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by clarky07 13y ago
Am I the only one here not seeing this as propaganda with nicely worded articles masking a lot of the reality here? Some of them seem a little unreasonable I'll agree, but lets go through a few of these: "taking a wallet from a ho
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by clarky07 13y ago
breaking and entering seems like something people should probably go to jail for. That's what several of these were.
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by clarky07 13y ago
A lot of people attribute it to Roe v Wade[1]. Less unwanted babies growing up in environments that lead to a life of crime. [1] see Freakonomics
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by clarky07 13y ago
Interesting that every payment card solution but the one that I actually find interesting is on the frontpage right now [1] [1] Loop - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6737688
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Pay with Loop(kickstarter.com)
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by clarky07 13y ago
"At the equivalent stage" - I disagree on all examples. It depends on what we are talking about though. I was talking about 3 billion + valuation, not 2 years into company. I'm pretty sure each of the above mentioned companie
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by clarky07 13y ago
I included the caveat of "normal". Obviously that amount of money is "spendable." 300k a year though will service a very nice lifestyle though. You can live an upper class lifestyle most places in the world without doing
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by clarky07 13y ago
The real question is how in the world any of these companies are going to making $100/user. I am a user of FB and TWTR and I can't imagine how I will ever make that much money for them. Certainly I can see some money, but not that
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by clarky07 13y ago
Same does not go for Pinterest. Pinterest will be able to make money and lots of it very easily. It is the perfect social site. It is a site for women to tag things they want to buy. It doesn't get any better than that except for maybe
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by clarky07 13y ago
i get what you're saying, but i'm not sure that's actually true. once you are getting offers in the billions it's pretty clear you have something. obviously no guarantees, but certainly you have some potential. that bein
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by clarky07 13y ago
right. i guess cheap is in the eye of the beholder? perhaps compared to new york or san fran.
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by clarky07 13y ago
oh to have "high" $400 rent.
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by clarky07 13y ago
yeah, but for every Facebook there are 1000's of other companies who should have taken the money. Like myspace perhaps. snapchat also doesn't have the depth that facebook has. I could see snapchat being omgpop just as easily as th
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by clarky07 13y ago
I think we are getting a bit pedantic here. You can get by just fine on 500k a year, even if taxed at top rates.
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by clarky07 13y ago
uh, pretty sure 10-20 million is in fact "do whatever you want for the rest of your life" money. Certainly do anything normal that you want. perhaps you can't buy a jet. damn. 10million * 3% dividend stocks = 300k per year ju
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Yahoo Finance Redesign Breaks Best Thing about Yahoo(finance.yahoo.com)
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by clarky07 13y ago
To be fair, we did get lots of incremental upgrades to the 360, they just didn't change the name. The 360 selling now is much different than the one I bought 9 years ago.
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by clarky07 13y ago
According to investopedia[1] - An investment theory that states it is impossible to "beat the market" because stock market efficiency causes existing share prices to always incorporate and reflect all relevant information. Accordi
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by clarky07 13y ago
Presumably these people have insurance on their 100k cars. Running over scrap metal isn't exactly good for other cars either.
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by clarky07 13y ago
Well, they already have hundreds of millions in revenue that has been growing 100% a year. It's not like they've never made a dime. The other responses here give a few ideas for new revenue streams as well.
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by clarky07 13y ago
I didn't say anything as to whether Twitter was over or undervalued, just that it was significantly different than the dot com boom. Hundreds of millions in users and hundreds of millions in revenue is decidedly different than very few
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by clarky07 13y ago
GRPN and TWTR are not the same. I can assure you, that things worked out just fine for GOOG employees. GRPN was very clearly broken. TWTR is not. Whether it is worth this or not I don't know, but I wouldn't expect it to behave lik
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by clarky07 13y ago
It doesn't have to have the earning potential of Google to be successful. It's valuation is 1/10th of Google's.
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by clarky07 13y ago
I don't know if he is, but I would certainly suggest that markets are not efficient. Not even close. Google had a 40 billion dollar swing in valuation in a day last month. Were they really worth 40 billion more that day? Apple lost 300
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by clarky07 13y ago
Not really. not only did those companies not have profits, they also didn't have any revenues or users. Twitter has > 200 million users, and they are growing revenue 100% a year. Dot-com boom was a whole different animal.
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by clarky07 13y ago
Sometimes it is just the public taking the fall. In this case, the loss making company has been growing revenues 100% a year so there is a chance joe public will end up doing ok. Even with the disaster that was the Facebook IPO, if you held
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by clarky07 13y ago
>The big problem with smartphones is that if you forget to plug it in at night I hear that complaint a lot as well. Just not something I've ever had a problem with. I set it on the nightstand and plug it in when I go to bed. I don&#
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by clarky07 13y ago
I find these comments interesting. I see them all the time, yet I have never had any battery issues with my iPhone. (that being said, my wife does tend to run hers down sometimes) Perhaps I just don't look at facebook and instagram eno
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by clarky07 13y ago
I don't like this any more than the next guy, but it's not like apple and microsoft aren't also getting sued. At some point offense can be the best defense. Edit: also, apple and microsoft also actually make things. This puts
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by clarky07 13y ago
There are several things at play here. First, the iPad mini didn't exist last year, and it is a lower margin product by design. Second, is this is really key, is that they started deferring more revenue because they are starting to giv

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