain that Hunter Biden’s board seat at Burisma had nothing to do with his personal qualifications and everything to do with his father. Whether or not Biden senior ultimately did anything unethical
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by cascom 7y ago
I’ve never heard of this - do people actually do this - or is this like requesting to see an elevators maintenance log the is on file in the managers office (e.g. something you can theoretically do, but no one ever does)
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by cascom 7y ago
I deleted my account and stopped using mine - and told no one
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by cascom 7y ago
I'm glad you feel like you are a net beneficiary - but my comment really boils down to "reasonable people can disagree" and "not everyone has the same experience"
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by cascom 7y ago
I suspect few people here think they should pay no tax, however I’m quite sure that most would disagree about what the “right” amount would/should be. Furthermore, this is exacerbated by the quality and quantity of public goods differe
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by cascom 7y ago
If you want to go down the rabbit whole - read the link below... https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-does-curre...
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by cascom 7y ago
My guess is that’s and approximation of the U.S. companies’ foreign source income that they don’t want to be double taxed on...were the double taxation to go away there wouldn’t be a need to play this game
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by cascom 7y ago
I don’t follow - that’s not CapEx, and 4.4B EUR on ~$70b in EV does not make the acquisition giant in relative terms
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by cascom 7y ago
FedEx CapEx in $B '09-'18 $2.6,$3.4,$3.6,$3.6,$3.3,$3.8,$5.0,$5.0,$5.1,$5.6 Do you think the article fairly reflects the trends in the company's capital expenditures?
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by cascom 7y ago
We all know that one can make statements that while factually correct, can be misleading, distorting, or unsound in some other way. (e.g. The statement "the divorce rate is highly correlated to the per capita consumption of margarine&q
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by cascom 7y ago
Do you have to be playing something with the AirPods pro, or can you just turn on the noise cancelling function (e.g. sleeping on a plane)
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by cascom 7y ago
I was pretty amazed as well - frankly I'd much prefer buying direct with apple pay than through amazon
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by cascom 7y ago
I don’t understand why you care if you are Still getting full billing? E.g. list is $100/hr and you are still getting $100/hr net...
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by cascom 7y ago
no, but the value is staggering given that commercial vessels may have hundreds of millions of dollars of product aboard at any given time [1] Check out the the number of commercial ships on this map - tell me slowing them all down is a goo
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by cascom 7y ago
I’d add: Fly less Consume less new things (from houses to disposable items)
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by cascom 7y ago
these people should just trade futures - you can buy a treasury bond future at effectively ~70x leverage without trying to defraud your broker...
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by cascom 7y ago
It’s always easier to think someone else should do something [that won’t really affect you personally] so that you feel good about yourself vs taking the hard actions involved in making changes yourself. In this case wanting their employer
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by cascom 7y ago
Just to be clear - the machines referenced in the article are the larger more precise machines at police stations rather than the field test units. As an aside - I think geography/access to alternative transport needs to be taken into
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by cascom 7y ago
I think the article is in reference to the more sophisticated stationary breathalyzer at the police station
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by cascom 7y ago
First of all the people that throw the trash in the river/sea are the polluters. Second the question is whether their products are disproportionately represented in the sample sets
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by cascom 7y ago
This is pretty low-tech but I think is pretty effective. https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm
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by cascom 7y ago
Pretty unacceptable - in context this is 10-12 average swimming pools or ~8,800 bbls which I suppose is much less dramatic than 1.4m l.
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by cascom 7y ago
While mildly interesting - take any mundane product - a can of beans on the shelf at the grocery store - white label manufactured in a plant in the Midwest, ingredients from around the world, a can made in Mexico with metals mined in China,
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by cascom 7y ago
Look I'm not saying that won't be the response - but you will usually never get what you don't ask for - and if the company wants to retain you, they might surprise you, my point is really more that there is an intermediate r

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