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by jdross 2y ago
Would it be fair to say you’ve never been a CEO of 20+ person organization and don’t have much of an idea of what that job entails, as a “craft” in its own right? You’re talking about someone who led an organization from 0 to tens of billio
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by jdross 3y ago
Starting this year you need to amortize the R&D expenses over 5+ years, which is going to be brutal for startups. Losing a lot of money and you can't write off your engineers
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by jdross 3y ago
The math is that you're donating around 2.5x to 5x what you save in written off income / taxes, so there's a built in multiplier
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by jdross 3y ago
This is a parody account
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Punyo, Toyota's Robot for Whole-Body Manipulation Research [video](youtube.com)
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by jdross 3y ago
Percent unoccupied is a bit misleading because it’s point in time. If the average tenant stays for 2 years and it takes 2 months on average to replace the tenant (given repairs, maintenance and marketing) that’s 8.3% unoccupied at any given
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by jdross 3y ago
Maybe this works for a 1 week market where hydroponic can be competitive for some small % of supply but the hydroponic costs are like 10-500x the cost of traditional modern farming of specialty crops (think lettuces, berries, leafy greens)
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by jdross 3y ago
This is silly. Their movements are among the most accurate out there, putting watch movements by other highly esteemed brands like Patek Philippe to shame
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by jdross 3y ago
"Enron's fraud left nothing behind but a string of suspicious deaths." Man this guy really knows nothing about energy... Enron happened at the start of the shale and natural gas revolution that reshaped American energy and gl
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by jdross 3y ago
It would cost around $300 a month for archive tier storage, $5000 a month would be for standard ready access Buying the drives would cost at least $5k
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by jdross 3y ago
Pro-Palestinian views outrank Pro-Israeli online by around 36 to 1 on TikTok and 8 to 1 on other online platforms. https://twitter.com/antgoldbloom/status/1721561226151612602 If anything the skew within the platfo
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by jdross 3y ago
What if we do both? Cars should be safe everywhere, and cities should be very pedestrian and bike friendly. Cars also don't only exist in dense cities. They're even used, among other things, to get people into and out of those cit
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by jdross 3y ago
Austin's local gov't (in the state capital) brought this upon itself. Over 60% of Austin voted to end unregulated camping: the former progressive mayor of Austin said he would not enforce it, and that he would designate all parks
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by jdross 3y ago
You absolutely cannot outsource talent acquisition. I’d go so far as to say it’s the single most important job of the entrepreneur— as Khosla has said “The team you build IS the company you build”
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by jdross 3y ago
Noah and other YIMBY types tend to skew left wing by any US definition that isn’t based around the moderate voter of San Francisco
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by jdross 3y ago
This happens almost daily in California — it’s called the “duck curve” and prices peak dusk and dawn, stable through night, and go negative during the daytime from excess solar. You could often profit in CA by just arcing electricity into t
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by jdross 3y ago
Cheaper to tear down commercial RE and rebuild multi-family than to attempt a conversion. Floor plates made of high tension steel can’t be broken up for replumbing, usually you’ll want or need elevators & interior courtyards needed for
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by jdross 3y ago
14% better using a model from late 2020. I’d expect this to increase materially with most recent models and better tooling to pull in relevant data, particularly for text agent chats Voice support will begin replacement or augmentation with
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by jdross 4y ago
This is FUD spreading — they filed an 8-k on friday dispelling concerns here and emphasizing their diversification of fund sources and liquidity. it’s smart to limit exposure to insurance caps, but that doesn’t mean there is going to be a c
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by jdross 4y ago
I'm glad to see Matt starting to gain recognition. He's a good man as well as excellent coach.
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by jdross 4y ago
Shopify is a Canadian company, does this change anything?
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by jdross 4y ago
I do not believe this type of public theft is due to incompetence, I believe it is corruption and grift
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by jdross 4y ago
10 cents for a megawatt of electricity is an unheard of marginal cost in any situation. your local costs in the US range from 5-25 cents per kilowatt hour (1/1000 of that), with ideal solar being the cheapest amortized at roughly 3 cen
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by jdross 4y ago
I hope this is trolling because the details of this are widely reported and discoverable. There is no Tesla without Elon, and there barely was an entity called Tesla before Elon. Even with Elon the company barely made it many times
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by jdross 5y ago
look up Opendoor’s buy with cash product. Turns every buyer into a cash buyer in exchange for the same commission as any other buyer agent (maybe lower?)
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by jdross 5y ago
I think some reasons Zillow lost were that their pricing and risk processes were terribly underdeveloped in order to scale fast, their models were obviously inaccurate, and they didn't understand the difference between an acquisition c
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by jdross 5y ago
Because they were having a lot of trouble growing that business. See their earnings reports before they entered iBuying
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by jdross 5y ago
Opendoor doesn't compete with real estate investors, they compete with realtors and mortgage brokers. Opendoor's primary benefit is to enable people to move when they otherwise could not easily do so, creating more liquidity and m
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by jdross 5y ago
These are zoning and policy issues, not tax or incentive issues.
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by jdross 5y ago
How do you suggest multi-family housing or single family suburban infill housing gets built affordably?

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