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by jonknee 9y ago
Though the odds of that life surviving for extended periods of time in space is close to nil.
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by jonknee 9y ago
> AirBnB realized they can use this float in investing in low risk treasuries and generate a little revenue. (It is unlikely that equities is an asset class that is used) Yet the quote specifically states they're buying stocks: >
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by jonknee 9y ago
Not a product for me, but I hope similar audio technology makes its way into more products.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Interesting bit about what Airbnb has been doing with all their raised VC... > The addition of Tosi in 2015 was a signal for Wall Street to pay attention to the company. He was eager to create new, cash-generating ventures at Airbnb, peo
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by jonknee 9y ago
The players were also way smaller and less athletic. Today's receivers are the size of linemen in the past.
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by jonknee 9y ago
eBay has no stake in PayPal, that was the whole purpose of splitting it out. Shareholders of eBay before the split were given PYPL shares on a 1:1 basis.
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by jonknee 9y ago
And there actually was... PayPal itself is still (after this news) worth more than both eBay and PayPal were as a single company. Add both together and it was an obvious win.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Alibaba has a different business model than Amazon, more similar to eBay actually. Alibaba takes a small cut on sales from third parties who do all the work. That small cut is what gets reported as revenue, despite sales figures of many tim
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by jonknee 9y ago
> but if you create the expectation that the sec will protect you as a consumer from the scams, then we will not be sophisticated to actually organically ignore scams. Why have laws at all if you're unwilling to enforce them?
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by jonknee 9y ago
You would need to be specifically approved for futures, E-Trade definitely supports it (and the BTC contracts): https://us.etrade.com/what-we-offer/investment-choices/futur... Two futures exchanges run Bitcoin con
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by jonknee 9y ago
The easiest is probably through a stock broker. Futures are risky (typically highly levered, though less so for BTC) and they usually make you have a decent chunk of change before they'll give you access.
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by jonknee 9y ago
Amazon actually has uses for the money. Managers in most firms are so scared of failure that their best idea is to buy back their own shares because it makes the next quarter EPS easier to beat. Few companies are investing in plant/equ
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by jonknee 9y ago
No, I'm saying that when people on exchanges like Bitfinex "cash out" they're really getting freshly issued Tether that isn't backed by anything. It's fraud. The scam works as long as you can keep the price pum
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by jonknee 9y ago
The best way is probably to sell BTC futures, if Tether/Bitfinex go down the market will be chaos and won't have the Tether protection team to bid it back up. Those are cash settled and you will 100% get your money. Shorting on an
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by jonknee 9y ago
> A lot of exchanges have a hard time setting up traditional banking partners that can handle physical currency for them This week in "Laws are hard"
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by jonknee 9y ago
A lot of exchanges don't give you the choice and just give you Tether when you sell Bitcoin. What are the odds that a lot of people don't know the difference between USDT and USD?
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by jonknee 9y ago
You're missing the point, OP is suggesting that Tether isn't really backed by USD. So instead of trading something backed by USD for BTC, they're just creating worthless IOUs and buying BTC (typically bidding it up on down da
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by jonknee 9y ago
They claim to have the USD in a bank somewhere which means the US can come after them. This is why Wells Fargo dumped them (which is saying something!).
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by jonknee 9y ago
"Like-kind" is quite a stretch when considering something pegged to USD.
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by jonknee 9y ago
If you want an investment you can invest, if you want insurance you can get insurance. I'm not sure why you think overpaying for insurance and getting a dividend back sounds like a great way to do both. If you pay for insurance for 40+
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by jonknee 9y ago
> Berkshire pays dividends to shareholders Berkshire has never paid a dime of dividends to anybody.
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by jonknee 9y ago
I think they just wanted something for investors to know by name outside of "other bets". Easier to say you're losing money investing in Waymo than their other more conventional money losing ideas.
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by jonknee 9y ago
> Once an attacker can remotely hack a single car, they can hack all cars that have an identical configuration, with little additional cost. And do what with them? It's decently difficult to fence a single car, it's impossible
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by jonknee 9y ago
And it's just one example of the inefficiencies...
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by jonknee 9y ago
> Agenda much? Is anybody in this thread doing basic math? 200 ghost workers at $100K per year (probably a bit high, thanks) is $20 million per year. Did you bother to read the article? Right at the start it says these 200 workers "
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by jonknee 9y ago
He did, but the corporate tax cut was funded partially by giving less preferential treatment to debt (only being able to deduct 30% of the interest) and Dell was taken private with tons of debt. The takeover of EMC added tons more debt.
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by jonknee 9y ago
None nearly as large as Amazon... Amazon has 19% of all prime office space in the whole city [1] and they're concentrated over a fairly small number of blocks. They're bigger than the next 40 largest employers combined. [1] htt
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by jonknee 9y ago
Which is great for the city. Amazon's big perk is that they're in the city and since they don't feed the staff there are tons of restaurants to walk to.
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by jonknee 9y ago
> I have a sudden urge to somehow make DSN Now my desktop background. Not sure your OS, but if you're a Mac user you can do this pretty easily with GeekTool. I used it for some years as a quasi dashboard on desktop setup and it was
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by jonknee 9y ago
That’s great for you, not great for say someone who’s being stalked by an abusive ex. It’s such an obvious and foreseeable problem, they need to own it.

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