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by mrgordon 11y ago
VRBO is actually starting to copy Airbnb's pricing model because they're losing. It has worse legal issues in many areas because it is outright short term rentals instead of hosted rentals. Additionally, the response rate and spee
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by mrgordon 11y ago
I imagine you'd be able to pick from a few options as far as car type goes and then get a driverless car of that type. Once you knew which cars you like, then you could set it as a default option or something. Driverless cars would eli
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Not sure where you live but I agree with shoyer that Lyft Line and Uber Pool serve this functionality very well in San Francisco, New York, and presumably also the other major metros where they've launched it (Austin, Boston, Chicago,
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Ahh I see, you hate regulation, taxes, and don't think a city the size of Dallas really needs mass transit in practice. So this isn't really about San Francisco at all. The only thing that really surprises me now is that you speak
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Yeah Dallas is really the epitome of good urban planning and land use compared to San Francisco. Lets go get in our cars and drive thirty minutes to Chili's so we can have a real cultural experience </sarcasm> Texas pretty m
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by mrgordon 11y ago
So true
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Yep this is how Lyft Line already works
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Even if the members of the family are going different places, each of them can likely share a car with other people heading in the same direction (e.g. to the same school or workplace, to the same city from the suburbs, etc.)
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Thats why I said "normally"
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Who said it was simple to correct?
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by mrgordon 11y ago
There is a reason we don't normally throw people into jail without bail...
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Sounds like you need to take a larger deposit. Then you could rent it out for 1-2 nights at a time, assuming a cleaning fee that covers your costs, without worrying about damage. Not that the $1 million in insurance wouldn't cover you
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by mrgordon 11y ago
So true. Google even turned off the DNS for the activation servers for their Android 2.1 devices (at least for the HTC Wildfire) so I could no longer log in with Google to get into the phone and do anything at all. Contrast this to my first
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Agreed and seconded!
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by mrgordon 11y ago
I don't see how SF's anti-chain laws relate to a claimed dearth of new restaurant concepts. In fact, I feel strongly that they have the opposite effect. In fact, the overall assertion that there are a dearth of new restaurant co
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Yeah agreed. The linked article mentions distributing income but snapchat has no dividends so it seems irrelevant. I'm not clear how this has any effect on Fidelity's taxes for 2015. It seems like its just bringing the valuations
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Agreed, the law shouldn't say you can send someone to jail for 6 months if we don't think that is reasonable
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by mrgordon 11y ago
I'm not clear how it is Airbnb's fault if they don't have much availability in Kittanning, PA (population 4000). I found two places for rent there which honestly seems pretty decent. The median age is 40 in that area so it do
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by mrgordon 11y ago
The fact that something is banned by HOA agreements hardly proves its risky or even seen as such. I've seen many HOA agreements that ban painting your house a non-approved color. I'm not sure I follow your comment about detached d
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Rents are headed straight up and people are desperate for anywhere to live. Its a good gig to be a landlord in SF even if the laws are tenant friendly
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by mrgordon 11y ago
May it go to zero. If the penalties get high enough, I could see bankruptcy wiping out shareholders.
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Yeah good points. Additionally, Vanguard is making money through securities lending which is also proportional and can offset much or all of the expense ratio. "In 2012 securities lending enhanced annual fund returns by more than 1 bas
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Yes the company is trying to expand internationally and it makes sense to partner with major players in markets that are significant for them. As far as the numbers go: $1.5B / $25.5B = ~5.88% equity Then you figure the Chinese investo
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Well Marriott still manages to have 200,000 employees operating the hotels (per rokhayakebe's numbers) so its not like they've contracted out running the hotels for a fixed cost or something. They're doing a lot more than run
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Right thats why I didn't understand why the original comment thought a reverse stock split is in the cards
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by mrgordon 11y ago
According to Wikipedia, reverse stock splits remove everyone with less than the split factor from the cap table. So if it was a 10-to-1 reverse split then you'd need at least 10 shares or you'd get paid out in cash https:/&#
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by mrgordon 11y ago
I would expect them to simply issue additional shares.
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by mrgordon 11y ago
Why do you think there'd be a reverse stock split? The price has been going up, not down. Or you think it would happen to get around the shareholder limit pre-IPO?
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by mrgordon 11y ago
The gist is that they are valued at $24 billion pre-money/$25.5 billion post-money and are growing insanely quickly :)
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by mrgordon 12y ago
it would be a travesty to yank the remaining funds from the public schools in order to subsidize private schools that are less accountable, typically religious, and usually much more expensive than the value of the vouchers. It would likely

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