johnrgrace

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by johnrgrace 6y ago
Former Amazonian who acquired audiobook publishing rights. Audible has people who buy rights directly from authors. By being publisher/retailer they can (but don't always) offer an author a higher % of the net sale than they woul
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by johnrgrace 6y ago
Thats why I think people have been over focused on the death metric, for evey person that dies there are going to be multiples of people with lifelong or multi year complications. The us is going to have millions in the long term compliati
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by johnrgrace 6y ago
Rumors are he spent several years doing antifa activities in a leadership role.
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by johnrgrace 6y ago
Could the bitcoin network actually be used by everone in the world in five years? No. At seven transactions per second, and 157,680,000 seconds, the network doesn't have enough capacity in a five year period for every person in north
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by johnrgrace 6y ago
How much of the ACTUAL scope of work needs to be novel? I'd say a limited amount. There is a LOT of work that is just running ops. For example, a billing system doesn't need to be novel it's been pretty well worked out many
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by johnrgrace 6y ago
Exactly this was what ended my career with Amazon. I was asked after being there five years to sign a non compete with no consideration.
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by johnrgrace 6y ago
First, I think the legal analysis behind Controlled Digital Lending has a fundamential flaw in the creation of a digital copy and I have serious doubts that it would hold up for commerically published fiction. Having worked in publishing I
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by johnrgrace 6y ago
Anytime a business or person let's their customer pay after work has been done there is an extension of credit. The trade credit system is massive and anyone can join.
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It wasn't an insurance scam because they don't have insurance, they are going to eat the cost of all of those vehicles.
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by johnrgrace 6y ago
It's loan to own! I did high yield Oil & Gas investment banking in the late 90's and a lot of investors had the thinking - Heads I get 12%, Tails I wind up owning a good chunk of the equity and the firm has limited debit.
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by johnrgrace 6y ago
Jeff being back to day to day will make a difference. Ex-amazonian, I've seen a lot of people go work for them recently and more than a few are B, and at least one a C level players. OP1/OP2 presentations in front of Jeff will ma
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
a bunch of those medical professionals were dentists...
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
I note that only REAL TIME location data is illegal, if I want to do most marketing things data from several days ago is perfectly usable.
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
Wait what? The secondary market value is why people are willing to buy new cards, it lets people justify spending a lot of money on new cards.
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
Logistics and refinery technology. It can be easier to move a cargo of crude via ocean than build a pipeline. And refineries are not all identical, western canada has tar sands that produce very heavy oil which require a much more complex
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
Do you enjoy russian roulette? It has a lot of great experiences with the occasional awful experience.
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
I'm in the US and I get 47 days (vacation, public holidays, company holidays, election day), 47 days is generous.
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
Are you sure that guarding a refinery is doable in principle? One mortar crew in the back of a pickup truck gets within 5km of a refinery for a few minutes and the facility is burning. If someone can get access to a towed artillery piece
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
ALmost all have posted profits, only a very few have posted profits higher than their risk adjusted peers.
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
Do you know WHY you put solar panels on top of a car? Because everyone has the genius idea of putting them there. It isn't about how well they work, it's that people will pay more to buy a car with them.
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
Being overly focused on the "lit fic" genre they've overlooked the Wild Cards series, one of George RR Martin's projects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Cards 25+ books, a pending TV show. Mo
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
You are looking at the wrong dealers, the non "scam" dealers for say 1 ounce gold coins have a 3-5% difference between their buy and sell prices. https://www.providentmetals.com/1-oz-us-american-gold-eagle-...
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
For the book you mention, The Way of kings. There are two audiobook publishers; McMillan Audio for the single voice work and Graphic Audio (a different company) for the multi voice.
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
I worked in Amazon's Audiobook space for a while. The thing with Audiobooks is, Audible never bought a physical item from a publisher they have an licensing agreement, which puts then into a very different space. That agreement could
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
I also notice that poster is really focused on only one of the two chinas.
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Because it isn't spend a dollar on opex and spend a dollar capex; it's spend $30 on opex to rent a server for a month or spend $1000 on capex to buy a server, plus $15 a month in opex. You can start and scale a business with a lo
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
Taleb one day got into an all out drop down twitter war with my friend Andrew Shaffer, author of books like "50 shames of earl grey" "how to survive a sharknado" etc. His personal unhinged behavior makes everyone suspec
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
I used to work at Amazon in the physical audiobook publishing world. For physical audiobooks, most of the NYC publishers priced their audiobooks based on the number of CD's the book would go on. Longer books required more recording an
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
Milorganite is a fertilizer here in the midwest which is kiln dried microbrobes from milwaukee water treatment system, https://www.milorganite.com/using-milorganite/what-is-milorg...
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by johnrgrace 7y ago
Except banking is highly regulated and the money not held in reserves is invested with oversight on how much risk is taken (that oversight fails sometimes but generally works). If a tech company can jump in and function as a bank without o

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