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by hodder 7y ago
"I do appreciate the youthful incredulity of thinking you can save us a million dollars a year by pointing to a hard-drive rack . It’s good to question the fundamentals! And we’ve done just that. Spreadsheets up the wazoo. We don’t spe
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by hodder 7y ago
On the Amazon Premium: "There’s a lot of spend in that bucket. The biggest line item is the million dollars per year we spend storing 4.5 petabyte worth of files. We used to store these files ourselves, across three physical data cente
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Ask HN: Best way to enter SaaS sales, degree,experience needed, and salary
1 points by hodder 7y ago|0 comments
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by hodder 7y ago
Robots in finance ARE wiping out some of its highest paying jobs.
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by hodder 7y ago
I actually had to drop out of Spanish courses in university as they were going to crush my GPA if I didn’t drop them. I was learning a ton and enjoying them, but for my targeted profession my resume would be tossed if my GPA didn’t meet an
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by hodder 7y ago
Just as long as the burglars don't hit the window with a gently lofted marble right?
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by hodder 7y ago
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome
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by hodder 7y ago
The biggest problem is actual uptake for real transactions, as opposed to speculation and black markets. The 2 biggest barriers to be solved are: -lack of trust/ease of use for the layman -volatility These problems may or may not sort
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by hodder 7y ago
Given Tesla has axed their capex to almost nothing due to their liquidity crunch it is highly unlikely this ever gets built. Same with the semi truck. These “Product” unveils are designed to pull in cash deposits to fund current expenses an
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by hodder 7y ago
Not really much different, but Imgur doesn't dominate Google Image results. Why does Google make the exception for Pinterest?
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Ask HN: Googlers on HN, Why Does GOOG Let Pinterest, Quora and Yelp Ruin Search?
24 points by hodder 7y ago|18 comments
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Facebook Pay(pay.facebook.com)
2 points by hodder 7y ago|0 comments
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by hodder 7y ago
For sure. Here are some links: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/finread/trend.pdf https://www.bauer.uh.edu/TGeorge/papers/gh4-paper.pdf https://mebfaber.com/2007/0
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by hodder 7y ago
Yes I see structural losses. Look at the cash flow.
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by hodder 7y ago
A quick reminder to everyone that buying all time lows on a stock is one of the worst equity strategies possible (statistically). Go ahead and run a backtest. On the flip side, buying stocks at all time highs, while counter intuitive, is o
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by hodder 7y ago
Sure, but the same could be said of Tesla. Horrible employer, constant exec churn, unbelievable cash burn, what appears to be structural losses.... But Tesla still has a 56B mcap today. Uber is 46B. These VC/equity issue cash furnaces
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by hodder 7y ago
Diversification.
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by hodder 7y ago
Very cool. A close friend of mine (and lead singer in our band May years ago) recently died and we have a couple great recordings from 2 decades ago of his vocals. When we recorded the rest of the instruments they were DI into a Boss BR8. T
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by hodder 7y ago
Not much to get. People aren't willing to pay prices which will provide enough margin to cover costs. Electric cars are a tough business, especially for a company with no established auto supply chain or auto manufacturing experience.
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by hodder 7y ago
Exactly. The public is waking up and VCs are stuck holding the bags of shit. Good. Fuck them for trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public to get rich. They deserve what they are getting.
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by hodder 7y ago
In reality, the public has just woken up to the fact that VCs were dumping bags of shit on them at absurdly inflated valuations, and that many of these bags of shit are destined for bankruptcy due to cash burn - they are commonly outright f
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by hodder 7y ago
It is important to recognize Buffett runs an absolutely massive amount of money and wants concentration. If you are limited by those factors you are limited to about 400 companies in the USA. Then among those, about half of them have weak r
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by hodder 7y ago
Primarily because sometimes people want a burger and not have to have a cow die to get it. Another reason is that red meat is known to be carcinogenic and hard on lipids and while their isn't sufficient data on plant based meats the go
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by hodder 7y ago
I have never met anyone confused by what beyond meat is offering and find the complaint that it is false advertising is ridiculous.
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by hodder 7y ago
“Our guiding principle with all our farms is to help foster environmental and economic resilience in tomorrow’s cities,” says Hardy, who expects the farm to start making a profit within its first year. “If we can create a model that is comm
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by hodder 7y ago
I mean, 500 million is still pretty damn rich in my books. Sure he inherited it all, and has poorly managed the rest, but he is still rich by any normal person's metrics.
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by hodder 7y ago
WHy? Super cool project, but what would be the purpose of it? Or is it just a fun project to develop skill?
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by hodder 7y ago
Moreso the fraud is continually committing actual securities fraud: lying about production numbers between quarterlies when Elon knows he won’t make the nums he is promising, lying about roll out dates of cars, lying about roll out dates of
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Ask HN: What color do you have set for the top bar?
2 points by hodder 7y ago|1 comments
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by hodder 7y ago
True enough. Both parties seem to know that they are trying to deceive passengers though. Both are at fault if you ask me.

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