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by jonknee 7y ago
That's an extremely niche transaction and when I'm waiting to check my bag I'm glad I don't have to wait for someone who can't use the website to try and book a trip. I can't believe you waited and were told
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Casper Sleep S-1(sec.gov)
133 points by jonknee 7y ago|158 comments
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by jonknee 7y ago
Because they have a huge backlog of orders to fulfill when it does get re-approved and it's very expensive to shut down and idle the production process (besides Boeing themselves there are 100s of suppliers)?
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by jonknee 7y ago
They aren't though, they all have them so it's not a line item cost.
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by jonknee 7y ago
> I don't see why that data should be held classified, at least make this project a little bit easier. Really, you don't see why the military would want to keep the strategic advantage of keeping what they know about the sea fl
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by jonknee 7y ago
This contract has nothing to do with Office 365.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Steve Jobs was early, but not wrong about Dropbox being a feature and not a product. I just want a folder that syncs extremely reliably, that's it. They've gone down the corporate rabbithole and now call themselves a "smart w
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by jonknee 7y ago
Microsoft is using Android! Lauren Goode got a great quote from Satya on this topic: > When I asked Satya Nadella whether Microsoft ever thought about reviving a true Windows mobile OS, he told me: "The operating system is no longer
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by jonknee 7y ago
Yes, these buds have microphones like almost every other pair of earbuds and headphones (not to mention the phone they're connected to!). If you don't want people to hear you, it's probably best not to talk. Airpods even have
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by jonknee 7y ago
They sell things for less than cost at scale , what basic value proposition is that? Read that S-1, it's an absolute hot mess.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Well my point is it should have been obvious the shares were absolutely worthless.
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by jonknee 7y ago
It's not ignorance to sell your company its trademark or to buy a building with a loan backed by company stock and then have the company lease it from you at a tidy profit.
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by jonknee 7y ago
WeWork has been an obvious fuckup to even casual observers for years, if people inside the company couldn't see this I really don't know what to say.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Yes, my point is how many units could they possibly be making. Even when it was new it barely sold, how many units could they be making today? Dozens a month?
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by jonknee 7y ago
I think snapping together a tower can be done equally well anywhere in the world.
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by jonknee 7y ago
I mean it has to have been all but closed for years right? The only thing they ever made was a giant flop that never got a meaningful update. What could they possibly have been making for the last several years?
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by jonknee 7y ago
That was in the second to last quote I had, but really the whole thing was quotable, what a mess of a company.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Highlights: > After the group landed in Israel and left the plane, the flight crew found a sizable chunk of the drug stuffed in a cereal box for the return flight, according to people familiar with the incident. The jet’s owner, upset an
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by jonknee 7y ago
OK, but that's less than half of eBay. This is just a non-serious puff piece and I have no idea why it's being voted up on HN. https://www.ebayinc.com/stories/news/ebay-q4-2018-results/ > In 2018
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by jonknee 7y ago
I read the article and the FT article, it's all about market cap. But since Shopify isn't actually a shopping site this is all a moot point.
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by jonknee 7y ago
But the link doesn't actually say that. It is also talking about market cap. From the Financial Times article: > The stock has climbed more than 150 per cent since the beginning of 2019, making Shopify more valuable than well-known
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by jonknee 7y ago
This very website exists because this very thing was done 25 years ago! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viaweb
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by jonknee 7y ago
No, this just means that Shopify has a high stock market valuation. This isn't looking at sales figures at all. And since they just rent software to people who sell things I'm not sure it makes sense to compare them to more tradit
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by jonknee 7y ago
Note that they are not the second biggest shopping site by any reasonable metric (sales, visitors, unique shoppers, orders, SKUs, really anything). This article is using market cap: > The company has quickly become the most popular onlin
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by jonknee 7y ago
I think retail stores controlling what you see based on how much money they get which is quite similar to Amazon controlling what you see in a search result based on profitability, but I guess we can agree to disagree. However, it's no
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by jonknee 7y ago
Walmart dwarfs Amazon in annual sales (and also plays hardball with its vendors).
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by jonknee 7y ago
> When a grocery store puts something on it's shelves, the store itself bought it from the manufacturer. They have already made their money. On Amazon, manufacturers don't make money when the item is listed, they make it only i
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by jonknee 7y ago
Why not? If I search and find a reasonably priced product that fits my needs that is a success. Squeezed vendors is just how the world works, do you think Walmart just sits back and lets its suppliers dictate pricing or promotion?
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by jonknee 7y ago
> During our one-year pilot, road turbulence was a frequent guest complaint. Cabin G2 introduces our proprietary bump-canceling technology, Cabin Cloud. Beneath select cabins, a suite of sensors, electric motors and control algorithms in
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by jonknee 7y ago
It's a man made pond in Florida, it's not deep at all. Definitely not something you'd swim in though, lots of funky stuff grows in warm stagnant water like that, plus ever present alligators.

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