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by cwhiz 6y ago
Uber has never made money. They haven’t even come close to making money. It’s hard for me to have any sympathy for investors who keep funneling money into a company that defines “success” by lowering their quarterly loss to a mere billion.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Interesting rebrand. But why was Doc banned?
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Uber has never made a profit in any quarter or year. In fact I believe the best they’ve ever done is lose a billion in a quarter. This past quarter they lost $2 billion.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I did not read the guidelines. My mistake. You’re right.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I’m not going to continue to engage with a child that has an obvious anger problem. You should be banned from HN for this comment. If you’re going to rage on the internet you should at least understand the topic. 75 years of medical expense
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Did you read the article? The whole point was that Apple has innovated but that they don’t make a big deal out of it. Marketing, basically.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Why do you think the USPS shouldn’t be pre-funding pensions? The fact that other organizations don’t do it is not much more than what-about-ism. Type any city or state into your favorite search engine, and follow it with “pension crisis.”
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Seems a little pedantic or legalistic to argue that kids aren’t functionally immune to covid. Less than 2% of cases in the US have been kids under the age of 18. Of the ones that tested positive, less than 10% had symptoms. Three total chil
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by cwhiz 6y ago
There are far bigger concerns with data harvesting than simple ad targeting.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
>The argument that if the Chinese market was fully open then their local companies would have been more quickly devoured by single, US based corporations doesn't do much to convince me that what the Chinese government is doing is wr
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by cwhiz 6y ago
You can embrace globalism without damaging your economy. You just have to choose to only deal with countries that play fairly. China does not play fairly and, as such, we should not do business with them.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
This short sighted policy is what has led to the slow decay of the American middle class.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
https://www.wsj.com/articles/forced-tech-transfers-are-on-th... This isn't a new thing. It's been going on for decades. Huawei is a stolen corporation that would not exist if not for theft of technology, in
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I understand the sentiment but there has to be a first company. Someone has to be the first casualty in forcing China to either open their markets or exit our markets. I do wish this was part of a broader policy instead of a one-off.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
What is being proposed here is to treat China, and Chinese companies, the exact same way as American companies are treated in China. So, yes, countries are free to have whatever restrictions they want. But we, the western world, must not al
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It doesn’t have to be manufactured in the US. It just can’t be from a country with such horribly lopsided market policies.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It would be a painful transition but we must do it to avoid the extremely painful long term costs of continuing this horribly lopsided arrangement with China.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Telegram and Kik, to name a couple off the top of my head. There is far more to this than just social media and chat.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
They haven’t directly done that, but what they have done is force American companies to form joint ventures with a Chinese company in order to operate in China. This requires the American company to hand over intellectual property and trade
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by cwhiz 6y ago
China doesn’t allow many western companies to operate in China. Why should the US allow Chinese companies to operate in the US?? This is an outrage that we should not allow. They steal our intellectual property, create state funded companie
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by cwhiz 6y ago
The entire western world should treat China exactly the same way China treats them. Western companies have a difficult time operating in China, but Chinese companies have zero problems operating in western countries. It’s completely unfair
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by cwhiz 6y ago
>Why do people tend to get sick in the wintertime and not the summer? There are lots of reasons for that. Vitamin-D is just one of those theories. There are also behavioral changes, such as people spending more time indoors and in seal
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Whataboutism
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Patents exist.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
It’s a courtesy that is absolutely being afforded to people in California, where this is taking place. Some people just want to see racism everywhere they look.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
S&P is rising because the fed won’t let the market fail. We will let everything else in this country turn to shit, but the fed will prop up the market no matter what. The US stock market has become essentially a Ponzi scheme at best, an
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by cwhiz 6y ago
I understand that. It would be a short term painful switch as we completely pulled the western world out of China.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
Statute of limitations. At some point, the clock really does run out. Varies widely from state to state, and I would assume, country to country.
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by cwhiz 6y ago
What you’re suggesting is illegal and has been illegal for quite some time. Credit policies have to be neutral in outcome. You can’t just cook up a clever way to be racist and hide it in some zip code algorithm. If your algorithm turns out
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by cwhiz 6y ago
My understanding is that the average of average costs to obtain a customer is relatively unchanged over the years. Even going back to well before the internet existed, the numbers are relatively equal. So we have all these platform vacuumin

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