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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
GoFundMe is a charity platform. How can p2p microloan platform replace it? So I'll make a micro loan fully know it will never be repaid?
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Uber announces deeper push into financial services with Uber Money(cnbc.com)
6 points by nopriorarrests 7y ago|0 comments
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SoftBank to Take Control of WeWork: Sources(cnbc.com)
63 points by nopriorarrests 7y ago|10 comments
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Okay lets say I know in advance that in 3 days from now Trump will tweet something that will affect S&P500 in material way. I want to profit from it. Why should I establish my position in a single huge trade, instead of slow accumulatio
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing — they believe in anything. G.K. Chesterton, circa 1924
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>This has caused me to come to the conclusion that people aren't aware of the trade-offs or what is going on. But what exactly is going on? It's not like google going to blackmail you for 10K USD in cash, single payment please,
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Oracle fits this description nicely. :)
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Details including the exact amount of SoftBank’s potential investment couldn’t be learned, but executives at SoftBank figure We needs at least $3 billion to get through the next year This is insane.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
This should be top level comment.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
I think they are making a killing. If you have a business meeting in progress with your client, you are not going to move to another hotel bc of $500 whiteboard fee. You cringe and put this expense on your corporate credit card. And hotel k
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
What hard problems related to software and infrastructure WeWork was solving? I can not imagine a single one. Handling check-ins? Counting number of beers consumed?
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>Automatic ads might be x10 cheaper, but x1000 less effective. what are you talking about? Lets say you are running SaaS for Azure admins. Do you want to buy the top banner on slashdot.com for the whole month, no targetings at all, for 5
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Because it does not work. The cost is paid by customer, and he is looking for cheaper service/product. And your competitor can always claim that 10% of client aqusition cost is donated to fight climate change... and then you stand no c
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
You can probably do it, but your competitor who do target users will end up with $30 CPA and you will get $300 (or worse). So, unless you are ok with x10 user aquisition cost, you will quickly stop doing it.
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Tesla Insurance(tesla.com)
60 points by nopriorarrests 7y ago|41 comments
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Well, I get that you want the world to function in a slightly different way, and you don't want people to associate advertised product to content around it; I'm fine with that. However, the world around us functions in a way where
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>That's not illogical at all, that's mainly who I see in Porsche dealerships and nothing about that contradicts what I said. I don't know, I think signaling is OK, and I don't consider people why buy signaling product
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>From my experience in dealing with very rich and very poor people of many different cultures, the only people who give a damn about status to that extent are the young and dumb Sorry, you are mostly wrong here. Let me present you with e
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>Whether it's seen next to porn should be irrelevant. It does not work that way. If some average person sees some brand advertised on WSJ and FT, and another competing brand on PornHub he will attach more 'premium' value t
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>I saw many posts subscribing to the general theory that racial violence has been accepted throughout most of human history My knowledge of human history mostly validates this theory.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
I do remember these 600-comments threads regarding net neutrality and how it will be the end of the world once repealed because evil ISP will charge folks for each bit. 2 years ago net neutrality was repealed. 1. Has anything changed to the
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Almost 2 hours down. What a way to discontinue another product, Google!
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Well I get that shit happens, but what is strange about these recent google incidents is actual downtime. 5 hours for google cloud, and almost 1 hour already for calendar. I thought google can do better.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
>2) my instant change in net worth does not affect my ability to handle my finances month-to-month idk man, if I inherited 1M USD, it would definitely affect my ability to handle my 3K USD monthly expense.
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
good advice to follow, but the problem is... if you are 21 y.o. vlogger focused on barbell training and restoring old american muscle cars, this advice will sound like "dude just do more straight deadlifts and focus on hi-rep kroc rows
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Generic 'oh guys let's make world better' stuff, without explaining how it could be really done irl. I mean, popular vlogger owning his own platform, really? Eating hosting costs, solving discoverability problem, etc?
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
From the article - "If you’ve been on the internet for any amount of time, you’ve probably seen very poorly targeted advertising. In my experience, I see a lot of car ads. I don’t own a car". One can argue that advertising cars to
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/19003 >We will provide an update at 16:00 US/Pacific. it's 16:22 and no updates were posted. a bit unprofessional..
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by nopriorarrests 7y ago
Related thread on Tesla Motors Club - https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/emergency-lane-depar...
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PSA: Tesla ELDA has steered me into oncoming traffic multiple times(reddit.com)
7 points by nopriorarrests 7y ago|1 comments

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