nakedlunch

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by nakedlunch 5y ago
Sorry, I didn’t mean for it to come over as an attack - but I don’t think it’s a straw man. What do you think doing that would say about Amazon’s value? Why does that matter in justifying its price today?
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by nakedlunch 5y ago
What I’m trying to point out (maybe I did a bad job!) is that it doesn’t make sense to try to run the numbers of how long it would take to return an investment in purchasing Amazon in profit, considering if returning investment capital in p
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by nakedlunch 5y ago
Isn’t that a bit of a silly question? The share price should reflect future earnings. If you are a shareholder, you believe that amazon will continue to grow and that other people will continue to value its future earnings higher than the p
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by nakedlunch 6y ago
Are you sure they should be aiming to be profitable through the biggest expansion in at-home delivery ever? Or should they not have invested more in growth through this period? Surely it’s only unit economics that matter, not whether they a
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by nakedlunch 6y ago
On point 4 - I do think it’s tempting to say “we used to do it this way at my old place, and it was much better”. I call it “at my old place” syndrome. However, if you never take your learnings from place to place, that’s also pretty usel
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NFTs: Dorsey, Banksy and creating scarcity from abundance(pkld.io)
1 points by nakedlunch 6y ago|0 comments
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by nakedlunch 6y ago
I’m not sure you read the article, which was fantastic, because your comment reads as a reaction to the title and not the body of the work.
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Descriptive power versus communicative ease(pkld.io)
1 points by nakedlunch 6y ago|0 comments
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by nakedlunch 6y ago
This is my first ever blog post, and my first ever submission to hacker news. Any feedback on the post would be much appreciated!
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Some types of mistake that I have made: Chess and uncommitted obsession(pkld.io)
3 points by nakedlunch 6y ago|1 comments
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by nakedlunch 6y ago
Has anyone ever told you that you can disagree with another person without taking an indignant and rude tone?
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by nakedlunch 6y ago
Well... A. Perhaps this “Internet forum commentator” has more relevant experience than you understand, B. You don’t need to have years of scientific study to understand statistics and C. Plenty of bad science gets published every year in jo
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by nakedlunch 6y ago
Is the freedom to accept a contract for poverty wages to avoid starvation a desirable feature in our society?
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by nakedlunch 6y ago
You know, when you call someone who disagrees with you not intelligent, you come off a bit of an asshole.
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by nakedlunch 7y ago
As other commenters have pointed out, this only prevents counterfeit shoes being sold as real. If that’s the intention, it would be much simpler to just make a database and print a code on each shoe (probably already done to some extent). T
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by nakedlunch 7y ago
A gambler who got lucky. The article gives the distinct impression that the fact he invested at the bottom of the market rather than just before a bust cycle was not because of good judgement. There is little else to say about this.
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by nakedlunch 7y ago
I really don’t enjoy when this form of argument comes up, because it strikes me as both lazy and extremely unlikely that the speaker puts the same conditions on his own conduct. I think you can both fly on planes and believe we need to redu
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by nakedlunch 8y ago
There's a few such services that exist right now - doesn't mean you can't be better than them but worth noting! Only one that springs to mind is https://feedly.com I'm not sure HN is going to be a super effec
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by nakedlunch 8y ago
Not sure anyone can give you a good answer with this level of detail buddy. $1 for an app? $1 a day? What kind of news? In what way will it be personalised? I’d say if you mean a news aggregator, it sounds unlikely.