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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Also, being the CEO of an "old and out of touch" company with services that only grannies use nowadays leaves you open to lots of undeserved bashing. So are CEOs responsible for the company or not? Because HackerNews seems t
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> So, bashing Marissa here would be really, really pointless and sad If this was actually evident, what's the point of hiring her for the position with huge compensation? What's the point of taking the job, and why should tha
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> From what I remember of "Masters of Doom" he was indeed using his employer's PCs, office etc but outside of working hours and with the blessing of at least someone higher up. Sounds like a convenient post-hoc rationaliz
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> You (legacy automakers) want to not take EVs seriously until someone spent the last decade making them practical and desirable, and then try to use legislation to catch up? Tough. The Supercharging Network isn't as big a deal as
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Tesla...available in early 2017. One claim versus another, both optimistic. I'm not going to believe Audi or Tesla until I see it.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
The 2016 forecast started at 100,000, then was decreased to 80,000-90,000, which was missed by 4.5%. There were fewer Teslas sold in Europe in 2016 than 2015, when only the Model S existed. There are red flags here and there, if you choose
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> It does mean that profits go back into the company, rather than having profits siphoned off by investors and shareholders. Why is money going back into the company "good", but investors get the negative connotation of "
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> unless you were the only person in the company able... As someone who is also in a position like the OP, it's always "life or death".
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Stop caring about binary labels that bin you in a category A or B, limiting how you perceive yourself. These "binary labels" allowed me to read about other people's experience and feel "normal", that my disdai
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> You don't actually lose anything until you sell. If the value of your asset falls, you've lost net worth. It's preposterous to claim that, even though the price of your home has fallen by half, and you are servicing th
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> I am just trying to find your take on the matter I think you're right: it's ridiculous.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
If we can't accept people changing their views, how can we ever progress or advance?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Instead, because it's a self-promotion site, it's filled with content-light marketing posts. Slightly less harmful than fake news, but equally vapid.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> It takes a very minor increase in value to turn a profit if your time horizon is short term. It's hard to believe that amateurs on this board actually believe house-flipping is a sure thing.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> My return on the property is driven from the $1 million basis, and I get to keep all of it despite not having much of an equity stake in the property And if that property falls to $900,000? Now you owe $1 million on a home worth less
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Theres property that rented out produces 2% income. Exactly right. Most people here have probably seen nothing but rising house prices their adult life. Even with a massive bust, people still believe it. In reality, real returns
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> so, buying a house just makes sure you don't pay the little profit margin of the landlord Buying is not universally better than renting, period. There is no such thing as a free lunch; any profit received by owning the capital a
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Education over regulation. Eating piles of sugar is stupid, but that doesn't mean I should be legally prevented from doing it.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Its only downside is the calories from it. How is that a downside? Deriving calories (and nutrients) from food is the entire purpose of eating.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Why don't you think that the same will eventually happen to Instagram that happened to Facebook and AOL?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
You consider Facebook a blue chip stock?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Running up $120k in credit card debt? Paying $3k per month in interest on that debt while piling money into an app where "expenses grew faster than revenue"? I know this stuff happens. I've been there, done that. But I don
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> LLCs are inexpensive, easy to set up, easy to maintain, and mitigate significant personal legal/financial risks. Not sure what it's like in the US, but in Canada this isn't some magical easy way to escape liability. Th
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> If the final price was $215k it certainly seems possible to pay off most of $120k with that. Right. I was "implying" that perhaps the business wasn't as good a business as I thought.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
$120,000 in credit card debt (with interest) for a sale of $215,000 (less taxes)? Something doesn't add up.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> He is great at marketing, but isn't a very good example of a 'solopreneur' or a bootstrapper. This is actually the lens through which I view his writings: master solo marketer. He's managed to build a brand around
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> which involves a lot of 'gut feelings' about what is important or not for a policy. Edit: I see you answered this same question below. Whoops. Can you give some examples? I thought it's pretty well understood that the
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Did it open in the background? Is it loading? No idea. This happens sometimes on my Mac. Along with the computer freezing or giving a black screen when I remove an HDMI cable or other external screen, random keychain messages asking f
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> He was called a white nationalist because he courted extremely controversial figures like David Duke. Can explain what you mean by the use of the word "courted"? I'm not overly familiar with the ordeal, but according to
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> You comment describes exactly why this is so amazing - the autopilot executes the same as a competent driver! I can agree with this. Too bad it isn't the default sentiment instead of over-the-top optimism or cynicism. I don&#x27

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