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by kolbe 7y ago
I got paid even less (around negative $40k) to spend every waking hour 4th year of college to complete coursework, do varsity athletics, search for a job, and do an honors thesis. But these were investments in human capital.
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by kolbe 7y ago
No. It's lies as they roll out more bubblegum flavored cartridges to give nicotine addicted 14 year olds another choice.
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by kolbe 7y ago
Surgical residents are being apprenticed for their expected $400k-$1m job later in life. They are far from being impoverished, and if they need more than $50k/year, any bank will gladly lend to them at a low rate.
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by kolbe 7y ago
Beyond Meat recently was trading in the open market at $230. They decided they wanted to sell 4% of the company in a secondary offering, and they were only able to get $160/share. Tilray had similar problems trying to monetize their hi
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by kolbe 7y ago
I don't get it at all. In my model, Shopify spends 75% of Gross Profit on sales to simply maintain existing customer levels. It doesn't seem like customers are very sticky, so they constantly have to pay huge amounts for sales to
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by kolbe 7y ago
I don't know who you mean by "us," but while this distribution is somewhat top heavy, it's not something where even if the most destructive country took its emissions to zero, the world would be safe. https://
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by kolbe 7y ago
If "stunting developing world growth" is too much of a cost to endure for your cause, then this isn't a WW2 level emergency. In WW2, the US deemed the ends to be important enough to kill innocent German/Japanese cogs and
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by kolbe 7y ago
One problem with this is the exact type of person who would think to do this is probably the type of person we need more of. An Idiocracy will be even worse for the environment.
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by kolbe 7y ago
I suggest you look into the history of companies like TLRY and the current state of BYND.
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by kolbe 7y ago
> I doubt WeWork will reach positive earnings and a market cap of 5.3 bln anytime soon. No one said anything about "anytime soon" (1) They are a US company. (2) They raised at a $40bn valuation in their last funding round, so I
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by kolbe 7y ago
When the time is right, Adam will change the company voting structure and get WeWork put into the S&P 500. If all goes well, it will be at a $500b mkt cap, and everyone in VOO and SPY will be the ones paying that price.
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by kolbe 7y ago
What I'm pointing out is that Netflix is not equipped to manage a shared server marketplace. They don't manage their own servers because Amazon/Google can do it more effectively for more reasons than expertise. You seem hung
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by kolbe 7y ago
Where AWS succeeds is actually in its ability to save money. Netflix has elastic demands that are negatively correlated with other users. Netflix doesn't have a system to share compute resources with say a hedge fund. Amazon steps in a
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by kolbe 7y ago
You're giving a perfectly compelling reason for someone to use WeWork. Clearly there are hundreds of thousands of people for whom WeWork offers a service that benefits them. But there is no reason for me to believe that the few compani
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by kolbe 7y ago
This is a wonderful opportunity for entrepreneurs. While Larry Fink pushes his social agenda on the companies he controls, leaders of private companies, whose stock is largely owned by investors with "skin in the game," will flour
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by kolbe 7y ago
What I don't get is how small some of these numbers are. Weren't some of the figures being tossed around valuing it at $40bn? And their revenues are in the low single digit billions. It's one thing to get sucked in by a compa
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by kolbe 7y ago
Devil's advocate: maybe they have the same conservationist attitude you do, but they've seen how bureaucracies operated by non-locals and legislated by corrupt politicians don't result in better conservation? People in cities
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by kolbe 7y ago
How's the Hippocratic Oath working out for doctors? One of the most unhealthy things that can happen to me is to be bankrupted, and that seems to be their goal. The last two times I've actually gone to the doctor for an ailment, i
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by kolbe 7y ago
Their valuation is actually extremely sensitive to usage patterns right now, however. If they lose $1m of business, it's not like they're worth $1m less. That million bucks is not only used in an assumption for making that money o
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by kolbe 7y ago
Hence why many investors don't mind that Tesla isn't generating wonderful cash flow. If there's a reasonable expectation that this data collection will lead to full autonomy, then Tesla should price their cars at whatever lev
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by kolbe 7y ago
>Lonsdale on Monday called Palantir “probably the most patriotic in the Valley.” He's really stretching the definition of "patriotic" with that one. I tend to think of a patriot as someone who loves their country, not some
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by kolbe 7y ago
I think deep down, most people agree with you. But it's not very practical to have a level-headed approach to political discourse, since most political topics of the day are not rooted in morality, but instead are economic agendas shro
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by kolbe 7y ago
True, but for some reason in the US we’ve decided that all/most people are equal sources of viable opinions when it comes to electing representatives. Whether or not you treat their opinions with respect matters little compared to thei
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by kolbe 7y ago
Apple really is good about taking care of problems. It's easy to complain about the price, but when my Samsung screen stopped working, I had to buy a new phone. When my iPhone screen started glitching, I got it fixed for free in less t
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by kolbe 7y ago
The fact of the matter is that people, despite knowing the tsunami risks, have decided to live in the tsunami-inundation zone. These people probably should also have fair access to public services. I know some writers in some media circles
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by kolbe 7y ago
He seems to be like me: no matter how many times I read about quantum fields and quantum mechanics, I never seem to get it, and I read a different book on the same topic.
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by kolbe 7y ago
And then shareholders sue their own company, and for every dollar of the settlement that they take out of their own pockets to give to themselves, they give 20 cents to a lawyer.
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by kolbe 7y ago
The author's app is Pedometer++. My guess is that smaller phones are over represented in his data because people who value step counters probably also value less cumbersome phones to run/walk with. I, for one, chose an SE because
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by kolbe 7y ago
The human in me is disgusted, but the economist in me is in absolute awe at how ruthlessly efficient and economically maximizing so many of China's actions are. The US wastes like $100k a year on its prisoners, and China turns them int
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Waze and SpotHero tackle parking-related street congestion(axios.com)
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