ethbro

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by ethbro 7y ago
At minimum, it's integrated in the GM sense. In that by offering a product (even an inferior one) for every customer need, you smother your competitors by denying them market share.
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by ethbro 7y ago
The value of your shares goes up, in current terms, but your future expectations of growth should go down, which should temper the multiple.
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by ethbro 7y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H4P0c9xBu1A
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by ethbro 7y ago
:) There aren't as many places with ceilings that high. Cool space! Fingers crossed Atlanta makes good moves on the housing / transportation front in the next 20-30 years. This part (and the city as a whole) feels like it could go
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by ethbro 7y ago
By tracks, by any chance? Doesn't narrow it down much in Atlanta (specifically with mills), but if you're talking where I think you're talking, I'm ~2 mi from you. ;)
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by ethbro 7y ago
I'd say the counterargument would be: what other channel can guarantee attention while a person is moving around? Seems to map fairly well to monetization, which is essentially what drove mobile. Ad targeting when you break a geofence?
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by ethbro 7y ago
I figured it was another short squeeze. Probably coupled with automated trading. Observed short interest over total outstanding seems like the kind of thing an algorithm could target, as it makes the stock more sensitive to moves, no?
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Telsa apps/games This is the only thing that remotely justifies their current valuation. If you expect them to crush it in China + monetize their install base via creating an app platform for 3rd party apps + get to self-driving
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by ethbro 7y ago
Use-it-or-lose-it provisions for all acquired technology, by entities over a certain size? If you are demonstrably developing a piece of technology, kudos. It's yours, you bought its owner. If you are not doing anything with it, you&#x
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by ethbro 7y ago
That there exists a strictness of anti-trust law / prosection which is harmful does not opine on whether or not strict er anti-trust law would be harmful or beneficial. So a bit of a red herring.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> How can it be that these companies can afford to buy companies at a premium, throw away massive parts of the value of the company It's almost like the lack of robust anti-trust prosecution by world governments have so enriched l
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by ethbro 7y ago
> However, it will be interesting to figure the heuristics to deliver better quality search results today. If only there were some kind of analog for effective ways to locate information. Like if everything were written on paper, bound
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by ethbro 7y ago
The primary deployment potential for self-driving cars is long haul freight, which could be done exclusively via the interstate system. If we're going to beacon up a road, they easily make the most sense.
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by ethbro 7y ago
All of these provided access to new technologies. Autonomous driving is a marginal improvement on an already deployed technology.
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by ethbro 7y ago
These standards won't be adopted by the market for at least 10 years, because it's not in anyone's financial interest to do so. The hub manufacturers all want to lock people into a proprietary garden, even if they're usi
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by ethbro 7y ago
It's not. And it's led to a reevaluation of rules in those other spaces too.
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by ethbro 7y ago
In my experience enterprise lawyers deem everything they can't be 100% certain about a huge risk. Legal CYA.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Putting restrictions around "commercial" use (which is notoriously hard to define) is not open source. That's... somewhat accurate. Let's not pretend the GPL team itself didn't have issues with Tivo-ization,
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by ethbro 7y ago
That's not the problem parent is talking about. They're talking about an autonomy gap. Tolerant rules of engagement are feasible because reactions are "similar" in timescale. Enemy fires on you, you fire back, etc. But
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by ethbro 7y ago
This is the perfect metaphor and the one I use. Just because we can build a Ferrari doesn't mean that a Ferrari is efficient in all situations. We have race tracks (smooth, evenly surfaced roads), highways (generally smooth roads over
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by ethbro 7y ago
So just roll the difference for your entire study period onto your post-graduation rate?
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by ethbro 7y ago
Because he faffed around France for multiple years while choosing not to pursue the major expected by the program that helped fund his attendence in the first place? I've got no sympathy for someone who deliberately makes unethical cho
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by ethbro 7y ago
One would hope that calendar time paying post-graduation >> time paying pre-graduation. ;)
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by ethbro 7y ago
(Finance isn't my primary job, so happy to be corrected) Firstly, leverage. A lack of rules and enforcement allowed unreasonable amounts of capital to amass around mortgage bets. Without the crazy leverage via derivatives, the mortgage
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by ethbro 7y ago
It's an interesting point... Hypothetically, there's no reason the US government couldn't structure its loan program thusly: (A) Originate loans for existing fiscal year, (B) bundle multiple loans together / blind desire
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by ethbro 7y ago
I did know a guy who was on a neighboring-state subsidized grant for a nuclear engineering major... and only taking classes in humanities while summering abroad in France. Not sure how that ended for him, but hopefully poorly? (The program
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by ethbro 7y ago
The problem with "good prospects of replaying" / full-knowledge lending (and what the system was originally intended to prevent) is that the best lendees are wealthy students from socioeconomic groups with good employment pro
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by ethbro 7y ago
(Clarification: I'm talking about the US loan program) > Student loan terms (private and public) are blind to neither of these factors. They are negatively blind, in that I cannot charge someone with family wealth in excess of $1M
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by ethbro 7y ago
This is absolutely right. The entire current system is rigged to increase leverage on students' futures to provide more profit (or "non"-profit) for educational institutions, while providing the least possible transparency th
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Student loans should not be handed out as easily as they currently are. I would argue that 'student loans should not be handed out as equally as they currently are' -- in that loan terms are independent of major selection

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