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by jonknee 7y ago
Facebook has pitched this showing young people so I assumed that's their market. I guess the boomer dating market is probably underserved, maybe that's what they're actually going for.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Among all people sure, but among people in the dating demographic? I would not be surprised at all if more people in prime dating ages are on IG than FB (especially in an active manner, do young people post on FB in any real way?).
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by jonknee 7y ago
Extreme cases like using a popular new credit card to pay? Please. Google uses an algorithm to ban people for life without recourse, it's insane. Not everything can be reduced to an algo, sometimes you need to make exceptions. It can e
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by jonknee 7y ago
I usually pay with Amex and sometimes a business will say "Oh sorry, we don't take Amex". Never once have they ushered me out the door and issued a trespass notice. Instead I just pay another way and we are both happy. That s
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by jonknee 7y ago
It is intentional, I'm just saying it's ridiculous. the Google way is to treat everything like a programming problem. That works decently well for bits, but really breaks down when working with humans.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Google's classic canned response of "We've confirmed we're right, we will not tell you why and this is the last reply you'll receive" is one of the most infuriating things I can imagine. I make my income primar
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by jonknee 7y ago
In addition to Amazon 3rd party sellers, this seems like bad news for Shopify. They host a lot of Chinese drop ship stores that work because of these artificially low rates.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Parts are hard to come by for their mass market models too, it's crazy.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Sure they do, Amazon fulfillment is a giant business. https://services.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/benefits.h...
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by jonknee 7y ago
A lot of tech IPOs recently after a decently long drought. There is conjecture that people are rushing to get them filed before a recession hits and it's more difficult to go public.
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by jonknee 7y ago
https://www.dlapiper.com/en/uk/news/2019/02/dla-piper-gdpr-d... > Over 59,000 data breach notifications have been reported across the European Economic Area by public and private organizations si
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by jonknee 7y ago
That assumes the company is worth something, this company is worthless, fining them a billion dollars is useless.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Is a list of people who like to pay less than face value for movie tickets valuable?
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by jonknee 7y ago
It competed against very expensive and bulky sets of books, so the update speed was more than acceptable.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Google owns ITA software which many airlines themselves for ticketing, as such they know more than the airline itself does about what's a good deal.
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by jonknee 7y ago
So adversarial they spend tons of money on advertising and pay Google to use ITA's software to sell tickets to their own customers.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Somehow I think Google would manage to outsmart them at their own game.
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by jonknee 7y ago
Note that this is a temporary promotion: > Price guarantee is available between August 13th and September 2nd, 2019. You'll see the price guarantee badge on select flights where travel is completed by November 24th, 2019. Still soun
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by jonknee 7y ago
Yes, that's life in the modern world. My taxes go to pay for all sorts of government programs that I don't use. This is mostly fine.
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by jonknee 7y ago
I'm suggesting that ride sharing doesn't have to be a tech company. I just want to get across town, there's no requirement that the company that does this has to fund flying car research or have fancy offices around the globe
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by jonknee 7y ago
The only way they survive as such a richly valued company perhaps, my point is they could provide the current level of service with vastly lower spending and be a sustainable company. The financial problems aren't they charge too littl
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by jonknee 7y ago
But in this case they clearly don't: Operations and support ($864m), Sales and marketing ($1.2b), General and administrative ($1.6b). They have bloated costs all over. Easy to do when you're the hottest VC backed company around, b
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by jonknee 7y ago
Except total rides on both platforms are at all time highs?
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by jonknee 7y ago
In many places it's all but near impossible to get a taxi in a timely manner, money wasn't the only thing preventing people from using them.
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by jonknee 7y ago
I think it's more the massive amount of spending they do with little to nothing to show for it. They spent $457m last year on autonomous and flying cars with $0 in revenue from those projects. Maybe that will work out, but I bet every
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by jonknee 7y ago
But it's not a conspiracy, Movie Pass really did pay theaters full price for tickets while charging customers $10 a month. It lost a huge amount of money. No one disputes any of this, it's just someone who doesn't know anythi
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by jonknee 7y ago
Yes, and not giving away the money in the first place is even more profitable. When you hear about these schemes they are generally paper losses (depreciation being a big one). It's not in your interest to hand AMC millions of dollars
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by jonknee 7y ago
It's in vogue to describe a business you don't understand as "money laundering" even when you don't understand money laundering.
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by jonknee 7y ago
> The entire thing is probably a giant money laundering or tax evasion scheme. Donating money to movie theaters is not how money laundering or tax evasion occurs.

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