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by epa 6y ago
I remember pun threads and intelligent discourse - prior to the ron paul days (post-digg).
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by epa 6y ago
Beautiful!
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by epa 7y ago
Hangouts is not that bad
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Airbnb announces a $250M fund for hosts impacted by cancellations(airbnb.com)
5 points by epa 7y ago|0 comments
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by epa 7y ago
4 red flag assumptions: - "you think" - "they planned" - "getting more funding" - "end of the year"
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by epa 7y ago
Clearly they were getting free advertising subsidy, so maybe they don't fully know their costs.
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by epa 7y ago
Its win win for store fronts.. prices will just go up to compensate.
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by epa 7y ago
Can you elaborate why you think they are bad?
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by epa 7y ago
Isnt that what newspapers and morning TV shows have been selling for 100 years?
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by epa 7y ago
Train driver is one of the best jobs in the train business, one that takes 10+ years to step into (more demand than jobs.. goes up the union ladder). Complaints at that level will be rare and replacements can be found easily.
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by epa 7y ago
This is why computer science has evolved so fast, especially over the last 20 years, because of the open aspect of the code.
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by epa 7y ago
Bluetooth desperately needs advancing. The range is just too poor.
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by epa 7y ago
I think we will do better, but i'm an optimist.
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by epa 7y ago
Poor internal controls on the CEO's team part.
165.
by epa 7y ago
"Computers handling it all". Not quite. You would be surprised how big of an effort it is to reconcile cash in the bank compared to what you charged on a credit card. This is before even accounting for chargebacks and fees.
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Airbnb Launches Luxury(airbnb.com)
2 points by epa 7y ago|0 comments
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by epa 7y ago
Reminds me of Macromedia Flash and SWiSH Max if anyone remembers that tool.
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by epa 7y ago
When AWS launched, they cut the price of a typical VPN service by 80% or more. They were cutthroat from the start. Amazon did not price for the existing market, they priced for a theoretical market they knew could exist when prices were tha
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by epa 8y ago
Bank declines are 10-20% of total card volume, depending on industry.
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by epa 8y ago
Thats it?
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by epa 8y ago
Alfred Chandler Jr notes in his book "the visible hand" how government jobs, or creation of busy work to employ people, is just 'hidden' unemployment. If they pay people to do a job that is not necessarily needed, they c
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by epa 8y ago
They can, that is what's called "Private Equity". Private equity companies (similar to how Warren Buffet operates), usually want control, which changes a lot of how the Company may be run. Public companies are generally contr
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by epa 8y ago
Seems ripe for fraud, seller delivers and never gets paid due to threshold (one time shoppers). Good luck.
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by epa 8y ago
Does Quid take risk on shoppers who never hit a payment threshold?
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by epa 8y ago
Chargeback fraud is a large issue in the US and not enough is being done by card issuers because it is the consumers who make money for card issuers by spending. There is incentive to please them, as all costs get passed to merchants.
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by epa 8y ago
Why does it matter? If the board of directors are aware and approved it there is no issue here.
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by epa 8y ago
Not if you have levers to pull back on (marketing, salesforce) etc.
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by epa 8y ago
What's wrong with a $1 profit? Sounds like sustainable tax planning to me..
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by epa 8y ago
One of the major reasons reddit became popular initially is because of Digg. Digg had content that was 2-3 days older than reddit (many posts from Reddit got reposted to Digg). Once people started figuring that out, combined with the Digg c
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by epa 8y ago
As prices rise, does demand decrease? :-)

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