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by jonas21 5y ago
Oh, I don't doubt that they have a very sophisticated model for this. I'm just saying they probably take customer acquisition cost into account in the model too. "I bet they do it for free marketing" doesn't mean &q
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by jonas21 5y ago
> It is possible, given the design of individual products, that a user with close-to-optimal spending decisions is contribution margin negative on individual products and potentially on all accounts I feel like that user is typically t
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by jonas21 5y ago
They are. See section (g)(4) of: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/402 Everything, including the rounding to a multiple of $500, is specified in the law.
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by jonas21 5y ago
They also train in simulation, where they modify real scenarios to run through variations and edge cases. [1] As of last year, they'd driven 15 billion miles in simulation - which is more than a typical person will drive in a million y
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by jonas21 5y ago
The Bureau of Labor Statistics conducts the American Time Use Survey [1], which tracks how people spend their time. This includes a breakdown by age (see table 9). In every single age group, the average person spends over 4 hours per day on
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by jonas21 5y ago
Or... maybe HN is composed of different people with different viewpoints. People are more motivated to comment when they're upset about something, so it ends up looking like everyone here hates everything big tech does, when it may be
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by jonas21 5y ago
Yeah, I didn't realize what an enormous difference this made until I ran the numbers. In your example above, let's say the person purchased those 10 Meta shares for $38 each at the IPO and they're worth $322 each now. That&#x
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by jonas21 5y ago
No, they literally cannot. Because if they try to, they will be fired by the board for failing to perform and replaced with someone who will undo their work.
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by jonas21 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but Walmart started as a mom and pop store, and the Walton family maintains majority ownership to this day.
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by jonas21 5y ago
The Techspot article is a summary of this Bloomberg piece: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-25/bitcoin-s... which is itself reporting on this paper from the NBER: https://www.nber.or
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by jonas21 5y ago
I can report that they do actually happen in the real world. I've signed two contracts in the past year that had consideration of $1 written into them (and actually made the $1 payment). Are they necessary? I have no idea, but real la
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by jonas21 5y ago
It's nearly there already. The average new car in the U.S. costs $41K, and the Tesla Model 3 is $45K.
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by jonas21 5y ago
That's a good point. The reason they had to get a warrant for Google is that Google refuses to hand over data unless they're compelled to do so (and I'm glad they're willing to take this stand). It's unclear whether
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by jonas21 5y ago
On the other hand, if a specific type of nail is used as shrapnel in a homemade bomb, investigators can go around to all hardware stores in the area and get security camera footage of customers who recently bought large quantities of that
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by jonas21 5y ago
What are you talking about? The court ruled in favor of the administration in the first case, and against it in the second one. The administration complied after the second decision. This is how checks and balances work.
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by jonas21 5y ago
Nope. Unless you consider having to look at shipping containers to be a vital safety issue. From the City of Long Beach's announcement [1]: > These provisions, which have been in effect for many years, were established to address t
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by jonas21 5y ago
Does everything have to be good or bad?
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by jonas21 5y ago
> creating some sort of charitable foundation with the mission of doing this Is this not already the mission of the Internet Archive? Except instead of just your page, they preserve all pages that they crawl.
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by jonas21 5y ago
Additionally, ransomware attackers frequently target hospitals because they know the issue can literally be a matter of life and death [1]. [1] https://www.aamc.org/news-insights/growing-threat-ransomware...
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by jonas21 5y ago
There are bond index funds too.
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by jonas21 5y ago
I would have assumed SpaceX vs Boeing (Starliner) would have been a more relevant comparison. Boeing generally tends to outsource as much as they can.
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WeWork stock starts trading, two years after an aborted IPO(nytimes.com)
3 points by jonas21 5y ago|0 comments
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by jonas21 5y ago
"Add 32 and 14" is from the directions page of the test -- it's not an actual question. It's intentionally easy so as not to distract from the point, which is to tell students how to fill in answers. You can find sample
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by jonas21 5y ago
They didn't say they were profitable - they said they were cash-flow positive. And if you look at the cash flow statement in the S-1, they were indeed cash-flow positive in 2019. It looks like much of the difference comes down to stock
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by jonas21 5y ago
Well, that's convenient. Whenever companies do things I disagree with and succeed, it's evidence they must be monopolies!
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by jonas21 5y ago
By looking only at share of wealth, this is missing the fact that total wealth in the US has grown tremendously over the time period in question. In absolute terms, the inflation-adjusted amount of wealth held by the Baby Boomer and Millenn
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by jonas21 5y ago
Honestly, both sides of this conversation seem pretty obnoxious.
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by jonas21 5y ago
> It really is hard sometimes, to not just withdraw into a shell of isolation and decide "fuck it, this world is too damned stupid for me to bother with." In moderation, I think this is actually the correct response. Unless y
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HTC’s new headset has leaked and it’ll make you look like a bug(theverge.com)
4 points by jonas21 5y ago|1 comments
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by jonas21 5y ago
> Granted, the legality of cannabis is a grey area since states allow it but the Federal government still maintains it as illegal. This isn't some incidental detail - it's the entire reason why the banking and credit card ind

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