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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Humans were down to 10,000 units at some time. Maybe some leader consolidated power and convinced the tribe to embark in a journey to move somewhere else where water was more plentiful and food too, we can only imagine that ...had his attem
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Bush v. Gore 2000 down in Florida comes to mind. Would 9/11 have happened with Gore at the helm? And if yes, what he'd have done differently? Maybe Al Gore would have been impeached for incompetence and treason had he refused to g
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
> Reason she didn't want to change it? So they didn't have to explain why expenses changed so much quarter-to-quarter during the next board meeting. Seems like a win-win. Now she knows the reality of the enterprise and is okay
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Is this a liquidation under a different name?
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
It's the hedonistic treadmill Everybody loves a startup/small business. When it grows then people still appreciate the quality of life that the growing company provides. At some point though the startup becomes a behemoth and the
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
I think the SEC gives insiders and C-suite some kind of free pass as long as they don't time their 'overtlyoptimistic' takes on their company with their stock sales or vest. The SEC is giving Musk free reign because they know
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
> rare and expensive privilege Rare and expensive privileges give us satisfaction. Besides the things we are wired to like for evolutionary purposes, the more expensive and exclusive a thing is, the more we are satisfied with it. It&#x27
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Jeff Bezos congratulated Sir. Richard Branson on his successful flight. He's due to go up on July 20th Bezos was beaten by Branson by 9 days , his flight will go higher and will last slightly longer.
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
What's the point? Astronauts and cosmonauts who have been on the ISS's famous globe window...it's not like they were overwhelmed or collapsed onto the ground crying because of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Life advice addendum. Become a Billionaire in a manner which is so quiet that only the IRS knows that you are one, even better not even them :)
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Storytelling is for movies.. For maximum conversion fundraising you need a rat inside the VC firm so that you can retroactively put together a startup which ticks all the boxes of whatever thing is on the minds of the decision makers at the
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
You want to drag the big company in front of the court of public opinion. If your patent is perfectly nailed, then your version of the story will win. In short you gotta have something to show to the journalists and lawyers who are your all
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Patents foster innovation. Without patents people who are technically skilled but socially inadequate would not ever try to build stuff. Same goes for those who can promote themselves but just love the technical challenge much more and want
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
None of those things ever made any money. They survive thanks to constant equity raises and government subsidies. All Musk companies failed to produce profits or positive FCF, they were all sold to bigger fools who didn't look under th
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
> No they don't. In fact most people don't have a clue about what Salesforce is or how IBM touches their lives. False, regular people were so confident in IBM that it became a catchphrase in IT departments around the world: &qu
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
All fair game. By the same token, those who have not been bitten by the Tesla bug have all the rights to point at the highest beneficiary of Tesla shares appreciation which is the CEO who goes by Musk Reeve Lyndon Elon and ask him: "He
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
And , in fact...what's Porsche's marketcap? N/A They are private but the approximation can be extracted from Ferrari: 45.5B Now, where does the remaining 555B come from?
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
> Why are people so obsessed with picking some parts Tesla revenue Because people (for the most part) aren't fools, especially on here. People see a 600B dollar company and expect it to feel its presence in their lives each and ever
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Amazon scaled up leveraging their monster positive FCF 2002-2015 . They didn't need equity raises. Amazon is brought up often with regards to this, but somehow I've always encountered this argument when it was made as a rebuttal t
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Reproduction is shifting. People are moving from wanting biological children towards ideological children, it's much more effective as a form of reproduction, not genetic material but ideas. This concept is not new to the oldest tradi
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
That's the best idea I read on how to solve this problem, which sadly means it won't be implemented.... :P For the record I did upvote you!
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Every social group eventually uses the weapon of censorship. It's not just government...even without a proper institutional structure , censorship will emerge as a thing that a social group does endogeneously. Like just scrolling back
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
> He wasn't even at Apple for the entire decade preceding that bailout. People probably 'forgot' because it's not true at all! Because he ran the company into the ground before and the board fired him Also people are
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
> Many right-libertarians fight against the idea of state, but ignore that their economic system of choice, and their basis for property rights, comes from the state itself. It doesn't. According to them it comes from the right to b
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
The burden of the proof is always on the person trying to emerge. Both Assange and Snowden wanted to emerge to notoriety, and projected their own mind frame onto others, thinking they had some sort of royal flush, and as soon as they'd
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Will this include rebate schemes? Also Africa and countries with low enforcement (either willing low enforcement or caused by scarce public sector resources) will have capital flowing in. Once the law is there the next race to the bottom wi
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
> If yo are a legit company you need to file your accounts with the government. You don't have , you do because you are afraid of repercussions. With a totally private coin and transaction happening off the chain....well it's
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
This could be the catalyst for privacy oriented coins such as Monero and Zcash. Also the right catalyst for doing away with exchanges and start buying and selling crypto on OTC type market with 1:1 deals and interactions Like it happens for
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
For people complaining about Musk lies. They will only end when every other CEO in America starts behaving like him. People have to understands that other guys, they aren't stupid or squares....they are all capable of doing what Musk d
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by maverick-iceman 5y ago
Then hedge funds turn back around and put the money coming from Universities back into MIT kids hands. It's seriously telling of why Western economies don't grow like they used to. Money became a hot potato business where nobody h

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