jankyxenon

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by jankyxenon 5y ago
I'm a satisfied customer - one of my favorite products. Based on that I would assume there's a solid business here. Did the valuation get too far from fundamentals - I dunno and I don't care as long as they stay in busines
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
The barriers are the investment in diverse, engaging instructors and developing a well integrated product. Neither are insurmountable for Apple, but then really given the amount of cash that Apple has - very few businesses are out of reach
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
You have to be clear if you're talking about Peloton as a financial investment or as a consumer product. As a product - there's real value there. If it's been oversold as an investment, that's a different issue. But mill
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
Try to do a live spin class if you're not sure. Barring that - ride a spin bike. It's about as engaging as indoor cardio can be, but if indoor cardio is highly objectionable or boring for someone it's hard to get over that.
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
I hear this sentiment a fair bit - but what is the actual risk here?
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
You get to sell an “investment” with a higher return. Albeit negative.
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
Are you talking about the Marshall plan and the Cold War or something? What would the mechanism be of Europe’s disintegration if the US pulled out of the EU today?
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
I’m all for a monstrous building spree in places like SF. It’ll solve a lot of problems. But - at the risk of sounding callous - why would someone down and out on the streets of the Tenderloin think, even if they completely sober up and cle
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
I don’t think the people living on the streets of the tenderloin are there because of housing prices. They’re there because of drug and mental health issues. In Europe, they’re not tolerant of drug use on the streets. Even in cities where i
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
I think AirPods by themselves would be a fortune 100 company.
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
We can already do this without blockchain. Think about Wikipedia. Yes there is still some bias injected into the editorial process - but is it a better or worse than a truly decentralized free for all?
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
Highly progressive people continue to self segregate into very non-diverse neighborhoods when buying houses.
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
If you pull the thread all the way back - if it’s morally right to pay reparations, wouldn’t it also be morally correct in the same vein to give the land back? How do you actually pay reparations for taking someone’s land?
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by jankyxenon 5y ago
You gotta amortize that cost over all iphone revenue streams (not just one app)
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
Your longest phase there is 3 years. The length of observation of any individual in that phase will be less. If you had had observations of subjects lasting 10 years - your overall process would be much much longer than 10-12 years.
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
Imagine having to do 10 year studies on any drug before releasing it.
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
Don't you have to have these sort of losses for the thinking to progress? If we don't have examples of WeWorks, it's not built into the process to sus them out. Something built on sand will ultimately collapse - and smart mon
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
Build an internal finance system? Engineering is not the primary activity there - modeling business process, regulations, accounting principles, compliance and legal considerations is the hard part. That takes a whole lot more expertise tha
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
Stable may be correct. But part of that stability was high infant / child death rates and very low life expectancy.
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
In many other countries, top academics and researchers are at large public universities. Maybe it would be money well-spent for the public-sector to poach top academics from private intuitions. It would lead to salary inflation, but might b
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
I think they work more than a third of F500 companies. What's your definition of cherry picking?
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
If it's that obvious, stop to think about a few things. Why is management consulting a billion dollar industry? Are there that many clueless executives running F500 companies (pretty much all of them). Or perhaps your understanding of
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
Are Instagram engineers partly responsible for depression among teens?
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
You can call me a moron all you want. There’s no notion of Facebook as a public square in their terms of service. It’s a business, not a public service.
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
What’s in their TOS? That they’re a public square? That access to the platform and expressive freedom of the users trumps facebook’s moderation rights? I don’t think so.
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
What does the “premise of a public square” mean? What social contract did they enter into? What legal obligation do they have to their users?
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
You said the first amendment applies to the press. What does that mean? Is a news outlet obligated to run the words of a President? I’m against the ban, but I don’t understand your reasoning.
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
That’s the part that I struggle with. These are private platforms and have every right to moderate. But - they’re also very socially important, so rules should be applied clearly and equally.
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
Are end-users even going to have a "5G experience"? The average user isn't going to really notice faster downloads or lower latency relative to good LTE. If anything it seems like Apple is doing the wireless carriers a favor
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by jankyxenon 6y ago
MagSafe was probably a retroactive marketing message. Primary goal here is to get a secure, consistently lined up charging mechanism. Apple has used magnets in chargers before, and lo- a brand was reborn.

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