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by mrgordon 7y ago
While I generally agree and would avoid airline investments personally, the airlines did just spend their profits for years on dividends and stock buybacks. If you don’t save for a rainy day, then it’s not too surprising you run out during
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I am not the original poster but I think they are expressing that we were ready for some reversion to the mean after many years of gains including a spectacular 2019.
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Yes looks directly comparable to Figure Eight. This product is clearly meant to be similar to the Text Annotation tool: https://www.figure-eight.com/platform/machine-learning-assis... Both products offer the opportunit
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Yes it is more similar to Figure Eight Text Annotation which allows you to use pre-existing models including Spacy or you can bring your own model https://www.figure-eight.com/platform/machine-learning-assis...
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Even if you run the CI on your own network, if it can't check out from Github it isn't going to have the latest code unless you're hosting your own repos for CI. Developers will need to push their changes to CI Git in additio
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Sure you can do some work locally but if your CI server can't check out the branch to build it and you can't approve pull requests for merge, then its a bit limiting.
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Of course it’s up for debate. Everyone thought Amazon would win the contract because they had such a lead in cloud services until Trump got involved as part of his personal vendetta with Bezos for the Washington Post
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You don’t need to itemize to claim a capital loss
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Insurance, security deposit dispute, last minute cancellation or date change by either host or guest Many things could leave one party or the other on the short end of not having an agreement but sure if everything goes great then it’s easy
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One day later here is a huge NYTimes piece about how the employees were pushing hard for the public offering for years and it caused tensions: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/technology/airbnb-employe.
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Here is an article from Reuters today that emphasizes that most people expect a direct listing: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-airbnb-ipo/airbnb-plans-p... “In a short statement posted on its website on Thursd
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Literally google “Airbnb direct listing” and you can see top analysts talking about it for years. Just like they said Spotify would do a direct listing and then they did. Just like they said Slack would do a direct listing and then they did
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There have been articles since at least mid 2018 talking about how Airbnb doesn’t need additional money and how it was taking steps to prepare for going public before early employee equity grants expired in 2020. After they reworked how the
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A direct listing is definitely the most likely option which is why they didn’t call it an IPO anywhere. They already have huge numbers of institutional and strategic investors. I’m not sure who you think they are waiting to get investment f
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Right. They are doing so well that many analysts expect them to do a direct listing which means they won't even be selling any shares in the public listing. They raised billions and now they make more money every quarter so there is no
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Nobody said this was an IPO. Most likely a direct listing since Airbnb doesn't need to raise capital.
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This will most likely be a direct listing because Airbnb doesn't need to raise more capital. Its actually about employee liquidity for people waiting 10+ years.
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You make it seem like is isn't a bit of a collective problem though. Sure, you can not use Facebook and you'll miss all the information about your friends and their events. (Did you see the comment in this thread from someone who
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CouchDB is a document store style database. GraphQL is more focused on the API layer (how do I query any underlying data sources for exactly the data I need) instead of tying you into one particular database. So, in theory, some of your Gra
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The German VC firm you refer to is Rocket Internet aka the Samyer Brothers. They cloned every startup they could find for a while. https://thehustle.co/rocket-internet-oliver-samwer
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Meh not really. The API client is MIT licensed but that doesn't mean the API itself is MIT licensed. Smartcar obviously would not release their server code as it is proprietary so the question becomes whether it is unethical or illegal
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by mrgordon 8y ago
The article doesn't discuss the earlier butterfly keyboards because those were even worse and are recalled* per the link the other user included * "we don't call it a recall, we'll just fix it"
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Yeah Linux will never be as smooth it seems :( Its workable but its not like ballet.
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Yes the idea that its something unique to Airbnb is a myth. Miami Beach is dominated by hotels and they have strong anti-Airbnb messaging. Meanwhile their hotels dominate the skyline and take up all of the beachfront property. Some of the h
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South Florida literally invented Spring Break destination travel so I'd hardly blame Airbnb for this. The street racing and machismo culture has been there as long as I can remember (easily back through the 90s) and its the locals doin
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Congrats to the team!
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Instacart started out by secretly marking up groceries. Once that game was played out, it seems they started secretly marking down employee (oh sorry, contractor) wages
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"The prices are equivalent or in certain cases more than what Hotels charge" You conveniently ignore the huge number of cases where its cheaper than a hotel (especially a suite for a family) and the fact that it contains a kitchen
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Go wasn't created until 2009 and Dropbox already had tons of Python code by then as well as extremely accomplished Python programmers (they hired the creator of Python only a few years later). I also don't think Go would have allo
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The source comment was not about design and aesthetic choices. Here is the first comment that you responded to: “What we want is a functional keyboard” We want a functional keyboard. This is not about reasonable people disagreeing. If your

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